Anarchic update news all over the world - 19.04.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Poland, Workers Initiative: How to join the teachers' strike
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  anarkismo.net: Declaration of the fAu [Urugway] - About
      torturers, criminals and their Court of "Honor" (ca, it, pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  

3.  Greece, Information from anti-war / anti-NATO protests on
      April 6 by dirty horse APO [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  London Anarchist Communists - Art as a Weapon: Art and
      Anarchism - Report Back (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - unionism, With the
      repressed trade unionists of the College Republic of Bobigny (fr,
      it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  black rose fed: ON STRIKE AT STOP & SHOP: INTERVIEW 
     FROM THE PICKET LINE (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #293 - Babysitters:
      Neither nannies nor nurses, the cry of the pink vests (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






Master! ---- You can still join the strike. If you are looking for a relationship that 
will formally enable and actually support - report to the OZZ Employee Initiative.  ---- 
More and more teachers are reporting to our union because they are looking for an 
organization that will enable them to effectively conduct strike action. Formally, it 
takes two weeks to start the strike. Below are the answers to some frequently asked 
questions by the teaching community: ---- // How long does it take for us to formally 
start a strike action? ---- From the date of the founding meeting, you already operate on 
the rights of the temporary committee. This allows you to immediately formulate demands 
against the employer, enter into a collective dispute (at the latest 3 days from 
submitting requests), conduct negotiations, issue a referendum and possibly strike. After 
14 days of requesting, you can strike. Before, during a collective dispute, you have the 
option of conducting a 2-hour warning strike. You also have the option of establishing a 
strike committee, starting a strike service, flagging the plant with the information 
"strike ambulance". During this period, your committee can also count on support from the 
union on the same rights as other permanent commissions: assistance in completing all 
documents, conducting a collective dispute and a referendum, publicizing the protest,

// How do you set up a temporary IP committee in my school?

The first step is a founding meeting - on it you can set up a works committee if the group 
has at least 10 members. If there are less than 10 people and / or there is another school 
in the same region, it is worth considering creating an inter-company committee. Detailed 
information can be found on our website in the "Access to IP" tab: 
www.ozzip.pl/przystap-do-ip In case of doubt, at every step you can count on help from our 
side

// We already belong to another relationship - what to do in this case?

The Employee Initiative allows for simultaneous membership in other trade union 
organizations. It must be remembered, however, that the largest teaching unions preclude 
their members from belonging to another union. This applies, among others Solidarity 
(Article 8 (3) of the Statute), Solidarity - Education (Article 10) and the PNA (Article 
8). In this case, you must decide which relationship best meets your expectations.
We will send accurate information on how to deal with the collective dispute directly to 
all interested employee groups.

A collective dispute is reported to PIP, which forwards this data to the Central 
Statistical Office. If for some reason you fail to join the strike in April, the dispute 
will be recorded in the statistics.

Contact:
ip@ozzip.pl
729 302
609 486

http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/pilne-akcje/item/2472-jak-dolaczyc-do-strajku-nauczycieli

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They are the mummies that still sneak by, through the black galleries of infamy ---- This 
verse by comrade Carlos Molina well describes and catalogs the constant actions of the 
Armed Forces and those who hide the truth of the crimes they committed during the 
dictatorship. Of all that power structure that for that it has it and that's why it 
protects it.  ---- A Court of Military "Honor" -it would have to say a Tribunal of Shame 
and Cynicism- understood that José Nino Gavazzo and Jorge PajaritoSilveira had to be 
expelled from the army for having kept silent before the prison of another military man, 
Juan Carlos Gómez, for the crime of Roberto Gomensoro Josman. But in the same act, 
Gavazzo, in fact, self-attributed the crime of Gomensoro, and that was considered an 
irrelevant fact by the Military Court. Silveira in turn adjudicates more crimes to 
Gavazzo, but nothing of it motivated that his "comrades" of arms gave account of those 
same facts according to their gravity. No, for them, well indoctrinated and bestialized, 
the torture, death and disappearance of townspeople is not something that matters.
A small and horrifying part of what everyone knows decades ago was made public after a 
journalist with ties to Gavazzo published the rulings of the Military Court. How did these 
failures reach him? Why does Silveira endow Gavazzo with crimes, including being the 
coordinator in Argentina with the AAA (Alianza Anticomunista Argentina) throughout the 
dictatorial period? This is not clear in the first instance, since they are situations 
between monsters of the same hair. Anyway, this type of conversations between murderers 
and rapists are still rare and flashy. But this species can not be asked for something of 
ethics, in the shared silence there is nothing of solidarity values. The silence is to 
cover between accomplices who executed horror and death. So from these circles anything 
can be expected, the existence of petty confrontations is something that no one can call 
attention to. They are good disciples of a genocidal system and were well taught to serve 
it. The Army, as part of the armed forces, acted as it has been doing since the 
dictatorship: to rely on a deep pact of silence and impunity that the entire political 
system, all governments, has guaranteed to the military. To those "poor old people" who 
still killed the mother.
The dismissal of the Commander in Chief of the Manini Ríos Army and the six Generals that 
made up the so-called Courts of Honor and of Alzada, plus the Minister and Secretaries, is 
due to the fact that this time these murderers, genociders and accessories, have lost 
their hand. It remains at a public level what they feel and are and this has political 
effects that for different reasons, convenience and calculations through must be covered 
in public spheres. These are the same complaints that family members have made over and 
over again for decades and that have been met with inhuman and cruel indifference. At the 
very least something minimal to do as there is concern about the issue and with this try 
to maintain support and votes for your parties or governments.
There is a confession of a political murder and the fact goes unnoticed, because according 
to Manini, it was already a known fact and that nothing contributed. With those statements 
by Manini to the weekly Búsqueda, and all the content of the interview he gave to that 
medium, State terrorism and impunity continue to be justified. Killing, torturing, 
kidnapping -even babies-, disappearing, do not seem to be facts that merit any kind of 
punishment, but are the "natural" tasks that an army like the Uruguayan has entrusted to 
"maintain order". And the worst is that this is how the current capitalist system works. 
It forms and possesses a death machine that uses according to the social circumstances 
that the conjuncture indicates in reference to the maintenance and reproduction of itself. 
System configured so that a few have wealth and power. And that military institution acts 
in a different way according to the existing social situation, at times episodically 
repressing popular claims and, in the extreme, directly as a dictatorship. They defend the 
country at all times, the homeland of the powerful. Then they go back into the lane, not 
without minor contradictions, again docile and willing, having taken the slice they could. 
Always to the order and with hatred to the skin against that seditious rabble of the 
people who want to eat every day and a worthy and just future. Not without minor 
contradictions, again docile and willing, having taken the slice they could. Always to the 
order and with hatred to the skin against that seditious rabble of the people who want to 
eat every day and a worthy and just future. Not without minor contradictions, again docile 
and willing, having taken the slice they could. Always to the order and with hatred to the 
skin against that seditious rabble of the people who want to eat every day and a worthy 
and just future.
It is legitimate that the Uruguayan people, well-born men and women in this corner of the 
world, can no longer tolerate such infamy. Asco gives us that subjects of this ilk 
continue to exist, and that far from being judged there is impunity and protection. But 
that they are not judged by this justice also has its deep explanation. It is an 
institution of the first order for the security of the system and all the privilege that 
circulates within it. Foucault said about this in a very rigorous study: "If one can speak 
of a class justice, it is not only because the law itself or the way to apply it serve the 
interests of a class, it is because all the differential management of illegalities by the 
mediation of the penalty forms part of those mechanisms of domination "... to speak of 
criminal policy is to speak of some of the key chapters of power".
It is well known that Gavazzo and Silveira were two of the repressors who, acting within 
the framework of the Condor Plan, the genocidal plan of the dictatorships of the region 
and the United States, kidnapped and murdered our comrades and our FAU comrades. For his 
dirty hands passed Gerardo Gatti, Leon Duarte, Victoria Grisonas, Alberto Mechoso, 
Adalberto Soba and an immense group of companions and companions, arrested and tortured by 
them and other despicable figures, in Automotores Orletti. Now it seems, according to 
Manini Ríos, that the second flight did not take place and 28 detainees were not 
transferred from Buenos Aires to Uruguay. Testimonies of those who were transferred 
abound, but they have the cynicism and the nerve to deny the existence of that flight 
today, and with that put in doubt the rest. It's more,
Impunity is disgusting, repugnant and even more unworthy that these genocides are on the 
loose, walking the streets with total peace of mind. But the people know that this is not 
coincidence. Only a few soldiers and policemen have been imprisoned, the most notorious, 
protected in a VIP jail; but there are 400 or more who are calm, unpunished. But next to 
them are all civilians, the power structure that pushed and supported them: owners of 
newspapers and radios, chambers of commerce and rural, large foreign companies, devices of 
the empire that operated in the area. All of them are responsible, the eternal repudiation 
of this whole structure of the horror that killed the sons and daughters of our people.
Until when so much impunity? How long are we going to allow all these unborn children to 
continue playing with the truth and the destiny of our companions and our companions? We 
need from today and every day to forge a strong town. The impunity of today is the 
foundation of new coups d'état, of new crimes for when the system is endangered by the 
clamor of justice and freedom of those at the bottom.
We do not resign ourselves to the fact that there is no justice, but we know what justice, 
nor to the fact that impunity and defeatist speeches are simply consecrated. We follow the 
path of our comrades and our missing and assassinated comrades, we do not lower our arms 
and we point out with the fist those responsible for the crimes of the dictatorship, 
protected by the whole structure of the State, apparatus of domination of the powerful 
classes to oppress the village.
But the people, the people, those that the stories made from the elite and despise, have 
preserved in their imagination, in the depths of their hearts, the feeling of disgust at 
the lived atrocities as well as the tender, respectful memory for those who were victims 
of barbarism. In that town the repudiation of this world of abuse and death has been 
preserved and growing. In the town, in the social organizations and in the relatives there 
is the legitimate interlocutor; he is exempt from calculations, he is the only way to 
achieve true justice.

That same town will already find its path of total social justice, where the best sons and 
daughters of our class will live again.

NEITHER FORGET OR FORGIVE!
IMPUNES TODAY, GOLPISTS TOMORROW!
FREEDOM OR DEATH!
FOR SOCIALISM AND FREEDOM!
UP THE THOSE WHO FIGHT!
URUGUAYAN ANARCHIST FEDERATION

Related Link: 
http://federacionanarquistauruguaya.uy/declaracion-de-la-fau-sobre-torturadores-criminales-y-su-tribunal-de-honor/

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31378

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In the context of the Anarchist Campaign of Interfaith Solidarity Against State and 
Capitalist Barbarism, War and Modern Integration, as Anarchist Political Organization, we 
participated in a  political call  and constitution of distinct political blocks in the 
anti-war / anti-NATO demonstrations held on Saturday 6th April in Athens, Patras. ---- In 
Athens , a gathering took place at Klathymonos Square, followed by a demonstration to the 
US Embassy with the participation of hundreds of fighters. ---- In  Thessaloniki , we 
traveled from Kamara to the 3rd Army Corps, where the NATO headquarters of Northern Greece 
are housed. ---- In  Patras , a gathering took place in the annex and then a march on the 
main streets of the city.
At a time when the bleak prospect of a global conflict comes back to the forefront and 
planning of the military-political staff, we have a duty to organize our resistances. 
Putting mounds on the plans of world sovereigns who promise only death, poverty, wars, 
refugees, misery and misery. Drawing inspiration from the anti-war mobilizations of the 
past, building a strong internationalist movement from the bottom up against the war, 
against modern totalitarianism.

In the direction of building this movement, the resistance to the plans for expansion and 
upgrading of the military bases inside, as well as the wider attempt to promote the role 
of the Greek state in the international warfare, will be another important battle to be given.

The following Saturday, April 13th, we are demonstrating at the military bases of Araxos 
Achaia and Alexandroupolis sending a message of internationalist and class solidarity 
among the peoples.

ORGANIZATION AND RACE FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND FREEDOM COMMUNICATION

CHRISTMAS - SATURDAY 13 APRIL

PATRA - DISCUSSION ON THE AIRPORT AIRPORT

Concentration at 12.00 in the Trio Allied Square

ALEXANDROUPOLIS - NATO-BASED DECLARATION

Concentration at 13.00 on Independence Square

Anarchist Political Organization Federation of Collectives

apo.squathost.com | anpolorg@gmail.com

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The London group of the ACG welcomed Martyn Everett to its regular series of public 
discussion meetings. He presented a very informative talk about how art is related to 
anarchism, including anarchist artists, art with anarchists as its subject and art used by 
anarchists to get their message across. He started with art used to stereotype anarchists 
as bomb throwers or people of suspicion. Since then, however, anarchist artists such as 
Courbet in France in the 19th century and more recently Clifford Harper in Britain have 
given us positive examples of the engaged artist. ---- Art has been used as a key way of 
getting the anarchist message across. Martyn showed us a range of examples from all over 
the world: book covers, posters, leaflets etc. In the discussion that followed we all felt 
that we need to use art more, bringing together people in struggle and artists who can 
support us. However, some argued that artists in Britain seem unwilling to get involved 
with struggles and more interested in furthering a career in the style of artists like 
Damien Hirst or by working in the ad industry. This industry is an example of art used for 
a purpose but to support capitalism. We need perhaps to learn some lessons from this in 
order to become more effective in getting our own message across without aiming to brainwash.
Art can be more than just a weapon in the class struggle. Martyn mentioned the views of 
Herbert Read who argued that teaching art to children is important in helping them to 
develop as free individuals. So often there is a hierarchy in art, keeping art in the 
hands of an elite and not something that everyone can do and appreciate. It was also 
stressed that it is not just visual art but music, poetry, literature and films that can 
inspire.
One conclusion came out of the meeting: we would like to gather together anyone who might 
be called an artist- people capable of doing work that we could use to get anarchist 
messages across. This could also include work on the internet, for example memes. It would 
be great to have a list of people who are willing to design posters, write music or poetry 
etc that would support our struggles.


https://londonacg.blogspot.com/2019/04/art-as-weapon-meeting-report-back.html

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More than 250 people (political activists, trade unions, associations, elected officials, 
etc.) co-signed the appeal in defense of 3 trade unionists from the Republic school in 
Bobigny (93) targeted by a rather unprecedented repression in the National Education. 
After those of Goodyear, Continental, Téfal, Air France, the Post Office, the Ministry of 
Labor, it is their turn to need our solidarity ! ---- As the challenge grows in the 
National Education, the government makes the choice of repression. On Thursday, March 
29th, three unionized teachers from the Republic college in Bobigny learned of the Créteil 
rector's decision to punish them: either by forcing them to transfer for two of them, or 
by opening a disciplinary procedure . Teachers hired for their students since 18, 22 and 
27 years in Republic. All these years involved in educational projects, territorial, 
social and cultural weaving ; praised for the quality of their teaching: two are 
"exceptional class" (the highest grade in their body) ; a teacher, is one year away from 
retirement.

We, trade unionists, politicians, academics, citizens and citizens, strongly denounce the 
political nature of these sanctions. The reasons displayed by the institution hide the 
reality: these teachers are sanctioned for having contested, openly and for years, the 
policies of the National Education. Policies that strongly affect this " enhanced " 
priority education college (more than 76 % of scholarship holders !), And remove resources 
each year from the students who need it the most. It is these policies that are 
responsible for the situation of the College Republic, and more generally for the 
disorganization of the public service of education and the widening of the school 
inequalities.

Once again, those who fight for a solidarity society are attacked. A course has been taken 
recently with the ban on demonstrations, the brutality of the police repression, the 
passage of thousands of yellow vests in court, but it's been years since the attacks are 
crescendo against the collective or individuals combative and combative in companies and 
administrations: Goodyear, Continental, Téfal, Air France, La Poste, the Ministry of 
Labor, and today the College Republic of Bobigny ...

We strongly denounce the growing repression of the social movement, in the street as in 
the workplace. We bring our solidarity to the trade unionists of the College Republic of 
Bobigny, as well as to all the victims of the repression of the social movement, call to 
the mobilizations of support to come and demand that all the sanctions, disguised or not, 
are definitively abandoned. The repression will not silence the social movement !

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Avec-les-syndicalistes-reprime-es-du-college-Republique-de-Bobigny

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Starting Thursday, April 11th, 31,000 Stop & Shop grocery store workers at over 240 stores 
throughout New England went on strike to fight for a fair contract- what will be the 
largest strike in the U.S. since a 2016 walkout by Verizon workers. Stop & Shop workers 
are members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and are holding the picket line 
as of this writing. The primary issues are wages and rising health care costs as the 
parent company of Stop & Shop, Ahold Delhaize, reaped $2 billion in profits last year. 
Erin Flaherty spoke with Demi, a Stop & Shop worker and rank-and-file striker in the 
Greater Boston Area, about their thoughts and experiences during this strike. ---- Erin 
Flaherty (EF): Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do at your job? How long 
have you worked there and been part of the union?

Demi: I've been working at Stop & Shop since the Summer of 2017. I was automatically put 
in the union when I started working.

I generally work in the front end. Cashiering, bagging, pushing carts. I transferred 
locations, and at the last place, I had more responsibilities such as replacing the trash, 
emptying the bottle and can machines, and handling spills in the store. I liked the variety.

EF: The strike was called for Thursday at 1pm. Can you give us a timeline of events on 
that first day and how you and your coworkers experienced it?

Demi: I wasn't there right when the strike started. I was scheduled to work at 2pm. I got 
a text message from the union saying that we were on strike, and then I went in early to join.

What I heard from my coworkers was that they were working as usual, and then the picket 
captains told them that they're striking and to walk out. They left their positions to go 
outside near the entrances with signs and locked the doors with a closed sign in front.

The managers at this store where I work support us, but they were ordered to take our 
roles and run the store.

EF: After about an hour on strike, you noted that shoppers- and possibly scabs- were 
continuing to break your picket line. What will it take for workers to reach a point where 
we can enforce our picket lines?

Demi: We actually talk a lot of customers out of it. Whether we're successful varies. We 
have a group at each of the two entrances asking customers not to shop there.

The union is going to give us flyers soon to hand to customers, but other than that, we're 
already doing what we're legally allowed to do.

EF: At quarter past 3pm, the police were called to your store location. They pushed 
strikers off the picket line, and management was ordered to open the store. Did this 
strikebreaking by police change your perspective? What do you hope other workers take away 
from your shared experience?

Demi: My perspective was not changed, because I already know how much striking rights have 
been reduced, and my disdain for law enforcement is the same.

My coworkers do not see the police as a problem. My coworkers view the police to just be 
doing their jobs. The company did call the police, but the police are also to blame. We 
were very effective blocking the entrances and keeping customers from going in. Striking 
isn't as effective as it can be because of the laws they're enforcing. The pickets 
captains negotiated with the police and let us be in more places that still fit within the 
rules. The police looked friendly to my coworkers, and my coworkers blamed only the 
company instead.

EF: Even after the picket line was shut down by police, you noticed some acts of 
solidarity. Young people successfully encouraged would-be shoppers not to enter the store. 
National Grid workers emailed that they were boycotting Stop & Shop. Does this signify the 
revival of more widespread and resolute activity by workers?

Demi: It at least signifies an acceptance for strikes. I hope these strikes also result in 
more willingness from workers to take action in the future.

I hear complaining of how greedy the company is being with its profits and how they don't 
pay their workers enough, but they're never talking about wage labor.

EF: How did this strike impact what being a worker and a union member means for you? Does 
this change how you'll feel the next time a strike is called?

Demi: I was not prepared for how much energy it takes for me to be out there striking, and 
I was not prepared for how many rude people come by, hating us because they're inconvenienced.

Even before, I believed in workers taking action, and I still do now.

Erin Flaherty is a student, labor organizer and a member of Black Rose / Rosa Negra in Boston.

If you would like to read more discussions on strikes and labor organizing from a 
rank-and-file perspective we recommend the following pieces: Unionism From Below: 
Interview with Burgerville Workers Union, Picket Line Lessons: The UTLA Teacher Strike and 
"Let's Go For It": Interview with a Striking AT&T Union Steward.

http://blackrosefed.org/stop-shop-strike-interview/

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It is a struggle at the intersection of unionism, feminism and the movement of yellow 
vests. The government wants to plunge the "ass-mat" into poverty. They put on the " pink 
vest " and took to the streets. ---- They were mobilized, Saturday, March 9 in the 
morning, Place Saint-Projet, Bordeaux, wearing a pink vest ( photo ). Some were preparing 
to put on a yellow vest for Act XVII in the afternoon. It was the second day of national 
action for childminders (" assmat "), and nearly a thousand people protested in 34 
counties against a reform of unemployment insurance that directly threatens their income. 
---- Nursing assistants are one of the most feminized (99 %) and most precarious 
professions. They can keep at home up to four children, usually entrusted by young parents 
who have no place in a nursery. It is often work 6 days a week and 13 hours a day, if we 
include the hours of cleaning and preparation, ie 60 to 70 hours per week ! All this for 
2.82 euros gross per hour per child minimum. The ceiling of the CAF is 50.15 euros for one 
day.

To exercise they need the approval of the county council. Housing must meet standards that 
require investments for which there is very little support. Some of them are grouped 
together as maternal assistant homes (MAM) where the expenses often absorb the equivalent 
of a salary.

The activity is very unstable. Indeed, as soon as they have obtained a place in nursery, 
or that the child enters the nursery school, bye bye the assmat ! To prevent its income 
from plummeting, the assmat receives temporary compensation for reduced activity. In 2018, 
about 105,000 Assmat out of 330,000 received this compensation ... that the government 
wants to suppress !

The epicenter is in Gironde
The Gironde is the epicenter of the protest that started in November. Worried about 
threats to unemployment insurance, Bordelaise Laurence Joly, Florence Casenave, Isabelle 
Moizan, Emilie Ferbos and Mallaury Vautier launched a Facebook group " Angry Maternity 
Wizards" " Pink Vests " which was a great success ( more than 10,000 subscribers) and 
initiated self-organization at the national level with, soon, referents in each 
department. The pink vests then co-organized, with the FO and CGT assemat, a first 
national day of wrestling on February 2nd.

Beyond their fight against the precariousness of their job, the assmat also fight for more 
recognition, and against clichés about their profession: they are neither nannies, nurses 
nor lazy. Moreover, they recall, this reform will impact all people with multi-employers: 
cleaning agents, carers, etc.

If the childminders stop working, precariousness will refer to the families who will be 
deprived of child care. Now, let's face it: in this patriarchal society, the decrease in 
the number of assmat would mean the forced return of many women to the house to care for 
children ...

Sarah and Sam (AL 33)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Assistantes-maternelles-Ni-nounous-ni-nourrices-le-cri-des-gilets-roses

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