Today's Topics:
1. Poland, ozzip.pl - Workers Initiative: Last farewell to
Piotr Slawkowski (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Holand, vrije bond: [Utrecht] AKSIE-café #4
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Greece, ESE: Strike April 12 - On the road along with
students and students against an even more class lyceum
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. ait rus: Australian anarcho-syndicalists take part in the
march "Change rules" (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #293 - Antipatriarcat,
Spanish State: " Without us, the world does not work " (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On April 11, 2019, we received a tragic news about the death of our longtime friend and
member of our relationship, Piotr Slawkowski. With great pain, we would like to express
our sincere condolences to the immediate family and to inform you that Piotr's funeral
will take place on Saturday, 13 April at 13:00 in the church of St. Nicholas Street
Przectawska 3 in the Jewish town near Poznan. ---- Piotr was one of the dozen or so people
who founded the Employee Initiative commission at Amazon near Poznan on December 16, 2014.
Soon he was elected for the first time as a member of the Presidium, which he remained for
the next four years. He was a charismatic unionist, recognizable by the crew, never afraid
to speak out loud about workers' problems. Being a dad, he successfully demanded in Amazon
to comply with the labor law in the scope of limiting night work for parents of children
under the age of 4. He intervened several times in the Labor Inspectorate, took part in
press conferences, travels, supported other committees of our union.
Piotr responded loudly to injustice towards the weakest, spoke in simple language to the
people who supported him, understood the reasons for his disagreement and the need to act
together. Thanks to his presence, the union meetings were alive, he quickly picked up
ideas, even the most courageous ones. He changed his job in 2018, but he still stayed in
touch with us. He inquired regularly about trade union matters, but not only - because
thanks to intense years of joint action he became our Friend, whom we will never forget.
In mourning,
OZZ Employee Initiative at Amazon Fulfillment Poland
http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/wielkopolskie/item/2471-ostatnie-pozegnanie-piotra-slawkowskiego
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Message: 2
Are you also fed up with neoliberalism and climate change? Does the rise of the far-right
also makes you anxious? Do you want to do something about it, but you don't know how?
Then, come to the AKSIE-café (ACTION-café) in Utrecht! During this afternoon, we will be
discussing the struggles of our time and above all: how you can change the direction this
world is heading to! ---- Het X-Y Actiefonds (the X-Y Actionfund) is an independent fund
and has been supporting social movements and action groups around the world for more than
50 years. By organising a monthly AKSIE-café, het Actiefonds wants to inform people how to
join a movement or a collective. We invite several action groups and collectives to give a
small presentation about what they stand for and which support they need, followed by a
moment for the audience to ask questions.
This AKSIE-café will be organised in collaboration with the Barricade and focusing on
action groups and collectives in Utrecht that make a weekly, or even a daily difference
for vulnerable groups in the city. Get to know them and see how you can support!
Where?
Book Café ‘The Barricade', ACU
Voorstraat 71
Utrecht
When?
Sunday 21 April, 17.30
Het X-Y Actiefonds
Het X-Y Actiefonds believes in the power of people to be the start of change themselves.
Every great social transformation starts with brave individuals who take the first steps
along the road to change. These are ordinary people who stand up in their communities,
encourage bystanders and work together with them in the struggle for a fair, just,
sustainable and tolerant world.
Bottom-up change
Within the vision of Het X-Y Actiefonds, problems can best be approached ‘bottom-up'.
Local activists and grassroots organisations know best what is the most effective way to
realize their goals and how to give these unheard people a voice. Het X-Y Actiefonds is
proud to support these change-makers in their struggles.
Grassroots groups
Het X-Y Actiefonds primarily supports groups that stand at the beginning of their
struggles. Often, they are too small to receive support from big organisations or from
governments; and sometimes their questioning of established interests makes them
controversial in their own regions. What makes the projects Het X-Y Actiefonds supports
stand out is their critique of the current economic system and the importance they place
on putting people and planet before profit.
ACU, aktie-café, Bookcafé the Barricade, fonds, het actiefonds, Utrecht, x-y
Vrije Bond Secretariaat
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https://www.vrijebond.org/utrecht-aksie-cafe-4/
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Message: 3
It is amazing how the present government in all areas distorts the meaning of words. The
reform of the Lyceum, and especially of its last class, to "rationalize" is a prime
example. ---- The third grade is explicitly designated as a preparation class - or better
training - for final exams. With incredible cynicism, the left-wing government abolishes
an entire class of general education from high school. While today's non-Hellenic courses,
which are degraded by the exam-centric system, can contribute to the cultivation and
political formation of pupils, in the New Lyceum, course lessons, which have utilitarian
value, are leading the timetable. With the Greek exception of the religious ones, which
survive, in a curriculum that considers the lesson of History, Biology or Informatics
unnecessary. This aspect of the reform is just funny.
With the monopoly of the program from the Orientation lessons, the whole year will be a
marathon, with the exam. And whoever endures. Besides, this is also an objective.
Educational policy makers inside and outside the border consider that in Greece the
percentage of pupils attending general high school is very high compared to those who are
oriented towards vocational training. And to change that, the high school must be
difficult for most children.
This direction, the creation of a clear class general high school, also serves the change
in the in-school examinations leading to the high school diploma. The tests take place in
school teams level with issues resulting from the draw with supervisors and examiners from
other schools, enters a brake on the ability of all children to obtain high school
diploma. Very soon a lot of kids choose not to attend a general school of optimum and
switch to intentionally degraded vocational schools and post-Gymnasio training, creating a
host of new, almost unpaid, workers through apprenticeships and internships.
The change in the way to obtain a baccalaureate is ideologically supported by invoking the
left-true truth! - the principle of meritocracy. Meritocracy requires that no one is
required to work for an unskilled worker, because only one has access to it only with the
high school diploma. This society, in which work is perceived as a privilege and not as a
right, is a wonderful truth. Another point is the inexperienced teachers of public schools
that we promote to the classes and eventually we give a certificate to all children, even
to children with disabilities, special educational needs, particularities in behavior, or
simply to students and students who are unable or refuse to respond the demands of sterile
high school academy.
The government has managed to overcome another long-standing demand of the educational
movement, that of free access. Establishing free access to higher education institutions,
calls on students early to moderate their expectations and decide not to go into the
Pan-Hellenic Exam. Rather, they ask them to admit their position in the social pyramid by
directing them to less demanding schools, regardless of whether they meet their interests.
Over time, privileged people have free and easy access to schools that really care about
them - with the reward, both inside and outside borders. Free access sections are
transformed into the poor relative of higher education, with supply and demand criteria.
Finally, do we want nothing to change?
None of us claims that things should be left unchanged. It is necessary for the Lyceum to
be disconnected from the embarrassment of entrance examinations in Tertiary education. But
to make this possible, there is only one requirement. Abolition of the entrance
examination. The really free access to Higher Education. This is, in fact, the only
condition for the abolition of the impassivity and the class barriers, which also
highlights the education of children. As long as the criterion of admission to a
university faculty is not your interest in the subject, but how much more capable than
your neighbor is to respond to an endless series of evaluation processes, the paradise
will not only be reduced, but rather enlarged, as much as possible the hours of
orientation courses.
To acquire high school, its educational role needs to open the way for students to science
and social and political formation. It needs to give students the right to choose, but a
choice that is related to their interests, not to the devastating competition between them
for a post at the university. We want a creative school that allows children to discover
their potential, experiment and become acquainted with themselves, without being asked to
evaluate them for it. We want a school without evaluation, without penalties and praise,
where student-student relationships between students will be free of rejection and
competition. We want a school open to society, not to the priests, mayors and
corporations. We want a school liberated from state control, but not self-financing on
market terms, not an "autonomous school unit" under the terms of neoliberal restructuring.
We want a school run by the Teachers' Club and the pupils, not the manager managers with
ever-expanding powers. We want a school for all children that marries theory with
practice, which does not degrade manual labor and does not raise class barriers in
education. We want school to be universal, neither "general" nor "professional". We want a
school that cultivates children's aesthetics and morality, competing with the capitalist
logic of "each for himself", embracing children with the values of companionship, justice
and solidarity.
That's why we stand against every educational reform that is dictated by the reactive
aspirations of the neo-liberal, sovereign order. Together with students and parents, they
will find us in front of them.
For a school of solidarity, freedom, dignity
We participate in the strike-support of the local ELMEs
Eleftherial Trade Union Union - Diaconal of Athens (education sector)
Eleftherian Union of Teachers of Thessaloniki
Eleftherial Union of Educational Associations of Rethymno
https://ese.espiv.net/2019/04/12/01-25/
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Message: 4
Activists of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (ASF, sections of the International
Association of Workers in Australia) took part on April 10 in the "Change Rules" trade
union march, which was organized as part of a campaign for higher wages and job security.
---- The demonstration, which gathered about 100 thousand people, passed through the
streets of Melbourne. ASF organized its small anarcho-syndicalist bloc, holding up a
banner and unfolding its red-black banners. His motto was: "Break the rules!" ---- During
the march, comrades handed out leaflets of the following content: ---- "A change of
government will not change the rules! The strength of the union arises from solidarity and
the will to fight. Without this, there will be no trade union spirit.
Trade unions were created in those times when the only rules were the rules of the owners.
However, for most of the 20th century, the trade union movement was a force whose power
grew. This power made the system of relations in the workplace change, and although this
change brought its benefits, it also brought complacency and decay.
To think that the Labor government will save the trade union movement is a silly mistake.
Laborites have already demonstrated their readiness to sell the working class many times
for the sake of winning the votes of the supporters of capitalism. Our political leaders
only followed the workers when they united. Without us, they were timid and cowardly, they
were nothing. The best thing we can hope for from them is the legalization of what we
ourselves are doing in practice.
Only unions who want to break the rules have the power to change them. "
http://asf-iwa.org.au/
https://aitrus.info/node/5246
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Message: 5
In the Spanish state, with massive participation in the general strike and mobilizations
of March 8, 2019, feminism once again demonstrated its powerful and transversal power to
denounce the complicity between capitalism and patriarchy. " Sin nosotras el mundo no
funciona ", the slogan of Spanish feminists, has never been so accurate. ---- Last year, 6
million people took part in the March 8 mobilisations in the Iberian Peninsula ; this year
we are talking about double. [1]In the front line, millions of women have occupied the
public space, thus taking an irreversible step forward in the process of struggle for
equality and total emancipation. Throughout 2018, protests against patriarchal " justice "
have been organized for the decriminalization of abortion, sexual violence and machismo
violence, building a particularly strong international and global struggle.
Against capitalism and patriarchy
Against women, capitalism is a major ally of patriarchy ; it is by the strike that we must
fight them. That is why the Confederacion General del Trabajo (CGT) once again called on 8
March for a general strike against all abuses of the capitalist and patriarchal system: a
production strike that paralyzes this exploitative and enslaving system ; a consumer
strike affects an essential element of global capitalism of the twenty th century ; a
domestic care and work strike that highlights the complicity of capitalism and patriarchy
that relegates women to service, reproductive, and secondary roles; a student strike that
paralyzes the macho educational system. Across the Spanish state, massive rallies took
place, many roads were cut. According to the CGT, the rate of strikers reached 75 % in
highly feminized professional sectors such as education, health and telemarketing ; 40 %
in the Barcelona metro, 15 % in the buses ... Compared to last year, we must highlight the
increase in the number of strikers in sectors with low feminization such as industry and
transport. We do not forget all women who can not exercise their fundamental right to
strike: women deprived of their liberty, exploited through their work in privatized
prisons; migrant and refugee women, victims of all types of machismo abuse and violence ;
precarious women whose wages do not guarantee survival ; and especially those who have
been killed forever, murdered by machismo, patriarchy and capitalism. For the CGT of the
Spanish State and the organizations of the International Trade Union Solidarity and
Struggle Network [2], " Feminism occupies a growing place in the workplace denouncing wage
differences and the structural violence of the capitalist system of which women are doubly
victims ; Feminism is a trade union struggle " .
Buenos Aires, American epicenter of March 8
This new phase of feminist struggles started on the American continent, more precisely in
Argentina in 2015, when " Ni una menos " was born. [3]Then, the rape and murder of Lucia
Perez, sadly put the issue of machismo violence at the center of the struggles in the
country, giving the fight for the right to legal and free abortion a whole other dimension
and urgency. On March 8, 2019, they were several hundred thousand to demonstrate in the
streets of Buenos Aires.
The questioning of the rights wrested by decades of struggles advocated by both Bolsonaro
in Brazil and the formation of ultra right Vox in Andalusia, the openly misogynistic
speech of Trump, the denial of women's rights by many political regimes in place at around
the world, etc. All this made this March 8, 2019 a show of strength against the extreme
right, capitalism and patriarchy. The struggle of women is universal and it does not move
back !
Nara (AL Toulouse)
[1] 1. Number taken up by many non-militant media. See, for example, El Païs, March 12.
[2] www.laboursolidarity.org
[3] "Ni una meno" (in French: " Not one less ") is the name under which rallied the
massive demonstrations of June 3, 2015 and 2016 that took place in several cities of
Argentina, and in other countries in the region, such as Uruguay (2015), Chile and Peru
(2016), or Spain (2015) to protest against violence against women, including femicides.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Etat-espagnol-Sans-nous-le-monde-ne-fonctionne-pas
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