Anarchic update news all over the world - 13.04.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Poland, rozbrat.org: Black book of Poznan outsourcing and
      labor exploitation Nationwide [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Britain, afed: CLIMATE STRUGGLE IS CLASS STRUGGLE:
      ANTI-CAPITALIST DEMO CALL OUT - LONDON - 15TH APRIL
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Vrije Bond [Den Haag]Info-avond: Action for Abortion Rights!
      (nl) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Greece, vogliamo tutto: Saturday, April 20 12pm, a course
      against nationalism, militarism, fascism, war and peace of the
      sovereigns [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  alternativa libertaria fdca: On the union (it) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Poland, rozbrat.org: The process of participants of the
      Black Protest - the court battle lasts [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Germany, FAU Hamburg and IWW Hambur & Gainesville call for a
      Global May Day (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





Porters and porters guarding the buildings of ZKZL, without overdue salaries and still 
stable employment - for the fifth time in 10 months will change the employer indicated by 
ZKZL. ---- About 25 porters and porters, guarding the objects managed by the Board of 
Municipal Residential Resources, are transferred from the company to the company shown by 
ZKZL. Probably from May this year. the fifth time in the last 10 months will change the 
employer. In two months (October and November 2018) a significant part of them has not yet 
received remuneration. They lost even after under 5,000. Golden. ---- At the same time, 
central and local authorities can not adequately react to the exploitation and deprivation 
of workers and employees. It is all the more shocking that we are talking about 
publicly-funded wages. In addition, despite the gehenna which Poznan porters and porters 
go through, the city does not see the need to change the outsourcing system, which in this 
and other cases is paralyzed by the injustice and ruthlessness of exploitation. Poznan is 
perhaps a free city, but not exploitation; maybe it is an equality city, but not in 
employment.

At the turn of August and September last year, the OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza took over 
the intervention of several dozen people employed as porters and concierges in six 
facilities being on the board of the Poznan ZKZL. The union identified a number of 
irregularities. Employees and employees were employed in "junk conditions", social 
security contributions were not paid correctly, and work was often carried out for 250 or 
more hours. in a month, for rates lower than the minimum wage. And this despite the fact 
that for two years the city has been promised that in similar cases of outsourcing work, 
social clauses will apply. The porter, who revealed the abuse, was de facto deprived of 
employment.

In the meantime, the tender from August 28 to the end of 2018 for the provision of 
property security services the objects were won by the company VISION GROUP Sp. z oo and 
the employees were taken over by CAPREA as a temporary work agency. VISION GROUP in such 
an arrangement became the so-called employer user for the above porters and porters. The 
requirement to win the tender was to hire employees under a contract of employment. 
CAPREA, however, employed only 1/16 part time for unknowing employees and employees, and 
in the remaining part of the work provided civil law contracts continued. Not much has 
changed in terms of working conditions. With their criticism (both previously in force as 
well as under the authority of VISION / CAPREA) our trade union appeared in a letter 
addressed to the president of ZKZL of 14 September, born on

Consequently, in a letter dated November 6, 2018, ZKZL informed that in the case of 
VISION, a notification would be sent to the National Labor Inspectorate and VISION GROUP 
was requested to submit documentation "to take a position on the possibility of 
withdrawing from the contract and imposing a contractual penalty" .

Because in the situation of employed people nothing changed on November 20, the birth of 
The Workers' Initiative organized a picket at the Poznan City Hall and forwarded the 
statement together with the demands of the President of the City of Poznan to Jacek 
Jaskowiak. We demanded above all that the porters and concierge would employ ZKZL 
directly, resign from outsourced municipal institutions, and repair the damage caused to 
existing employees and employees.

In response to our position, the director of the Organizational Department of the City of 
Poznan (as we understand Jacek Jaskowiak) applied a formal explanation (letter of 
18/12/2018) that the President of Poznan can not interfere "in labor relations between the 
director of an organizational unit[in an implication ZKZL]and its employee, and the 
content of civil law contracts ... "Finally, the letter also stated that the postulates of 
our relationship can not be met, because" their implementation is not within the 
competence of the Mayor of Poznan. " Issues of political responsibility for the existence 
of the state of affairs and for the fact of breaking social clauses in the public sphere, 
the city authorities simply kept silent.

At the end of November 2018, ZKZL terminated the contract with VISION GROUP. In the 
meantime, the WOLF company tried to get the order, but the final bid was finally resolved. 
For a period of one month (until the end of 2018, as it turned out later to 15/01/2019), 
the employees and workers of the protection were taken over by the company PEWNOSC. The 
success of the union was to ensure that the person who previously disclosed the abuse and 
was deprived of employment was taken back to work for the previous position.

However, what was the most important break of the ZKZL contract with VISION GROUP resulted 
in the fact that employees and employees did not receive remuneration for the months of 
October and November 2018. Therefore, on 4.12.2018, a separate notification to the 
National Labor Inspectorate was submitted by the Workers' Initiative. In advance of the 
events, it should be stated that the Labor Inspectorate informed the Employee Initiative 
by letter of 28.01.2019 - referring to the previously filed complaint by ZKZL - that in 
view of the circumstances control should be performed not in the VISION GROUP, as 
requested by ZKZL, but CAPREA . It is not known whether this answer was also a reaction to 
the complaint of the Employee Initiative of 4/2012 and nothing indicates (as seen from 
today's perspective) that the Labor Inspectorate would conduct control in CAPREI. In any 
case, no post-audit report to the union has arrived.

On December 31, 2018, the Employee Initiative also filed a notice to the Poznan District 
Prosecutor's Office - Stare Miasto about committing crimes by the VISION GROUP and CAPREA 
companies. In the prosecutor's office, competence disputes lasted until the middle of 
March this year, whether the case is to be investigated by the Poznan or Warsaw 
prosecutor's office. No witnesses (employees) indicated in the notification in this case 
have yet been questioned.

In the meantime, porters and doorman were on January 15 this year. taken over by another 
company (called SPQ) that provides a property protection service chosen by ZKZL. Because 
this change was taking place in a hurry, several of the injured in the matter of porters 
and doormen were not accepted for work. In other words, they first lost their salaries and 
eventually also lost their jobs. This resulted in further interventions of the Employee 
Initiative in ZKZL. However, the management - in our opinion - stood on the side of SPQ, 
and the fate of the employees turned out to be irrelevant.

On 25/02/2019, CAPREA responded to requests for payment by a letter in which, for the lack 
of payments for October and November 2018, the responsibility is dumped at the ZKZL, and 
then, in subsequent correspondence, it proposed a bizarre settlement with the injured 
employees and employees who promises them that they will receive outstanding remuneration 
if the money comes from ZKZL.

All correspondence carried out by the Employee Initiative regarding Poznan's porters and 
porters is submitted to the media and the Prosecutor General, Chief Labor Inspector, the 
Mayor of Poznan and the President of the ZKZL. The collected letters are a kind of "Black 
Book of Poznan's outsourcing and exploitation of work". At the same time, the relationship 
does not preclude the intensification of protests in this matter and the strike.

Inter-enterprise Commission at the Theater on the 8th Day of
Poznan, the Inter- Enterprise Commission of the
OZZ Employee Initiative

http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/poznan/4664-czarna-ksiga-poznaskiego-outsourcingu-i-wyzysku-pracy

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Message: 2






The Green Anti-Capitalist Front is a new movement supported by radical groups and 
individuals across London and the UK which aims to support the surge of actions being 
carried out by Extinction Rebellion while also offering a radical alternative for those 
who see the abolition of capitalism as the only real means of avoiding complete ecological 
catastrophe. They also recognise that many of us would like to be involved in actions 
which do not include asking to be arrested or collaborating with the police. GAF held an 
open assembly where we can decide how we wish to interact with Extinction Rebellion and 
what alternative actions we could pursue. ---- One outcome of this is a demonstration & 
day of action. GAF are calling for a broad anti-capitalist front to take part in 
environmentalist actions starting on Monday 15th of April in London, outside St Paul's 
Cathedral, meeting at 12 noon. They will be assembling at St Paul's Cathedral for a tour 
of the heart of global extractive finance, also known as the City of London.

Details on GAF site: 
https://greenanticapitalist.org/2019/04/04/april-15th-anti-capitalist-demo-call-out/

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/347708282530683/

Radar event link:
https://radar.squat.net/en/event/london/london-anarchist-federation/2019-04-15/april-15th-anti-capitalist-demo-call-out

http://afed.org.uk/green-anti-capitalist-front-call-out-for-london-15-april-2019/

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Message: 3





On Thursday the 11th of April Kattenkwaad will organise a night where we will discuss the 
right to abortion in the Netherlands. We will mainly focus on how christianfundamentalist 
groups are trying to take away these rights, and how anti-abortion groups are intimitating 
people who are going to abortion clinics. ---- What claims use christianfundamentalists to 
portray abortion as dangerous and as murder? And how is it possible to show that these 
claims are not supported by scientific evidence and therefore they spread false 
information? We will discuss scientific research on abortion, and there will be the 
opportunity to share personal stories on abortion with each other. Afterwards we will 
discuss how we can take action against anti-abortion activists!

On Thursday the 11th of April, Kattenkwaad will host a night where we will discuss 
abortion rights in the Netherlands. We will mainly focus on how, and who, is threatening 
this right.

Let's break the silence and taboo around abortion and take action against anti-abortion 
activists that want to take away our rights It is time to re-use a slogan that has not 
been used for a long time in the Netherlands: My Body, My Choice!

De Opstand is wheelchair accessible.

Time: 19h

Address: Beatrijsstraat, 2531 XC The Hague, Netherlands

Vrije Bond Secretariaat

https://www.vrijebond.org/den-haag-info-avond-action-for-abortion-rights/

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Message: 4






Few months have passed from sad blue-white carnival to "famous Macedonia" and national 
frenzy.A patchwork of right-spirited, Greek-spirited, paradise, Nazis, (par) military and 
left-wing patriots who fired tons of nationalistic-racist-sexist venom tried to sow the 
darkness of the "patris-family-religion" and paved the way to every Fascist and Nazi 
groups to come back to the public space and with the backs of the police forces to attack 
occupied spaces, immigrant women and militants. The "graphic" macedonian "danced" from the 
whole spectrum of the regime (parties, media, etc.). They were fueled by the diffused 
public discourse of nationalism, racism, militarism; from the cravings for the 
"hydrocarbons battles" in the Aegean, from the patriotism premium as a "healthy ideology" 
by the ruling left, from the constant rhetoric of "national unity and development ",

Regarding the so-called Prespa agreement, this was in fact a confirmation of the "new" 
national strategy to strengthen Greece's position in the context of state competition and 
fund raising in the wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans.The 
overproduction of patriotic reasons for "national unity" and "national development" is the 
basis of an aggressive strategy that has been put in place for years: further increase in 
the inflated budget of the armed forces (EUR 3.32 billion for 2019); regional alliances 
and joint military exercises with the militant states of Israel and Egypt, costly upgrades 
of the F-16 and orders for new naval frigates, more intensive militarization for EEZ in 
Cyprus and the Aegean, trade agreements with energy giants (TOTAL, MOBILT). At the same 
time, the role of the Greek state in the NATO Mechanism (NATO's drones in Larissa, the 
nuclear facility at Araxos, fighter jets and helicopters in Aktio and Stefanovikio,

The dipole of "pure" patriotism and "extreme" nationalism is falsified as both are used by 
the dominant narrative to reinforce national consciousness in order to conceal class, 
racist and gendered segregations and hierarchies.From school and church, to the media and 
the army, our first steps attempt to impregnate us with the nationalist poison. Each state 
seeks to create in the imagination of its citizens a "common interest national community" 
which we ought to defend. Why is it necessary to silence the forms of oppression and 
exploitation and to assimilate the radical movements. And because without a national (and 
therefore orderly) consciousness it would not be possible to form political foundations in 
national states, nor to legitimize and consolidate the new totalitarianisms by extending 
the emergency regime and the militarization of societies in a way that goes hand in hand 
with the needs of capitalism.

Left management strengthens national narrative. Already by 2015, SYRIZA proposes the 
identification of national and class interests with the nationalist frontier of "left-wing 
patriotism". The notorious negotiations with the lenders and the July 2015 referendum 
constituted a key mechanism of nationalization of consciences, a confirmation of the 
assignment to state administrators, and the transformation of movements into state policy 
fellow citizens in the name of "fighting against foreign lenders to save the national 
economy and restoring national pride and dignity. "

"Left patriotism" and "right nationalism" are aspects of the dominant narrative that has 
been imposed: the nation-state as the only possibility of social formation.The 
nation-state, in its great embrace, will have all those competitive relations, the 
conflicts between the oppressors and the oppressed, the exploiters and the exploited, so 
that the "regularity" can ever triumph. Border murders, concentration camps, 
intensification of wage slavery and unemployment terrorism, exclusion / punishment of any 
other identity that "shames" the masculinity of the nation, control and suppress all what 
will be called unnecessary (immigrants, drug addicts / homeless, etc.), suppressing all 
those who stand against this "regularity" of class and social peace, who will not eat the 
little bit of "social and national contracts". Whether left or right, patriotism raises 
the ground and contributes to the promotion of socialism and bloody national unity. 
Examples of schools occupied with occupations with nationalist content, fascist pogroms in 
Konitsa and Villias, refusal of parents to send their children to a school in Samos where 
immigrant children were attending classes are characteristic phenomena of the period.

The outbreak of the global capitalist crisis and its utterly material outcomes for Western 
societies have contributed to the giganticisation of nationalism, which is a proven tool 
for managing such crises, and at the same time a counterbalance to a possible total 
controversy of the state-capitalist edifice.It is a key part of the world puzzle, which 
consists of military interventions, economic investments, alliances and antagonisms 
between states and power blocks. The re-emergence of the army in Western metropolises and 
the militarization of the police, militarism as a social form of organization, the 
thousands of dead, displaced and incapacitated immigrants and migrant women remind us that 
the "peace" of the sovereigns is the continuation of their war with other means. The 
appearance of "external enemies" and the threat of a war are used to terrorize society and 
to cluster and compose it around the state. It is a technique of social control, usually 
when servicing the sovereign, political and economic interests, causes or will cause 
intense unrest within a state.

And, yes, the "war" differs in the materiality of the military conflict and the victims 
from "peace", but it is in this "peace" that relations of hierarchy, discipline, 
inequality, exploitation, oppression and enforcement of segregation. Relationships that 
make the boundaries between peace and war unimaginable so that the hierarchy, the 
imposition, the privileges and the increase in the wealth of the sovereigns and the 
constant misery and devaluation of their lives continue to perpetuate "under".

For oppressed people and exploiters of this world, national reconciliation is not a 
solution, nor is it the choice of an aspiring "right" or left-wing "ethnic". It is not a 
solution to assign, vote, and participate in electoral processes and pseudo-dilemmas. 
Against hostility, interdependence, competition among the oppressed, the only way out is 
the struggle for the total destruction of the world of power, exploitation and submission. 
Staying side by side, organizing ourselves through horizontal, anti-authoritarian, 
self-organized processes and struggling for the destruction of the state, capitalism, 
patriarchy.

No nation unites us, no name separates us

Conflict with state, bosses, fascists

Solidarity is our weapon

Struggle for Social Revolution, Social Liberation

Path Saturday 20 April, Monastiraki, 12pm

Anarchist collectives, hangouts, squats, comrades, companions

https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2019/04/08/demo-saturday-20-4-2019/#more-2184

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Message: 5





The long crisis was the best condition in which the capitalist system was able to impose 
new relations of force with the class and decisive transformations in the social 
conditions of work. ---- As we had already defined, the lines of attack were and will 
continue to be the labor market and bargaining, all supported by a legislative system that 
has been favoring capital for years, reducing the rights and protections of those who 
work. ---- Today in the world of work extremes of the problems are being verified that the 
workers and workers live both inside and outside their place of work: ---- fragmentation 
and lack of even elementary rights ---- generalized precariousness, profound inequalities 
in both salary and time and rights treatment, in particular in the new areas necessary for 
profit and the financial economy, competition between workers who are required to adhere 
to these processes and submit to these logics, progressive reduction in the coverage of 
the social state, low wages, increase in hours worked.

In fact, there is no longer the "industrial union" built in the previous phase, but the 
breakdown has detached all the services from the companies, creating, also, new realities 
of workers. Consider, for example, the logistics and services provided remotely that will 
further increase with digital.

In recent years we have witnessed a gradual fragmentation of the class: the centrality of 
the company and the anti-solidaristic corporate corporatism, still today as for several 
years, create competition between workers who concentrate their anger and often 
frustration no longer against who created the situation and gets the benefits but towards 
the weakest part of the class with ever-increasing violence against foreigners and women.

There is a break between the workers protected by a national contract and the possibility 
of organizing themselves and the digital-born generations, where forms of voluntary 
submission also emerge (they are not the scabs of the good old days). There are 
substantial changes that also affect public employment both as a result of the 
introduction of technology and the consequences deriving from the organization of work, 
and with the generational change that will take place within a few years.

The union underwent all these transformations carried out by the bosses (centrality of the 
company) remaining with an organizational form, modeled on the Fordist commodity scheme, 
which led to the absolute inability to react to regain spaces of representation and extend 
rights and protections, in fact it has focused and limited to a defensive role to counter 
company closures and workforce reduction.

The inadequate reaction of union structures unable even, with some exceptions, to develop 
analysis on the phase, is resolved with the autonomous push of the categories with a 
process of verticalization of the decisions that leads them to the competition between 
them in the various working realities in which different coexist national contracts 
applied to workers creating enormous problems of different conditions of protection 
between workers working in the same yard or in the same company. The problem of 
contractual dumping and the inability to represent and protect workers with different or 
precarious national contracts is one of the most current and increasingly widespread 
issues. The fragmentation of the class was answered by multiplying the contracts on which, 
starting from 2009 with the FIAT contract, the bosses' point of view is spreading and the 
consequent progressive reduction of the autonomous position of the workers within the 
bargaining. All negotiations put at the center, as a starting point, the sharing of 
business difficulties and the need to find ways of relaunching businesses.

Within this perimeter, rights and wages are also re-discussed, however, ending up with the 
result of an increasing loyalty of workers to the company (some unions reason about the 
participation of workers in company boards) increasingly talking about corporate / 
contractual welfare and inflation recovery and less and less of a wage increase as a form 
of redistribution of the wealth created and as a form of "wage wage".

The state of crisis of the union concerns the whole European area, albeit with partly 
different contents given the various existing organizational models.

We need to deepen and analyze where the state of deep crisis and often inadequacy of trade 
unionism in the current phase comes from. We are convinced that the union is not outdated 
but rather that there is a need for more trade unions that are profoundly "different" from 
what we now know and live as active subjects, which in addition to the struggles on trade 
union and social demands strive to build the unity of workers class far beyond union 
membership.

Also the political struggle in CGIL in the last congress develops on the project linked to 
bargaining and the need for a renewed confederality with confederal contractual structures 
to practice it: essentially a transfer of autonomy of the categories in favor of the 
confederation. We propose a reduction in the number of categories and a drastic reduction 
in the number of national contracts. The demand for a stronger and renewed confederality, 
which translated into non-union language means the need for verbal and contractual tools 
capable of unifying the class, with a unified response that breaks the categorical and / 
or individual corporate solutions, makes sense if it rests on an attack platform capable 
of giving concrete answers to all the broken pieces of the class, both to the categories 
relatively guaranteed by the CCNL and to the class dispersed in the streams of insecurity. 
In the absence of aggregating objectives, the neo-confederality results in a hierarchical 
and authoritarian control of the categories.

In recent years the bosses have opened grasslands with progressive steps of restructuring 
that have profoundly affected social relations. Reconstructing a role and the autonomous 
position of workers by resuming class conflict presents real difficulties and it does not 
seem that everything said about the analysis of this phase favors an immediate development 
of class consciousness. There is no push from the base on this pressing need for 
structural transformation, something we believe necessary and without which we cannot do 
otherwise.

Today as yesterday, a necessary condition for re-launching a basic participation in union 
activity, remains:

to defend the practicability, the freedom / right of workers to associate / join forces, 
to organize themselves in the workplace in the workplace and in the territory, both in 
terms of representation and consultation and assembly decision-making; Define a 
decision-making path that sees the workers as protagonists from the beginning of the 
construction of contractual and / or contractual platforms and not only a posteriori as 
subjects that ratify summit agreements.

prevent the process of desindacalization, linked both to the expulsion of labor power and 
to the blackmail of the employer and to the processes of precariousness / flexibility, 
which inexorably produces the disappearance of trade union action in the workplace.

participation of young contracted and non-contractual workers in the trade union 
structures of all levels, coming from factory and service experiences but also 
representatives of new forms of work and exploitation, which guarantee the effective and 
non-formal exercise of union democracy, which favors the full participation and 
self-determination and worker representation both in the workplace and within the union 
structures.

In this regard, the choice of a significant reduction of the central bureaucratic 
apparatus in favor of a strengthening of the territorial presence is also strategic, also 
through a generalized alternation between union posting and work in "production".

The bureaucratization of union structures is an obstacle to break down to develop real 
moments of union democracy, for us libertarians it is necessary for union leaders to be a 
real expression of the world of work and of the categories and it is therefore necessary 
to overcome all those forms of cooptation that lead to , to the maximum management 
subjects directly from extra-union realities.

Promote the development of territorial coordination structures of workers and other social 
subjects, in which trade union action is not bound to a pre-established choice of union 
code, but is able to relate where possible to the relational, organizational and struggle 
situation of each single job, since the priority is the choice of belonging, of insertion 
and of action within the workers as such.

The growing phenomenon of bureaucratization has favored neocorporative turning points of 
syndicalism that must also be fought for the corruption phenomena they entail, developing 
greater control of the base on the tops.

Combating any process of criminalization, de-legitimization and repression of social 
dissent, fighting dangerous authoritarian tendencies that are increasingly affecting union 
activists: solidarity is also a weapon

A campaign on real wage increases and on rights remains central. Furthermore, welfare must 
be reviewed at a universal level, claims must be made for better working hours and labor 
conditions must be negotiated with the introduction of technology. A general intercategory 
dispute is necessary for the reduction of working hours with the same pay: Objective 
indispensable to combat unemployment and precariousness and by now mature objective in 
relation to the development of computerization processes of the production cycle. These 
are central points of the union action.

The strategic choice for us cnarchist communists must remain that of the territory; 
intertwining union demands (work, rights, wages) with social demands (right to housing, 
education, health, etc.).

To aggregate while remaining in the class and not to be pushed to the margins.

Having clear the nature and role of trade union intervention, but equally the role of 
militants of the political organization, with its specificity, and of its line that cannot 
be subordinated to other logics of belonging.

Motion approved at the X Congress of Alternativa LIbertaria / fdca,

Fano, March 30, 2019

http://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/wpAL/blog/2019/04/08/sul-sindacato/

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Message: 6






03.10. In 2016, we took part in a black protest in Poznan. Since then we have been 
regularly dragged by the courts. Some of us were unreasonably detained and arrested during 
the demonstration. Maciek, Jacek and Gosia were charged with violating the police's 
immunity and taking part in an illegal gathering. Asia, Iwka and Pawel were accused of 
participating in the illegal gathering with the knowledge that its participants intend to 
carry out a violent attack on police officers much later - after they reported that the 
police had exceeded their rights. To prosecute them was a simple revenge for making 
problems - a classic example of political repression. ---- The Amnesty International 
report wrote about the absurdity of the whole situation:

The case of the Black Protest in Poznan is an example of the police using disproportionate 
direct coercion measures during demonstrations. It is also worrying about not 
investigating complaints about police officers and limiting the possibility of exercising 
the right of an injured party to an effective remedy. It also seems that in the District 
Attorney's Office of the Old Town, the scope of concepts has been confused, which was 
justified by the use of force by referring, inter alia, to the "illegality" of the 
assembly. Peaceful gathering is freedom, the implementation of which does not depend on 
the consent of the authorities. International human rights law and standards do not allow 
countries to require prior approval for organizing a meeting.
In accordance with international human rights law and standards, failure to notify 
authorities or failure to comply with other administrative requirements does not allow the 
conclusion that the assembly is "illegal." The authorities may consider that an assembly 
is illegal, for example if its purpose is to prevent another assembly from being 
organized, and thus to prevent others from exercising freedom of assembly. But even then, 
law enforcement authorities are entitled to use only measures that are necessary and 
proportionate to achieve the objective they face. International standards are clear - 
especially regarding the use of force in such circumstances - and provide that when 
dispelling unlawful but peaceful assemblies, law enforcement officials should avoid the 
use of direct coercion measures, and if this is not possible, they should use force to the 
smallest extent necessary. In other words, the fact that an assembly in accordance with 
national law is illegal does not justify the use by law enforcement officials of the force 
to dissipate it. The position of the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of assembly and 
association is unequivocal on this point: prohibiting and disperasing peaceful assemblies 
just because "their message does not please the authorities" is a violation of 
international human rights law. " that a given assembly under national law is illegal, 
does not justify the use by law enforcement officials of the force to dissipate it. The 
position of the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association is 
unequivocal on this point: prohibiting and disperasing peaceful assemblies just because 
"their message does not please the authorities" is a violation of international human 
rights law. " that a given assembly under national law is illegal, does not justify the 
use by law enforcement officials of the force to dissipate it. The position of the UN 
Special Rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association is unequivocal on this point: 
prohibiting and disperasing peaceful assemblies just because "their message does not 
please the authorities" is a violation of international human rights law. "

We have been interrogated for two years, we have been taking part in court hearings almost 
every month. The process has already cost us a lot of money, nerves and time. Of course, 
in the meantime, the trial against the police was discontinued, despite many witnesses and 
victims, the prosecutor's office did not notice any shortcomings on their part. In the 
justification, we read that "It should be indicated and what can not be omitted, taking 
into account the facts of the present case, that the persons injured in the present 
proceedings include persons who operate in the Anarchist movement in Poznan (Anarchist 
Federation Poznan, Rozbrat) or are indicated movement in a different way connected. 
Members of this movement take part in various protests, trying through their provocative 
behaviors,

The website of the Anarchist Federation includes a number of demonstration tips including 
those referring to the need to put on face masks, bounce arrests and others. In the 
present case, it is possible to observe the typical actions of this kind, in particular 
provocative - as the use of masks, throwing stones and flares at officers, directing 
vulgar and offensive words to police officers. Most of these behaviors are dangerous to 
life and health.
[...]However, the testimony of the victims, in the context of the remaining evidence 
gathered in the case - was considered subjective because they are inconsistent with other 
evidence in the case, including collected documents and testimonies of other witnesses (we 
remind you that other witnesses are police officers! note by the authors of the report). 
In particular, it is also difficult to assume that the officers deliberately humiliated 
and used unnecessary violence against unknown and strangers, without having any personal 
interest in it, and also risking their own life and health and loss of employment.
[...]In the opinion of the supervising prosecutor, police officers took urgent decisions 
of vital importance for the protection of life and health in a dynamic and dangerous 
situation which is undoubtedly a confrontation with over a thousand people. As well, they 
acted with the risk of their own life and health in extremely stressful and directly 
threatening life, health and the situation. It should be emphasized that uncontrolled 
crowd reactions are extremely dangerous.
You can not forget about this when assessing the behavior of police officers, because it 
is easy to assess such situations in the privacy of your private office or private home. 
Therefore, the issue of a call to comply with the law in the context of fulfilling the 
conditions of art. Article 34 paragraph 2 of the Act on coercive measures and firearms 
does not matter. "
We have been treated in advance by the apparatus of power as criminals and liars, whose 
voice means nothing to the police who are fighting for life, who never abuse their powers 
and do not use unjustified aggression.

Returning to our process -

During the subsequent hearings we have not been provided with any credible evidence of our 
offenses. Most of the prosecutors' witnesses did not remember anything, and those who 
could describe the course of events more closely, made use of strange and crazy references 
to Youtube videos, denied each other or evidently confabulated, suggesting that we are 
members of some professional, organized and dangerous criminal group, which seems absurd. 
As a member of the criminal group, we are also treated by a judge who did not want to 
accept our list of witnesses until the last minute, and called for the help of security 
guards for tomorrow's hearing. In the minutes of the last hearing, she placed the 
recommendation: "Ask the Judicial Police with a letter informing them of the dates of the 
hearings, informing them,

It does not surprise us at all, we already knew about the approach of judges Agnieszka 
Cabrery-Kasprzak to activists and activists. Some time ago, out of curiosity, we checked 
whether in the past she had had contact with the anarchist community. It soon turned out 
that the judge had temporarily discarded a loud case about the use of a private paralyzer 
on duty by a police officer during a lecture on gender in Poznan. We dug up to the article 
in which excerpts of the justification for such a decision and its criticism are quoted.

In a nutshell, Judge Agnieszka Cabrera-Kasprzak stated that the crime took place, and by 
taking a private taser to the lecture, the policeman "acted in advance with intentional 
intention" and "knew that he was acting in violation of the law". However, she dismissed 
the matter because of ... negligible social harm. This is a guilty statement, but formally 
the policeman will remain unpunished and will not lose his job. However, the judge said 
that the policeman had the right to feel threatened because he was in civilian clothes, 
without a vest or helmet. He also expected the lecture to be interrupted by anarchists 
because the police warned the organizers about it. "He certainly knew the typical 
behaviors of this type of professional experience"[...]"He had to know from the office that
public officials'.

This is the unfounded, unjustified, very vague and stereotypical approach of the Judges to 
activists and activists who are shocking and worried. Today, interrogation of defense 
witnesses begins. We hope that judge Agnieszka Cabrera-Kasprzak will remain objective, 
forget about his prejudices and listen to what they have to say in our case.

http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/poznan/4665-2019-04-09-13-29-18

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Message: 7





Hello everyone, the FAU Hamburg (Free Workers' Union) together with IWW Hamburg 
(Industrial Workers of the World) and Gainesville IWW agreed on a call for a Global May 
Day, which was then published in coordination with several other unions and initiatives. 
---- Each syndicate/ group/ union organizes its own activities with their own focal 
points. The call is part of a common global framework, which helps to visually connect 
those activities and promotes communication on the global level. -- The main communication 
channel is this mailing list[https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/globalmayday]. There is 
also a fb group Global May Day 2019 | #1world1struggle and a page Global May Day. ---- One 
central part of the initiative is the coordination of Solidarity Partnerships: 
https://globalmayday.wordpress.com/solidarity-partnerships/ ---- At this stage 
translations of the call are urgently needed. Currently in the making are translations 
into Burmese and Portuguese. Available so far is the call in Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali, 
English, French, German, Hindi, Spanish, Tamil and Turkish: 
https://globalmayday.wordpress.com/call

In case you can help with a translation, please make use of this pad 
[https://etherpad.net/p/globalmayday2019]. This should help to prevent various people 
translating into the same language.

The following can be done in context of the Global May Day.

before May Day:
- support the call and inform the mailing list
- translate the call
- spread the call
- network for solidarity partnerships
- announce your May Day activities via the Global May Day mailing list
- help with the creation of materials such as posters/banners/memes: 
https://globalmayday.wordpress.com/call-for-materials

during May Day:
- visually connect your activities with the call of the Global May Day by displaying the 
common symbols and using #1world1struggle
- document your activities

after May Day:
- send reports about your activities to the Global May Day mailing list

In the end we hope that this initiative will lead to a network of emancipatory groups and 
unions worldwide, which can also be used to support each other after May Day.

greetings from Hamburg
Mo
[FAU Hamburg]
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Global May Day 2019
– 1st May, 2019 –

Every year people take to the streets and go on strike on May 1st to commemorate 
International Workers’ Day. With the following call, which was
initiated by several syndicates of the grassroot unions Free Workers' Union (FAU) and 
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), we want to
encourage groups on the grassroot level, labour unions and initiatives worldwide to link 
their May Day activities and by doing so provide visibility
to the transnational dimension of the struggle.

We, workers and students, will stand together in solidarity, because we are all involved 
in the same struggle against profit-driven interests
regardless of our place of residence. Budget cuts in social services, outsourcing, 
depressing wages, privatization, increasing costs of living as
well as tuition fees are just a few of the symptoms directly related to the global 
economic system. A system that is based on exploitation and
competition and pushing forward the commercialization of all aspects of our lives.

The constantly increasing pressure to perform is sickening, be it in the workplace, 
university, school, and increasingly during childhood and
youth. The logic of the market economy and the corresponding nation-state structures 
require that adaption to the dictate of competitiveness and
the value-added production take priority over the development of emancipatory capabilities.

We do not intend to simply disrupt; we seek to overcome.

Given the transnational nature of the capitalist system, it is necessary for workers to 
connect on the global level. By networking across borders,
the global interconnections that shape our local conditions can be made visible. 
Furthermore it opens up new potentialities and scopes of
action within the struggle against exploitation as well precarious working and living 
conditions. The bargaining power of workers would increase
tremendously, if we were to unite within the same value-added chain. Let us imagine what 
differences it would have made, if the striking miners
in Marikana (South Africa) and workers of the BASF chemical plants located in Germany were 
connected and had united in their struggle given
that BASF is the primary purchaser of the resources produced by the miners. Such linkages 
could have significantly altered or perhaps even
prevented the 2012 massacre [http://basflonmin.com/home/de/]. Another example are garment 
workers in Sri Lanka (producing textiles for the
retailing company H&M) who fought for wages enabling them a proper living 
[https://feminisminindia.com/2018/12/11/hm-workers-protest/] on
November 27th, 2018. On the same day groups across Europe and the USA organised activities 
in solidarity in front of outlets of H&M. This
shows that pressure can be generated through a network of actors within the value-added 
chain, from the producing workers to those working in
the retails stores and those purchasing the product. The same applies to strike actions 
taking place at Amazon: For example the labour union
ver.di called for strikes in 2016 at logistical centers across Germany. Since logistical 
centers in Poland were used as evasive locations, the
labour union IP organised solidarity actions
[http://www.ozzip.pl/english-news/item/2157-amazon-poland-over-2000-people-want-to-go-on-strike-but-restrictive-polish-labor-laws-prohibit-it].
By now action groups are forming at Amazon centers around the world, which are also 
increasingly shaping a network.
Last but not least IT workers are resisting precarious working conditions and get 
organized across borders. As an example we want to point out the initiative Game Workers 
Unite! [https://www.gameworkersunite.org/] and mention the walkout by workers at Google 
[https://twitter.com/GoogleWalkout], which was joined by tens of thousands of people in 50 
cities worldwide last November.

With a transnationally coordinated May Day 2019 we strive to realize a collective goal of 
a better life by networking and building solidarity on a
global scale. Especially in times of increasing nationalist and racist tendencies, we 
emphasize the common struggle and resist being played off
against each other.

For a better life for all – across all borders!

#1world1struggle

https://globalmayday.wordpress.com/aufruf-2019/

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