Today's Topics:
1. France, Manifesto of the UCL - For libertarian communism
(fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Brazilian Anarchist Coordination - CAB: FOR THE MEMORY OF
TEREZA DE BENGUELA! -- FOR THE STRUGGLE OF RESISTANCE
OF BLACK
LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN! (pt) [traduzione automatica]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. ucl-saguenay, Collectif Emma Goldman: Two months of Turkish
attacks in South Kurdistan (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Poland, Mazowieckie, Workers Initiative: Construction Fair
co-organized by the OZZIP [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. [Greece] Yannis Youlountas Announces New Movie By ANA (pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. bangladesh Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation BASF Call:NOT to
deny fundamental rights of Tea workers (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Britain, anarchist communist group ACG - Statement on
election of Johnson: The deepening crisis in Britain as Johnson
takes the helm (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Unlike predatory capitalism, unable to stop its flight forward destructive to the planet,
libertarian communism can achieve a balance between productive capacity, the needs of the
population and the capabilities of the biosphere. ---- Self-management must abolish
hyphenated leadership. ---- cc Mathieu Colloghan ---- The social project we are proposing
is based on the concrete experience of workers in struggle, in revolutionary times or not:
factories recovered and self-managed, free communes, workers councils, socialized
industries, agrarian communities, federations ... ---- We call this project libertarian
communism, not by reference to the "communist" Marxist-Leninist current, but in the
continuity of a more ancient and wider current: anarchist, syndicalist, councilist,
anti-authoritarian.
By communism, we mean the pooling of the means of production, without private or private
appropriation, decentralized, that is to say without class and without state, and the
distribution of wealth created according to the needs of each and everyone.
By libertarian, we mean a society whose objective and condition is the emancipation of
individuals, which involves economic and social equality and a federalist, self-managing
democracy.
Libertarian communism is the project of a society in evolution, animated by a permanent
revolutionary process, which progressively spreads the new society on all the terrestrial
surface, and which gains and integrates little by little the whole population.
Unlike predatory capitalism, unable to stop its flight forward destructive to the planet,
libertarian communism can achieve a balance between productive capacity, the needs of the
population and the capabilities of the biosphere.
We indicate here some major axes of this project, as we can conceive it in its first phase
of construction, that is to say while the whole population has not yet been won, that the
revolution still has many enemies inside and outside, and what must be done with
capitalism's legacy of technology, land-use planning and social inequality.
Self-management production reports
Communism as we understand it rests on three inseparable points: socialization of the
means of production and exchange ; self-management of each work unit ; democratic planning
of production.
* Socialization means that the means of production and exchange are a social property, a
"common good" of the whole society, and are placed under the dual responsibility of
industrial federations (metallurgy, building, agro-food ...) and territorial levels most
appropriate (municipalities, regions, federation ...). Each industrial federation is
co-ordinated by a very broad board of workers' delegates from the various production sites.
The affiliation of each site to an industrial federation guarantees a logic of cooperation
and complementarity, against the logic of competition and competition prevailing within
the framework of the capitalist market.
* Self-management means the decision-making power of assemblies of workers, with complete
freedom of expression and democratic votes. Self-management must abolish the hyphenated
leadership, the hierarchy between trades and, in general, the fragmentation of work.
In self-management, the managers, delegates, coordinators and coordinators are elected and
dismissed by the grassroots assemblies, who are required to implement the major choices in
the organization of work, on the basis of an imperative mandate.
The reversal of the relations of production implies a radical transformation of the nature
of the work. The manual and intellectual functions, separated by capitalism, must be
reunited: every worker must be able to participate in the design and decision, for the
production process and for its purpose. His working time incorporates decision-making,
execution and continuous training. Ambitioning, with the hiring of the unemployed and with
the elimination of useless functions, a redistribution and a massive reduction of working
time.
This disalienation of work profoundly reshapes the productive apparatus and the role of
technologies. With human-sized production sites, easier to self-manage. With technologies
that are no longer used by capitalists to intensify exploitation, but are adapted to the
real needs of work collectives.
* Democratic planning means that production is no longer guided by the race for profit,
but by the needs of the population. The use value takes precedence over the market value.
However, human needs will never be "objective": they are based on cultural data, personal
aspirations, but also on what is materially available.
The diversity of needs therefore calls for the coexistence of a mechanism of general
planning and a sphere of exchange of goods, at the initiative of individuals and communities.
Planning must identify needs and direct production towards the satisfaction of basic
needs, in compliance with ecological imperatives: housing, food, travel, health, training
... Neither competing nor contradictory, the sphere of spontaneous exchanges must allow
everyone's access to complementary businesses and services.
The movement of yellow vests has returned the aspiration to the direct democracy to the
taste of the day. Here the GA of Saint-Nazaire, in April 2019.
Yves Monteil / Reporterre
A direct and federalist democracy
The difference between a parliamentary state and a self-managing federation is radical:
the overthrow of power ; mandate of the responsible for the coordination and the current
management, but refusal of the delegation of the power on the big decisions, and thus
direct democracy.
This direct democracy rests on three points: federation of territories ; popular
assemblies ; imperative mandate (in connection with the self-management structures present
within the work units).
* The federation of territories means that society is structured from municipalities, then
regions, because they are the spaces most directly controllable by the population.
The federated regions do not necessarily reproduce the division of the old administrative
regions. The important thing is that they achieve productive autonomy in agriculture and
industry, to allow maximum exchange in short circuits.
Libertarian communism aims for a universal federation of regions across linguistic
boundaries. This federation has common rules, guaranteeing the protection of each
individual and each community. Federalism avoids the two pitfalls of bureaucratic
centralism on the one hand and the fragmentation of society on the other. It is the
balance between the initiative and the autonomy of the federated units, and the solidarity
between all ; it is the pooling of resources and the structuring of interregional public
services; it is an interdependence without hierarchy where, on common questions,
collective choices are made and applied by all. Federalism implies an open conception of
society as a place to seek a balance between the general interest and the particular
interest, without ever reducing one to the other.
* The people's assemblies are the democratic reference cell. They do not mean a perpetual
assembly, forcing everyone to spend their lives in a meeting to control every detail of
the life of the city. Unable to gather, in the same lapse of time, a fraction of the
population, the assemblies must be an arena where the great projects are discussed ; a
democratic step before a formal consultation of the population, at each relevant level,
decides between the main lines in competition.
It is also in these popular assemblies that the delegates who form the councils of the
communes, regions and federation are mandated and eventually dismissed.
Direct democracy implies freedom of expression and organization, freedom of worship,
freedom of the press. Organized currents of thought can defend their point of view and
feed the debate, but delegates are mandated collectively. Once designated, they must apply
collective decisions, not those of their tendency.
* The imperative mandate means that delegates to councils of municipalities, regions or
the federation are not elected on a program and promises, with a delegated mandate. They
are chosen according to their integrity and their skills, to coordinate the implementation
of collective decisions, within the framework of an imperative and revocable mandate where
the fund does not change but where the form can evolve. function of the arguments.
The self-managing federalist democracy represents a radically new form of collective
power, breaking with the governing-governed division, with the state-society divide, and
with all class systems. Each and every one being associated with this collective power,
the government goes down to the workshop and to the commune: it is the self-government of
society that responds to the self-management of production.
The self-defense of society
The need to defend the new society from its internal and external enemies involves forms
of self-defense before which revolutionaries can not retreat.
At least during the first phase of the revolution, the persistence of social deficiencies,
racist, homophobic, sexist, destructive and environmental crimes forces us to think deeply
about the establishment of an emancipatory right and rehabilitative and restorative justice.
However, the structures of self-defense and justice of the society will have to be closely
related to the population and controlled by the councils, in complete rupture with the
repressive organs of the old society.
The risks of militarization or policing are evident in a revolutionary period and require
keen vigilance. The purpose of libertarian communism is a society free from military and
police control.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Pour-un-communisme-libertaire-8296
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In honor of Tereza de Benguela, during the First Meeting of Latin American and
Afro-Caribbean Women, 25 July was established as the Black Women's Day of Latin America
and the Caribbean. ---- Tereza was a black warrior woman who led the production of
weapons, fabrics and harvest of the Quilombo of Quariterê, a black and indigenous
community in Mato Grosso, that resisted slavery for two decades in the eighteenth century.
---- But just like International Women's Day, this day is not to be celebrated. It is a
date to remember and strengthen the resistance struggle of black women; those who are
historically the greatest victims of state-promoted class, gender and race domination.
The violence on their bodies, their identity and their living conditions is not part of a
past, but evidence of our present. In Brazil, the country that has the highest rate of
femicide in Latin America - the rates grow every day. Here, black women are the segment of
the population where the largest number of femicides are concentrated, as well as those
who suffer most from domestic and obstetric violence, maternal mortality and the
criminalization of abortion.
Therefore, the struggle for a libertarian socialist society is the struggle for the
defense of these women's lives, and the struggle against racism, machismo, class and state
violence.
Long live the empowerment, visibility and organization of black Latin American women!
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Message: 3
The Amadiya campaign bombed by Turkish aviation, July 25, 2019. ---- Text from Rojinfo.
Link to the original, here .
https://rojinfo.com/deux-mois-dattaques-dinvasion-turques-au-sud-kurdistan/ ---- On May
27, 2019, the Turkish state launched an operation called "Claw", invading the regions of
Khakurkê (in Hewlêr province), Bradost and others in South Kurdistan (Iraq). This wave of
offensives is part of what he calls "the effort to fight against the PKK". However,
residential areas are systematically targeted, causing the death of many civilians. ----
Since then, Turkish aviation has bombed 50 areas of Bradost, Qandil and Behdinan. Five
civilians were killed and 16 others wounded in these invasion attacks in the last two months.
On the first day of operation "Griffe", the Turkish army laid 30 helicopters in the
mountains of Khakurkê, landing hundreds of soldiers. Clashes erupted with the Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas who responded to the attacks.
The day after the launch of the operation, on May 28, Iraqi President Berhem Saleh
traveled to Turkey where he held a closed meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, at which the Minister was also present. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu
and Head of Intelligence Services (MIT) Hakan Fidan.
Working with the Turkish army, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has deployed 15
military equipment vehicles and a large number of peshmerga in the Bradost and Berbizina
areas.
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2019/07/deux-mois-dattaques-turques-au-sud.html
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July 21 took place in Warsaw, at the school at ul. Sierakowskiego 9, Construction
Festivities co-organized by OZZ Employee Initiative. It was already the second event from
the series inaugurated by the Festivities of 23 September last year (organized on the
initiative of the informal Zelbetty Association in cooperation with ZZ Budowlani and OZZ
IP). This time, the initiative came from the newly established Warsaw Inter-Factory
Construction Commission of the IPO, which brings together operators of cranes, formwork
and carpenters. The other co-organizer was the Razem Part. The event was hosted by: a
carpenter Kacper Kwiatkowski (Lot Together) and a crane operator Florian Nowicki (WMKB OZZ
IP).
A special guest of this year's festival was Tomasz Klarkowski (aka Einar Thordwaldsen),
crane operator from Bydgoszcz, author of films condemning scandalous working conditions in
the construction industry (and beyond), and calling construction workers (and other
industries) to organize relationships professional.
During the Festivities, the OZZ IP film crew recorded conversations with construction
workers, which will be used in the emerging film about working conditions in construction.
Participants and participants of the Festivities took a group photo with posters
containing slogans of solidarity with the Amazon crew, where the strike referendum is
currently under way.
The main attraction of the Festival was a football tournament in which the following teams
clashed with each other:
- PROMONTE - a team of carpenters (Polish and Ukrainian) from the company Promonte, under
the leadership of Captain Adrian Mazurowski, member of the presidium of the WMKB OZZ IP.
- EKIPA ZABKI - team organized by the carpenter Mateusz Dabkowski (who won the title of
the best goalkeeper in the previous edition)
- TOTALLY BUILDING GOODS - a team of carpenters and operators, led by Kamil Lubian and
Florian Nowicki
- YOUTH MACHINE TOGETHER - a team composed of young supporters of the Party Together
The tournament was won by the team of Promonte. In the decisive match, Promonte defeated
the team from Zabka 2-1. In the meeting at the top for a long time the 1-1 draw result was
maintained, giving the championship of the team from Zabka. In the last minutes of the
meeting, the fans of the Promonte have loudly cheered their favorites. The results did not
have to wait long. After crossing Vasil Leniwa (winner of the first goal for Promonte in
this match) Nazar Bartoszewski resolved the result of the match and the whole tournament.
The winners from Promonte received a commemorative cup, and all teams from the first three
sets of medals.
Results of all meetings:
Total - Promonte: 4-4
The team from Zabka - Absolute Gingerbread Building: 6-4
The team from Zabka - Total: 12-2
Absolute Gingerbread Building - Promonte: 3-5
Absolute Gingerbread Building - Total: 4-3
The team z Zabki - Promonte: 2-1
Final table:
1. Promonte 7 points
2. The team from Zabka 6 points
3. Absolute Gingerbread Building 3 points
4. Youth Total 1 point
Between the matches there were carpentry and reinforcement games for non-builders. In the
carpenter's competition, it was about the right combination of two shuttering boards with
a lock, using a carpentry hammer. One of the participants in this difficult competition
was Adrian Zandberg, who managed the task. In the armor competition it was about crossing
(without tipping) on the upper grid of the ceiling reinforcement, supported on trestles.
The difficulty was that you had to do it in high heels. The task was dealt with by: Magda
Biejert and Lukasz Ornot.
During the feast there was, among others, OZZ IP tent, where materials from various IP
committees could be obtained, as well as sign up for a new Construction Commission.
The festival was family-oriented. There is a children's corner for children.
Interview with Nazar Bartoszewski, the winner of the goal, which decided the fate of the
tournament
What did you feel when you scored the goal that decided to win the Promonte in the whole
tournament?
The impression was amazing. I felt that the first place we were fighting for was already
in our pocket. I understood that we have to defend ourselves by the end of the second
half. We did, and we won. It was hard, but we did it and we won 2-1.
Your father, Igor, and Uncle Vasil played in your team. Does the family on the field help
or bother?
The family helped me a lot in this tournament. I felt calm knowing that there was father
and uncle on the pitch.
How do you rate the level of other teams? Which match was the most difficult for you?
Each match was difficult for us. Each team had their own style of play. The most difficult
was the last match.
The Promonte team is not the best in terms of fitness. There was a terrible heat during
the tournament. Your teammates barely ran on the pitch. But did not you feel the heat did
not bother you?
When I saw that my colleagues were tired and could not make it, I realized I had to play
one hundred percent or more. You could say that the heat did not bother me.
What clubs have you trained in Poland and Ukraine?
In Poland, I trained in the FC Viktoria Zerzen club, in Ukraine in many clubs, including
in FC Vodnyk and FC Lviv.
What are you doing in Poland?
I came to learn. I finished three years of high school in Warsaw, then studies in Biala
Podlaska at AWF. The direction is obvious: sport, football.
Thank you for the conversation.
http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/mazowieckie/item/2506-festyn-budowlany-wspolorganizowany-przez-ozz-ip
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At the request of my fighting comrades in Exarchia, I will report the continuation of our
story in a fourth movie. ---- FOR MEMORY AND ANOTHER FUTURE ---- Given the seriousness of
the circumstances and the breadth of the threats that strike us, I am very moved by their
request and trust. ---- Filming has just begun, with several places and collectives, some
of which you already know but whose story is turning and others I've never told you about.
---- The title has already been chosen. Under the circumstances, he appeared to us to be
obvious, and immediately reached consensus. It will be revealed soon. ---- Most groups in
the neighborhood[Exarchia], despite their differences and occasional disagreements,
expressed their support and offered me help with unprecedented breadth.
Filming will also be done in several other regions of Greece, with which contacts were
already mostly made, but for later. The movie will take more time, a lot of time. We'll
talk about it again.
I had no plans to resume the camera anytime soon, quite the opposite, but the reality of
the world brought me back.
I do not make films to make cinema, but to throw bottles at the sea and the stars, not to
add spectacle to the media confusion, but to witness other radically different possible
ways, not only to contribute to the modernity of an amnesic and deadly society, but for
the memory and for another future.
Why not, I repeat, nothing is over.
Yannis Youlountas
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anarchist news agency-ana
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Recently, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has conducted a survey on
Socio-Economic conditions of Tea plantation workers in Bangladesh. The survey found that
none of the tea gardens pay double for overtime, even though this is stipulated in a
provision of labour law. ---- Despite a number of measures taken in recent years, the
living conditions of tea workers in the country is still not satisfactory, Transparency
International Bangladesh (TIB) Executive Director said on Tuesday. ---- "Tea gardens were
established during the British period and run using slave labour, and we are seeing a
change in the pattern. However, compared to other labor sectors, access to fundamental
rights is not satisfactory for tea workers," he said.
The TIB executive director made the comments at a seminar, titled "Working Environment &
Worker's Right in Tea Garden: Governance Challenges and Way Forward," held at the
organizations office in Dhaka.
"Tea workers are deprived of their fundamental rights. In this sense, we can say that they
are slaves," he said.
According to a survey conducted by TIB, a tea worker gets Tk102 as daily wages as per the
latest agreement between tea workers and garden owners. Their monthly earnings total
approximately
Tk5,231 with all allowances included, which is lower than any other sector in Bangladesh.
The survey also found that none of the gardens pay double for overtime, even though this
is stipulated in a provision of labour law.
In addition, in 28 out of 64 tea gardens do not pay temporary workers the same wages as
permanent workers. Temporary workers earn Tk50-75 when a worker is entitled Tk85.
Although tea garden owners are supposed to provide accommodations for each tea worker and
his or her family, 32,299 permanent and temporary laborers do not have a separate home to
live in, according to sources on the Bangladesh Tea Board.
Furthermore, some houses provided by owners are constructed of wood and tin, and do not
include doors, windows or fences. In 90.6 % of cases, a labourer was provided with just
one room, where he had to stay with his parents, siblings, wife, children, and cattle.
In 46 out of the 64 gardens surveyed, no latrines had been set up by the owners.
As a result of the survey, and this inhuman situation Bangladesh Anarcho-syndicalist
Fedaration-BASF recommended that the government announce a new wage structure for tea
workers, and that the wage structure be renewed every two years.
The BASF also recommended that the government ensure education, sanitation, group
insurance, gratuity, wages, a welfare fund, and drinking water for the workers.
Furthermore, BASF called for the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments
to carry out inspections more regularly.
https://bangladeshasf.org/basf-call-not-to-deny-fundamental-rights-of-tea-workers/
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Boris Johnson, unsurprisingly, was elected the new leader of the Conservative Party and
the next Prime Minister this week. He is yet another who has become Prime Minister without
a general election. He was elected by 92,153 Conservative members, which represents 0.13
per cent of the population. He will head a government that has a working majority of two
which may well fall to one with a forthcoming byelection where the strong chances are that
the Tories will lose their seat to the LibDems. ---- Not only that, he heads a
Conservative Party with a shrinking membership, one that is drastically divided by both
positions over the EU and personal enmities, with the possibility of pro-Remain Tory MPs
jumping ship to join the LibDems or to help construct a new centrist party.
All of this means that Johnson's leadership is very shaky. He has the task of somehow
delivering Brexit by October 31st. Already Hammond, May's Chancellor, Gauke, her Justice
Secretary, Stewart, her International Development Secretary, Milton, her Education
Minister, and Duncan, her Foreign Office Minister, have resigned, saying that they cannot
work with Johnson.
Not only does this divided Tory Party mean that he has little room to manoeuvre, but he
also faces the opposition of the manufacturing wing of British big business, totally
opposed to a no-deal Brexit which would affect their profits and their markets.
This old Etonian is also widely hated by many for his lying, racism, misogyny and
homophobia and his attacks on the working class. When he was Mayor of London 600
firefighters were sacked and 10 fire stations closed down, contributing to the fatalities
in the Grenfell fire.
In addition to this, Johnson faces the escalating situation in the Gulf. He is seen as an
ally of Trump and has the support of Trump's far right minion, Steve Bannon. It is unclear
what his position will be over attitudes towards Iran but it is quite likely that he will
get behind any moves by the Trump administration to carry out military measures against
the Teheran regime.
Johnson has stated that he is prepared to do a trade deal with the US, and that this could
take place even before Brexit. This would mean increasing privatisation and marketisation,
with what's left of the NHS being destroyed and replaced by a so-called health care system
similar to the American model. Johnson has campaigned using right populist slogans and
this is likely to continue under his leadership.
Against all of this, what should be done? The Labour Party will, indeed is, looking
towards calling for a General Election and continuing to divert grass roots struggle.
Indeed, its chief strategist John McDonnell is increasingly looking towards street
mobilisations and extra-parliamentary activity to bring a Labour Party to power. We should
be under no illusions that a possible Labour government will bring any real social change.
Corbyn has capitulated already over Trident, NATO, etc. He will face increasing pressure
if elected.
We need to look towards the task of creating an independent working class mass movement.
Obviously, this is a very difficult task, but it must be done.
Once again, we repeat our call to all serious class struggle anarchists and libertarian
communists to join with the Anarchist Communist Group in helping this come about.
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/07/26/statement-on-election-of-johnson/
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