Today's Topics:
1. France, Manifesto of the Union Communist Libertaire UCL -
Our revolutionary trade union practice (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Russia, avtonom: Anarchists came to the rally "Let It Be" on
Sakharov Avenue [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: Jackdaw issue 6 out
now! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. anarchist communist group ACG: Summer of Discontent
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Poland, Worker Initiative: Eugeniusz Poczta is dead [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
We promote all the repertoire of revolutionary syndicalism actions - strike, boycott,
sabotage, blockage - including their new and reinvented forms, since they are based on the
direct action of the workers. ---- SUD-Rail parade during a railway strike in May 2016.
---- cc Jean-Claude Saget ---- The trade union movement was born out of the desire to
organize workers in revolt against oppression and exploitation. It makes it possible to
oppose to the employers, who rely on the individual isolation of the proletarians, the
collective strength brought by the concerted action. ---- The fight against demands in
workplaces and studies mainly involves trade union action. We therefore advocate active
participation in trade unionism, understood first of all as a practice of struggle and
unitary, mass and class self-organization.
As in any form of association, this collective strength benefits the associated
individuals and more broadly our class, provided that it is not appropriate by a minority
to the detriment of the community. This is the case when there is a distinction between
leaders and directors, which results in leaders using the organization to advance their
interests rather than serving the common cause. Unionism is not a career !
We are also aware and aware that the trade union movement is - like many things in a
non-revolutionary period - crossed by a contradiction between integration and rupture. And
that integration generates a strong tendency to social compromises and bureaucracy.
We can not, however, be satisfied with the rejection of the unions by a part of the
proletariat. It leads more to the demobilization of employees than to accentuate the
balance of power vis-à-vis the state and employers. It is through self-management and
class struggle that trade unions will become an attractive tool for social struggles.
The CGT blocked the waste treatment plant in Ivry-sur-Seine in May 2016.
cc Daniel Maunoury
A directory of direct actions
We defend a revolutionary syndicalism that returns to the sources of the proletariat's
dynamic of self-organization represented by the trade union movement, by integrating the
historical achievements of the emancipatory struggles that have been waged since its
inception.
We are therefore promoting the whole repertoire of revolutionary syndicalism - strike,
boycott, sabotage, blockage - including their new and reinvented forms, since they are
based on the direct action of the workers.
We defend the prospect of a general strike, as a weapon of the proletariat to defend its
interests, and a possible lever for a revolutionary takeover of production. This does not
mean that it is necessary to multiply, out of context, the incantatory calls to a mythical
general strike, but that it must be posited as a strategic aim, structuring our action.
It involves participating in union debates and bringing - and sometimes even simply
existing - union democracy to life.
For the workers' unity, despite the divisions
We advocate the independence of trade unions against any outside group to exploit them,
internal democracy and federalism, the sharing, control and revocability of mandates. We
want to reconnect with an interprofessional practice through the development of tools for
the emergence of solidarity and class consciousness: local unions, departmental unions,
trade unions and industry federations, confederations.
The union division is the result of several factors: bureaucratisation, questioning of
union independence, undemocratic practices, to which have been added since, competition
and spirit of chapel. Contrary to this logic, beyond the "organizational patriotism", we
affirm the necessary working-class unity and intend to work to create the conditions for a
reunification of the class and struggle union movement, without denying the difficulties.
We support other forms of organization that can be given to workers in struggle (general
assembly, strike committee, coordination ...), especially when they can complement or even
overcome the current limits of trade unions.
We defend international solidarity in the trade union field. Finally, we support a trade
union practice that integrates the diversity of the proletariat: workers in the public and
private sectors, with or without employment, active and active or retired, regardless of
their origin, nationality, gender or sexual orientation. .
Wear a basic democracy
We can be led by the reality of the ground to register our revolutionary syndicalism in
different organizations. The essential thing is, for us, the real possibility, offered by
this or that structure, to develop militant collectives and to deploy a protest activity.
Our syndicalism is therefore thought in terms of ground, is first in the basic structures,
but refuses to consider the fragmentation of the trade union movement as positive or
inevitable.
It is in the service of this activity of grassroots collectives, and in the scrupulous
respect of trade union democracy, that comrades can be mandated, in all positions and at
all levels, by the members and adherents of their structures.
Revolutionary trade unionists, we reject the division of social democratic labor between
the party that deals with politics, that is to say also social issues, and the union
confined to immediate demands. For us, the trade union organization must carry its own
strategy of transforming society, developed independently. It is an essential space for
the construction of a counter-power. It must help sharpen the self-management skills of
our class.
If it seems obvious that the trade union fact, like all the important facts of society, is
discussed everywhere, including in the political currents, we refute the practice of
"fraction" which leads its members, whatever their opinion, to act in a concerted way to
pass on the directives of their political organization in the union, in defiance of the
independence and the own capacity of elaboration of the latter.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Notre-pratique-syndicaliste-revolutionnaire
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Message: 2
On August 10, Moscow anarchists and anarchists took part in an opposition rally on
Sakharov Avenue under the slogans "For freedom and direct democracy!" and "Freedom to
Vladislav Barabanov!" In total, about 50 thousand people came to this rally - this was the
largest rally in Moscow after the protests of 2011-2012. The agenda of the event included
not only admission to the election of opposition candidates and candidates, but also
demands to stop repressions against protesters, release those arrested and close the
criminal case of "mass riots" on July 27. ---- From the place of entry to the rally to the
gathering place in front of the stage, the anarchists and anarchists walked along with the
Left Bloc.
At the rally, the recently published 38th issue of the Avtonom magazine was on sale . Some
participants and participants of the anarchoblock rode with their "silent picket" posters
painted at the rally in the subway.
After the rally on Sakharov Avenue, some of the protesters went for a walk around the city
to the area of the Presidential Administration, where more than 200 people were detained .
One of the speakers at the rally was the anarchist and former prisoner on May 6, Alexei
Polikhovich, who expressed solidarity with the defendants in the new "swamp case" about
the "riots" on July 27, 2019. On the evening of the same day, unknown people in plain
clothes detained him on his way home. The young man was taken to the police department in
the Krasnoselsky district, where they compiled a protocol on him under the article on
petty hooliganism (article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). His wife,
Tatyana, suggested that the detention was related to Alexey's speech at the rally. Police
left the detainee in the department before the trial, which is due to take place on
Monday, August 12. Probably, the case of Polikhovich will be considered by the Meshchansky
District Court. Read more about the speech of Polikhovich and his detention .
The text of the leaflet that the participants of the anarchoblock handed out on Sakharov
Avenue:
We, anarchists and libertarian socialists, are not supporters of representative, but
direct democracy. This means a system of society in which most important issues are
resolved at the grassroots level - at general off-line or online meetings, where everyone
has an equal right to vote. It can be meetings of residents of a certain territory,
workers of the production team, participants of any initiative. If we are talking about
issues that cannot be resolved at the grassroots level, then historical practice has
developed a form of advice: they select delegates from grassroots groups with the right to
recall at any time and with an imperative mandate how to vote on certain issues (such
councils acted during the Russian, Spanish and many other revolutions).
Already, there are many grassroots initiatives and protest movements that do not
necessarily declare anarchism, but make important decisions by the general meeting of
participants. You can join in groups of any interest and form a mechanism of direct
democracy within them. With due diligence, this principle can be extended to all areas of
public life, making centralized authoritarian structures - including the state - unnecessary.
We anarchists, as well as representatives of other political views, are outraged by the
police and powerless lawlessness towards participants in mass protests. Among the
defendants in the criminal case of "mass riots" on July 27 was our friend, the libertarian
socialist Vladislav Barabanov (more about the progress of the case and
support#freevladbarabanov ).
We join the demands to stop criminal and administrative cases against protesters and
release political prisoners!
If you want to know more about us, read avtonom.org
https://avtonom.org/news/anarhisty-prishli-na-miting-dopuskay-na-prospekte-saharova
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Message: 3
Issue 6 of Jackdaw, the ACG's free bulletin is back from the printers and is winding it's
way to ACG locals and stockists up and down the country.
We aim to publish Jackdaw quarterly and it gets handed out on street distributions, demos,
at meetings and can be found in radical bookshops and social centres.
This issue is 12 pages and contains articles on climate change, Atos, immigration camps,
Johnson, the Brexit Party, Essex libraries, No war but the class war, workplace notes and
more.
If you want to see the low resolution version, it can be downloaded from our publications
page. Otherwise, pick one up.
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/08/11/jackdaw-issue-6-out-now/
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Message: 4
The grassroots, member-led union, United Voices of the World (UVW), has announced that
workers in seven different workplaces are set to strike against low wages and poor
conditions. ---- These workers include cleaners, baristas, security guards, chefs and till
operators, and hail from dozens of different countries - ranging across the UK, Latin
America, West Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. Despite being employed by prestigious
organisations in both the public and private sector, including the UK government's
Ministry of Justice and 200 Grays Inn Road - home to the production company behind ITV and
Channel 4 News - many of the workers receive less than the London Living Wage and are
denied basic forms of security like occupational sick pay.
Other workplaces affected include the White Chapel building, which houses the UK
government's digital services operation and the London Museum of Photography, plus two
famous academic institutions: the University of Greenwich, on the banks of the River
Thames, and St George's, a medical school that forms part of the University of London. All
UVW members at the relevant sites will be formally voting on strike action in the coming
weeks.
In a major embarrassment for Buckingham Palace, among those walking out will be cleaners
from London's Royal Parks, responsible for some of Britain's most famous green spaces
including Hyde Park, St James's Park, and Kensington Gardens. The parks are hereditary
possessions of the Crown and managed by the UK government on behalf of the Queen, and yet
workers who maintain the public facilities in them are paid only £8.21 per hour,
substantially below the London Living Wage.
In common with most of the UVW members planning on strike action this summer, the Royal
Parks cleaners are employed by an outsourcing company - in their case the French
construction and facilities giant VINCI, which operates in more than a hundred countries
and has been accused of a wide range of corruption scandals and labour abuses. Other
outsourcing firms that will be targeted by the forthcoming actions include Sodexo (which
made a net profit of nearly £600 million in 2018) OCS, and Baxterstorey.
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2019/08/10/summer-of-discontent/
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Message: 5
On Saturday, August 10 this year. we said goodbye to a longtime member of the Employee
Initiative Eugeniusz Poczta. He died on August 7. Eugeniusz Poczta all his professional
life was associated with the Cegielski factory, where he worked as a welder. He joined the
Employee Initiative before employee protests that took place in the factory in 2007 and
2008. It was the largest outbreak of dissatisfaction of HCP employees since the 1980s, and
Eugeniusz Poczta played an active role in it. First he was a deputy, and after the death
of Marcel Gray in 2010, chairman of the IP Committee - until his retirement. He was
threatened with dismissal from trade union activity and protests, and was removed from the
management of DIY.
In his last speech, delivered in front of the HCP main gate, Eugeniusz Poczta said: "Today
we are celebrating the next anniversary of Poznan June. We gathered to commemorate the
dead and celebrate those who had the courage to demand better working conditions and
better wages. As every year, it is also a moment to remind about Cegielski's plants. I
have been saying for several years that Cegielski is falling. There are less and less
people working for us. (...) We hope that there will finally be a breakthrough and
production will return to Cegielski's halls. As a pensioner, I wish all of Cegielski's
employees with all my heart . "
We have lost one of the most outstanding activists of our union. Let's celebrate it not
with a minute of silence, but with all our lives in the fight for freedom, equality and
social justice.
http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/wielkopolskie/item/2510-nie-zyje-eugeniusz-poczta
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