Today's Topics:
1. Britain, Class War - 3 months to Brexit (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. cnt-ait chiclana, EL MILICIANO: New copy of "Everything to
Do" is now available (August 2019) (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. [Greece] Protesters clash with police in Exarchia By ANA
(pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Manifesto of the Union Communist Libertaire UCL -
Freeing society from the state (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Poland, Rozbat: The exhibition "Poznan with no evictions,
exploitation, and poverty! 25 years of Rozbrat!" [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Poland, WORKERS' INITIATIVE: Poznan commissions demand a PLN
1, 000 increase [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
As the 3 months go by till Brexit on October 3Ist the sheer horror and calamity of it will
suddenly shock people into anger and violence against those responsible - Hello Boris.
IT WILL OF COURSE BE CLASS WAR'S JOB TO AMPLIFY AND ENCORAGE THIS BY IDENTIFYING OUR CLASS
ENEMY AND REFUSING TO ACCEPT THEIR EXCUSES FOR FOOD AND MEDICINE SHORTAGES WHICH ARE
ENTIRELY FORSEEABL AND THEIR RESPNSIBILITY.
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Message: 2
"Everything to Do" is an anarchist publication that is published monthly in Madrid. It is
distributed for free in this city and can be downloaded at www.todoporhacer.org----
Download the August 2019 issue here ---- Macrofestival summer articles , between strikes
and mobilizations ---- The Raval neighborhood against Blackstone ---- Because the
neighborhood belongs to the one who inhabits it: We have come to play ---- West Fortress:
a history of migration, repression and resistance ---- Hong Kong: Anarchists in the
resistance against the Law of Extradition ---- Historical memory ---- History of Lavapiés:
the heartbeat of Madrid that resists over time ---- Recommendations ---- [Essay] Self
Defense. A philosophy of violence ---- [Newspaper] Come back cnt, the newspaper of the
National Confederation of Labor [Poetry] Nailing files in the land. The strength of the
collective. Notes on self-organization [Essay] The machine is your master and lord
Radios
Barrio Canino, vol. 253. Bet on your neighborhood. Playgrounds in working-class neighborhoods
Print run: 1,000 copies
Contact: todoporhacer@riseup.net
www.todoporhacer.org
http://elmilicianocnt-aitchiclana.blogspot.com/2019/08/ya-esta-disponible-nuevo-ejemplar-de.html
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Protesters clashed with police in Exarchia late Wednesday during a protest against the
release of the murderer of Alexis Grigoropoulos. ---- Several hundred people gathered at
the scene where policeman Epaminondas Korkoneas fired his gun and murdered the young
anarchist in the Exarchia neighborhood of central Athens on December 6, 2008. ---- In
October 2010, he was found guilty of intentional homicide and sentenced to life
imprisonment. Then his sentence was reduced to 13 years in prison. And this Tuesday
(30/07), the Greek bourgeois-democratic "justice" freed Korkoneas for "good behavior".
Related Contents: ---- https: companion/ ----
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2011/05/04/grecia-policial-que-matou-o-young-alexis-grigoropulos-levou-outra-surra/
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2011/10/06/grecia-a-justica-do-regime-libera-o-cumplice-do-assasinato-de-alexandros-grigoropoulos/
anarchist news agency-ana
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We reject the myth of the republican state, neutral, democratic, overlooking particular
interests. The state, on the contrary, is the organization of the political violence of
the ruling classes which imposes itself at the base of society. ---- The state is a weapon
in the hands of the ruling classes. ---- cc Marie-Au Palacio / UCL Greater Paris South
---- If the state principle emerged several thousand years ago, the modern state is a
recent institution, concentrating in its hands the military, police, judicial and fiscal
resources. Based on the myth of national unity beyond social classes, the state is a
fundamental tool for population control and cultural standardization. It is the main
weapon available to the ruling classes to establish their power, both by force and
ideology. It is the essential instrument of modern colonialism and imperialism.
Mutation of the modern state
Under the capitalist mode of production, government is largely the instrument of the
interests of capital. He participates in the constitution and defense of large private and
public monopolies. The neoliberal wave of privatization and opening up to competition
perpetuates the growing hybridization of the high functionaries and the capitalist class,
whose representatives circulate, over their career, between finance, industry and
administration, weaving closer links between the state sphere and the market sphere.
If the neoliberal state claims less direct intervention in the economy, it continues to
subsidize the private sector, including strategic sectors (arms, energy, transport, etc.).
The decentralization of state power initiated in France in the 1980s did not encourage
popular power ; it simply redistributed the prerogatives of the central state to local
factions of the political elite.
Neoliberal globalization has not called into question the state principle ; it has only
transformed its methods of action. The construction of the European Union has accompanied
a change in the powers of the state by accentuating the democratic dispossession and
accelerating the destruction of public services.
Neither supranationalism nor regionalism are ways of escaping state oppression.
At a time when neoliberal capitalism has experienced successive crises since the 1980s,
the state is still more the last bulwark in the service of the bourgeoisie to impose its
reforms, suppress social protest and defend the inegalitarian social order. A growing
section of the bourgeoisie is calling for the authoritarian, racist and sexist
reinforcement of the state, as evidenced by the rise of conservative and extreme
right-wing political forces that are increasingly finding their way into the dominant
classes. . Our generation is changing into a new era marked on the right ; more than ever
we must build counter-powers that mark the break with the state.
The meaning of our anti-statism
Libertarian anti-statism is radically different from liberal anti-statism. The first wants
to emancipate society from the state and from capitalism ; it defends the collective
management of public goods and services. The second wants both "less state" to free the
markets, and "more state" police and military to control the population and defend
capitalist interests abroad.
Libertarian anti-statism is also clearly distinguished from the theoretical anti-statism
of Marxism-Leninism. Contrary to the assertion of the latter, the state is not only a
"product of class contradictions" doomed to "extinguish" itself with the disappearance of
the capitalist class. The Soviet experience has shown that it is an apparatus of
domination in itself, whose internal logic is to reproduce itself by engendering a
technocracy which will constitute the new exploiting class.
We also fight against the repressive institutions used by the state to maintain the social
order: police, justice, prisons, registration, administrative control ...
The illusion of change through the ballot box
There can be no real democracy in the context of capitalism. That is why, without making
abstentionism an intangible dogma, we are boycotting the institutions of the state and the
representative elections.
Participation in representative elections constitutes, for the social and revolutionary
movement, an impasse that can only engender division, compromise, renunciation,
institutionalization and instrumentalisation, displacing the exploited from direct action.
Social conquests have not been obtained through elections, alliances or electoral
allegiances, but through collective struggles.
Far from being a contempt for the people who vote, the anti-electoralism we profess is
political and not limited to the electoral deadlines: it revives the spirit of the First
International which affirmed that "the emancipation of the workers must be the work of the
workers themselves".
We work to preserve the unity of the social movement in the face of divisions that may
appear during elections.
However, we do not refer back to back representative regimes and authoritarian and
dictatorial regimes. Both do not lead to the same degree of oppression of the people.
Public freedoms - expression, press, association, demonstration - as well as public
services are conquests of the workers' movement, which the state has conceded only to
preserve the social order. Faced with the security offensive aimed at accentuating the
social control of the population, it is necessary to defend, step by step, and to extend
each conquest obtained by the struggle. Whatever the political regime, our goal remains
the same: the emancipation of all and social justice.
A federalist alternative
Our political project proposes to substitute self-managing federalism for state and
capitalist organization. In such a society, the population will determine the main
economic and political orientations.
Revolution, as we conceive it, will have to replace indirect democracy with direct
democracy. Broad federal decentralization will have to avoid the dispossession of popular
power in favor of a new state power, centralized and cut off from society.
A genuine and truly emancipating democracy can only be realized outside the capitalist and
state straitjacket, within a classless society.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Liberer-la-societe-de-l-Etat
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It is an attempt to present the multi-layered, socially, ecologically, and culturally
engaged activity of the Rozbrat collective. In order to bring visitors closer to the most
relevant local issues, we have divided the exhibition into eight thematic sections:
tenants' movement, workers' movement, culture without censorship, printing matter, social
feminism, environmental issues, anti-war activities, social campaigns and initiatives.
Each issue is presented on a separate infographic. Additionally, zines, newspapers and
brochures published by the Rozbrat collective are available on spot. The subject of the
tenants' movement is supplemented by the documentary film made during the protests against
the displacement of the residents of the house at Stolarska Street and for the liquidation
of a container housing estate in Poznan. In turn, workers' matters are taken up by a film
titled "Plyta/Plate", documenting protests of Cegielski's employees and a video referring
to the collective labor dispute at Amazon.
The exhibition aims to draw attention to the issues of privatizing public space,
appropriating green areas by developers, and limiting access to common areas. Rozbrat, as
an important culture-creating place existing on the map of Poznan for a quarter of a
century, should not disappear from it due to economic pressure and private interests.
Rozbrat is a place where one can organize differently - without subsidies and sponsors, on
non-commercial terms while building a common, socio-political center accessible to
everyone, regardless of wealth and origin. But it is primarily a place where various
social activities take place, which reach further into the city space.
In other words, there is no Poznan without Rozbrat!
http://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/rozbrat-zostaje/4635-poznan-bez-eksmisji-wyzysku-i-biedy-25-lat-rozbratu-wystawa-info-punkt-w-galerii-arsenal
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Poznan committees from institutions financed from the city budget adopted a common
position on wage increases for 2020. In June, negotiations with local authorities began in
this matter. A second round of talks is scheduled for September. ---- In the position, we
read that wages in companies financed from the city budget of Poznan have been at a low
level for years. The nominal upward movement of wages recorded in the recent period has
not been able to sufficiently improve the employment situation in this respect. Their
salaries are far behind the national average, especially for the average in Poznan. ----
From the list of wages in institutions financed from the city budget presented to trade
unions by the city last year, it appears that the average salary for the first half of
2018 was PLN 3517.84 gross monthly for budgetary units, including for educational units,
or nearly 13,000 . employees (74% of the total) - 3334.10 PLN gross monthly; for cultural
institutions, PLN 3924.82 gross monthly. (In all cases without prizes and briefings). In
turn, at the end of 2018, the average salary (excluding awards and severances) in the
national economy amounted to PLN 4585,03 gross monthly for Poland. For Poznan, the average
was definitely higher and exceeded PLN 5,900. In the enterprise sector, average salary in
Poznan in May 2019 according to the Central Statistical Office amounted to PLN 6054.44 a
month gross.
Considering even pay rises planned for 2019, wage disparity between wages in institutions
financed from the budget of Poznan and the national average, or especially the average in
Poznan, is enormous. In order to compensate them, it would be necessary to grant increases
of not less than 1000 PLN gross (on average monthly per job).
"Being aware - IP committees say - from budgetary constraints, as well as from the fact
that the level of remuneration of the budget sphere also depends on central government
decisions, in our opinion the city of Poznan authorities should present a prospective plan
to offset the above-mentioned wage differences. The current way of working on low wages,
i.e. making negotiations 'every year' with trade unions and determining the possible
increase in wages and the rules for the division into the next budget year, is not - in
our opinion - the best way to solve this problem. In such a system, there is nothing else
but to demand for the year 2020 an increase in the remuneration fund of monthly average
PLN 1000 gross for each employee employed in plants financed from the city budget,
The position was accepted by committees at the Nursery Teams, Municipal Services sp. Z o.
O., Zamek Cultural Center, 8 Day Theater (also representing the Arsenal City Gallery), as
well as the Poznan Inter-enterprise Commission.
http://ozzip.pl/english-news/item/2503-streikalarm-solidaritaetsbrief-an-alle-streikenden-und-protestierenden-amazon-beschaeftigten-auf-der-welt-zum-prime-day-2019
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