Update: anarchist news and information all over the world - 22.10.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Poland, Workers Initiative: The position of the OZZ IP
      Warsaw culture committees on the "Solidarity" and MKiDN pay
      agreement [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  [Spain] Madrid mobilizes in support of Kurdish people of
      Rojava By ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  [Spain] October 17 in Madrid | "Collapse and alternatives:
      anticapitalism and self-management" By ANA (pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  [Argentina] Ecuador between Bakunin and Borges By ANA (pt)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Slovania, Prima Akcia: Do you want to be involved in
      promoting the idea of "(Not) voting is not enough" before the
      2020 elections? [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Britain, London AFED: LONDON GAF TARGET OIL & MONEY
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #298 - Emergencies:
      The hospital cracks everywhere, crack capitalism (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  Britain, AFED: BRISTOL RISES UP FOR ROJAVA 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






OZZ IP cultural commission protests under the slogan "Full Culture - Empty Accounts"
Warsaw, 18.05.2019 ---- October 8 this year The National Section of Museums and
Institutions for the Protection of Monuments of NSZZ "Solidarnosc" has signed an agreement
with the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (MKiDN), Piotr Glinski, an agreement on
10% wage increases in museums organized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Warsaw commissions of the Workers' Initiative from the culture industry, which conduct
independent activities to increase wages in this industry, comment on this agreement in a
jointly issued position, the content of which is presented below. ---- You can read more
about the "Solidarity" agreement with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage[here].

The position of the Warsaw Culture Committees of the National Trade Union Employee
Initiative regarding the agreement signed on October 8, 2019 by the Minister of Culture
and National Heritage and the chairman of the National Council of the Section of Museums
and Monument Protection Institution NSZZ "Solidarnosc".

We have received with interest information about the signing of the agreement on the
increase in salaries in museums, which are organized and co-organized by the Ministry of
Culture and National Heritage. Every step to improve the conditions of remuneration of
employees in Poland is noteworthy, but we are surprised that the National Secretariat for
Culture of the NSZZ "Solidarnosc" Commission has decided to conduct negotiations and
finally sign an agreement concerning only some of the employees of the cultural sector -
excluding other areas, which correspond to individual National Employee Sections: State
Archives, Art Institutions, Radio and Television, Public Libraries, Art Schools.

In our opinion, the very general formula of the agreement is disturbing, in which the
average increase of remuneration in museums is referred to without reference to the
distribution of funds allocated and the issue of equalizing wages in cultural institutions
and reducing wage spreads, and thus improving the situation of the least-paid people.

 From information obtained by the Polish Trade Union "Workers' Initiative", differences in
pay within the institution can be significant. It would be incomprehensible that, as part
of the additional funds allocated by the Ministry for remuneration, the same percentage
increases would be paid to those who earn the least and those with the highest salaries.

In the ongoing negotiations and the concluding agreement, the level of increase depends on
the average amount of wages in museums in general and in each institution, respectively.
In our opinion, the median is a much closer measure of reality and it is the organizer and
employee organizations that should take it into account when starting a conversation about
improving wages. This value allows you to assess the amount below which earns 50% of
employees_workers and above which the other half of employees earns. It also avoids
distortions caused by the pay gap to which the arithmetic average is sensitive. It is on
this basis that all calculations regarding the increase in wages should be based, while
the purpose of the increases should not only be the increase in the average monthly
salary, but an attempt to equalize the wages of persons in "

The redistribution of funds referred to in the agreement must necessarily include company
committees or other bodies representing employee interests in individual workplaces. We
appeal to the basic units of trade union organizations to conduct negotiations with the
employer, taking into account the interests of employees and the least-paid employees.

We welcome the announcement of further salary increases and the introduction of systematic
salary revaluation in museums in subsequent years, as it egalitarily responds to the
increase in the cost of living. We hope that these are realistic action plans, not just
pre-election announcements, which will not be covered in reality after the campaign.

We would also like to draw the attention of the parties who signed the agreement that it
lacks solutions regarding the conditions of employment in museums (and more generally
cultural institutions in general), which, in our view, consumes the problem of temporary
contracts and outsourcing. If, according to the Ministry of Culture and National
Heritage's declaration, the signed agreement is part of the "aspiration to amend the Act
on museums that will meet the needs of modern museum studies", then such changes must also
take into account the precise restrictions on the conclusion of temporary contracts and
outsourcing by museums, so they will provide safe and stable places work for everyone who
works for them. This is extremely important because cultural institutions do not function
outside society and are increasingly susceptible to the pressure of the neoliberal gig
economy.

As employees and employees associated in the OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza employees' culture
commissions, we will follow conversations regarding changes to the Act on museums. We
consider it necessary to extend the discussion on improving remuneration to types of
institutions other than museums, for which the organizer and co-organizer is the Ministry
of Culture and National Heritage, and for those for which the municipal and local
government offices are the organizer. The pretext for such talks may be the report we
prepare on wages and employment conditions in Warsaw's public cultural institutions, in
which we present in more detail the problems of employment and remuneration in this
sector. Its publication is scheduled for October 21.

  Factory Committee at the Universal Theater them. Zygmunt Hübner

Factory Commission at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Factory Commission at the Museum of Modern Art

Factory Commission at the National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute

Factory Commission at TR Warsaw

Factory Committee at Zacheta - National Gallery of Art

Factory Commission at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle

Factory Commission at the Theater Institute Zbigniew Raszewski

http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/mazowieckie/item/2525-stanowisko-warszawskich-komisji-kultury-ip-ws-porozumienia-placowego-solidarnosci-i-mkidn

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Message: 2






Thousands of people flooded the capital's Tirso de Molina Square this Sunday morning,
October 13, demanding the withdrawal of Turkish troops from the Kurdish territory of
Rojava and international pressure for NATO-allied Turkey air exclusion and put an end to
indiscriminate bombing of the population. ---- CNT Madrid and CNT Villaverde wanted to add
to the mobilizations, once again demonstrating the support of the Anarcho-syndicalist
central to the social revolution taking place in Kurdistan, which is under attack and
overthrow by Turkey and other countries, with the oblivion of the community. ----
International. ---- Source:
https://www.cnt.es/noticias/madrid-se-moviliza-en-apoyo-al-pueblo-kurdo-de-rojava/ ----
Related Content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2019/10/09/spanish-cnt-com-rojava-ante-aseaamcas-de-invasao-por-parte-do-turco/

anarchist news agency-ana

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Message: 3






On Thursday, October 17, 2019, at 7 pm, will take place at the Anselmo Lorenzo Libertarian
Studies Foundation (c / Peñuelas, nº 41, Embajadores subway) the presentation of the act
"Collapse and alternatives: anti-capitalism and self-management" with Carlos Taibo,
Barbaria Collective, Cul de Sac Collective, Miquel Amorós and Pedro Prieto. ---- The
situation on our planet had never been so alarming. 60% of reduced vertebrate species
since 1970; 13 million hectares deforested in the last 10 years; 30% melting only during
the twentieth century and an increase in the planet's average temperature since 2015 from
1 ° C (and will continue to rise by 0'2 ° C per year). In 2018 carbon dioxide emissions,
far from reducing, grew by 2.7%. While 92% of the world's population breathes unhealthy
air, accounting for 8.8 million deaths worldwide (10,000 in Spain). Hot flashes aggravate
the infirmities of the weaker by increasing mortality, to the extent that 2003 caused
70,000 deaths across Europe (6,000 in Spain). All this data is an undeniable reality, and
it seems that they could get worse due to the acceleration of the thaw of the arctic
pergellisol.

The dilemma, which has arisen with remarkable media success, between rebellion and
extinction["Extinction Rebellion" movement]It is well formulated. Another different thing
is the way to face it. We will not avoid "extinction" by preserving this economic and
social model. Nor does it "humanize" the free market by talking about making the system of
production and consumption "sustainable" when it has to break with the culture of growth
and "development" and end the economic structure that imposes it: capitalism. Nor is
"rebellion" possible from hierarchical institutions and ballot boxes. Not since
legislative decrees that try to make planetary deterioration "acceptable" and "regulate"
the deadlines for the collapse of the environment. Neither from municipalities that
declare themselves incompetent or from states that serve as a stronghold to the interests
of the economic structure, nor from governmental organizations that definitely

The ecological crisis, which threatens to destroy life on the planet in a relatively short
historical period, is based on a suicidal productive economic model and on a vertical and
delegationist political management. A model that needs to stimulate disproportionate and
unsustainable consumerism and a political management that regulates it. There are no
effective formulas within capitalism, no matter how much its "tamers" believe it to be
domesticated. There are no decisive solutions within the state, no matter how much their
new visible faces drink craft beer and participate in some CSOA assemblies. Our way of
life can only continue for a few years, at the expense of increasing depredation of
populations and the resources of the "poor countries" and the peripheries of the "central
countries."

It is necessary to make an ecological, anti-capitalist and anti-statist discourse that
confronts the situation ahead and not to be distracted by false hopes. That breaks the
hegemony in the account of those who promise us a "covenant ecological outlet" between
multinationals and governments, hiding causes and culprits of the crisis. And that can
only numb any advance, if not, directly, disarticulate the grassroots ecological struggle
for decades to come. It is essential to articulate our various local sectoral struggles
with the ability to establish strategies of massive resistance that allow us to respond
collectively to a global problem.

The existential threat of the planet itself and millions of lives, requires not to disdain
any kind of struggle, whenever they come from horizontal structures, from the bottom up.
And to question those who will compulsively offer us through the great means of
misinformation the same ones that generated the problem. The dilemma is: save capitalism,
or the planet and living beings.

For all these reasons, we call on alternative unions, collectives, platforms, spaces,
counter-informative media and interested individuals to support and collaborate on an
independent initiative that, by combining different sensibilities, we are undertaking -
from alternative thinking and activism - to give an anti-capitalist and anti-government
response that is up to the circumstances.

On Thursday, October 17, 2019, at 7 pm, will take place in Madrid at the Anselmo Lorenzo
Foundation for Libertarian Studies (c / Peñuelas, No. 41, Embajadores subway) the
presentation of an act. In it we will try to put the cements that allow us to develop this
collective response. We will count on the participation of several partners and
collectives specialized in developing theories and practices that promote the fight
against the myths of development and growth, the defense of the territory and the
revolutionary ecologism. Speakers: Carlos Taibo, Barbaria Collective, Cul de Sac
Collective, Miquel Amorós and Pedro Prieto.

fal.cnt.es

Translation> Sol de Abril

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Message: 4






The popular uprising in Ecuador can be analyzed from various perspectives. For our part in
the light of events we recall the figure of the anarchist revolutionary Mikail Bakunin,
for he held that the oppressed and the oppressed should not accept domination and
exploitation. Bakunin proclaims the need to organize the revolt. ---- In Ecuador, the
uprising against Lenin Moreno's government showed once again that, as Albert Camus pointed
out, "The peoples rebel through tiredness or disgust." ---- Indeed, the dynamics of
capitalism never achieve full control beyond the material and symbolic hegemony of state
and capital. On the other hand, presidential figures are only the visible faces of the
royal powers. ---- If alive Jorge Luis Borges could add many chapters to his Universal
History of Infamy (1935). ---- Protagonists are left in the various latitudes.

Carlos A. Solero

Monday, October 14, 2019

Translation> Sol de Abril

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Message: 5






Political parties are already preparing for the February 2020 elections, and soon the
whole of society will live on this issue. Before the elections we have the opportunity to
broaden the idea of self-organization and we would like it to reach as many regions as
possible in Slovakia. Therefore, we would like to reach out to those who see it as we do,
to engage in the preparatory work on textual and graphic outputs (as well as in their
dissemination in their surroundings) and contact us as soon as possible with one of our
contacts . ---- To refresh our memory, this is what our "election materials" looked like
before the 2012 elections, and here's our position on the 2016 elections . ---- We welcome
you to share your ideas and suggestions with us, and eventually push this challenge to
other people who might be interested in joining.

Union Direct Action

https://www.priamaakcia.sk/Chces-sa-zapojit-do-propagacie-myslienky-Ne-volit-nestaci-pred-volbami-2020-.html

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Message: 6





On the second day of Extinction Rebellion's ‘October Rebellion', GAF (Green Anticapitalist
Front) organised a noise demonstration outside the Oil and Money conference taking place
in Park Lane. The Oil and Money conference is as evil as it sounds and acts as a global
meeting for fossil fuel executives to meet with their financiers, to plot how to continue
to destroy the planet for profit. In attendance were some of the most criminally
destructive people on this earth and GAF wanted to show our opposition to their
celebration of exploitation. ---- Our noise, aiming to disrupt their conference and
pressure their security, came in the form of whistles, sound systems and sirens, which
forced many conference-goers to get behind the hotel's metal barriers as fast as possible,
with the help of a sizable private security detail. We received some support from the
nearby XR Global Justice Rebellion camp in St James Park, at which GAF are present
throughout the occupation working with the most radical elements of XR in educating
activists on the threat of eco-fascism and discussing how to deal with it.

Unlike the majority of XR actions, GAF had not notified the police on the demo and as a
result we were able to draw a panicked response from the police who attempted to work with
private security to keep activists from the entrance to the Hotel and the guests inside.

4 GAF Activists holding up a ‘Green Anti-Capitalist Front' banner and smoke flare behind a
barrier
Later in the day GAF activists returned to the conference to once again place some
pressure on the executives responsible for so much destruction. We used smoke and a banner
drop to make our presence known, further panicking the conference-goers and their security.

After having some fun at the conference we dropped by the main site of XR's protest at
Trafalgar Square to leaflet, followed by a banner drop in solidarity with all those
protesting and all those arrested.

GAF Activists holding up banner and flares in Trafalgar square, in front of a ‘Burning
Earth' XR banner
As the action showed, the Green Anti-capitalist Front aims to focus primarily on showing
the root of the environmental crisis is the system which allows a small few to exploit and
destroy the planet for profit. We will continue to disrupt actions like the Oil and Money
conference, which helps to fund their ventures and operations which overwhelmingly target
and attack indigenous land and people, as well as the wider ecosystems they reside in,
because if we aren't focusing on the rich and powerful as the creators of the climate
crisis then we aren't going to seriously tackle climate change.

For more see: Green Anticapitalist Front

http://afed.org.uk/london-gaf-target-oil-money/

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Message: 7






The perseverance of the emergency workers in struggle is unprecedented: the revolt has not
declined since May and has on the contrary widened during the summer. It must be said that
we are fighting back against the wall: emergencies are at the breaking point, in a
hospital system asphyxiated by years of budget cuts. ---- For the past six months, the
strike movement in the emergency services has left its mark on its duration and strength.
At the end of the summer, the movement has never been so massive with 240 reception and
emergency services (UAS) that are on strike, half of the services ! ---- Camp on its
position, the government has increased the number of announcements to change the
organization of emergencies, including the delegation of a number of medical procedures to
nurses, the creation of intermediate structures between the city and the hospital or
better guidance for patients upstream.

For their part, the professionals who live daily the malfunctions of the public hospital
have plenty of ideas to change the ways of working. But their analysis of the situation is
very different from that of the minister: the emergency crisis is only one aspect of the
general crisis of the hospital system. If emergencies are struggling today, it is because
they are the gateway to a health care system asphyxiated by years of budget cuts. If the
announcement of an additional 750 million euros over the next three years does not satisfy
any of the actors and actresses of these services ... this is mainly because this sum will
be deducted from the budget of other hospital services. So back to square one.

The movement, launched by the Inter-Emergency Collective and initially supported by SUD,
the CGT and FO  [1], has stepped up actions this summer to maintain media pressure on the
government while assignments and school holidays could raise fears breathlessness.

The CGT and FO health federations (with the exception of the FO doctors) progressively
disengaged from the Inter-Emergency Collective, not without creating debates within them.
The desire for self-organization and some punch actions seem to have shaken up a certain
union train-train, which nevertheless meets less and less echoes in services.

Expand to the whole hospital world
If, locally, some medical managers have tried to stop the strike after winning the
showdown with the Regional Health Agency (ARS) on material claims, the movement now takes
a turn towards the entire hospital world .

A national general assembly met on September 10 to the call, for the first time, the
Collectif inter-urgences, the federation SUD-Health-social, but also the associations and
unions of doctors, as well as the collective Printemps of psychiatry, resulting from the
strikes of 2018.

At the end of this day, a call was made to expand the mobilization to the entire hospital
world. Three demands are posed as non-negotiable: the salary increase of 300 euros, the
opening of beds and the increase of the workforce.

Thus this movement left directly services has avoided the trap of corporatism and exceed
the only professional demands. In a sector where suffering at work and precariousness use
the best wishes, this call can be heard !

Solow (UCL Paris Nord-Est)

[1] Read "  Strike emergencies: The return of striker coordination ?  ", Libertarian
Alternative , July-August 2019.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Urgences-L-hopital-craque-de-partout-faisons-craquer-le-capitalisme

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Message: 8






On Sunday 13th October members of Bristol Anarchist Federation joined with between 200 and
300 others, to demonstrate against the Turkish State's invasion of Rojava, and their
continued actions of terrorism and genocide. The demonstration was organised by Bristol
Kurdish Solidarity Network and others who joined them at an emergency meeting on Friday .
It was a slow start at around 1pm, stood in the drizzle outside the BBC Broadcasting House
on Whiteladies Road. The location was chosen to coincide with the national demo taking
place the same time outside Broadcast House in London. Many were appalled by the BBC's
blinkered coverage and refusal to examine the Turkish State's atrocities, refusing to call
the invasion and planned genocide anything other than an ‘offensive'.

Hundreds march through Bristol for Rojava

Things soon picked up, as more and more people began to arrive. Alongside BKSN and
Bristolian Kurdani, there were folks from Bristol Green Anticapitalist Front, Plan C,
Acorn, the usual mix of anarchos, antifascists, peace activists and lefties, as well as a
local jewish group. Bristol anarchists perhaps have a particularly strong affiliation to
the Kurdish cause - it's less than two years ago now that a Turkish airstrike took away
one of our own; transforming Anna Campbell/Hêlîn Qereçox from a living militant and friend
to many of us, into a symbolic martyr, known by many more. "Anna is with us" will remain
on both banners and gratified epitaphs the city wide, for a long time to come.

Jews With Rojava at the start of the demo as we begin to take the road
Half an hour in, buoyed by the increasing numbers we took the road, before making our way
towards the centre where. Although there were efforts to allow through some of the backlog
of buses, it was inevitable that motorists would grate at their interrupted journeys, and
at least one vehicle made a show of mock-ramming the crowd; but then, other vehicles
sounded out their support for us, too. Bristol police continued their recent habit of
being almost absent from protests, with just a couple of PCSOs following along.

As we continued down the hill, our numbers grew further, and ours was a loud, angry
presence - most of the chants were led by the Kurdani present, largely in Kurdish
languages. The demo halted frequently for impromptu speeches on the sound system - about
the antifascist resistance in Kurdistan, practically the only outpost throughout the
Middle East fighting for democracy, ecology, and women's liberation; about the British
State's empty gestures and hypocrisy, denouncing the UK arms trade for arming Erdogan's
terrorists, even when other European powers (such as Denmark, France, Germany, Holland,
and Norway) have made their moves to cut off the Turkish weapons supply; reflections about
how global witnesses shouldn't just bemoan the deaths of the innocent women and children
in the region, but those of the innocent men, too, who deserve execution just as little;
but principally, the speakers called on the population as a whole, that we mustn't just
passively lie back and watch the Turkish State erase the Kurds from the map.

March heading to the centre

These demonstrations are not just a protest against the Turkish government, and our own
governments failure to hold it to account. They are an important message of solidarity to
those struggling for survival against the Turkish state in Rojava, and across Turkey
itself. Whilst we know from sad experience back in 2003, that a government hell bent on
war cannot be dissuaded by protest alone, there is still hope that we can help to halt the
invasion that is being bravely fought by those on the ground. This is in part due to the
fact that many of Turkey's international allies (and suppliers of military hardware) are
not enthusiastic supporters of their actions, and can be pushed into placing pressure upon
Erdogan. Secondly, because we can apply our own direct pressure, in the forms of actions
against Turkish companies, tourism, and the Brritish based companies who back their
military and government. Moving the campaign in the UK beyond just protest and moral boosting.

Activists outside TUI - who help push Turkish tourism

In the spirit of the moving beyond protest, after speeches had wound down in the centre, a
small group headed to TUI to take action against its continued complicity with Turkish
tourism. The shop was shut down completely. Turkish tourism is an important target for
actions, as many operators in Turkey's tourism industry are owned by the same holding
companies that own arms companies, and include directors linked with Erdogan himself.
This, coupled with the action earlier in the week that saw activists lock-on to block
access to Bristol arms companies, show just two of the ways we can help from the UK, along
with sending our solidarity (and our money!).

Get organised, get active, and Riseup4rojava

http://afed.org.uk/bristol-rises-up-for-rojava/

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