Update: anarchist news and information from all over the world - 11.12.2019

Today's Topics:

   
1.  freedom news: French anarchists on the strike for pensions
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  avtonom: Moscow anarchists will take part in a rally against
      healthcare optimization [machine translation] 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

3.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Pension reform
      hurts women ! (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] 
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  [Chile] Santiago: Call open to the Chuchunco Libertarian
      Assembly By ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Capitalists will
      not make us pay for their crisis (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  [Chile] Santiago: 45th Day of Social Uprising (December 2,
      2019) WE DON'T GET ANYTHING... WE CAN'T REND! By ANA                    [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Britain, West Yorkshire Anarchist Communist Groups
      newsletter Rebel Rose Issue 3 out now! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  alas barricadas: Letter to a Chilean - about the current
      situation (II) (ca) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  Britain, wessex solidarity: Defend the NHS - fight for
      socialised healthcare. By Felix Sabot. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1






The following statement from France's anarchist CNT-AIT union analyses the nature of yesterday's general strike, which has brought out
millions of people and affected everything from schools and transport to legal services and hospitals. ---- The battle for pensions begins.
But this is not a simple union battle for the defence of social gains, let alone a corporatist conflict between certain sectors of
"privileged" workers - it is a crucial battle for a choice of society, for a choice of life. ---- Retirement is not only the worker's right
after a life of hard work, it is a time removed from work, its hierarchical constraints, its rhythms, the oppression of others, hardship.
Unfortunately, access to this just reward, this inalienable right, seems impossible for workers in many countries of the world.
Today in France, pensions are financed by capitalist wealth (sales of industrial production) created by labour (employee contributions and
so-called "employer" contributions, a usurped name only representing part of the strength of the labour force's collective work). But recent
technological developments - automation, robotisation, computerisation, etc - mean these riches are more and more produced by the "work" of
the machines, minimising human activity. The latter becomes an inessential element to the reproduction of capital and therefore, the number
of active workers necessary for the production is in free fall.

Arguments put forward by Pierre-Louis Bras, chairman of the Pension Advisory Council, for example (which looks back at the latest updated
demographic and economic forecasts) blaming "the significant increase" in life expectancy by 2060- 2070, or the "steady decline "in the
ratio between the number of "assets" (working people) and of retirees, do not hold. Indeed this dominant reasoning omits the fact that the
demographic curve relating to younger generations shows a decline in birth rates and therefore compensates for the increase in retirees.

What matters for the financing of solidarity (pensions, unemployment insurance, health ...) is the ratio between the number of people of
working age (contributors) and the number of those who are too old or too young to work (beneficiaries), to which we can add the young
people waiting for their first job, unemployed workers, homemakers ... moreover, labour productivity continues to increase (although there
may have been a slowdown at the beginning of the new millennium). If growth continues at the average pace of the last century (2% per year)
then in 40 years an asset will produce, at the same time, 2.2 times more than at present - largely enough to compensate for retirement
pensions with contribution rates unchanged.

A final, important point: the deficit announced by the State by 2025 is not due to an explosion of expenditure, which has in fact been
relatively stable, but to a decrease of income provoked by our laws, a lowering of social contribution resources and an accumulation of
exemptions. What various successive governments continue to propose and even impose is a new reform that will help move the current
pay-as-you-go (PAYG) system to a generalised system of funding managed by the Stock Exchange. That is, by purchasing securities
corresponding to either a subdivision of the capital of a company (shares), a government bond (bonds) placed on the market, or the purchase
of private debts (credit). Our pension would therefore be paid in anticipation of a hypothetical future of rising work[1].

The homogenisation of pension funds towards a "points" system is one of the steps towards so-called "necessary" capitalisation - currently
most people can retire with relatively similar purchasing power, but with a points pension, the State can reduce payouts to force the future
pensioner to supplement his public pension with a private one - in short, what the State has always done, create a deficit to justify
exploitative measures.

Indeed in the capitalist system based on the accumulation of money, the growing needs of companies in constant competition with each other
on a global level require increasingly heavy investment to produce more and more cheaply. This implies a diminution of the value of the
commodity produced and therefore necessarily of its surplus value which, it should be remembered, is only provided by human labour. And, to
recover the maximum amount of money, the employers, the shareholders and the State "tackle" the wage bill and employee social contributions,
including those for the financing of pensions.

But the current system of retirement, presented as a "social acquis", is also for us deeply unfair, unequal, unfair! Unfair because some,
most often women, (who have died in the most painful jobs) touch paws ... while others (at the most rewarding jobs), comfortable retreats.
Inevitably because some, especially those who are in power (military, cops), can leave after 15 years of service, receive a pension and
accumulate with a new job ... while others have to wait 62 years and even longer to be entitled to a "decent" pension ... because they lack
quarters of contribution. Unfair because anyone who reaches retirement age should be provided with sufficient means to ensure a decent life
regardless of the number of quarters paid.

Why not fight in the name of equality and equity:

For retirement to be 55 for everyone regardless of the number of years of contribution, with immediate receipt of a pension?
For a single monthly pension of €2,000, regardless of previous salary and the number of years of contribution. And because it would be
profoundly unfair that those who have received high wages, on the grounds of long studies and through social financing of the education
system, receive higher pensions than those who financed their studies by going to work very hard.
Why not fight too in the name of freedom:

For the possibility, for those who wish, to continue to work beyond 55 years, a pension would be paid to them only in complement to reach
€2,000 per month.
But, we know that, by its very essence, the alienating political and economic system that is capitalism - and its tool of coercion: the
State - based on the exploitation of the living and the endless accumulation of money, does not allows and will not allow any sharing of the
global wealth we all produce, and that as long as this is the case, political and economic structures will not evolve (an oyster shell can
only give a pearl!).

Our fight will only succeed when we have the guarantee of justice and equity, which only Liberty can offer us! Not the one defined in our
textbooks, no! True social freedom, that of others who extend mine to infinity, that by which we can choose our activities without
constraints, by free association, that which will allow to manage our own affairs by district, village, commune, "region" ... a borderless
world that paves the way for self-help as a cement among its nested entities.

So what to do? Let us question our social memory, the experiences of those who, before us, led effective struggles. An observation:
everything that was won was by the strike. More precisely, let us recall what happened in June 1936[2]. The working class innovated by
directly attacking the ownership of the means of production by the occupation of workplaces (preventing scabbing), by an grassroots
organisation making self-imposed demands (thus preventing control by institutional "reformer" unions), all sealed with enthusiasm and joy by
a mutual aid contract. So, sail in the wind! heading towards anarchy! First stop: the strike!

And "happy, arm in arm  " (as the song says), what if we occupied our places of work? It is through direct action that we will succeed in
safeguarding our social achievements! Who knows, if beyond our borders other workers do the same, we could usher in the direct management of
our collective inheritance with mutual aid and finish with social classes, employers, the wages, the State.

In short, abolish work!

At present, there are three "formulas" of pension funds: the "defined public" pension fund guaranteed by the State with the tax regulator,
except in case of bankruptcy; the "defined private" pension fund with insurance as its regulator and its limits, its reserve rate; finally,
the "defined private" contribution without guarantee, generally offering a high yield but more risky.
The Matignon agreements were not a gift offered to the working class to reward it for having voted, but a hastily set up fire by the
employers and the newly elected Socialist Blum government, supported by the CGT and leftist parties animated by the same concern: to try to
bring back the torrent of the strike (they succeeded, but with difficulty).
This article is a machine edited translation of a piece at the CNT-AIT website
http://www.cnt-ait.fr/ni-capitalisation-inequitable-ni-repartition-inegalitaire-abolition-du-travail/

https://freedomnews.org.uk/french-anarchists-on-the-strike-for-pensions/

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Message: 2





On Sunday, December 8, at 12 o'clock in Moscow in the Sokolniki Hyde Park, a rally will be held against healthcare optimization. As the
initiators of the event write, instead of positive changes in domestic medicine, the reform of the "optimization" in the field of healthcare
led to a reduction in the medical staff of Russian hospitals and clinics, and to the closure of the medical facilities themselves across the
country. ---- Reorganization of the Russian healthcare system deprives us of qualified medical care at the place of residence, forcing more
and more people to turn to paid clinics for services. ---- Health care reform actually puts an end to universal free medicine in Russia. The
situation needs to be changed!
Moscow anarchists intend to take part in the action on December 8. We believe that stopping the "optimization" of health care is only the
first step towards solving the problem. In order for doctors to work and treat people normally, it is also necessary to block the obstacles
that the branch authorities pose to independent medical worker unions. The development of self-organization of workers and the assertion of
their labor rights will increase salaries, reduce working hours (without lowering pay) and recruit more staff, get rid of meaningless
instructions and reporting imposed from above that eat up most of the working time of doctors and nurses.

In the longer term, self-government should extend to all spheres of public life, so that not a bunch of capitalists and officials, but all
people can take part in solving important decisions. Then public resources will not be spent on maintaining huge managerial apparatus,
ensuring capitalist and military competition and the luxurious life of those in power, who simply will not have a place in self-organized
societies, but on vital branches, including medicine. Universal self-government will also allow introducing public control over the
functioning of these sectors, so that they develop in the interests of the vast majority of people. And we need to make every effort to
ensure that such a society is formed!

Look for the anarchoblock by black-red, black-green and black-purple flags!

Meetings of the anarchoblock in social networks
on facebook

in contact with

General meeting of the event
How to find Hyde Park in Sokolniki

https://avtonom.org/news/moskovskie-anarhisty-primut-uchastie-v-mitinge-protiv-optimizacii-zdravoohraneniya

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Message: 3






We women are doubly exploited in capitalist society. We are exploited at work and we are exploited at home, as part of the family unit. This
is the principle of the double day of work: when a woman comes home after work, she still carries out the vast majority of tasks called
"housewife" and related to children. Pension reform will further increase inequalities between men and women, will further increase our
exploitation. We rise up against the violence that is imposed on us, the physical violence, but also the economic violence ! ---- The
employers benefit from our dual exploitation. ---- On the one hand, by underpaying ourselves even more than men, by employing us in
conditions even more precarious, often in partial times undergone ; and on the other hand because it is on us that rests the functioning and
the life of the family cells. It is on us that the education of future workers rests.
A fair pension system would be designed to compensate for these inequalities, so that career differences between men and women do not end up
in retirement.

Yet the pension reform will hurt at least three aspects, in addition to everything it takes away from all workers.

The decline in survivor pensions
Survivors' pensions are paid to the spouses of deceased persons. 90% of the beneficiaries are women, a quarter of whom have no other source
of income. The reform mechanisms will lead to a considerable reduction in these pensions, which will have an immediate effect of
impoverishing women.

How to calculate the retirement
The reform provides that the amount of retirement is no longer calculated in relation to the salary of the best 25 years (case of the
general scheme today), but over the entire career. Yet, as we know, we often do part of our career part-time. The calculation of
entitlements from the best 25 years did not take into account the low wages of the part-time years. With the reform, it is therefore to a
general decline in pensions for women that we would attend.

The removal of the MDA
Today, the Extended Term Insurance (MDA) adds to mothers' quarters of trimesters worked for each child, in terms of the impact of pregnancy
and childbirth on their career. The reform plans to abolish the MDA, which is yet a minimal mechanism to reduce inequalities between the
careers of men and women ! It is a direct attack against taking into account the specificities of our careers.

A patriarchal reform
As we can see, this reform provides for the removal of several, yet timid, mechanisms for the correction of gender inequalities. We are
overexploited throughout our careers and at home, the goal is to take back what feminist movements have achieved to counterbalance this in
retirement. The battle against pension reform is also a feminist battle !

Women, revolt against this society of injustices, let us rise up against physical and economic violence, which are two sides of the same coin !
Organize and participate in the strike !

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?La-reforme-des-retraites-nuit-aux-femmes

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Message: 4






We call to hold on this December 7th, Saturday, a libertarian assembly in Palena Square (April 5th corner) at 5 pm. The idea of forming the
Chuchunco Libertarian Assembly is to articulate libertarian and related axes of the commune of Estación Central and surroundings to confront
the state and capital from our communities and neighborhoods. For this, the assembly proposes itself as a tool of the struggling community,
a space that allows us to organize without the mediation of leaders, leaders or political parties, from the anarchist principles and ideas,
that is, from horizontality, autonomy, mutual support and self-management. Finally, it is a call to take charge of our surroundings, to
solve our needs directly, to take control of our lives, to forge relationships of companionship and solidarity between neighbors,
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Chilean territory /

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Message: 5






Since 1 st  November, the government fundamentally changed the unemployment insurance rules. The stated objectives are simple: reduce the
level of compensation and increase controls / sanctions / write-offs to further expose workers to the thirst for profits of employers. This
attack, like the pension reform, concerns us all, with or without employment. So let's make our anger converge to roll back the government !
---- Towards widespread precariousness and poverty ---- The attack is brutal. By asking jobseekers to contribute more to open or extend
rights (6 months minimum over 24 months against 4 months out of 28 today), by removing the principle of rechargeable rights, the number of
beneficiaries of the unemployment insurance will drop sharply. Add to this, from the 1 st  April 2020, a change in compensation calculation
rules: they are defined from an average monthly income calculated over 2 years, thus including periods not worked, not from wages actually
earned over a year like today.

The first estimates are already chilling: 500 000 jobseekers can no longer be compensated and 850 000 primo-compensated will have their
rights reduced by 22  % compared to the old rules of calculation. Hundreds of thousands of precarious workers will no longer be able to
recharge their rights, despite periods of activity. More than today, unemployment will be synonymous with poverty !

Private employment, a target of choice
Contrary to what employers and their government lackeys are trying to make us believe, the unemployed are neither lazy nor stealthy. Even if
all the current job offers were filled, there would still be millions of private jobs on the floor. It is the bosses who define the level
and conditions of employment, according to their interests. Because plunging into precariousness a greater number of workers puts pressure
on all employees, forced to accept conditions of employment (working conditions, type of contract, wages, etc.). ) more and more unfavorable.

All concerned
An attack on unemployment insurance is an attack against all workers ! We must therefore together defend the system for which we contribute
to our wages. The strike of December 5th was a great success, it was even renewed on the 6th in certain sectors. December 7 is a day of
mobilization of the unemployed, at the call of the CGT ! Let's breathe all those anger that has the same origin: the desire of employers to
exploit us more and more, to continue to increase profits.

Winning the repeal of this reform would be a precious victory. But the challenge is also to raise the issue of work and wealth sharing more
widely, for a radical questioning of the capitalist system that is boring and starving us. We work, we produce wealth. Then we should
decide, all and all together, the society in which we want to live.

Tale of organized poverty, let's mobilize on December 7th and after against the breakage of our social conquests !
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Les-capitalistes-ne-nous-feront-pas-payer-leur-crise-8445

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Message: 6






Using unemployment as a weapon sharpens the campaign of economic terror, it is no longer enough to instill fear into the Narcos, Anarcos and
Bravas Barras. Now they unleash the ghosts of the recession and logically blame the Social Uprising: "If we don't stop the protests we will
stop the investment" threatens the President of the Confederation of Production and Trade.  ---- Imacec fell -3.4% and expects 10%
unemployment in January 2020. In an illusory promise, the Government announces the creation of 100,000 jobs and in another shameless
congress, Congress approves the minimum net salary to rise by 288,000. to 301,000, just 13,000 pesos more. These are the crumbs that the
power proposes, they keep laughing at our faces. ---- Piñera advertises as a large contribution, and misleadingly, an allowance of 100
thousand pesos, the truth is that it is an allowance of 50 thousand at a time with a maximum of two and only for 25% of the poorest
families. An allowance no one asked for, a remedy to calm the demonstrations. On the street we continue to demand significant solutions in
wages, pensions, health, education and the environment.

The state's oiled machinery works at an accelerated rate and further enhances its repression. The House of Representatives approves the
"Anti-Barricades" and "Anti-Raids" Act which are actually laws against the protests, increasing the penalties of imprisonment and bridging
the absurd. The entire political spectrum voted in favor, from the IDU to the Broad Front and the PC. A painful slap in the face for those
who naively call to use the tools of power to "change the system from within." Do you still believe in elections as a "form of struggle"?

The United States announces, now without any qualms, the "help" to Latin American governments to prevent popular uprisings.

Uniformed police confirm the purchase of more armored cars launches gases and launches water. In Valparaiso parade their anthem through
speakers while some police perform the Nazi salute.

Fascists call to strike the protesters taking advantage that the calls were decreasing. In a protest near the Alto Las Condes mall there are
fights between "good boys" and students.

In response to the hooded blows at Barrio Bellavista they attack the night spots from where the Venezuelan "guarimberos" came out.

In the morning a demonstration by the water and against the sacrifice zones takes place in Dignity Square.

In zone zero they continue to gather daily protesters, we are less and less and in a phenomenon that I can not explain, only on Wednesdays
and Fridays is full.

The new police strategy is to dominate Dignity Square in the face of declining protesters.

Clashes between hooded and lackeys of the state continue. The walls are an open museum of the Social Uprising, passersby admire the talent
and originality of posters and graffiti.

Every day groups of students continue to encourage the evasion of subway roulette.

By their own accord, workers at a movie theater answered with an eye patch.

Usach (Universidad de Santiago de Chile) ends with outsourcing and 300 people, mainly cleaning workers, were hired and their salaries
increased. A measure widely applauded and valued.

In the neighborhoods they are still resisting and the barricades still burn.

At night there are strong clashes in Yungay village, there are many injured and attack on the police station.

In Copiapó a stranger left disabled an armored launcher when climbing and sabotaging the python[hose].

Peñalolen vandalizes four private police cars.

Motorcycle toll rates are reduced by 50% and a similar figure for cars, buses and trucks. Forgive 80% of fines. Despite the agreement, the
"NO + TAG" movement does not conform and announces that it will continue with the mobilizations until inter-urban road tariffs are lowered.

Called for Friday, December 6, to a major demonstration in Dignity Square.

We keep vandalizing compliance!

LET'S GO WITH "FORMAL" AND INFORMAL ORGANIZATION TO FREEDOM!

We don't surrender...

NT

Translation> Sol de Abril

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anarchist news agency-ana

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Message: 7






West Yorkshire ACG has just published the third issue of it's local bulletin, Rebel Rose. This issue includes articles on Leeds Climate
Strike report, Bradford library closures, Hebden Bridge a personal perspective, Election Time Again! Poetry and music/gig/book reviews. ----
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Rebel-RoseNo-3.pdf ---- Members of London ACG, along with sympathisers and
other members of the Rebel City collective, distributed hundreds of Rebel No.12 on the Climate Strike demo on Friday and the anti-Trump demo
on Tuesday. Another distribution by ACGers is planned this Friday at Shepherds Bush Market. No.12 is a bumper 16 page full colour edition
with articles on: Are You An Anarchist?; Climate change is not a single issue;Silvertown tunnel; Global working class fights back; Hong
Kong;A Sideways Look; Sport;CWU dispute; Land reform;Taking back control at the grassroots; Staying grounded in Essex. Get it from Housmans,
Freedom Bookshop, 56a Infospace, DIY Space, May Day Rooms, Feminist Library, LARC or from a street distributor!

facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=520862988499072&id=327083614543678

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"For I am the sworn poet of all the intrepid rebels of the entire world, ---- And whoever comes with me leaves peace and routine behind,
---- And you play to lose your life every moment . " ---- Walt Whitman, To a frustrated European revolutionary (1856), in Leaves of Grass .
---- " ... Where there is danger, what saves us grows. " ---- Friedrich Hölderlin, Patmos . ---- A month and six days after the insurrection
began, Anarchy is still alive in the Chilean region. It is an unprecedented event in Chile and Latin America. It has been the kayros of
Anarchy: the emancipatory moment that occurs in the relevant time and place, the bold incarnation of a pronounced denial of the State and of
all authority.
The echo of the old anarchic slogan "Neither God nor State nor Pattern" rumbled throughout the southern geography and made hearts vibrate
from Cape Horn to the banks of the Sama and Camarones rivers.

It is evident that in his daily subversive work, the insurrectionary anarchism of informalist tendency, maximized his potentialities and
also explored his difficulties and his own limits, using ephemeral junctions - mutants from one place to another - that allowed him to
sketch (from the conflict and the various contingencies) the chromatic possibilities of its theoretical-practical background and, encourage
refractory moods, specifying individual actions and / or small affinity groups aimed at attack and expropriation.

However, dynamite was missing. Low diesel and gasoline. He spared the attack. There was a lack of expropriations. The headquarters of ALL
political parties were not demolished. No prisons or madhouses were assaulted. He lashed out at the symbols but missed the target. A
gigantic bonfire was pending with the hundreds of flags that are perceived in the marches (including the red and black, because ALL the
flags are full of blood and shit). This shortage has allowed the denial power to divert to the "triumph", instead of injecting the conflict
with life and exceeding the institutional songs that already threaten to impose the peace of the graves.

Today, the neutral point of the insurrection begins to reveal itself clearly. The emulsion does its thing and the full snapshot emerges,
showing us the impasse in its right dimension. Understanding it will be a huge leap from the anarchist pedagogy that can contribute to the
awakening of the dogmatic drowsiness in which a considerable sector of the so-called "anarchist movement" is plunged.

The shock power of an insurrection is not measured by its effects or resides in the quantitative growth of the insurgents, but in what
radiates ipso facto of it. It resides in the vitality of its denial force, in its offensive mood, in the sharpness of the action, making the
insurrection a different symbolic rite.

The feracity of anarchic action resides in itself, which is why it feeds audacity, feeds destructive creativity and advocates subversive
wills, multiplying anti-authoritarian violence and illegalistic practice.

Snapshots of the revolt (second approach)[i]

As expected from the first day of the insurrection, the repression was not long in coming. So far, according to the official figures
themselves, there are more than twenty dead, five of them have resulted from the shooting of repressive forces; six thousand five hundred
people detained, of which 759 are minors; two thousand three hundred and ninety-one wounds (41 by firearm firing, 964 by pellets, including
222 with eye injuries - who have lost sight of one eye or have been completely blind - and 909 has resulted from brutal beatings) and;
hundreds of women raped and sexually outraged. It was found that the Investigation Police (PDI) installed a torture center in the Arauco
Quilicura Shopping, where hundreds of protesters arrested during the riots have been tormented.

For their part, the insurgents have attacked with firearms artifacts military barracks, police stations, toll booths, churches, supermarkets
and other commercial facilities and; They have managed to shoot down police surveillance drones with the help of hundreds of laser pointers.

Thanks to the timely diligence of the hackers and the application that revealed the residence of many uniformed men, attacks on police
houses across the region have multiplied: in Viña del Mar, hooded people attacked the residence of a police commander and several uniformed
houses were graffiti with death threats and their vehicles destroyed. In San Antonio, the Green Texas barracks were attacked and part of
their facilities burned down. In Chiguayante, a group of insurgents broke into the homes of some policemen, destroying everything they found
in their path. In Quinta Normal, a policeman was stabbed at his residence and, in the town of Lo Hermida, the police station was attacked,
with a balance of six wounded policemen.

While the policemen doze in their cars, they are constantly attacked with incendiary devices, an easy-to-replicate practice that has begun
to spread to several neighborhoods. During the protests in the city of Rancagua, they threw a dynamite cartridge at a carbine patrol that
did not explode. In the town of La Victoria, commune of Pedro Aguirre Cerda, in the south-center of Santiago, a uniformed house was set on
fire, as in the province of Coyhaique, where they were attacked with dozens of incendiary bombs owned by police.

In the heart of Santiago, hooded men attacked the Parish of the Assumption and used furniture and saints to make barricades; they burned the
Church of the Sacramentines and, the Church of Veracruz in the Barrio Lastarria, declared a "historical monument" during the fascist
dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. The Cathedral of Valparaiso , was also attacked by a mob, burning some of its doors, smashing
banks, altars and baptismal font. In Puerto Montt, during the early hours of Wednesday the 20th, hooded men attacked the Graciela Bórquez
pastoral house, in the heart of the city and, in the Coihuin sector, burned the house of priest Luis Izquierdo accused of sexual abuse.

In addition to the Catholic churches - consistent with the anarchic practice and as a tribute to the famous Kropotkian phrase ("The only
church that illuminates is the one that burns") - several evangelical temples were burned and destroyed, highlighting the attack on October
28 in the city of Santiago to the recording studios and offices of the Ministry of Communications GRACIA TV , in Santa Rosa. The same day
and in the same neighborhood would be attacked the Church Blessed to Bless and, the Church International Ministry for the Family (MINFA), a
dependency of the Mercure Hotel, in Santiago Centro. In Valparaíso, on October 20 the International Restoration Center was attacked by
hooded men(CRI-Chile) and, on October 26, the Presbyterian Church of Valparaíso . In Temuco, at the dawn of October 20, the Assemblies of
God Church was attacked and; in Araucanía, in the rural sector of the Púa, the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church .

In the city of Los Andes, a hooded crowd expropriated a pharmacy to bring diapers, medications and cleaning supplies to a nursing home.

As concerns all anti-authoritarian insurrection, politicians have also been targeted by insurgent attacks regardless of the ideological
color of their parties. In Talca, hooded people burned the parliamentary seat of ultra-right senator Juan Antonio Coloma of the Independent
/ Popular Democratic Union Party (UDI / P). In total, eight UDI offices and two National Renovation sites have already been attacked. On
Friday 22, a group of protesters from the Assembly of Feminists of Arica, attacked the senator of the Socialist Party, José Miguel Insulza,
with paint and spit, at the gates of Radio Cappísima and; In the early hours of today in Punta Arenas, an affinity group attacked the La
Idea Community Space, parliamentary seat of Deputy Gabriel Boric of Social Convergence with incendiary bombs.

Despite the growing subversive dynamism and the leading participation of insurrectional anarchism, some communiqués from groups similar to
the informal tendency point out paranoid behaviors in certain "partners" who supported the conspiracy theories, in absurd theses on supposed
coups and , other fanciful omens, call for demobilization and begin to generate fear creating a climate of early defeat.

This psychosis managed to penetrate some sectors formed in "the ominous citizen culture of believing that each attack is a montage" and have
begun to accuse proven partners of being "undercover agents."

At the same time, the strategies promoted by the system of domination through its means of mass domestication have been adopted by the
citizen protesters who carry out an anti-hooded paramilitary work that only benefits our enemies. This counterinsurgent atmosphere caused a
group of protesters to brutally beat a young man and hang him from the Pio Nono Bridge, accusing him of being an infiltrated policeman
without the slightest foundation.

Unfortunately, these nefarious attitudes still prevail with great roots in our stores, particularly in those scenes contaminated with
liberal discourse and among those who are assumed as an integral part of the so-called "left."

The traps of peace: Coincidentia Oppositorum

To say it with Bakunin: «I think I have tried, and the events will soon prove better than I have been able to do[ii]» that, the Chilean
spring begins to move towards a certain exhaustion. The refractory fire is being stifled. The anarchic flame begins to languish. The oxygen
that gave life to Anarchy is depleted.

In his Letters to a Frenchman about the current crisis , Bakunin recommended "the immediate non-political action of the people, for the mass
uprising of the entire French people, spontaneously organizing from the bottom up, for the war of destruction, the wild war to knife»[iii];
but his exhortation dates from 1870 and, definitely, one hundred and forty-nine years have not passed in vain. In fact, Bakunin himself
would end his days very disappointed with the "mass" and, he would bet more on the coordination of related wills, emphasizing the conspiracy
of refractory minorities and propaganda for the fact.

In our times, we cannot deposit the slightest illusion in the "mass." We well know how voluntary servitude acts. If the generalized
insurrection and "the war of destruction" were verified, "the wild war with a knife" took place, the end of the film is already known in
advance. A few seconds before the label appears: The End , a Pied Piper of Hamelin emerges who guides the herd of rodents at will.

The dangerous thing about "mass" is its malleability. Just as easily as liberal liberals shape it, religious leaders and dictators also
model it. Its enormous plasticity allows it - without distinction - to promote the most intrepid libertarian deeds or to enliven the most
obscene fascism.

Participationist ideology always plays its role and ends up retaking the reins through co-optation machinery.

Just take a look at the blockbuster that since yesterday surfs the networks with a tendency to viralize in record time, entitled " The
United People, A New Dawn "[iv], to corroborate the strong intentions of the capture devices of the domination system . Right there, from a
seemingly insignificant narrative, the counterinsurgency work comes alive.

This explains the requirement of the wide angle to be able to include in the photo the parliamentarians of all the tendencies that today
pose smiling for «the agreements reached». From Wall Street to Zurich, the powerful applaud the cohesion of the political class. Historical!
They emphasize to eight columns the covers of the printed newspapers, announcing the fall of the Pinochet Constitution. The irreducible
"Plaza de la Dignidad" (formerly Plaza Baquedano or Plaza Italia) dawns magically covered by an immense white canvas as a symbol of peace.

The Marxist dialectic of constituent power begins to monopolize the struggle. The negotiating role of the Social Unity Board is not
accidental. The way out of the "crisis" on the left is the ideal recipe to give continuity to our global capitalist paradise . The "national
populism" - whether from "right" or "left" - is the solution. From Latin America to Europe they impose it on us as the only way of
"restructuring", that is, the way to sell us more capitalism (but now "with a human face", off course ).

That is why the call to "popular unity" through a mellow sononete who rescues the Quilapayún trova with the help of a new musical
arrangement - with some Soviet reminiscence -, coupling a panfletary lyric that reiterates to exhaustion "the country is forging unity»[V].

Despite the brief stanzas of a couple of hiphoperos in the service of vernacular patrioterism ("We are not from the right or from the left /
we are not of that shit" and, "we are determined as humans without parties"[vi]), the hand is unquestionable That rocks the cradle. The
images of the video clip are axiomatic: a massive and varied march dressed in Chilean flags and (to a lesser extent) Mapuches, showing at
the end of the countless countless banners and cardboards registering a wide range of citizen demands and, closing, with a clasp of gold, a
gigantic national flag with the motto: «Let's go! Chile does not give up»[vii].

By way of preliminary conclusion

Some comrades believe that it is not yet time to draw conclusions and that we must wait for "the waters to take their course and verify the
results of the insurrection"[viii]. They assure that «the new Constitution, the new Constituent Assembly, the impending fall of
Piñera»[ix]and, the whole set of political changes that follow one another, are the core of the «popular triumph that will transform Chilean
society forever»[x].

These "companions" insist that "we think cold before issuing comments"[xi]in order to appreciate the outcome.

Beyond the use of common places and the abuse of cheesy images, it is clear to me that those who think so are betting on the restoration of
normalcy.

On the contrary, I consider that the time to think is now: in hot, reconciling the reflexive act with the excitement of the fight, even with
the captive fire in the pupils and the black hands for the residues of gunpowder. And, consequently, he pronounced me:

In these days when some already celebrate the "popular triumph," it is when we understand that our lack of freedom will continue to flaw us
with a new face, with a new Constitution and, probably, under a new government. It is then when we perceive that our goal was never the
subsidy to public transport or a rise in wages or pensions or new job opportunities or the end of the precarious or the free education; It
is when we reveal - before our own and strangers - that our struggle was never for a National Health Insurance or for a new Constitution or
for a Constituent Assembly or against corruption or for democratic transparency or for parliamentary participation or for the awareness of
pacos or for the arrival to power of a popular government and, much less for a new homeland.

All this set of citizen demands was only the pretext to exacerbate rage and unleash the libertarian passions, the sublime situation to
spread the chaos and give life to Anarchy. We, the anarchists, do not fight for reforms. The anarchic struggle takes place outside the
sphere of legal "rights." That's why I think the war has to continue.

Perhaps the days at the barricade ended and the mass expropriations ended but the time has come for the natural decantation that will
potentiate the action of a reduced refractory core that once again confirms the gravitation of affinity groups and the relevance of the lob.
@s solitari @ s. Our war is against all Authority, for the end of merchandise, for the liquidation of production and for all harmfulness,
for the destruction of work, for the destruction of the enemy.

The time has come to banish from our stores the mask of political correctness and the anarcho-leftist attitudes that have been so expensive
to solve. Our actions do not require the acceptance and empathy of the crowd. As a well-known Bonanno question, how much does it cost us to
wear the mask of revolutionary respectability?[xii]

«Anarchists often do not present themselves as they really are. They do not say immediately: we are anarchists, we want to destroy the
enemy. They are usually softer, so as not to scare those who are listening. Because they think that quantitative growth can strengthen the
anarchist movement, they believe that in this way anarchists, who today are one hundred or one thousand, tomorrow may be ten thousand, one
hundred thousand, and make the revolution possible. "[Xiii]

In a three-pole world (USA / China / Russia), where paradoxically, "opposite" ideological programs are no longer confronted but three
variations of a predatory capitalist expansionism with common interests and enemies[xiv], it is very clear that there is no Alternatively,
there is no viable "triumph." There is no possible revolution, only a world to destroy.

Given this, the question of rigor in the subject at hand is where is Chile going? That is, what intentions really underlie the slogan "Come
on! Chile does not surrender»which appears as an epigraph on the gigantic flag with which the aforementioned video clip ends.

To answer this question, perhaps there are those who recommend us to review beforehand the "predictions" of some postmodern libertarian
Marxists who glimpse in "accelerationism" the collapse of capitalism through their overdevelopment and have supposed signs of postcapitalism
in the development of capitalism itself global post-industrial transition to the Collaborative Age (where the biosphere will be regenerated
and "a more just, more humanized and more sustainable global economy for all human beings on Earth")[xv].

Undoubtedly, these optimistic seers who claim that after the wave of planetary insurrections the end of capitalism is envisaged, they only
try to appease and distract us along the path of "social construction," knowing that we will not compromise in our efforts to destroy
everything It oppresses us because our struggle is for total liberation.

We are aware that we are witnessing the end of an economic cycle and this entails multiple transformations that generate exclusion,
frustrations and hopelessness. The "Washington consensus" has concluded, giving way to a multicenter model of global capitalism. The United
States, China, Russia, Europe and, in a certain way, Latin America[xvi], represent specific models of that global capitalism that expands
without limits in all the ends of the Earth.

Despite the "specific characteristics" of each of these countries or blocks of countries, they all leave the market economy intact, which
reduces in practice the "differences" to the way in which each particular project represses the local antagonisms that they emerge from the
dynamics of global capitalist development.

The rapid progress of capitalism from Congo to Ecuador is irrefutable. China and Viet Nam are reliable examples of its rapid growth. Despite
all the auguries, capitalism is renewed with each "crisis" and presumes unwavering health. Which leads us to conclude that whatever the
outcome of this insurrection may be, Chile is moving inexorably towards more capitalism.

Thus, the "future"[xvii]that predicts the remix of The United Kingdom , is reduced to more of the same but now, probably from the hand of
the left. «The light / of a red dawn»[xviii]announcing «the life that will come»[xix]is nothing but the strange scarlet luminosity of the
toxic fog of the main Chilean cities[xx], the warning of the environmental catastrophe that is approached by the high industrial pollution,
the merciless mining exploitation and the vehicle overload, all work and grace of the capitalist predation and; "Life will come",
consequently, will be post-apocalyptic but, by then, we will surely have to thank Monsanto for the provision of fruits and vegetables at
affordable prices, at the dawn of a collaborative capitalism.

However, this certainty does not frighten us. On the contrary, it invites us to abandon all utopian typecastings and to reaffirm Anarchy in
the 21st century as a permanent field of war. Recognize that there is no alternative, it is not a call to claudicate but the guttural
expression that incites us to the anarchic approach with the knife between the teeth, a proposal of daily war: all the immanent reasons to
make Anarchy live here and now, until that there is no trace of any institution or authority.

Gustavo Rodríguez,

Planet Earth, November 24, 2019.

Unavoidable postscript: The enemy of Anarchy in Chile is no longer the repressive government of Piñera (with its murderous pacos in the
street and bayonet militias at the ready) but those who sincerely celebrate the "triumph" and begin to play the card of the Constituent
Assembly and sharpen their fangs for April 2020 . The new enemy is that instituting force that begins to show the face. Fighting it - with
the same fury with which the current powers have been confronted - is the objective. There is little time and much to destroy. No seat of
the Communist Party has been set on fire, nor has deputy Boris Barrera been given his deserved shit bath.

First part

Notes:

[i]With information gathered from the communications of different affinity groups and / or groups housed in the related portals Anarquía
Info (https://anarquia.info), ContraInfo (https://es-contrainfo.espiv.net ) and, ANA (https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/) and, through
the epistolary exchange with dear companions, witnesses and protagonists of the events.

[ii]Bakunin, Miguel, Letters to a Frenchman about the current crisis, August 25, 1870, included in: Complete works, volume I, The Editions
of La Piqueta, Madrid, 1977, P.55.

[iii]Ibid, P.78.

[iv]Available at:  https://youtu.be/IUOF9wxrYFI

[v]Ibid.

[vi]Ibid.

[vii]Ibid.

[viii]Those who sign the letter in question do not deserve to be cited and require a much stronger response in situ than I can give them in
this way.

[ix]Ibid.

[x]Ibid.

[xi]Ibid.

[xii]Multicitted conference in my previous letter, given at Pantio University, Athens. Collection in: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Domination and
revolt , second edition revised and corrected with additions, Edizioni Anarchismo, Trieste, 2015. pp. 139-176

[xiii]Ibid .

[xiv]Or at least, they try to make us believe. The United States, China, Russia and even Iran share interests in the fight against ISIS and
its international cells, although in reality they simulate fighting it with the aim of crushing their true enemies.

[xv]Such is the case of Jeremy Rifkin and his so-called "collaborative commons" - which has permeated so much in our stores - where he
identifies a new mode of production and exchange that renounces market relations and private property, hand in hand of the "Internet of
things" and the advantages of a society of almost zero marginal cost giving way to "sustainable cornucopia". For more information, Vid. ,
Rifkin, Jeremy, The society of zero marginal cost: The Internet of things, the collaborative commonality and the eclipipse of capitalism ,
Paidós, Barcelona, 2014.

[xvi]Without fear of making mistakes we can affirm that in Latin America populist capitalism is on the rise. Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and
Bolivia of the deposed Evo Morales are concrete examples of State Capitalism of the 21st Century . The New Man has suffered a resounding
metamorphosis and has become Homo Capitalist , ready to devastate and devastate the Earth. That old Cuban joke of the late seventies makes
sense: "the worms have returned transformed into butterflies."

[xvii]For these futile coincidences of life the letter of the remix has been suggestively hosted at:
https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/music/lyrics/es/el-pueblo.htm

[xviii]Ibid .

[xix]Ibid .

[xx]Chile has nine of the ten most polluted cities in Latin America ( Padre las Casas, Osorno, Coyhaique, Valdivia, Temuco, Santiago,
Linares, Rancagua and Puerto Montt). https://radio.uchile.cl/2019/03/06/ciudades-chilenas-son-las-mas-contaminadas-de-sudamerica

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Everything is possible, nothing is probable ---- This is extrapolated from a talk I gave at Bristol Bookfair. It's simply an exploration of
how things might take shape. It comes across a lot more prescriptive than I intended but that's just my writing style, in part borrowed from
the historic text that inspired it. ---- Preamble ---- The title is clearly oxymoronic, and I didn't write "save the NHS" because of course
it's too late for that. The system is contracted out and mortgaged to the hilt; the loans are being traded by gangsters in tax havens as I
type. It really is "the kidney machines that pay for rockets and guns" as Weller put it. ---- The trouble is that we, and ‘the left' whoever
they are, are playing for a draw. Every time there is a threat to our dignity or well being, if we manage to stave it off without anyone
dying or getting locked up we call it a win, and the bourgeoisie just haul off and attack us somewhere else.

I urge everyone to read ‘The Miners' Next Step' and inoculate themselves with the spirit of the Great Unrest, that current of revolutionary
syndicalism that spread like wildfire around the globe. That was the generation before Bevan that created the self-help mechanisms he drew
inspiration from. Before their vision was poisoned by Bolshevism, corporatism and military Keynesianism.

It will be pointed out that capitalism has evolved greatly in the interim, largely as a result of those factors and their technological
spin-offs. It's important to know how it's changed, but that's a subject for another paper. Suffice to say that the shift from reliance on
surplus-labour to reliance on fictitious capital means we don't have to care too much about economics. Capitalism was never about the
allocation of resources or the production of things but about the suppression of human activity. Even the production and accumulation of
value is simply a vehicle for the reproduction of power relations. If we are ever to escape the perverse death machine that denies and
extinguishes every feature of humanity, we have no option but to attack those relations directly and purposefully.

The labour theory of value is dead and they killed it. The labouring classes however, are still here and we're still responsible for
everything of importance. All we have to do is accept that responsibility.

- That a continual agitation be carried on in favour of increasing the minimum wage, and shortening the hours of work, until we have
extracted the whole of the employers' profits.

- That our objective be, to build up an organisation, that will ultimately take over the[mining]industry, and carry it on in the interests
of the workers.

- ‘The Miners' Next Step'. CHAPTER V. P0LICY

My italics.

As a point of interest, the Miners fiercely resisted nationalisation, and refused to even negotiate centrally. Because their industry was
essential, they knew that as the bosses felt the pain, they would beg the state to take over, which:

"... simply makes a National Trust, with all the force of the Government behind it, whose one concern will be, to see that the industry is
run in such a way, as to pay the interest on the bonds, ... and to extract as much more profit as possible, in order to relieve the taxation
of other landlords and capitalists."

Which is precisely what happened.

The strategy.

I use "Defend the NHS" as a working slogan under which a range of people might comfortably organise. But our end should not be a return to
the Bevanite vision of a centralised National corporation - characterised by Letwin and Redwood as "Britain's biggest enterprise" - it
should be expropriation. Working Class self-management by councils of workers and service users.

A bold ambition so how to achieve it? A culture of sufficient militancy can only be built in struggle. The idea is to put in place a
defensive infrastructure capable of reacting swiftly and effectively against any threat to any part of the system. It will be built from the
ground up: "Begin in the workshop" as Connolly put it. It will fight to win; it will become a force to be reckoned with politically but will
take no part in politics.

As it grows in size and strength and pervades the system it will approach a dual power situation. It will take the fight to the enemy,
making demands of management that they can never quite satisfy. Along the way its members will be training themselves and each other to
operate horizontally, democratically and boldly in the spirit of mutual aid and solidarity. We will equip ourselves to take over.

So there are two parts to this: the defensive and the offensive. I've tried to pitch the first part initially to workers in the sector, and
to anti-cuts activists who identify as ‘left-wing', to avoid the A-word getting bandied about too early. In the tradition of adopting a hero
who's dead and can do no more damage, we could call ourselves ‘The Friends of Nye Bevan Group' for all it matters.

The OODA loop

O.O.D.A. is a mnemonic devised for fighter pilots in 20th Century conflict, but it applies to any process of attack and defence, it stands for:

Observation - Orientation - Decision - Action.

Suppose somebody has Decided to mug you. They have Observed you and rate you as a likely victim (their Orientation to you). They are now
moving from D to A. You are, if you're paying attention, at O - O, having Observed that something is amiss*, you are Orienting yourself, in
other words, recognising that it's something you need to concern yourself with, you really don't have time to Decide what to do about it.
However fast you are, unless you have an effective pre-programmed response you are fucked.

* I've watched this on video captured from the street cameras, you can tell from the body language they know the person entering their
peripheral vision is up to no good but they're doing their best to deny it, at that stage all they had to do was find another cash point.

If you Act with unexpected ferocity your opponent's OODA loop is reset to O - O and you take the advantage. Since they are there to perform
a specific task rather than counter a threat, in practice they have no option but to withdraw.

Without stretching the analogy too far, there are all kinds of techniques on either side of an ambush, like distraction or scare tactics to
reset the loop or draw out the D part. The point I'm making is everything needs to be set to go before the situation arises.

Class struggle is being waged by the ruling class at its own pace on its own terms. They've had years to prepare for this and we all know
the next attack is on its way. Ad hoc reactions to well-planned assaults that rely on drumming up mass anger from scratch simply aren't good
enough.

The existing structure.

I owe this concept to a fellow wobbly who presented a paper to the IWW strategy conference in 2011, no names no packdrill. It was concerned
with education, but it will be seen that the model applies just as well to healthcare. I see a triangular pyramid, at its base the three
corners are: medical staff, support staff, and patients. The apex of the pyramid is made up of bureaucrats, C.C.G.s, accountants, employment
agencies, executives, management consultancies, politicians and ultimately their corporate investors.

The apparent separation of service providers from users, ‘consumers' is just the reification of health or education presented as a commodity
to be traded, and it is this we must overcome*. Our campaigns are skewed towards the service users, but of course the providers are users as
well, and our interests are coherent. If we co-ordinated activity on the inside and out we could get a tight grip on the situation. It
matters not for this purpose whether these workers are directly employed or sub-contract, unionised or not. As my comrade put it: "unite the
base and we will cut the top off".

* This is true of any industry under capitalism, in transport for example, there is a greater alienation, so it's more of an isosceles
triangle, but worth bearing in mind with all the talk of nationalisation, which institutionalises your alienation.

Let's get started.

It seems to me the best place to start is where there is a pre-existing ‘save our ... services' campaign, preferably one that has been
successful in seeing off a threat (like the Dorset Kingfisher mums). Many of the basic elements will already be in place and they will have
learned a lot about what works and what doesn't. Rather than everyone pack up and go home we must instil the idea that this is only one
battle in a long war of attrition, let's put in practice what we have learned and spread the idea.

Principles and structure.

This is of necessity an outline sketch, but there are tried and tested organisational and ethical principles that will be familiar and these
make a good starting point.

Every site of healthcare should have a permanent defence committee, whether or not there is an apparent existential threat to it. It will
apply not just to hospitals and clinics, but to community-based services such as addiction and mental health, social care and anyone else
who sees themselves as part of it. The politicians are not defining our scope, we are.

The hardest problem we face is getting workers of different grades to recognise a common interest and act coherently. That arises from a
siege mentality; complacency is the bosses' friend. It must be assumed and emphasised that every service is under imminent threat. Our aim
is to get everyone on a war footing.

The composition of the committees will be a matter for the committees themselves, but it's vital they are balanced between the three base
elements noted above. Each group of workers and service users should have at least one delegate*. Care must be taken to include cleaners,
agency workers, sub contractors, e.g. electricians, plumbers, the people that take the laundry away and so on. Nurses, physiotherapists,
ambulance crews and radiographers are medical staff, we don't have to go chasing after consultants. Don't forget office staff, we're going
to need them. Service user delegates will have to include any groups with a special interest in a given facility: heart and kidney patients,
the elderly, mentally ill, the chronically sick and disabled etc.

* One delegate to <= 15 workers is a fair ratio. The nature of the work makes mass meetings difficult or impossible but that might not be a
limitation for the user groups. In any event no delegate should attempt to speak for hundreds of others.

We must establish a culture that no worker or patient is more important than another. There will be no bargaining or competition for
resources or services. We will not pander to artificial scarcity.

Operate safe spaces with agreed codes of conduct. Oppressive behaviour and language must be censured but not dwelt upon, nor should we
indulge in hair-splitting. This is a single-issue campaign informed by syndicalist principles, it isn't the place to lecture a swappie about
comrade delta or a R.C.G. member about Cuba. Discussion of Jeremy Corbyn should be avoided at all costs.

If anyone consistently diverts the meeting from the work in hand, the simplest remedy is a motion to invite their sponsor group to appoint
another delegate. That measure alone may be enough to make them shape up.

Unlike the enemy we aim to nurture human strengths rather than manipulate human weaknesses. Delegates should encourage and help each other
take on administrative roles: taking minutes, handling e-mail enquiries, social media, writing press releases, organising social events.
Skills and work must be shared, care must be taken to get the best from people that have been ill-served by the education system or
disturbed by their experiences. The easiest way to involve people is give them something to do that they are comfortable with. Adopt a
‘village' mentality; it makes no sense to break the weakest link, let people accomplish small tasks that increase their confidence. "From
each according to their ability, to each according to their needs"

No one will sit on a committee who is in a position to hire, fire, discipline or reward another worker. Delegates are to declare any
political affiliation on taking their place. Elected politicians and paid union officers may become involved from time to time but will not
vote on policy or perform any administrative function. As a matter of protocol they would speak only for themselves, not for an organisation
and be ruled out of order if they did so.

I can imagine circumstances where it might be advantageous to stand someone for a council, a hospital board of governors, or officer
position within a trade union but this must be carefully managed. As a minimum they would need to resign any party affiliation, relinquish
voting rights and any administrative role within the defence committees. They must be prepared to accept the mandates they are given and
stand down if required to do so by their sponsor committee.

Militant members of trade unions may act as a valuable conduit of information between sites and services, or put pressure on their
representatives to act, but union bureaucracy will not participate in decision-making.

The aim will always be to federate the committees, first in clusters, then by region and eventually across the island. Policy will be made
locally, then at federal conferences.

It's been the bosses' tactic to isolate each campaign, make it a purely local issue, when in fact the same rigmarole is performed every
time. We can use social media to show this up, and where sites are set against each other to compete for a given facility, their committees
should immediately meet to agree a plan of action and act jointly.

In time regional and federal executive committees will be established. These would be purely administrative bodies and members of executive
committees would not have a vote in their local committee.

Negotiate locally, fight centrally. Each local committee will be autonomous, to run its campaigns as it sees fit. It will first try to
tackle the situation itself, which builds confidence, but with the benefit of a central publicity department. This will become easier over
time as the system is established. If ever its efforts are stalled, the entire network will be brought to bear on the problem. We'll bring
back secondary picketing.

In the event of campaign escalation, E.C.s would co-ordinate publicity, transport, solidarity callouts, legal support, the distribution of
literature and other sundries. They may put technical advisors or even experienced negotiators at the disposal of the local committee but
they would have no power to vary its demands.

There will be no national negotiation or demands, no committee will be asked to concede a single job, a single bed, ward or service. We're
not looking to make healthcare pay because it's a social duty.

Activity of the defence committees.

In the absence of an immediate threat there is still plenty to do.

Intelligence gathering, seeking out dirt on management. Invite everyone to anonymously share evidence of financial irregularity, conflict of
interest, or incompetence. We want to undermine them as far as possible.

Maintain regular and secure lines of communication with local and regional anti-cuts activists, anarchist groups, troublemakers, students,
lefty football firms, anyone willing to turn out for a row.

Map workplaces, identify strengths and weaknesses in the management structure, look for informal hierarchies and stress points. Actively
seek out militants inside and out.

Create and maintain detailed plans of each facility and grounds, noting which doors are habitually locked, who keeps the keys etc. Mark the
position and arc of cameras, power switches and fuses. Try and take in any service tunnels, below ground structures etc.

Also have timetables of deliveries, collections and shift patterns.

Send regular bulletins to the executive committee once it's set up so they can map the overall situation and prepare for trouble by
allocation of resources etc.

Spread the idea, help others to set up their own committees.

Maintain a blog and/or a newsletter, that could be brought into the hospitals by patient delegates who can't be disciplined.

Help to publicise campaigns elsewhere, stay in touch with other committees and offer support where practical if called for.

Have a social life, put on fundraisers, meet in person not online. People don't fight together unless they care about each other personally.

Train! I.T., languages, self defence, legal, first aid, if you've got something pass it around.

Tactics

These will be familiar to anyone of a syndicalist background.

Since the patients are part of the collective, nothing can be done to compromise their care, so mass walkouts and go-slows probably won't be
much use.

Focus instead on defeating the bureaucracy, e.g. failing to collect, or losing statistics and performance metrics that enable the bosses to
get paid. It will hurt them far more than a dead patient anyway. This technique was used with effect in a dispute by ambulance crews in
Yorkshire.

Bombard the employer with grievance claims to back up their paperwork, anyone asked to do unpaid overtime should immediately raise a
grievance. Don't do unpaid overtime, obviously. Anyone faced with a disciplinary or even a casual bollocking should immediately raise a
grievance.

Comm's blockades, nowadays they all run twitter and facebook accounts that can be spammed.

Dual Power, squeeze the boss out. The more the workforce organise the work to suit themselves - and usually make it more efficient in the
process - the less of a handle the boss has on you. Find out what the boss thinks the chain of command is and subvert it in every way possible.

This is best practice in any job anyway, never volunteer information to a manager. Never tell them where anything is kept, how anything is
done, or where anyone is, even if they're where they're supposed to be. Make them work for it. Then when you throw a sickie the boss, and
everyone else, will find out how useless they are, and how much they depend on your goodwill. I don't know how this applies to your job,
that's up to you. Independence from the boss is preparation for when there isn't one.

Work to Rule, opposite of the above, do everything by the book, cut no corners, follow all the procedures, await instructions, take no
initiatives.

A selective mix of Dual Power and Work to Rule can really screw things up. You could have one group of workers doing one tactic while
another does the opposite. If you count a task as important it's Dual Power if you don't, Work to Rule.

The Open Mouth or ‘whistle blowing' - so much easier when you've got a ready-made intelligence gathering and propaganda machine.

Remember any conflict is between one group of individuals and another. Know everyone's strengths and weaknesses, your side and the enemy's.

Powerful individuals have higher public profile. Identify the players on their side and have a dossier on each one. They may be trustees of
a charity, directors of multiple companies, governors of a school or members of a church. This gives you lots of scope for disruption. If
they live in a posh area they wouldn't like you stickering it or flyering all their posh neighbours. If you force them to shut down their
social media accounts find their secondary interests and rubbish them there.

Patients can bring propaganda into the hospital waiting rooms and stick it on notice boards.

The Good Work Strike, giving a better service than you're required to, medical staff are pretty stretched but kitchen staff could increase
the portion size or give free food to visitors. Fill prescriptions for nothing, over-order sundries.

Sabotage, again, nothing that could affect safety, but office equipment and cash registers are fair game, so is the boss's car. Nobble the
parking meters so people can park for free.

A March on the Boss by a mass of medical and other staff accompanied by hundreds of patients would be something to see.

Occupy/picket the offices of contracted-out providers, C.C.G.s and politicians.

Work-ins against redundancies and closures, these require a lot of community support.

While you're waiting on the pitchfork-wielding mob, you need to conserve your energy. If your action's only going to last an hour or so, do
it at lunchtime in the town centre so more people can come.

Sympathy strikes, it may sound far-fetched but most workers are pissed off about something and all are health service users. Ask your local
grass-roots unionists to help. A one hour town centre sit down strike in support of a victimised worker or against a ward closure might
appeal if it's presented well, and they could tack their own demands on to it. Or get Uber shut down for a couple of hours, set the
bourgeoisie against each other by just lashing out at any bourgeois target.

Calling a march if you don't know who's coming is a hostage to fortune. Worse, if you're going to publicise it you have to liaise with the
cops - which isn't how we operate. You don't need to inform anyone for a static rally, which gives people plenty of time to assemble and get
in the mood.

Hold a rally quite close to one of the sites at issue, then if you get enough people, use discreet ‘crowd talkers' to persuade everyone to
take the road (not the pavement) and march to it. "Ah, it wasn't us, tempers were running high". Disperse the crowd if necessary when the
cops arrive - if they do - know when they change shifts.

Responding to a threat.

The machine springs into action!

Fortunately you already have social media/email accounts and people to run them, a mailing list, secure communication channels, some
printing facilities and up to date intelligence.

Immediately:

Call a public meeting, capitalise on the shock value of any announcement before people have time to adjust to it. It's amazing what you can
get used to and the most outrageous proposals can become normalised after a couple of weeks of inaction.

Issue a press release from ... Defence Committee*, along the lines of "we're not having it" and pass that to the network so it goes out
everywhere.

* In the initial, defensive phase, chances are the suits will never have heard of you.

Brief the unions and activist groups.

Have a public phone line for enquiries/volunteers and a clean phone hub for activists.

Get your blog posts up and spam them out, put flyers and posters around. Graffiti-up the town, drop banners from bridges.

Start a rolling programme of direct action inside and outside the organisation using the tactics above. Make it unpredictable and fun to
participate in.

There is no such thing as a fait accompli.

You need to create at least an impression of massive popular support so invite everyone to get involved in the campaign but keep them in a
holding pattern until you've had a chance to sus them out. Some will be members of organisations with their own agenda, some may well be
cops or paid corporate spies - yes they do use private dicks! Get them banner-making, give them flyers to hand out or something.

You will have to deal with - gasp - middle class people! It will likely be their first experience of activism let alone direct action and
they will need careful handling. If they can't take the pound, give them the ounce. Some will be utterly useless, don't let them waste time
or sap your strength.

The enemy will be astonished at the speed and volume of the reaction and will probably want to talk to you. Tell them to fuck off. There is
absolutely nothing to be achieved by bargaining except a worse position than the status quo.

Public consultations are a complete waste of time and where possible should be shut down.

The Internet is a double-edged sword.

I'm coming to the conclusion that it's a job for specialists - the ruling class thinks so too.

Each platform has its own time-response curve, these need to be studied by people who can be arsed. There is probably even an optimum time
of day for maximum coverage.

There are optimum timings for publicising events, for example: too late and people will have made other plans, too early and they will
forget or lose interest.

News needs to be timely, I've seen blog posts get thousands of hits in a few hours then watched it drop off geometrically like the decay of
a radioactive isotope. The half-life is rarely more than 24 hours.

You want to control the propaganda narrative locally, so agree on precisely what you want to say and have Internet communications delegates
release it through social media platforms. These shouldn't be hard to recruit as so many people love playing around online.

You don't need a facebook group with everyone squabbling, confusing the issues and posting a load of crap about the illuminati.

Nor do you want the network to standardise your propaganda. The objective is to create the impression of spontaneous brush fires, more of a
franchise than an organisation. Or I'll get locked up like Bonanno did for postulating a hypothetical insurrectionary army.

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