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Today's Topics:
1. ASF-IWA-ait: The 37(27) congress 2019 Melbourne
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. anarkismo.net: Eastern Australia on fire by Melbourne
Anarchist Communist Group (MACG) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. priama akcia slovakia: Christmas gift - our publications are
now free in MOBI, EPUB and DOC formats [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. anarchy Bulgary: Botev's words - Take the message of History
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. asra narshism: We condemn the arrest of Arash Ganji (fr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Canada, ucl-saguenay, Collectif Emma Goldman - France:
environmentalists call for government retirement (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #300 - unionism,
RATP: The strike that overturns all benchmarks (fr, it,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The Congresses of the International Workers' Association. The first 10 were the Congresses of the First International. In 1922, the
International was again founded and is now known as the IWA. The upcoming Congress is the XXVII regular Congress. There have also been a few
Extraordinary Congresses in the history of the IWA. The first Congress outside of Europe took place in 2009 in Brazil. The XXVII Congress is
the second to take place outside Europe and we hope there will be many more! The regions that the IWA operates in will be expanding and the
centers shifting. We think the Congress in Australia will mark an important turning point in anarcho-syndicalism!
1) 1866 Geneve;
2) 1867 Lausanne;
3) 1868 Brussel;
4) 1869 Basel;
5) 1872 Saint Imier;
6) 1873 Geneve;
7) 1874 Brussel;
8) 1876 Bern;
9) 1877 Verviers;
10) 1881 London;
11(1) 1922/1923 Berlin;
12(2) 1925 Amsterdam;
13(3) 1928 Liege;
14(4) 1931 Madrid;
15(5) 1935 Paris;
16 (6) 1937 Paris;
17(7) 1951 Toulouse;
18(8) 1953 Puteaux;
19(9) 1956 Marseille;
20(10) 1958 Toulouse;
21(11) 1961 Bordeaux;
22(12) 1963 Paris;
23(13) 1967 Bordeaux;
24(14) 1971 Montpellier;
25(15) 1976 Paris;
26(16) 1979 Paris;
27(17) 1984 Madrid;
28(18) 1988 Bordeaux;
29(19) 1992 Koln;
30(20) 1996 Madrid;
31(21) 2000 Granada;
32(22) 2004 Granada;
33(23) 2006 Manchester;
34(24) 2009 Porto Alegre;
35(25) 2013 Valencia;
36(26) 2016 Warszawa;
37(27) 2019 Melbourne...
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Message: 2
The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group believes that the School Strike for Climate movement has great potential and that it should be
joined wholeheartedly by the unions. School strikes should be turned into workers' strikes. In Australia, the next global school strike day
should be the occasion for mass co-ordinated strikes by workers from as many industries as possible, with the aim of building towards a
general strike. The power of capital arises in the workplace and it is only by organising there that workers can wrench that power away from
the capitalists and wield it themselves. ---- For the last six weeks, the eastern States of Australia have been suffering an unprecedented
wave of bushfires. There have also been a number of bushfires in Western Australia. Some of the driest winter weather on record has been
followed by a warm and dry spring that has led to huge areas of the continent being tinder dry and ready to catch fire far earlier than the
part of the year when fires are traditionally regarded as a hazard. What we are seeing is unprecedented in its breadth, intensity and timing.
Sydney has been shrouded in smoke for over a month. The Gospers Mountain mega-fire has burnt out 450,000 hectares and counting. The
Commissioner of the NSW Rural Fire Service says they have dealt with 8,500 fires this season already - and it's only the start of summer.
This is climate change in action.
In recent years, firefighting in rural areas in Australia has been put on a much more scientific basis than previously. More thorough and
intensive organisation has meant that much fewer people die and many fewer houses are lost. The firefighting effort in this fire season has
been massive, with overwhelming community support for the volunteers and the professional firefighters working day and night to protect
lives, homes and livelihoods. Nevertheless, even this has been insufficient to prevent deaths in this unnatural disaster.
The political situation is spinning out of the control of the denialists in the Government and the media. The initial statements pointing
out the connection between the unprecedented levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the unprecedented severity and earliness of
the fire season were met by a storm of Right wing propaganda criticising them for "politicising the tragedy of the bushfires". As the fires
have continued, though, this position has become unsustainable. Volunteer firefighters, the United Firefighters Union and the chiefs of
emergency services bodies have pointed out the connection. Some people who have lost their homes to bushfire have taken the burnt wreckage
of their houses to Canberra and placed it outside Parliament House. The denialists have been reduced to muttering rather than shouting
everybody down.
The forces of climate change denial were cocky after the Liberals won "the climate election", with some even claiming the issue was now
dead. This was delusional thinking. A single hot summer was always going to pull the rug out from under them and hammer home the fact that
climate change is real and happenning. We got it before summer had even started. The question of the moment is now: what should we be doing?
The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group believes that the School Strike for Climate movement has great potential and that it should be
joined wholeheartedly by the unions. School strikes should be turned into workers' strikes. In Australia, the next global school strike day
should be the occasion for mass co-ordinated strikes by workers from as many industries as possible, with the aim of building towards a
general strike. The power of capital arises in the workplace and it is only by organising there that workers can wrench that power away from
the capitalists and wield it themselves.
To achieve this objective, Anarchists need to be active in their unions, pushing for rank and file groups to work with communities in
formulating plans for a Just Transition. They should also be forming rank and file groups to press their unions to join the strike movement
and for those groups to be ready to bypass the officials if they won't act. The capitalists won't save us - the workers have to do it
themselves.
STRIKE FOR A SUSTAINABLE CLIMATE
*Taken from "The Anvil", newsletter of Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (MACG), Vol 8/No 6, November-December 2019.
Related Link: https://melbacg.wordpress.com/the-anvil/
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31700
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Message: 3
Do you like reading texts in an eReader and do you miss MOBI or EPUB titles dealing with the movement of workers, its history or theory? All
texts from the Publications section of our website have been processed in these two formats and you can download them for free as well as
PDF and DOC formats. Although they are older texts, they do not lose relevance and relevance. If you haven't read them yet, go ahead! This
Christmas present is the first of the activities we have prepared to celebrate the 20th anniversary of our union. More will be announced
soon. ---- A successful strike at the Puerto Real shipyards. Anarcho-syndicalism in practice (March 2008) ---- When the Spanish government
announced a program to 'rationalize' the Puerto Real shipyard in 1987, workers went on strike. The anarcho-syndicalist union of the CNT was
an important player during the strike. Thanks to its activities, direct democracy has become part of the local political culture. Workers,
their families and neighborhood people attended mass general gatherings in ports and in the nearby community.
The struggle in the shipyards was later extended to combat related to health, taxes or environmental issues. In 2004, the shipyards fought
again. But this time around Spain. In a very simple style, the text presents the idea and practice of anarcho-syndicalism.
Links at https://www.priamaakcia.sk/Vianocny-darcek---nase-publikacie-teraz-zadarmo-uz-aj-vo-formatoch-MOBI-EPUB-a-DOC.html
Download: DOC , MOBI , EPUB
Minutes of class struggles. Useful experience from the practice of small organizations and trade unions (March 2008)
Can small groups and trade unions be effective in labor disputes? Of course! This brochure contains examples and analyzes of smaller events
from different sectors (transport, manufacturing, student work ...).
Download: DOC , MOBI , EPUB
Venezuela: 10 Years of Hugo Chávez's Government (April 2009)
We have published this text in response to the uncritical presentation of the situation in Venezuela by people in the left circles. This is
an interview with Miguel and Isabel, the editors of the Venezuelan anarchist newspaper El Libertario, who reveal the nature of Chavez's
alleged anti-capitalism, the background of the formation and functioning of cooperatives, the clientelism and propaganda of the party, the
position of women in Venezuelan society.
Download: DOC , MOBI , EPUB
Direct action at workplaces. Basic species and specific examples (May 2009)
Using specific examples, we describe what direct actions are and what they are. The original text focused on examples from the USA and
Britain, but we added examples from Slovakia to the supplemented edition. Gradually, we introduced the following types of direct action:
strike, wild strike, dual power, sick leave, informal resistance, occupation / occupation, open mouth, picket, rule work, intermittent
strike, sabotage, solidarity, slowdown and strike good work.
Download: DOC , MOBI , EPUB
Attention, anarchist! Augustin Souchy (November 2009)
Augustin Souchy was a German anarchist and anti-militarist. In addition to the Russian Revolution, he also experienced German, Spanish,
Cuban and Portuguese. In an interview he describes the experience of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the reasons why a positive
assessment of the revolutionary process was later replaced by fundamental criticism. In the end he also deals with the Cuban revolution. The
text presents the important dilemmas that faced the revolutionary workers' movement in the 20th century.
Download: DOC , MOBI , EPUB
Anarcho-syndicalism in practice - Experience from Spain and Germany (2003-2009) (December 2009)
In April 2009, we organized a presentation related to a discussion called Unions, which are fearless. The guests were members of the
anarcho-syndicalist CNT from Spain and the FAU from Germany, who approached the activities of their unions.
We have rewritten the presentation and published it in the form of a booklet. You will learn how these unions have progressed when their
members or other working conflict with bosses, what they did in the case of agency work, immigrant work, or during a crisis, and how the
struggle from the workplace can be extended to the community.
Download: DOC , MOBI , EPUB
Capitalism, class and class struggle for (not complete) beginners:) (April 2012)
A short and simple introduction to the topic of capitalism and class. It explains how capital accumulation, the working class, and how to
fight capitalism are going on.
Download: DOC , MOBI , EPUB
How to create a group on workplace and community issues (October 2012)
A major publication that helped kick our association into activities that have made us successful in several disputes. Members of the US
Seattle Solidarity Network (SeaSol) discuss what concrete steps you can take to build an organization that addresses workplace and community
issues.
The booklet also includes an interview with a SeaSol member, examples of successful disputes, and our afterword, which compares SeaSol's
approach with an anarcho-syndicalist approach in Slovakia and partly in the Czech Republic.
Download: DOC , MOBI , EPUB
Workmates: organizing regular and external workers on the London Underground (May 2013)
In 2011, the Solidarity Federation published a publication summarizing its member's experience in organizing on the London Underground. It
describes the almost two-year functioning of the Workmates team, which managed to engage in the fight against the rationalization plans of
both tribal and external workers. He focuses on the successes and failures of the team, organizing themselves on the principles of direct
democracy and imaginative ways of fighting in the workplace (who would suspect, for example, that there is also something like a "strike
strike").
Download: DOC , MOBI , EPUB
A participatory society or libertarian communism? Debate between Project for a Participatory Society and libcom.org (June 2013)
We chose to translate and publish the text of this brochure primarily because it captures the differences between the two at first sight
similar approaches criticizing capitalism. There was a discussion between the people managing the libcom.org website and the Project for a
Participatory Society (PPS). Both sides have presented their vision of organizing work in a post-capitalist society and criticize each
other, which makes it easier to understand the subject and give thought.
People around libcom.org talk about a company based on the joint ownership of assets and products, where work is organized on the principle
of decentralized production and service planning. The PPS team approaches the vision of participatory economics designed by Michael Albert
and Robin Hahnel. Its core is participatory planning, redistribution based on effort and sacrifice, self-government of workers and
so-called. balanced workload complexes.
Download: DOC , MOBI , EPUB
How the Gods Are Made - John Keracher (December 2015)
Can religions and spiritual things be explained materially? John Keracher undertook to answer this question and in 1929 published a text on
a classroom view of religion and its origins. Keracher did not avoid simplifications in the text, but since it is a short booklet, he has
quite successfully and comprehensibly approached a subject that is rarely addressed from a class perspective.
Download: DOC , MOBI , EPUB
Are you going to the brigade? Experience and tips on how not to get swept (July 2019)
The brochure was created as part of the campaign Are you going to the brigade? focusing mainly on the problems encountered by students in
the temporary jobs. It introduces experiences from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Our main intention was to show that even in this area it
is possible to organize and conquer your requirements. We published the brochure in 2011 and update it every year. We currently have a 2019
version on the web, but there will be another update in the first half of 2020.
Campaign Are you going to the job? has, by the way, become a stepping stone to a much more successful " Problems at Work" campaign? , on
which we will publish a separate brochure in February 2020.
Download: DOC , MOBI , EPUB
Union Direct Action
https://www.priamaakcia.sk/Vianocny-darcek---nase-publikacie-teraz-zadarmo-uz-aj-vo-formatoch-MOBI-EPUB-a-DOC.html
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Message: 4
Hristo Botev has been the banner of anarchists in Bulgaria since our movement . His words and deeds testify so well to his imperious ideas
that even today, more than 100 years after his death, various political pygmies fail to depersonalize him .
We created a poster of Hristo Botev, artfully presenting his work. Here we publish the poster for free distribution by everyone. Just
download the PDF file via the image below and bring it to the nearest copy center.
http://www.anarchy.bg/
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Message: 5
Arash Ganji, author, translator and secretary of the Iranian Writers Association, has been arrested by security police in his residence and
transferred to an unknown location on Sunday morning, December 22, 2019. He has written books such as "Fighting the Way of Thinking in the
Working Class Movement "," Sunset of the Gods Over the New World Order "and translated into Economic Policy and about the West ---- Arash
Ganji Member and secretary of the Iranian Writers' Association, author and translator of works such as "Fighting the Way of Thinking in the
Working Class Movement", "The Sunset of the Gods over the New World Order" and Translator of Works in the Fields of Political Economy and
Rojava, Sunday Morning January 1st, arrested by several security forces at his home and taken to an unknown location
https://asranarshism.com/1398/10/04/we-condemn-the-arrest-of-arash-ganji/
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Message: 6
The social strike against the pension reform is in full swing in France with the approach of Christmas and continues despite violent
repression and contempt for the government of Emmanuel Macron. The resistance movement unites workers on a broad front, students, the
unemployed, yellow vests ... and even green people. In this excerpt from text, ecologists present the reasons for their involvement in the
movement. A fine example of convergence of struggles. ---- "... Strikes, pensions and ecology ... everything is linked ! Activists from
different organizations explain why they participate in the movement as environmentalists and call for the multiplication of actions against
a system which exploits all environments and destroys all organisms.
Since the start of the strike, environmentalists have participated in blockades, demonstrations, pickets. They are not only present as
individual workers affected by the pension reform, but because this reform accentuates the trends towards capitalization and
financialization of the economy, the consequences of which are known for the health and territories. Activists from different organizations
explain why they participate in the movement as environmentalists and call for more actions against a system that exploits all environments
and destroys all organisms.
The strike against the pension reform does not correspond to what is generally called an environmental struggle. However, we ecologists are
on the picket lines, we support the mobilizations of railroad workers, yellow vests, teachers, medical staff and all those who are fighting
reform. Why do environmentalists support the strike ?
The first reason concerns the lengthening of the retirement age. Such an extension, provided in particular by the bonus-malus scheme which
encourages people to leave at the " pivotal age " of 64, will lead to an increase in working time. To work two more years (at least) is to
produce more goods, whether tangible or " intangible " ". The extension of the retirement age therefore necessarily leads to a massive
increase in overall working hours. However, all salaried work requires an extraction of raw materials necessary for the production of goods
and a certain amount of energy, mainly fossils, necessary for the performance of the work (petrol to move, electricity to operate computer
systems, etc.). The equation is therefore simple: any increase in overall working time necessarily leads to an increase in the quantity of
biophysical resources extracted and an increase in the quantity of CO 2 issued. At the time of the ecological disaster, provoked both by the
depredation of resources and industrial pollution of the environment, any policy of energy transition must aim at reducing working hours. We
environmentalists therefore demand the withdrawal of the reform and the reduction of the retirement age.
The second reason is health. Ecology thinks of the relationships between organisms and their environments. Everyone is aware that the
conditions of contemporary work are pathogenic. They ruin the health of workers by causing occupational diseases, they weaken organisms,
they wear out bodies. The arduousness is a euphemism for the suffering at work in late capitalism. Health is only guaranteed if the bodies
evolve in healthy environments and in decent environmental conditions. However, these conditions are not met. The reform by increasing
working hours will lead to an even longer exposure of individuals to the pathogenic factors which threaten them. We environmentalists,
First signatories:
Climate Action Paris
CLAQ
Members of Youth For Climate Paris
Members of XR Paris
Disobedience Paris Green
Platform activists investigations
radiaction Paris
Read the rest of the text here
http://www.platenqmil.com/blog/2019/12/19/green-bloc-contre-la-reforme--les-ecologistes-demandent-la-retraite-du-gouvernement
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2019/12/france-les-ecologistes-demandent-la.html
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Message: 7
In stations, basements or depots, the exceptional level of employee mobilization and involvement sweeps away habits. Even those of the
softest unions ! Pickets, support crates, cops and festivities... an overview of this historic strike, from the Pleyel bus depot in
Saint-Denis. ---- What an extraordinary atmosphere ! Light years away from the daily grind. But also far above the previous RATP strikes. It
is the most powerful movement to be remembered since the memory of December 95 has faded. It would perhaps be necessary to go back to the
great strike of bus drivers during the heat wave of the summer of 1976 to find this.
The movement is holding up well, staying above the 60% of strikers on average across the RATP, with peaks at 85% on the highlights of
December 5, 10 and 17. Unsurprisingly, within the management (43,000 workers), the most mobilized sector is that of metro and RER drivers,
who are a little " working class aristocracy " - up to 100 % of strikers on some lines! Maintenance, where team spirit is strong, also
works well. Then come the bus drivers, less well regarded. The least present are the tellers and counterkeepers: atomized in hundreds of
stations on the Ile-de-France, more pressured by the little chefs, they are less affected by unionism, even if you see them at the GA, when
they are at the station where they work. We also have a not uninteresting rate of strikers among executives, at the headquarters of the
management, in Bercy. On the other hand, it is nil among supervisors, generally small chiefs from the base, possessed by the demon of
individual ascension and indestructible strikebreakers.
Pleyel bus depot: united in the fight
cc Solidaires-RATP
The proper use of the pearl strike
The figure of 60% of strikers on average only factually accounts for reality. Indeed, many are those who practice the pearl strike. While
participating in the movement, they work one day here and there, to save their means. For example, as a day of rest between two days of
strike is considered to be a " striker ", therefore unpaid, working the day before the day of rest allows you to keep two days of salary
without damaging the movement too much.
We are, in any case, on figures higher than those of the strong strike of October 2007 ; and obviously superior to those of the fight
against Labor laws (10-15% on average)...
But it is not only a question of figures, it is also a question of the involvement of workers in their struggle, of a rediscovery of
self-organization, of the most invigorating.
The picket line, a friendly meeting
cc Solidaires-RATP
Bus depot blocking
An example on the Pleyel bus depot in Saint-Denis (93), which alone has 900 employees: in 2016-2017, combative unionists had to row to
convince colleagues to stop working, row to bring meager assistance in GA, rowing to organize frail pickets at the entrance to the depot ...
An often burdensome reality, far from the fantasies of certain leftist groups on " the unions which slow down the fight ".
In 2019, nothing to do. We forget the oars: it's the wave that carries us. The GAs are well supplied, dynamic, the activists do not need to
intervene more than that, things progress on their own. Real pickets are held, not just to inform the staff, but to block buses driven by
non-strikers. Most, of course, are not unhappy that they are prevented from working ! The rare real yellows and other stupid heads who get
upset and absolutely want to work, we end up letting them pass: let them go, alone behind the wheel on a supersaturated line, with horrified
users... have a good day !
The strike fund is not enough
On the 12 th day of the strike, the cops - hitherto fairly passive - attacked the stake and arrested 2 comrades, unlocking the depot for the
day. The stake nevertheless reappeared the next day. We receive a lot of visits: teachers, nurses, students in struggle ... This means that
we find ourselves in the tens, we feel strong. It even helped a lot in the friendly dimension of the fight, with the organization of a
support party, then a triumphant reception of the strikers by the Red Star supporters, during a football match on December 14.
On the 17th, the cops temporarily released.
cc Solidaires-RATP
With Red Star supporters, in support of the fight.
At Pleyel, we also created a strike fund, but above all it was a tool for agitation: it will never be enough to cover lost wages. In eight
days, she collected 1,200 euros: not bad, but far from the 280,000 euros deduction from wages over the same period ! We also thought about
launching one on the web, but we have to think twice: who will control it ? What will be the rules for allocating funds ? It will be close
discussions if we want to display impeccable management.
Without mythifying self-organization
To return to a subject of particular interest to libertarian communists: the self-organization of the struggle. It should not be
mythologized. In a context where struggles are rare, where the old men and women of December 95 are no longer there, where self-managing
unions like Solidaires-RATP are weak, we are a bit condemned to reinvent the thread to cut the butter with each big strike .
This gives a somewhat messy GA, not clearly demarcated, where democratic control is random ; it is not clear who represents what ; the times
and the speaking turns are a little hard... Once, the strikers of line 13 visited us. Suddenly, they participated in our vote to renew the
strike - and voted theirs at the same time. It was a bit borderline, and in other circumstances it would have gone wrong. But there, in the
euphoria of the moment, no one protested. The advantage is decompartmentalization: bus, metro, everyone meets.
cc Solidaires-RATP
At RATP, GAs are held where it is most convenient: metro agents meet in stations, bus drivers in depots, mechanics and maintenance in
workshops, etc. In Pleyel, you can find yourself at 80 in GA, which seems little on a deposit of 900, but in fact it is considerable,
because with traffic jams it is hard to come ! To be in GA, some get up at 1 am !
Radicalization of Unsa
Click to enlarge
On the union level, finally. It must be borne in mind that all the usual benchmarks have been turned upside down since Unsa defeated the CGT
in the last elections [1]. Since the CFDT is almost absent from the RATP, Unsa embodies the narrow corporatist unionism there, which sees no
further than " social dialogue ". However, the feeling of having been wandered by the government made them mad with rage ! Under these
conditions, they were blocked during the strong strike on September 13, then surprised everyone by calling for a renewable strike on
December 5. Something new ! With a somewhat unexpected verbal radicalization. Will it last ?
In any case, the CGT railed to have the limelight stolen, but could not help but rally the date of December 5. Obviously, FO, SUD-RATP
[2]and Solidaires-RATP did the same ... but also the GSC, and without dragging their feet ! The affinity group - sometimes wrongly
caricatured as " community " - called Union rallying (RS), also got involved. From then on, it became promising. Second positive point:
when the fight started, all unions, even the most corpo (Unsa, SUD, FO, CGC) demanded the global withdrawal of the pension reform project -
and not only the defense of the special regime of RATP. And refused to suspend the fight during the holiday season !
In short, we do not yet know if we are going to win, but already, we can hope that this historic strike will have raised the level of
consciousness and fighting spirit of employees · es within the management. There will be a before and an after.
Alexis (UCL Saint-Denis), December 19, 2019
The morning of December 17.
cc Solidaires-RATP
[1] " RATP: The vote of executives favored, the reformers prevail " , Alternative libertarian, January 2019.
[2] After a corporate drift, SUD-RATP left the Union syndicale Solidaires. It is now Solidaires-RATP which represents the self-managing
union movement in the management.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?RATP-La-greve-qui-bouleverse-tous-les-reperes
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