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Today's Topics:

   
1.  [Chile] Santiago: 111th Day of Social Uprising - Week from
      January 30 to February 6. THE INSISTING INSURGENT SPARKS!
      By ANA
      (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #302 - unionism,
      After January 24, the assets for a prolonged movement (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  US, black rose fed: Santa Cruz Grad Students Prepare to
      Launch Full Strike Next Week (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Brazilian Anarchist Coordination (CAB): SOLIDARITY TO THE
      OIL AND OIL STRIKE STRIKE! (pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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During the weekend in several soccer matches there were clashes between fans and the police, such as outside the National Stadium and in San
Carlos de Apoquindo. In Quillota there were disturbances and smoking barricades. Banners, songs against the government, invasions on the
playing field and fights with the henchmen and even with fans from the same clubs that disapproved of the protests. ---- At Praça da
Dignidade on Saturday and on Sunday, they intercepted a bus throwing stones at them, on Sunday they went further and a bus was partially set
on fire. All of this despite the few people participating in the protests during those days. There are also discussions between the same
protesters for asking drivers for money in zone zero for money.
In the commune of Pudahuel the rage is not over and a public transport bus is set on fire, just as in La Pincoya.

In Melipilla, on Saturday, an attempt at collective expropriation of a supermarket ends with four wounded workers, one with a bullet in the
groin and three with shotgun blows to the face, neck and arms.

On Sunday, hundreds of cyclists arrive to protest outside the house of the judge who solved the case of the murder of "Neco" and left the
henchman with a weekly signature.

The Government announces the installation of hundreds of facial recognition cameras on the streets. At the summer festivals, the fascist
animator and background boss "Kike" Morandé boo and stone a comedian for being misogynist and sexist, forcing him to retire.

On Monday, an ambush in Praça da Dignidade ends with more than thirty detainees.

On Monday and Tuesday, students protest against the PSU ( University Selection Test ) on their third day, disturbances and small skirmishes
are recorded outside the venues. They are also protesting inside several subway stations and panic takes hold of those in charge, who order
them to close.

The police train military personnel, sailors and aviation officers in anti-disturbance tactics, the armed forces spend millions on
implements for social control.

In Congress they reject the constitutional accusation against the intent Guevara, some opposition senators are absent or abstain. Due to a
lack of quorum, the quartermaster (accused of intrafamily violence) goes unpunished by the thousands of injuries that resulted from the
application of his "copamiento" tactic in Praça da Dignidade.

Serious incidents in the departure of the Universidad de Chile by the Pre-Libertadores, confrontations between brave bars[fans]and henchmen
outside the National Stadium, in the gallery a booth burns while playing.

Fans of Südkurve de Zürich wave handkerchiefs in solidarity and memory of "Neco" and Ariel. Encapuzadxs attack a Presbyterian church in
Antofagasta.

In another case of a group coup by the state's hit men, a hospitalized young man reports that at least six in uniform hit him and left him
with a punctured lung, this occurred in Puente Alto.

On Wednesday night an individual gets out of his car and threatens members of the "La primera línea" with a pistol. This happens right in
front of the place where "Lambi" was murdered, when he leaves he makes a shot. At dawn a group of strangers set fire to three buses for
collective commuting in Recoleta.

A 73-year-old man threatens with a revolver x the passengers of a bus shouting against the protests, is insulted by the driver and the
passengers.

On Thursday, dozens of floral arrangements give life and color to Praça da Dignidade. In honor of all of our mortxs during the Social Uprising.

One of the police officers in the group who beat Alex Nuñez to death, admits that his colleagues agreed to declare against him in the case.
Alex was murdered by the agents on October 20, 2019 in Maipu.

As you read this report, the President of Chile goes on vacation...

NOTHING IS OVER, EVERYTHING FOLLOWS

Giannis Michailidis and Konstantina Athanasopoulou captured in Greece... This one is also for you.

Natalia Tapia

Translation> Sol de Abril

Related content:

https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2020/02/04/chile-santiago-105o-dia-de-revolta-social/

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The bet was met: the action day on January 24 was a success. The locomotive sectors - SNCF and RATP - had to give up the renewable strike
after 45 days but, as promised, they were there, with a sharp increase in mobilization at this high point. How will the struggle evolve now
? Will it run out of steam or continue to rebound in unexpected forms ? Whatever the outcome, it is possible to ask a first series of
reflections on a movement that will have lasting consequences. ---- As with every massive and lasting strike movement, the chroniclers seem
to rediscover the class struggle. And those who own the means of production are rediscovering that their employees are essential for the
production of wealth ! Conversely, the too slow and too weak extension of the strike to other sectors negatively reveals that the employees
have only one real power: to stop producing collectively and sustainably. And all of a sudden, all the tactics of avoiding strikes or
actions seeking to replace them revealed their limits: leapfrog days, Saturday demonstrations, street riots, blockages of flows, are as many
tools that may be useful, but in no way comparable to a broad and deep "  arms crossed insurrection  ".

A brake: the loss of militant know-how
A lasting and massive strike, a serious strike, it is preparing ... seriously. It is not enough to announce the date well in advance and put
up some posters ! Delegates must turn and come back, employees must take the project and save money. We need a battle plan. Unfortunately,
it is the collapse of political consciousness and know-how that has been exposed in the majority of branches and departments. The results
are so different from one region to another, from one branch to another, that making a general assessment is impossible. Thousands of
delegates, despite specific calls from their national, local and professional organizations, have not gone on strike for a single day ! And
this frightening observation must be our main concern.

Also read:

"  At the City of Paris, we revived the class consciousness  " , Alternative libertarian, February 2020.
"  Rail: More than 45 days at the stop and an intact determination !  " , Alternative libertaire, February 2020.
"  Education: When a union desert is revitalized  " , Alternative libertarian, January 2020.
"  RATP: The strike that overturns all benchmarks  " , Alternative libertaire, January 2020.
"  RATP: Three first lessons from a historic strike  " , Alternative libertarian, February 2020.
But the movement will also have revealed the failure of too many intermediate militant teams, UL, UD, territorial professional unions ...
disconnected, purring, timid or sectarian. So many structures to revitalize, to rebuild, to evolve while aiming at the reconstruction of
local industry unions with a local interprofessional practice. But how can militant teams be freed from these tasks when, in their own
company, union life is dying ? Because you do not become a credible and effective manager if you are not supported on a solid basis. This
crudely repeats, over and over again, the question of the professional orientation of revolutionary activists.

Paris, December 5, 2019.
cc Daniel Maunoury
Tenacity: no truce for confectioners
The strikers held up during the Christmas holidays ! In all public services, certain deeply held taboos are crumbling before the steamroller
of governments which methodically destroy the school, the hospital, transport, Social Security. Strike exams, care strike, strike on
vacation leave respond to the Liberal offensive. And despite the difficulties caused in daily life, it is remarkable that a majority of the
population still supports the movement. As if everyone was aware that public services were destroyed to offer the education, care, transport
or social protection markets to private interests.

So, on January 9, the police had instructed to strike even harder in the hope of stopping the movement after returning from vacation. The
success of the collections reinforces this observation: people have understood the issue, and there is just a spark missing so that the
strike becomes generalized. It's annoying but not hopeless !

We have never known such a large and lasting unity on such a clear slogan: withdrawal. The entry of the GSC into the inter-union is in
itself a significant event. By clearly delimiting the boundaries between confederations, it is to be hoped that the built unity, not without
difficulty of course, will be rebuilt in future agendas. It also updates the question of the unification of combative union organizations in
the face of the block of accompanying unionism.

In the departmental unions which have generally served as organizers (for better and for worse ...) of the movement, important bonds of
trust have often been woven, including towards other forces such as the yellow vests. This is precious for future mobilizations. In some
companies, intersyndicals have rediscovered the unity and power of GAs. At RATP, the renewed conflict has already turned the tables.

Read also: "  RATP: The strike that overturns all benchmarks  " , Alternative libertarian, January 2020.

The picket line at the Pleyel bus depot, an obligatory meeting point in Saint-Denis (93).
cc Solidaires-RATP
The real power of GA
An internal circular from the CGT will have surprised the attentive activist teams: it talked about the appropriation of the strike by the
strikers, regular GAs, the mandate and dismissal of strikers to represent their comrades ... In short, the perfect manual for the
self-managed trade unionist !

Like the strike, the GA again revealed its power, in positive as in negative. On the downside when, too lightly attended (this was the case
with the SNCF), they did not allow the momentum towards a coordination of strike committees and the appropriation of the movement by the
strikers. On the positive side, in inter-union city or departmental GAs which have allowed a multiplication of initiatives - despite the
reluctance of union officials who sometimes discouraged more daring actions.

Paris, December 10, 2019.
cc Daniel Maunoury
A word on certain self-proclaimed "  AG interpros  " which have again arisen in a few places, often worn by political activists but all with
their own agenda and too often fueling a demobilizing anti-unionism. Some, however, have played a positive role in imagining and carrying
out useful actions, but always within the limits of substitute actions for the strike. And often without the efficiency of being built by
the strikers' delegates, even less by the mass of the strikers.

Read also: "  Rail: Basta of the" Christmas truce "  " , Alternative libertarian, January 2020.
In case of failure, bitterness, corporate withdrawal, and disillusioned renouncements will occur. And yet it seems that the rage, the joy
and the pride of having fought will remain the defining feature for the strikers, who will also learn from non-extension, just like
non-strikers who will find that only the professions in struggle will have preserved gains.

In short, this movement gives reason to the militants of the general strike, and that will shake up in the structures. How to imagine that
the direction of Unsa is not hit by its base in education and transport ? How can we imagine that the most combative sectors in Solidaires
do not come out strengthened ? And in the CGT, the debates are open, and they are quite different than ten years ago, if we compare the
federal management of Thibault in 2010, explicitly refusing to accelerate towards generalization, and the calls of Martinez in 2020, who
unfortunately find it difficult to be followed. The reconstruction of a combat unionism begins today !

Jean-Yves (UCL Limousin),
Christian (UCL Paris Banlieue Sud-Est),
January 25, 2020

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?les-atouts-pour-un-mouvement-prolonge

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Following up on our previous coverage of the wildcat strike and work stoppage launched by UC Santa Cruz grad student workers, participant
Cameron A. writes on the workers next move: launching a full strike this coming Monday, February 10. See below for how you can follow and
support. ---- By Cameron A. ---- Graduate Student workers at University of California Santa Cruz have been on a partial strike since
December 9th. Prompted by the extreme cost of rent, workers initiated the unsanctioned wildcat action to demand a Cost of Living Adjustment
(COLA). Now almost two months into their limited withdrawal of labor, they have voted to launch a full strike on Monday, February 10th. For
further details on how the strike started, read our report linked here.
Intro
It's been almost exactly two months since my fellow graduate workers and I voted to launch an unprecedented wildcat strike at UC Santa Cruz.
These two months have felt at once sped up and drawn out. Below I'll do my best to lay out what has happened since our strike vote in early
December, though I don't anticipate I'll be able to get to everything.

Despite the warnings from our union (UAW 2865) and threats from our bosses - the administration of UCSC - a militant minority of graduate
workers voted to engage in an unsanctioned and indefinite grading strike, which started on December 9th, 2019.

There's no doubt that we were punching above our weight in agitating for a strike. Strategically, there had been recognition that it would
be difficult to convince the more than 800 graduate students to commit to the action, given that it would be self organized, rather than
directed by the official union leadership.

Despite this, we also understood that a significant minority is more than capable of wreaking havoc, if not grinding operations to a halt
entirely. This theory has been proven correct to an astounding degree, as it was revealed at the end of fall quarter that the strike has
withheld over 12,000 individual undergraduate grades.

Outside Support, Internal Militancy
As the strike has gone on, it seems only to be picking up steam - both in the form of solidarity from outside and militancy among our own ranks.

Worker organizations ranging from higher education faculty unions, to graduate worker unions in places as far away as the UK, to the massive
35,000 member United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), have issued statements of solidarity with our wildcat action.

On the campus, agitation has continued to put pressure on the administration. I believe that we've adeptly engaged in activities which
consistently win undergraduates (the largest population at UCSC) to our side. COLA4ALL, a parallel campaign closely associated with the
strike, has undertaken a series of dining hall takeovers under the moniker "no swipes, all smiles", wherein students are able to bypass
payment and eat for free. This action has been replicated multiple times, always making clear that it's being carried out in solidarity with
graduate and service workers.

But undergraduates aren't the only population that we've built strong bonds with. In early January, the unit of craftspeople employed by
UCSC and represented by AFSCME 3299, voted to go out on an indefinite strike after nearly two years without a contract. Because graduate
workers have been proactive in maintaining relationships with other organized workers on campus, we were able to adequately prepare to
support their strike ahead of time.

Graduate workers joined the striking craft workers on the picket line and helped to flood campus request lines to report "broken fixtures"
(which the craft workers are tasked with maintaining). Additionally, while no one has thus far claimed responsibility, campus police sent
out an email in the midst of the craft worker strike, reporting that campus electrical infrastructure had been tampered with, that numerous
fixtures had been "vandalized," and plumbing in multiple locations had been "intentionally broken."

After two weeks on strike, craft workers met with the university and were able to secure a new contract with major concessions.

Spread the Strike
Perhaps the most heartening turn of events so far has been the development of COLA campaigns on multiple campuses within the 10 campus
University of California system. Berkeley, Davis, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego have all either launched fledgling COLA
campaigns, or have held events in solidarity with the Santa Cruz wildcat strike.

This development reflects that graduate workers aren't content with waiting for our contract to expire, only to negotiate another meager
single digit pay raise. Clearly, there is willingness to circumvent the union bureaucracy that has produced compromise positions up to this
point.

Graduate workers from Santa Cruz have traveled to a number of other campuses so as to further agitate workers there, holding information
sessions on our campaign and how we got organized.

Our goal is to spread the strike and bring the UC to its knees.

Going Beyond the Union, But not Without It
For legal and contractual reasons, UAW 2865 would not endorse our wildcat action. This was to be expected. Internally we received the
requisite warnings from our local's president, telling us that an unsanctioned strike would violate our contract. Publicly the union kept
its mouth more or less shut, which was the best that we could have hoped for.

Unfortunately, some union officers were ticked off by our action, penning a public article tut-tutting the way that our strike had unfolded.
This article was answered in kind with a piece by a UCSC grad worker, emphasizing that the militancy and self organization of the rank and
file at Santa Cruz has the potential to energize the base of the union across the state.

Despite our union being unable to back us initially, we have not forgotten that we are its rank and file. In fact, it's our interest to do
away with this distinction: the rank and file IS the union.

We're already making headway in this regard. After more than a month of lagging behind the developments at UCSC, UAW 2865 finally issued a
formal demand to bargain with the UC over cost of living issues. I'm firmly of the mind that this would not have happened under different
circumstances.

Solidarity Beats Repression
In late January, a number of graduate students received disciplinary summons from the administration for their strike activity.

While we don't have specific numbers as of this writing, the proportion of workers on strike to those who actually received a summons
appears to be small. Moreover, the administration doesn't seem to have used a clear metric to decide who would receive a summons and who
would not.

Because so much work was done on the department level to secure non-retaliation agreements from faculty (who report grad worker hours), we
feel that this has disallowed the university from clearly identifying who is and who is not on strike.

According to individuals with inside knowledge, the university was forced to use the IT department to determine who had removed grades from
online gradebooks, as a blunt tool to find out who was on strike. Our best guess is that this has led to the uneven and seemingly random
pattern with which disciplinary notices have been issued.

FULL STRIKE
So that brings us to the last couple of weeks. The administration has continued to stonewall us, flat out refusing to meet, let alone
negotiate with graduate workers.

In late January the office of the chancellor announced a new "housing supplement" program, which promised to selectively issue an extra
$2,500, on a yearly basis, to workers who the administration determines are most at need. While it should be said off the bat that this
supplement would be wholly inadequate to cover the extreme housing costs in Santa Cruz, it must also be noted that this supplement is not
universal and appears not to be available to international workers on visa.

This announcement also included a thinly veiled threat, promising further retaliation against graduate workers who continue the strike.

Graduate workers have taken this announcement as a slap in the face, not only for the reasons mentioned above, but because it was sent out
as a proclamation, rather than being the product of a good faith negotiation. We are having none of it.

On January 30th, graduate workers convened another strike assembly to assess our response to the new development. With hundreds of student
workers present, we collectively and democratically determined that our only path forward was escalation.

Our response to the administration's failure will be to go on a full teaching strike starting on February 10th.

This means that in addition to not grading, graduate workers will cease to engage in any and all university labor, until we vote to return
to work.

Five days out, as I sit writing this, I am in awe witnessing the ability of my fellow grad workers to organize ourselves. When we win this
fight, it will be a result of this mass level of engagement and participation.

If you are interested in supporting our strike, I would urge you to donate to our strike fund. We are anticipating the possibility of docked
pay and other expenses - please give to help mitigate this.

If you're interested in following strike developments, make sure to follow @payusmoreucsc on both Twitter and Instagram.

Cameron A. resides between the Bay Area and Los Angles and is currently a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz. They are involved in renter
struggles and a member of Black Rose/Rosa Negra.

https://blackrosefed.org/santa-cruz-grad-students-prepare-full-strike/

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We from the Brazilian Anarchist Coordination (CAB) express our full support and solidarity  with  the national strike by oil  and gas
companies , which this Wednesday (February 5) will complete 5 days. The strike takes place in defense of rights, against layoffs and the
privatization of Petrobras. ---- The strike started on February 1, mainly after the announcement of the closure of  Fafen-PR  - Paraná
Nitrogenated Fertilizer Factory, in Araucária, metropolitan region of Curitiba , which would cause the dismissal of  more than  1,000 direct
workers, in addition to end of another 2 thousand indirect jobs . The National Federation of Oil Tankers reported that so far (06/02) the
category has been paralyzed in more than 50 units in 12  states in the country.
The national mobilization of / the  oil / the  concerns all / as  us . T rata is another step in the fight against the government's plan
Bolsonaro and Paulo Guedes delivering  public assets to the private sector. A policy that has put an end to Petrobras' refining capacity,
making the company sell crude oil and buy refined oil from large foreign companies. Along with a pricing policy that only benefits the
state's shareholders, while increasing the value of the liter of fuel, and as a result of almost everything we consume.

Dataprev employees, who managed to reverse layoffs, Serpro and Correios, all companies in the government's privatist plans, are also
mobilized. Along with the direct action of the oil and gas companies against the layoffs and the dismantling at Petrobras, it is important
that the working class in general be attentive and supportive!

 From our places of work, housing and study, we will strengthen the bonds of unity and defense of the working class and public assets.

For the control of production in the hands of the working class!

Construction of Popular Power  by reducing fuel and cooking gas prices ,  against rising living costs!

Against the dismantling of Petrobr the  and public services ,  and m defense of jobs!
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