Today's Topics:
1. Santiago, Chile: Letter from an Anarchist Comrade Imprisoned
for Participating in the Social Revolt (ca, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative: CONCENTRATION
AGAINST NATIONALISM AND obscurantism WHERE THEY
ARE COMING.:
Sunday 16/2 [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Solidaridad Obrera: SOLIDARITY WITH RICHAR NEUVILLE AND THE
FIGHT OF THE FRENCH WORKING CLASS. (ca, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Germany, In various cities, the platform regularly takes
part in Fridays for Future mobilizations in addition to the major
global climate strikes. (de) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Ensure the right of the poor workers. By Bangladesh
AnarchoSyndicalist Federation - BASF [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Czech, AFED: A3: Votes from Notara 26 (IV.) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
"I had at least the satisfaction of hitting this prevailing system and its voracious gear" Words of a prisoner from the revolt from Santiago
1" ---- A fraternal embrace full of complicity for all those who are, in one way or another, part of this tireless struggle, all those
people who anoymously go out and participate in direct confrontation, without fear and with the desire to exploit everything. ---- From the
threshold where the fragility of freedom confronts the punitive and flagellant desire, the subjectivity of the idea becomes living flesh in
front of the scavenging system, which seeks to erase and depredate all antagonism in this society of spectacle, merchandise and fetishism.
I have at least had the satisfaction of striking at this prevailing system and its voracious mechanisms, where anyone can see how a few
people spend uselessly enough to feed hundreds of families, this society that allows a few people to monopolize social wealth by fostering
misery and oppression.
I declare myself an enemy of this model and its irrefutable perpetuity, of its dogmas and moral chains, which daily harass our being /
existence and leave no room for freedom or spontaneity, limiting us to be part of the homegeneity transforming us into mere numbers within
the mass.
Against extractivist activities and the impoverishment of the earth and its people!
Free all the prisoners!
An Anarchist Prisoner
Santiago Prison No. 1
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Message: 2
What can the Prespa Agreement, the "illegal immigration", and the "demographic" have in common? First of all, the theme of the event is "We
Did Not Agree", which is being organized by 22 Christian associations at the Thessaloniki Convention Center. ---- The above axes constitute
the basic ideological agenda of the conservative and far-right arc. At present, this agenda is being promoted by government, church,
religious and sectarian groups, fascist organizations and bourgeois right and far right parties. From the education minister's proclamations
of "national consciousness" to school and compulsory churches, the deprivation of basic human "civil rights" by refugees and immigrants, to
the blessings of the Holy Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, the darker decisions of the Ierados abortion, the targeting of women who choose it,
the state, and the church go hand-in-hand to promote conservatism and bullshit.
The Prespa deal initially pushed all this far-right tackle to the "foam" of the public sphere. It united the ND opposition at that time with
archbishops, patriotic unions and fascist raids. The latter occupied public space and space, cultivated hatred for our neighboring peoples,
and attacked social spaces and occupations. Their demand to have the first say in the name of another nation-state. The Greek state, close
to this logic, has been trying for decades to extend its sovereignty to the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean. So the SYRIZA government
has come to this agreement with the blessings of the EU, which wants to integrate the Republic of Northern Macedonia into its bosom and
NATO, expanding its sphere of influence in the Balkans. Nationalism on both sides of the border got on top. In Greece, the church played a
key role (not that it would not), reminding its followers to march, chartering coaches for nationalist festivals, and reproducing daily
national cries of pride.
The far-right crowns continue on the refugee-migration issue. Yet another issue in which the new government has failed to satisfy its
far-right public despite all its efforts daily. The church is not just indifferent to living conditions, everyday accidents, and suicides in
desperate detention centers. This would simply confirm her selective philanthropic action, which comes as no surprise to the exclusion of
"all-religionists". But he doesn't stay there. Citing the "Islamization of the homeland" of all sorts, clergymen and religious leaders are
calling for a pogrom against refugees and immigrants. They call them poachers, people who have already accepted the violence of the most
powerful states on the planet, either through military imperialist intervention, either by expanding the economic power of the great powers.
They call them "rapists" and "terrorists" refugees and immigrants coming to our country, of course indifferent that absolutely nothing and
no reality underpins their perception (a perception we are laughing at) derives solely from their xenophobic and racist feelings. ), which
makes them the perpetrators of daily racist attacks. After all, they have what they want. The influence on the policies of the Greek state
and its continuous increase. indifferent of course that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any support for their perception
(which we are laughing at derives solely from their xenophobic and racist feelings), which makes them morally instigated by daily racist
attacks. After all, they have what they want. The influence on the policies of the Greek state and its continuous increase. indifferent of
course that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any support for their perception (which we are laughing at derives solely from
their xenophobic and racist feelings), which makes them morally instigated by daily racist attacks. After all, they have what they want. The
influence on the policies of the Greek state and its continuous increase.
And while one might imagine that the situation of previous years with the church having an idea of who would enter the country or being
called a neighboring state was already inconceivably comic for a supposed secular state, in recent months we have been seeing the church
again in the spotlight, this time with her point of view on birth control and women's bodies! The Holy Synod, which is probably not very
interested in science, biology and other such "secondary" (!), Recently described the fetus as "human" and abortion as "murder".
Archbishops, priests and Christian associations that have as much to do with pregnancy and maternity as with humanity and solidarity, that
is, absolutely no one, want to ban abortion.
On the church side, all of this is perfectly reasonable. They want to turn back time, impose darkness, they want to broaden their sphere of
control. They try not to lose ground as their doctrine is stripped every day for a while, to form a highly conservative society, proud and
pure of its faith and origin.
HE WILL NOT GO THROUGH. It now comes with the intervention of the church in our lives and our bodies. It is time to spoil it! It is time to
stop their attempt to impose darkness and nationalism, to finally claim the self-evident, the self-determination of our bodies, the
ownership of ourselves, our freedom.
OUR BODIES WILL NOT BECOME THESE NATION'S REPRODUCTIVE MACHINES
FREE MOVEMENT FOR EVERYONE
ABOUT THE RACISM DIVISIONS THAT OURSELVES TO OPPOSE CLASS SOLIDARITY AND MISCELLANEOUS RESPONSE
THIS STEP BACK FROM THE SELF-CONDUCT OF OUR BODIES
CONCENTRATION AGAINST NATIONALISM AND SCOTTISH:
Sunday 16/2, 16:00, Navarino with Tsimiski
Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative (member of the Anarchist Federation)
Email: lib_thess@hotmail.com
Blog: libertasalonica.wordpress.com
SHOWING ANY LIGHT?
The Thessaloniki metropolis, together with Christian unions, is holding a conference on "demographic", "Macedonian" and "illegal immigration".
The church, drawn by the bourgeois, militaristic, political lines of the time, is looking for ways to convince us that we must hate the
religious, the foreign, the homosexual, not to have abortion, to be silent in front of our exploits, because it is a difficult time ,
getting ready to die in some future warfare.
Well, THAT'S!
OUR BODIES WILL NOT BECOME THESE NATION'S REPRODUCTIVE MACHINES
Concentration against nationalism and darkness:
Sunday 16/2, 16:00, Tsimiski with Navarinou
Western Assembly Open Assembly,
Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative,
Liberal Trade Union,
Free School Social Area,
Occupation Terra Incognita,
Collectivity of Anarchists from the East
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2020/02/15/
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Message: 3
The Confederación Sindical Solidaridad Obrera wants to express, through this letter, its full solidarity with Richard Neuville, a militant
of the French Solidaires union, animator of the Association for Self-Management and editor of the International Encyclopedia of
Self-Management, which he received last February 8 the visit at his home of the French police, notifying him of the opening of a judicial
procedure against him for his participation, along with other people with whom we also sympathize, in a series of social mobilizations
called by his union organization and by the called "French Yellow Vests" in defense of public pensions.
The French working class is actively and exemplary fighting against continued aggression against their living and working conditions
represented by the neoliberal measures implemented by President Emmanuel Macron since his term began. The attempt to cut and eliminate in
part the public pensions enjoyed by French workers after generations of struggle, is another proof that the great international oligarchic
groups have put our health and our future lives among their great goals to beat in the next decades They want us defeated, abandoned, aged
and without possibilities of making effective the intersectoral and intergenerational solidarity that sustains the conception of the
universal, dignified and sufficient pension system that the labor movement in Europe has always defended.
Peers like Richard Neuville are an example for the entire European working class. In their struggle we recognize each other and in their
passion we embrace all those who want a fairer society. It is people like Richard Neuville, persecuted despite being innocent of all evil to
society, committed to the needs, dreams and hopes of those who produce and who fight, who safeguard our dignity as a class and as human
beings of good will in a world that Capital wants to turn into an orgy of pain, suffering and destruction.
Comrade Richard, comrades who accompany you in your struggle: we are with you and you and we call on all the workers of Europe to echo the
fight against repression that aims to silence your voices.
In Madrid, on February 16, 2020.
José Luis Carretero Miramar.
(Secretary General of the Confederación Sindical Solidaridad Obrera).
https://www.facebook.com/Soliobrera/photos/a.378361692293634/2545277042268744
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Message: 4
Today, among others, in Trier (Stella Nigra Anarchist Collective - The Platform Trier) and Dortmund (The Platform Ruhr). The picture is from
today's demonstration in Trier. Despite the fact that the number of Fridays for Future demonstrations is rather declining overall, this
social movement remains active and always in development. Supports the fight for climate justice also outside of the big events. Support
your local Fridays for Future group and let us help to implement the important demands and goals of the movement. Build counterpower from
below! Power to the people!
facebook.com/DPlattform/photos/a.291294121584310/509946806385706
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Message: 5
Labor and capital conflicts continue. Workers are the driving force of Bangladesh's economy and development. But they are the most
distressed and deprived. Workers-owners-government struggles against the wages of these low-income people, but workers are left behind. But
they do not agree. Therefore, there is a need for reasonable discussion, struggle and struggle. ---- The speakers said this during a
round-the-clock meeting on Sunday morning (February 1, 2001), demanding a minimum cash wage of Rs 5 per day to improve the quality of life
of tea workers and ensuring fair wages and social security. Bangladesh Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation - BASF organized the event in a tea
garden in Sylhet. Ratan Das, Ranjan Das, Shanti Nayak, and representatives of the general workers were present at the meeting chaired by
Shri Subhas Naik.
Speakers also said that six years ago, people from different regions including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa,
Madras, India were brought to Tea Garden by showing fraud and false assurance. Although the British did not receive labor since the
inception, the fate of the workers has not changed much till today.
The meeting highlighted the widespread plight of the workers considering the commodity prices, pay scales, national wages and productivity
commissions, giving the workers daily cash wages of Tk 4, as a ration for each worker to 5 kg per week and paying 3 kg per week to the
dependents and every worker. 2 kg of tea leaves, with no increase in wages, increase of wages, increase of wages The demand was raised for
the production of 3 kg raw leaves and for wages paid during the holidays, for non-deduction of additional ration of land tax fixed by the
government for land paid for cultivation.
The claims are; Tea workers need to be healthy and to be active in production, as per the current market price of tea workers daily
(breakfast Rs.25 + noon 3 taka + dinner 3 taka) as 1 taka, only food cost of 1 member is required for 1 member. The minimum wage should be
fixed at Tk 5 per day at this stage with the cost of accessory. In order to determine the wages of the tea industry, the wage hike in the
nominal wage through the bilateral agreement has been abolished. Commodity price fluctuations, inflation, Based on the experience and
efficiency of the workers, the payment of annual increment of 5%. Provision of unconditional wages as per section 1 (c) of Bangladesh Labor
Act-20 (amended from time to time) by repealing unlawful conditions for payment of weekly holiday wages. Depending on the attendance of the
work, the deduction of fraudulent workers with the incentive bonus in the name of festival bonus will be stopped and the workers will be
given two festival bonuses and one incentive bonus annually equal to one month's wages. Labor law has to be properly implemented in the tea
industry. Ensure freedom of association of workers with welfare fund and participation fund and freedom of association with free trade union
under section 25 of Bangladesh Labor Act-20. To eliminate the discrimination in labor law, including discrimination for effective and earned
leave (3 days every 22 days) in the tea industry. Provide incentive bonuses. Labor law has to be properly implemented in the tea industry.
Ensure freedom of association of workers with welfare fund and participation fund and freedom of association with free trade union under
section 25 of Bangladesh Labor Act-20. To eliminate the discrimination in labor law, including discrimination for effective and earned leave
(3 days every 22 days) in the tea industry. Provide incentive bonuses. Labor law has to be properly implemented in the tea industry. Ensure
freedom of association of workers with welfare fund and participation fund and freedom of association with free trade union under section 25
of Bangladesh Labor Act-20. To eliminate the discrimination of labor laws, including discrimination for effective and earned leave (3 days
every 22 days) in the tea industry;
According to the draft recommendation by the lowest wage board in 28, the monthly salary to the primary care worker and yogali sardar,
cutting off ration for up to 5 bighas of land, a tubewell for every 25 families, payment of dividend of 5% of the company, two festivals
equal to monthly wages (bonus). Depending on attendance at work, not incentive bonus), gratuity, construction of closet according to Article
5 of the Labor Act Adi benefits cut rations for the full implementation of the land and off the field. Provide rice, flour, pulses, oil,
sugar / good, soap, tea leaves, kerosene in proportion to the weekly requirement of a family as a complete ration of tea and rubber workers.
The workers who live in the tea plantations have the right to own the land. According to government law, maternity allowance is 6 months and
an MBBS and one MBBS (delivery specialists) doctors are provided with ambulances in each tea garden. Government collegiate schools should be
established in the Valley.
https://bangladeshasf.org/dridr-shrmikder-nyaayy-adhikaar-nishcit-krun/
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Message: 6
Another part of a series of interviews with people who are part of the Athens refugee squad Notara 26. ---- 4. Sirus ---- You could say that
my political activity started before I was born. I was born in Iran in 1984 when my mother was in prison because of her own political
activity. She was three months pregnant when she was arrested and gave birth prematurely because of the torture she was subjected to. In
prison, they used me to put pressure on her - another form of torture - and unfortunately my mother betrayed the names of some comrades. All
of them executed. After a few months my mother was released, but she was unable to care for me, she could never return to normal life. ----
In 2004 I became a political bloger myself, in 2005 I joined the Workers' Communist Party of Iran. Like other parties, this one was illegal.
It worked in secrecy, although there were some affiliates that had legal status and were mainly engaged in activities to promote the rights
of women and children. I myself have been very involved in children's rights.
In October 2007 I was arrested by the police and kept in solitary confinement in the secret police headquarters building for 45 days. But
they had nothing on me and I was released on five-year terms. All this happened in the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Iran's Kurdistan. As
the repression became unbearable, I moved to Tehran and found a job there. That was April 2008.
In the summer of 2009, when the Green Movement began , I was in the streets. The Green Movement's demands were on elections, I did not vote
and I did not support the reformist election campaign, but I still joined the movement in the streets.
I was arrested several times for this. The last time I was arrested, they beat me up and tortured me, then sent me to court and sentenced me
to ten years. But I was bailed in court, which I immediately took advantage of, escaping from Tehran and hiding.
A year later, the secret police almost caught me. They found out where I worked and came to my aunt's house. Fortunately, when they arrived,
I wasn't in any of those places, and I managed to escape from a friend with a warning. Only a few meters I avoided arrest.
Then I hid for almost a year. Several months in a village in the mountains. The Kurdish people have a famous saying, "We have no friends but
the mountains," and I know very well what that means, because that was exactly the situation I was in. Every week my friends brought me food
and books. Once a friend brought me a hard drive with movies and some PDF files to read. One of the series that was there was called The
Living Dead , and that's exactly what my life looked like: I was alone and I tried to survive.
But even so, I was active, helping to coordinate shelter actions, including the May 1 celebrations that were held in Sanandaj. A few months
later, when the police went through the demonstration videos and recognized me on them, they killed my father and held him for almost a
week. They wanted him to tell them where I was. So I decided to leave Iran. It was September 2012.
I started a new life in Turkey. And it wasn't easy at all. There are a lot of things that I can't talk about. Anyway, I remained politically
active, first working for my party as a journalist and blogger, then becoming an advisor to the Central Committee. I organized a television
program and two online magazines about political prisoners in Iran, and I also wrote about a left-wing youth movement.
I left the party in 2015 because of political disagreements. Specifically, it was a discussion of a letter in support of Syriza, which then
won the elections in Greece. Me and the other comrades, who understood that the party was turning more towards social democracy, decided to
leave the party and started working with other groups.
In 2016 I was involved in youth socialist organizations, participated in demonstrations and participated in the establishment of a new
political party. But I was arrested again, this time by the Turkish police. This is a completely different story, but I will not talk about
it now.
The last time I was arrested, in autumn 2017, I checked my ID on my way to the police station. When the policeman saw that I was an Iranian,
he started beating me and yelling at me, "You are not a Turk, as you dare to protest against the Turkish state!" They took my money and
bought me a plane ticket to Georgia.
To explain this, this is common in Turkey. As a refugee, they could not deport me back to Iran, but the Turkish government has a treaty with
the Georgian government that it can deport people there. Instead of being deported, I made contact with the smuggler and he got me to
Greece. That was November 2017.
I arrived in Greece from the north. After almost eight hours of walking in the rain, during a frosty night. First I tried to leave Greece
and get to another European country. But by then the borders in the EU were closed, I failed and I ran out of money. So I decided to try and
start a new life in Greece. Getting all the papers for asylum was a really difficult process. Eventually I managed to get a lawyer to help
me register and get all the documents - but it took almost seven months since I arrived.
I lived in the City Plaza refugee squat for one year. It was run by a left-wing team and I tried to get involved politically. But we had
political contradictions with the coordination team, which made all the decisions. I was fired at one point and I was homeless for about a
week. When the others, especially the political refugees who lived there, supported me, they allowed me to return, but I decided to stop any
political activism and got into a great depression. I started smoking a lot of grass, drank and wasted time. This period lasted about six
months. During that time I received all the papers for asylum.
I met a volunteer in City Plaza who had been there for a month. We got to know each other, we talked about a lot of things, about our lives,
experiences, habits and interests. Thanks to this friendship, I slowly got out of depression and started working on myself again. I started
to go into nature, study Greek and English. I found a job - I translated a film about women's fight in Rojava.
And I got to Notar for the first time. But I started to get more involved only after the election of a new government this summer, when
threats to squats began.
What does Notara mean to you?
I regard Notar as a community that is truly autonomous and self-governing. I like how people organize here, how people make decisions in
plenary, clearly and openly. There are a lot of difficulties and complicated situations, but together we can handle them. We learn and
organize to survive in the face of capitalism and state violence.
Notara is not just a house or a place of accommodation for me. It is a place of resistance and struggle. It's a place of humanity. What i
mean? If common sense tells you that blindly following authority is harmful to humanity, then you may also be an anarchist, and perhaps it
is time to get together with others who see it the same, organize and change society.
What is it like to be a communist and to organize with anarchists?
As I see it, communism and anarchism are two sciences or approaches, two very important elements of the working class movement in our
struggle against capitalism. Of course, there are political differences. But it is quite clear who our common enemy is.
Communism means to me something completely different from bourgeois communism and socialism. I found that the communist movement in Iran and
Greece meant something completely different. In Iran, communism means a revolutionary movement, a struggle for life against the state. Here,
"communism" is reformist or social democratic, but not revolutionary.
Bourgeois socialism, with all its branches and sects, has reached a deadlock. Soviet and Chinese experience, social democracy and
eurocommunism in Europe, anti-imperialist populism in countries where imperialism rules - all these movements are over with breath. But the
collapse does not take place because the radically socialist movement is socially incoherent and has no power. The right and international
capitalism offensive is coming.
Probably never before had the contradiction been so obvious. On the one hand, there is a need for revolution and the building of a society
based on the principles of public ownership. On the other hand, there is a total absence of organized political power that could embark on
this transformation.
I'm a Marxist. Classical Marxism is about collective ownership, the collective involvement of the working class, all people, in the process
of production and political decision-making. But the Soviet model and other similar so-called communist movements put the state at the
center of their economic theory and make collective ownership state. Marxists of my type, what I call the workers' socialist tradition, will
not be fooled by this.
And as I said, it depends on you finding others who see it the same way. I found them here, and without hesitation I decided to be part of
this movement.
What do you think about the current threat that squats face?
We must face it honestly. The great truth of our time is that our world is becoming increasingly brutal. We live in a time of violence and
barbarism. Because that is how private property is protected. Capitalism attacks refugees in an effort to separate us from the rest of
society and the working class. They are trying to destroy solidarity between us, divide the working class and make us accept our power.
Government attacks on migrants are a trick. For example, they take asylum seekers the right to treatment and present it to the people of
Greece as a good thing. But it will not be long before the same citizens find that health services have been privatized and that no one will
have access to health care.
They attack squats because squats are a symbol of our solidarity and our struggle. Under capitalism, migrants and refugees have no rights,
they are trapped in a maze. The squat movement fights against it and says: no, we can rise up and create another life, a free life if we
join together. Not refugees or citizens, but human beings who all have the same right to live.
What is your vision of the future?
The future is struggle, class struggle. I believe that a world without the idea of socialism would be dark and without any hope. We must
keep the idea alive and fight for it. We fight for it and give nothing to fascists or capitalism for free. We will fight with hope as our
grandmothers and grandfathers fought!
Source:
https://stateless.noblogs.org/post/2019/11/30/voices-of-notara-part-4-we-have-to-keep-this-idea-alive/
Previous parts:
https://www.afed.cz/text/7096/hlasy-z-notara-26-i
https://www.afed.cz/text/7097/hlasy-z-notara-26-ii
https: //www.afed.cz/text/7099/hlasy-z-notara-26-iii
https://www.afed.cz/text/7115/hlasy-z-notara-26-iv
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