Today's Topics:
1. i-f-a: First call for the 5th Libertarian Spring Day
conference in Havana, Cuba - - 6-14 Jun 2020 by Centro Social y
Biblioteca Libertaria (ABRA) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Rojava compas express solidarity with anarchists in Russia
and Belarus By ANA (pt) [machine translation
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Let's change the
system, not the climate! (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. afed.org.uk: on University workers keeping strong in the
face of attacks on many fronts (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. [Australia] Melbourne: Actions during the week of solidarity
with anarchist and anti-fascist prisoners targeted by repression
in Russia By ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. CGT-LKN EuskaL Herria: Demonstrations in Euskal Herria
against the violation of human rights on the Greco-Turkish border
(ca) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
This Conference opens up a space to connect wills and spirits who want to erect non-authoritarian, non-capitalist, non-patriarchal,
non-consumer forms of coexistence; to encourage creation and experimentation. ---- Proposals for activities are invited until 24 May 2020 by
emailing primaveralibre[at]riseup[dot]net or via social networks. See Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/946933909072018/permalink/946936822405060/
Facing a country that is undergoing a process of updating its model of social control economy; with the police invasion in spaces of freedom
that have been rescued or built within society; before the renewed Yankee imperial siege, which reinforces the internal imperialism of the
Cuban State; in the midst of the collapse that forces us to concentrate on a daily agony of basic subsistence searches; With the potential
threat of becoming ill with each display of affection, the temptation to assume destructive attitudes, such as hopelessness, hatred and
self-victimization, are taking an endemic presence among us.
An anti-system spirit is growing in Cuba, with respectably heroic overtones, and along with it the idea that we have the right to change ...
our oppressors. This, however, can become a double-edged sword, by establishing a flattening space of the impulse to seek and exercise
liberating alternatives, build sociabilities from autonomy and undertake feasible projects and actions, based on what we have here and now.
itself, of who we are and of realities and concrete spaces.
The 5th Libertarian Spring Conference in Havana, like the previous ones since 2013, does not pretend to be part of the supposed anti-Castro
"libertarian wave", which is stirring from the Florida pools, since we know that anti-Castroism leads to the same horrors and dislocations
that anti-machadism and anti-batistaism have already brought us, by conceiving society and people as a tactical mass at the disposal of
palatial (male) conspiracies. Nor is this Conference intended to be a mere amplifying space for the request for expensive rights for the
bankrupt powers in Cuba or for the critical and idle discussion of what exists.
More profitable and discreet, the Libertarian Spring Days, seek to be a catalyst and prefigurer of possibilities of autonomy,
interdependence and freedom of freely associated people right now, here and in the world, to create alternatives to the ongoing civilization
crisis, from the local, but thinking globally. An observatory of creative social practices, led by those who carry them out and those who
also dream of doing them.
This Conference opens as a space to connect wills and spirits who want to erect non-authoritarian, non-capitalist, non-patriarchal,
non-consumer forms of coexistence; to encourage creation and experimentation; and not choosing candidates for good oppressors, who transform
our lives behind us, in exchange for recycled submission.
To propose topics for intervention, proposals for spaces, activities, criticism and insults, contact until May 24 with
primaveralibre@riseup.net or with:
wa.me/5376986139
t.me/AgoraABRA
ABRA Libertaria Library and Social Center
http://www.i-f-a.org.gridhosted.co.uk/2020/03/12/first-call-for-the-5th-libertarian-spring-day-conference-in-havana-cuba-primera-convocatoria-a-la-5ta-jornada-primaveras-libertaria-de-la-habana-6-14-jun-2020/
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Message: 2
This month, the first sentences were given to anarchists in the "Network" case in Russia. He was given 6 to 18 months in prison. In
addition, two other anarchists were sentenced to 7 years in prison in Belarus. ---- While comparing anarchists and socialists in Rojava, we
join the call for the week of solidarity with anarchist and anti-fascist prisoners and targets of repression in Russia. We see the need to
abolish incarceration and the search for different social relationships. We must fight for a society based on libertarian ideals and
responsibility to one another. ---- We need to defend our and our companies at all levels. Ask yourself, how can we understand self-defense
against torture, legislative hegemony and coercive police service? Our language and understanding are also important: innocent is a relative
term, but what is really clear to us is that the authority of the police, the state and its judicial system over human lives is unacceptable.
Together with broad and strong social movements, organizing and building relationships based on libertarian and transformative justice and
self-defense, our path eventually crosses with the destruction of the post-Soviet industrial prison complex. Today, fighting against Gulag's
legacy and prison mentality means breaking what holds Patriarchate, Capitalism and the State together as one.
Translation> The Alchemist
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Message: 3
This is the watchword of this climate march which we support. For us, this is what needs to change in the current system ---- Get out of
capitalism . A consistent ecology is necessarily anticapitalist. Capitalist productivism today is a morbid headlong rush that precipitates
us towards the climatic catastrophe and the destruction of ecosystems. Capitalist growth depends on the plunder of natural resources and
polluting and toxic energy, which threatens entire populations. It is only by leaving this system of economic growth that we can overcome
the current ecological crisis. ---- Against the state.The function of the state is to be the manager of this capitalist economy. It cannot
constitute support to prevent this ecological destruction. The national state defends above all the principle of growth of the national
economy. It is, by definition, part of an anti-ecological logic, despite certain rhetoric, promoting "green capitalism". Today, it is
impossible to address political staff to call for "ecological responsibility", because the issue of economic growth, which it defends, and
the ecological issue, are clearly incompatible. Furthermore, in the worst case, we could see a new form of truncated, state and
authoritarian ecology, that is to say a form of eco-fascism, which would limit public freedoms,
Against oppressions . A consistent ecology will also necessarily be anti-patriarchal and anti-racist, because it is the same productivist
logic which assigns women to reproductive tasks, which assigns the peripheries to destructive specializations (relocation of our most
polluting activities), and which destroys the terrestrial environment.
The ecological struggle must be anti-capitalist, anti-statist, anti-patriarchal and anti-racist!
tract écologie_V2 http://unautrefutur.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/tract-%C3%A9cologie_V2.pdf
http://unautrefutur.org/changeons-le-systeme-pas-le-climat/
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Message: 4
Just at the time that Coronavirus has officially reached pandemic proportions, a good period of strike action of University and College
Union (UCU) members is about to end in UK universities. Lecturers, researchers and admin workers in over 70 higher education institutions
are completing 14 days of unpaid strike action over four weeks in February and March 2020. The action was taken against attacks on pensions
and about ‘Four fights' concerning pay stagnation, precarious contracts, increasing workloads and severe inequalities including the gender
pay gap. ---- The context to the action is the ever-increasing marketisation of higher education which is now very dependent on high student
fees, compared to centrally awarded funding, putting universities into competition for students and increasing their numbers.This
marketisation also goes alongside finance capital being used more regularly for expansion such as new buildings and infrastructure that
universities hope will impress potential students and increase their competitiveness in general. All this is coming at the expense of
workers because the universities are trying to make them teach this larger number of students with less staff and so the work stress of
teachers in particular has greatly increased. In addition, rounds of assessment exercises such as the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)
and the research equivalent, REF, have put pressure on individuals to work harder whilst university bureaucracy has expanded to ‘game' the
various national ‘league tables' that have resulted from institutions being forced to compete. The idea of the state that allowed an
increase in student fees of up to £9000 a year, so that universities would then compete on the price of their teaching, backfired as each
university decided their reputation would be damaged by charging less than another. As a result university income is very sensitive to
student demands to be better treated as consumers who want a good experience for the huge debts they will leave university with.
Workers already took action in 2018 over pensions and then in 2019 members were balloted on both pensions and the 4 fights. The pensions
aspect of the struggle was particularly important as the scheme depends on university bosses acting in a cooperative way. Losing the fight
to reach national agreement on pensions could mean the beginning of renewed attacks on nationally agreed pay agreements as well. The 2018
strike was successful in preventing the university scheme being downgraded to ‘defined contributions', which involved union branches going
against the union leadership. In the end there was agreement on an independent valuation. Unfortunately though, the managers of the pension
scheme have responded to the situation by continuing to increase the percentage of contributions from workers which is now close to 10% of
earnings.
The union leadership has since changed and is more combatative and is not willing to accept a solution that does not address all of the
demands. So, the current wave of strikes has seen an escalation in the number of days of strike. Now the February/March strike has also
ended without a solution, another ballot and further action is likely in 2020-21.
The success of the future action will require members to stay strong in the face of unwillingness of employers to move their position.
However, the current strike has been greatly helped by the support from students who have seen through the attempts of bosses to blame the
strike on workers. Students seem more aware than ever of the reasons for workers needing to strike. This attitude has been helped in turn by
the knowledge of huge incomes and bonuses being received by university Vice Chancellors. Action taken by students has included supporting
workers on picket lines and occupying university buildings. Public support has also been good during the current strike, judging from the
honking from car horns at picket lines. This could result in part from the realisation that with the present government we should expect an
attack on wages and living conditions to continue, in spite of all the Brexit promises.
The coronavirus outbreak will no doubt put further pressure on workers. As it stands, it has been difficult during the strike for workers to
stop activities such as ‘open days' for visiting potential student s and parents which take place at weekends outside of the striking
period. Because of the virus these events are now reluctantly being cancelled on health grounds. At the time of writing it seems likely that
some universities will have to close to stop the spread of the illness. This may give some opportunity for workers to think about the next
part of the struggle. On the other hand, working from home may mean redesigning teaching to be delivered online which will be a lot of extra
work and universities could try to use this later to break strikes. For this reason the union has been wary of the move to video recording
of lectures. If this issue is forced by coronavirus, it will be important not to let bosses abuse this in the future.
If we act together we can beat the bosses!
http://afed.org.uk/university-workers-keeping-strong-in-the-face-of-attacks-on-many-fronts/
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Message: 5
Twice this week, those who live and work on the board of Victoria's ethnic Russian representatives woke up and found their building covered
in posters and paint. Nothing particularly unusual for Melbourne city walls, but these were not the usual writings or concert announcements
that they often face and that they generally don't remove for months. Instead, they were supporting those who were arrested and recently
sentenced in the so-calledNetwork Conspiracy Casein Russia. These actions were our contribution to the international week of solidarity with
our anarchist and antifa brothers who were sentenced to up to 18 years in prison for not much more than playing paintball, and that was
after everyone was tortured!
For two nights, first we graffiti the walls with slogans "xVeganx", "Fuck the culture of torture from the FSB (Federal Security Service)"
and "Death to Putin", then on the second night we glue two dozen different posters , including one from each of the 10 brothers with their
names, photos, details of their tortures, information about their prison sentences (or if they are still on trial), and the slogan "Putin's
torture devices are not anti-fascist / anarchist ", And a few others in Russian against the FSB and Putin. On both occasions our efforts
were removed early the next day, which as we have already said is very unusual! Do they have anything to hide? It certainly is what it looks
like.
Vegan antifa solidarity forever!
Team SxE hXc xVx sk8 Melbourne
(Melbourne's hardcore vegan straight edge skate team)
Translation> Brulego
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Message: 6
Since February 27, thousands of people have moved to the border between Turkey and Greece after the announcement that migrants wishing to
reach Europe will no longer be detained on the Turkish side. The Turkish government keeps its borders with Syria closed without caring about
the consequences of pushing thousands of migrants to the doors of Europe, to a limbo. ---- In Greece, the scenario is also getting worse.
Recently, the government passed a new, more stringent and inhuman law that involves detention upon arrival in Greek territory for all new
asylum seekers ---- In the Edirne area, the Turkish authorities allowed them to advance to the border area, but Greek police forces
prevented them from passing through gas and sound bombs. At the same time, the Turkish authorities restricted the access of journalists and
reporters. Those caught in the gray zone between the two states, under heavy rains and with scarce food supplies, have been crying out for
the opening of the borders.
We demand that the Turkish government open its borders with Syria , give humanitarian treatment to people fleeing the war and not use the
situation of migrants and refugees or for their political plans in northern Syria or to secure concessions in its negotiations with the
European Union.
We demand that the Greek government open its borders and, abandoning its repressive policy and threats such as military maneuvers in the
border sea with Turkey, give humanitarian treatment to people who want to enter the European Union guaranteeing their right to free movement
by Greece in its transit to central Europe. The suspension of the right of asylum announced by the Greek and Hungarian government is a
flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention.
We demand that the EU open its borders and improve and resolve the conditions under which people arriving in Europe are forced to live
fleeing war or extreme poverty . That it opens legal and safe routes to prevent those fleeing conflict and persecution from having to play
life to get here, that respects human rights at the borders and protects people.
And we appeal to the Spanish and Basque governments directly involved in the closure of the European southern border and in the sale of
weapons to Turkey that in Europe leads the Spanish State, to demand that their peers reestablish the kidnapped rights, and start a change in
its immigration policy guaranteeing safe routes of arrival to our country, and before the news about the sending of troops to Greece, we
demand that the Spanish government not collaborate with the massacre against migrants and in search of refuge, as well as not Participation
of members of the civil guard and national police to the Greek border.
https://www.cgt-lkn.org/blog/archivos/6191
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