#Worldwide #Information #Blogger #LucSchrijvers: #Update: #anarchist #information from all over the world - 31.03.2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  ait russia: China: Riot Against Wuhan Travel Restrictions
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Greece, Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative: In the face of the
      state-capitalist and capitalist politics of keeping the practices
      of solidarity and mutual aid alive. [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  cnt-ait: COVID 19 - SOLIDARITY WITH WORKING WOMEN IN
      BANGLADESH (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #303 - Syndicalism,
      Radio France: The antenna for workers! (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Czech, afed: On a wave of solidarity. Will we help the
      Palestinians as soon as possible? -- Reflection from our
      sympathizer on "coronavirus" solidarity [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Poland, ozzip: Anti-crisis Shield - employees will pay for
      the crisis (again)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: The coronavirus long
      term effect... (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  Germany, ruhr, die plattform: Commemoration of the March
      Revolution in Dortmund Eving (de) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



A mass protest march occurred yesterday in the Chinese province of Hubei. Thousands of angry residents broke through the bridge on the
Yangtze River, connecting the capital of Wuhan with the neighboring province of Jiangxi, and fought with the police. Wuhan City has been
quarantined for weeks due to the coronavirus epidemic. The authorities have now announced the lifting of the blockade, but protesters are
outraged by the way the government treated them during the crisis. They turned over police cars and swept away the established control
barriers. ---- Additional reinforcements of the police were pulled up to the place, but this only made the fights even more fierce. ----
According to a Twitter account "Things China Doesn't Want You to Know," the riot was rumored to be preceded by a skirmish between police
officers from Hubei and Jiangxi. The former were unhappy that the neighbors repeatedly intervened in their jurisdiction. Obviously, some
Hubei police joined the demonstrators on their way to Jiangxi, did not stop them from wrecking police cars and even pushed the police
special forces with their shields.

According to rumors from a Chinese dissident, Badiucao, a battle broke out because Jiangxi police refused to obey orders to open the border
with Hubei after quarantine was officially lifted on March 25th. The dissident believes that one of the reasons could be that even the
police do not believe in official information about the end of the epidemic in Hubei.

Radio Free Asia (SAR) reported that the demonstration remained crowded and powerful even after 8 hours of clashes. Jiangxi police at a
checkpoint on the bridge let a group of migrant workers pass, but did not let Hubei residents go. After fierce disputes, Jiangxi police
called a special forces police to block access to Jiujiang. In the video posted on Youtube, you can see how thousands of people are walking
along the road to the bridge shoulder to shoulder with the Hubei police, chanting "Go Hubei!"

One resident told PCA that residents of the province feel discriminated against and unwanted in other parts of China. They are even
threatened with reprisal when trying to enter there (...)

According to the Canadian newspaper Glob & Mail, an official from the Chinese Communist Party spoke to the crowd through a loudspeaker,
stating that gathering on the bridge was "dangerous" because of the "risk of getting the virus." But his warnings did not find a response.

People's Daily newspaper "People's Daily" reported a collision on the bridge only after the video spread on social networks. She described
the incident as "regrettable."

"The people of Hubei made great efforts and made a significant contribution to the victory over the epidemic. People from all walks of life
are therefore encouraged to accept migrant workers from Hubei. It is undeniable, however, that some people from some regions intentionally
or unintentionally discriminated against people from Hubei and obstructed them in returning to work, "the People's Daily noted. (...)

Source:
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/03/27/massive-protest-breaks-out-in-chinas-hubei-province-ground-zero-for-the-coronavirus/

Video: https: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xYmDyz47fE&fbclid=IwAR2Lah6r6JB6xLqMV8Q-6lNVcNiMdFhC1kuEgvAkFdeJbKmHw3qhc82XAqg

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Message: 2




The outbreak of such a large-scale pandemic is the springboard for a crisis that, in addition to its obvious health dimensions, has
financial crisis characteristics. In the already tense historical period of the global structural capitalist crisis of accumulation, which
made its potential start in 2008, the present pandemic is coming to further destabilize the foundations of the system and exacerbate the
social and class conflicts within it. The proponents of the capitalist system of production, in the vanguard of unexpected developments, are
taking a series of drastic restructuring measures to maintain a system subject to shocks of immeasurable economic and political costs. ----
At the same time, the system's response to this current phase is to impose an emergency regime, with minimum rights restrictions and a
traffic ban. A ban under the guise of protecting the population, as it appears that huge deficiencies in logistical and human resources in
public health make it impossible for the state to manage a possible widespread virus, precisely because of the deterioration, or the closure
of public hospitals. This is, moreover, an unpleasant situation for the state, as the prohibition on the movement or movement of the
substance seriously affects the consumption of goods, which is undesirable in capitalism. However, Traffic is not prohibited for people who
engage in capital-profitable activities, such as working in the workplace. But it is certain that this measure will be used as yet another
repressive weapon in the quagmire of the state aimed at further controlling social life and the overall restructuring of war production and
economy. The bosses and their political staff, in cutting through their system of bankruptcy, call for a sense of national unity and social
consensus in state authoritarianism, seeking to penetrate the social basis of the culture of complicity in the crisis of the system. the
exploitation of this measure as yet another repressive weapon in the quagmire of the state aimed at further controlling social life and the
overall restructuring of war production and economy. The bosses and their political staff, in cutting through their system of bankruptcy,
call for a sense of national unity and social consensus in state authoritarianism, seeking to penetrate the social basis of the culture of
complicity in the crisis of the system. the exploitation of this measure as yet another repressive weapon in the quagmire of the state aimed
at further controlling social life and the overall restructuring of war production and economy. The bosses and their political staff, in
cutting through their system of bankruptcy, call for a sense of national unity and social consensus in state authoritarianism, seeking to
penetrate the social basis of the culture of complicity in the crisis of the system.

So it is understood that for the world of capital, conditions require open factories in areas of the economy that are not vital to society
at this time. Workers are required to be obedient and stacked on workplaces without protective measures, sanitary equipment and to work many
overtime (We mention the call center workers, the deli workers and a vast list of industries and crafts). There are serious indications,
however, that the spread of the virus in Italy in recent days, which is banned, is due to open industries. The reshaping of labor relations,
the new flexible and distance working forms, the 50% wage cuts for six months through legislative action, the institutionalization of
employer inactivity, labor rights cuts and redundancies are paramount to saving the neoliberal market economy. In contrast to all this, the
state elaborates and implements a series of measures to defend the interests of the bourgeoisie. From a 40% reduction in rent rates for
large businesses, a four-month VAT suspension for up to a reduction in employer insurance contributions.

However, it is of the utmost importance to make it clear to the world on the basis of the social and class pyramid that the state hates
life. The bourgeoisie and its political expressors do not give a damn about the lives of the exploiters, insofar as they do not contribute
to the reproduction of capitalist relations of production, inasmuch as parts of the working class are not currently productive and produce
no profit for the bosses. . The most classically undervalued and excluded pieces of the social base - unemployed, insecure workers,
immigrants, incarcerated in prison or concentration camps and drug addicts - are thrown out of the social fabric and left to survive as they
may or may not die, at the same time that - even before the health crisis - patients were being ranched in disadvantaged hospitals, without
access to adequate health care. Within this context, only hypocrisy and ridicule can be considered the government's call to volunteers to
help the state provide health services.

Moreover, at the same time that the state imposes a ban on the movement of citizens, at the same time the Prime Minister's word of mouth is
that "this is the citizen's time". But the truth is that this is not the citizen's time - supposedly to behave responsibly according to
state narrative. On the contrary, this is the time for the state, showing its disgusting face, having lost its 'democratic' sensibilities,
in order to be able to ground the ideology of 'citizen responsibility' socially. In essence, we are dealing with the dual language of power,
as the state seeks, on the one hand, to take away from it its enormous responsibility for the diminishing and dismantling of public health
and the underfunding of its structures, passing on these responsibilities to the back of the social base, which is allegedly responsible for
transmitting the virus. In this way, the state is trying to flush the eyes of the social majority, because it is precisely what has long
closed one hospital after another, pushing them from the bottom to private clinics, treating public health as a commodity . On the other
hand, through the regime of exemption from normalcy, the Authority seeks to impose on them the fear, the passivity and the acceptance of
their alleged wrongdoing. It seeks to create citizens, obedient and obedient to its commands, people scared and bowed. Individualized
individuals without solidarity and coherent social ties between them, who will entrust the state apparatus with their own lives, a life
nevertheless looted by state policies, a fragmented society that must erase from its collective consciousness the social practices of
solidarity, mutual aid and cooperation but also its common struggles against the rulers. All this in order for the state to enforce the
silence of the cemetery and to apply its own criminal and antisocial practices more easily.

After all, the dismantling of the public health system, the overthrow of any concept of social welfare and the protection of the weak, and
the pillaging of the social base is a matter of sovereignty. The enormous equipment costs incurred in the last decade ($ 44 billion) for the
military, the reduction of state funding for health by 42.8% and the purchases of F16 fighter aircraft are a matter of sovereignty. Anyone
who thinks that health is a commodity, bought and bought with indifference to human life, is a criminal. Anyone who says the health system
is prepared to deal with the situation being deficient in medical supplies, ICUs and staff, says that by 2020, 800 doctors' contracts were
not renewed, 1500 recruitments were canceled and 700 were not fixed, they are also criminals. Anyone who faces a public health crisis with
police measures and instead of massively testing the population to help stop the spread of the virus chooses to militarize daily life, he is
a criminal. Anyone who decides, in the current situation, to make money with the private sector and pay a daily compensation of € 1,600 to
private ICUs, rather than order them, is a criminal. Anyone who practices or promotes blackmail or believes that the crisis generates
opportunities is the criminal in turn. to make money with the private sector and pay a daily allowance of € 1,600 to private ICUs, instead
of ordering them, he is a criminal. Anyone who practices or promotes blackmail or believes that the crisis generates opportunities is the
criminal in turn. to make money with the private sector and pay a daily allowance of € 1,600 to private ICUs, instead of ordering them, he
is a criminal. Anyone who practices or promotes blackmail or believes that the crisis generates opportunities is the criminal in turn.

In conclusion, in the face of the fear, guilt, passivity, and personalization that detainees - through their ideological mechanisms - are
trying to inflict on the social basis, against trying to load their own responsibilities for dissolution on the backs of society of public
health and care we must show that capitalism hates life. In the face of a system that only has to offer the modern proletarians more
poverty, destitution, death, exploitation and oppression, we are called upon to move in the direction of politically organizing the movement
and classifying the workers for militant confrontation with whatever it is. to come. The competitive movement should work from now on to
formulate a collective strategic planning, to be in a better position to fight the raging class competition. The structural contradictions
of capitalism and the sharpening of contradictions must be interpreted as conditions of historical opportunity for the forces of the
movement and embodied in the spark of the revolutionary perspective. In the face of the barbarism of the state and of capital, to promote
and reinforce the ruthless, anti-institutional and militant struggles for the revolutionary transformation of productive-social relations
and the emancipation of our class. So we are absolutely convinced that soon the social base and its organized forces will face this
totalitarian system. Our accounts with the bourgeois system were, are and will be open. The structural contradictions of capitalism and the
sharpening of contradictions must be interpreted as conditions of historical opportunity for the forces of the movement and embodied in the
spark of the revolutionary perspective. In the face of the barbarism of the state and of capital, to promote and reinforce the ruthless,
anti-institutional and militant struggles for the revolutionary transformation of productive-social relations and the emancipation of our
class. So we are absolutely convinced that soon the social base and its organized forces will face this totalitarian system. Our accounts
with the bourgeois system were, are and will be open. The structural contradictions of capitalism and the sharpening of contradictions must
be interpreted as conditions of historical opportunity for the forces of the movement and embodied in the spark of the revolutionary
perspective. In the face of the barbarism of the state and of capital, to promote and reinforce the ruthless, anti-institutional and
militant struggles for the revolutionary transformation of productive-social relations and the emancipation of our class. So we are
absolutely convinced that soon the social base and its organized forces will face this totalitarian system. Our accounts with the bourgeois
system were, are and will be open. they should be interpreted as conditions of historical opportunity for the forces of the movement and
embodied in the spark of the revolutionary perspective. In the face of the barbarism of the state and of capital, to promote and reinforce
the ruthless, anti-institutional and militant struggles for the revolutionary transformation of productive-social relations and the
emancipation of our class. So we are absolutely convinced that soon the social base and its organized forces will face this totalitarian
system. Our accounts with the bourgeois system were, are and will be open. they should be interpreted as conditions of historical
opportunity for the forces of the movement and embodied in the spark of the revolutionary perspective. In the face of the barbarism of the
state and of capital, to promote and reinforce the ruthless, anti-institutional and militant struggles for the revolutionary transformation
of productive-social relations and the emancipation of our class. So we are absolutely convinced that soon the social base and its organized
forces will face this totalitarian system. Our accounts with the bourgeois system were, are and will be open. anti-institutional and
militant struggles for the revolutionary transformation of productive-social relations and the emancipation of our class. So we are
absolutely convinced that soon the social base and its organized forces will face this totalitarian system. Our accounts with the bourgeois
system were, are and will be open. anti-institutional and militant struggles for the revolutionary transformation of productive-social
relations and the emancipation of our class. So we are absolutely convinced that soon the social base and its organized forces will face
this totalitarian system. Our accounts with the bourgeois system were, are and will be open.

AGAINST EMERGENCY EMERGENCY AND LIFE DEVELOPMENT BY THE STATE AND CAPITAL

LOOK FORWARD TO OUR SOCIAL NEEDS AND OUR CLASSES INTEREST

IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION OF HEALTH WORKERS 'REQUIREMENTS

RESISTANCE - SOLIDARITY - SOLIDARITY

STRUGGLE AGAINST STATE AND CAPITAL CAPACITY

Anarchist Federation

Site:http://www.anarchist-federation.gr Youtube: Anarchist Federation
email: anarchist-federation@riseup.net
Twitter: twitter.com/anarchistfedGr
Fb: facebook.com/anarxikiomospondia2015

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/

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Message: 3



The Covid19 pandemic is global and it will strike all countries without distinction. ---- Western countries such as France, Spain or Italy
are already strongly impacted, due to the inadequacy of medical infrastructure or the insufficient number of protective equipment such as
masks. ---- In so-called poor countries, the situation is even worse. Sometimes the basic minimum is missing, starting with soap, when we
know that the first barrier is to wash your hands regularly. ---- Companions from the Bangladesh IWA section, BASF-AIT, are launching a
fundraising campaign with Australian companions to buy and distribute soap to workers at the tea plantations in Shyllet. They are among the
poorest and most exploited in Bangladesh, often surviving on less than 2 euros a day for themselves and their families.

Donations can be made online at the following address:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/solidarite-bangladesh-basf

To find out more about BASF-AIT, you can read this interview: BASF (BANGLADESH ANARCHOSYNDICALIST FEDERATION): HOW WE CAME TO ANARCHOSYNDICALISM
https://bangladeshasf.org/about/

Download PDF: BASF-COVID 19-en
http://blog.cnt-ait.info/public/INTERNATIONAL/BANGLADESH/BASF_COVID_19-en.pdf

http://blog.cnt-ait.info/post/2020/03/26/BASF-en

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Message: 4



Sixty-three days of strike, a major disruption of programs: it is the longest conflict ever seen in public broadcasting. Without result for
the moment, the strike started again in March. Explanations on this resistance to demolition. ---- "The shame of the Republic" , this is how
Emmanuel Macron designated public broadcasting in December 2017. The conclusions were drawn. Less than two years later, it was the
announcement of 299 job cuts at Radio France and a plan for 1,000 "voluntary" departures at France Télévisions by 2022. ---- The
announcement outraged the staff, who began a struggle of unprecedented duration: sixty-three days. Not continuously, however: a kind of
rotation has been set up informally, but the result is that many strikers are more than thirty days withheld from pay.

The CGT was the most involved in the strike, with SUD. As for the other unions (Unsa, FO, SNJ and CFDT), it was rather the wait-and-see
attitude that dominated ... before agreeing, on January 24, to start negotiations with the management on a collective conventional break
instead of the voluntary departure plan. A beautiful scam ! [1]

This nevertheless marked a turning point: the employees are tired by sixty-three days of struggle, and only two unions call to continue the
fight. It is this evolution of the balance of power that pushed the CGT to opt for a "pause" in the strike, before relaunching it in March,
in the middle of the electoral period.

Bolloré and Lagardère for models ?
Before resuming the fight, let us therefore look a little at this "shame" for which the employees are responsible. This downsizing is
announced at a time when the Radio France group is doing particularly well. France Inter leads the hearings ; France Bleu is the most
listened to general interest proximity radio; France Info is the most widely followed news media. These figures clearly show that the stake
is not economic, but that with this attack, it is a question of putting an end to a certain vision of public service. Even if it is far from
being free from defects, both in the content of its programs and in the way of treating its employees, it remains a bulwark against the
concentration of the media in the hands of a handful of billionaires .

Bolloré (CNews, C8, Canal +, etc.) can impose Éric Zemmour on a daily program, while cutting 500 positions (almost 20% of the workforce).
Lagardère pays its stars a fortune on Europe 1 while paying its journalists and slingshot technicians. But these brutal management methods
are not without consequences for production, and the audience realizes it ! Canal + has lost almost half of its audience since the takeover
by Bolloré (2.6% market share in 2015 ; 1.3% in 2019) and Europe 1 continues its vertiginous fall, of 5.5 million listeners in 2010 to 2.7
million in 2019.

As we can see: cutting budgets, mistreating employees is making audiovisual at a discount. This is what the government claims to do with
public broadcasting. The primary beneficiaries would be its private competitors, who would gain audience shares, and the advertising markets
that go with it.

Relative independence of public service
The relative independence of the public service - evidenced by the freedom of the columnists of France Inter to make fun of their bosses
openly[2]- contributed to its success. Likewise, people surely remembered that France Bleu and France 3 Normandie were the only media that
continued to deal with the Lubrizol disaster in Rouen while all the others zapped it to deal with the death of Chirac. The coming merger of
the editorial offices of France Bleu and France 3 is also likely to reduce the regional network in favor of a Parisian centralization of
information...

Resistance and diversion
The challenge of this sacking of the public audiovisual sector is to subdue any spirit of contestation and counter-power which may still be
found in the state-controlled media. To let the audiovisual landscape be nibbled by racism, Islamophobia, sexism and class contempt. Pass on
information after communication.

The consequences of a break in the work tool for employment and quality are obvious. At France Médias Monde (which includes France 24, RFI
and the Arabic radio MCD), the decision to close a transmitter in Cyprus without the agreement of the unions led, in the following months,
to a plan to cut posts in the Arabic radio MCD .

What if the solution to a viable media landscape was not to abandon the core business to move towards profitability, but on the contrary to
let employees do what they can do ? What if the solution was simply to give less power to leaders and more to workers ? This is one of the
challenges of the strike: reminding who produces, who keeps the radio alive, what the struggling employees knew how to put forward during
their actions. Whether it's the president's wishes interrupted by the choir members of Radio France singing Le Choeur des Esclaves (taken
from Nabucco by Verdi) or the Radio podcast inside out, allowing strikers to continue to inform on the subjects which interest them without
having to beg for the approval of the direction.

So will the fight resume in March, as the combative unions hope ? "Difficult to say during a trough, answers Lionel Thompson (SNJ-CGT), but
what is certain is that no one is satisfied. The month of March is that of the municipalities, and that will help in the balance of power."

Mathieu (UCL Paris northeast)

SIBYLE VEIL, A TECHNOCRATE OF SHOCK
The newly appointed CEO of Radio France, Sibyle Veil, is a pure product of technocracy: Sciences Po, the ENA, before entering the Council of
State and then being occupied by the destruction of the public hospital within of the AP-HP. She has never presented or produced a program
in front of a microphone or behind a console. The only reason which led Emmanuel Macron to name it is their camaraderie on the benches of
the ENA. She enters the already long list of directors of companies and public administrations appointed for their ability to make
profitable what does not have to be, without ever taking into account the opinion of the employees. es.

Arrived in 2018 in a radio already weakened by the management of its predecessor (270 positions cut since 2015), she will be responsible for
continuing with the implementation of a savings plan of 60 million euros. Its mission is also to manage the "modernization of trades towards
digital", consisting in automating part of the know-how of technicians and journalists, which will only lead to more mediocre standardized
programs.

We would thus move from the production of "radio programs", in a logic of service, to that of "audio content", in a logic of commercial
products. To believe that the desire of the president is to have employees as flexible and adaptable as the programs they broadcast.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Radio-France-L-antenne-aux-travailleurs

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Message: 5



Solidarity associated with the coronavirus epidemic is addressed on the website of the Anarchist Federation, both the current A3 and the
article Drape against the logic of money . Both texts point out - quite rightly - the need for solidarity and the importance of solidarity,
based on ordinary people, with whom many anarchists have a lot of experience. One of the articles said that such solidarity, however, is not
capitalism and a mighty appetite, perhaps because, in addition to the weakness of the system, it also shows our possibilities and our
strength. ---- Given the evolution of the situation, however, even the Czech government, which by demonstrating "inappropriate" solidarity,
manifested by "inappropriate" beneficiaries, usually does not want to discourage part of the more voters, has decided to help Italy and
Spain by sending protective suits. In this case, however, the government does not really take too much risk with the voters, it is aid
within Europe. As far as these countries are concerned, many Czechs can recall their holiday, favorite football club or wine they have ever
enjoyed in connection with Italy or Spain. Moreover, even the EU leaders have noticed that the reluctance of EU Member States to help each
other at least a bit, is blatant and could lead to further cleavage of the EU.

However, in the context of the current manifestations of 'coronavirus' solidarity, a wider solidarity issue arises. We support those who
live in our neighborhood and who are bound by a common language and history or other feelings of a certain belonging mentioned above. But
will our society be willing to support those who do not have such a link? Can our solidarity transcend narrow boundaries and manifest itself
selflessly?

Title of the article Palestinians remain abandoned in the face of the coronavirus epidemic published by Lucie Šarkadyová on the Referendum
daily. The situation of Palestinians has been terrible for a long time. Unfortunately, there is no reason not to trust activists who have
pointed out how Israel has consistently destroyed, for decades, any infrastructure that could help the Palestinians, including health. We
cannot expect Israel to change its attitude significantly with coronavirus.

It is therefore very important to show solidarity with the Palestinians right now. It might seem that, as individuals, we have much more
limited possibilities than sewing masks and helping those in need around us, but that's not the case. We can put pressure on Czech
politicians to commit themselves to providing aid quickly, even if the Czech Republic does not have any political benefits from it. The
speed of aid plays a crucial role here. I believe that in this case it does not matter if the Palestinians receive help from Babiš's
government, after all, it will not really be their money. As anarchists, we engage in political protests, for example because of political
persecution, there is no reason not to exercise similar activity in the case of "coronavirus" solidarity. World banks have "conjured"
billions, billions and billions promised by governments, so that at least part of these resources reach the most needy. We ourselves can
also send financial aid to organizations that help the Palestinians before our powerful people take action.

At the same time, we have to face an increase in xenophobic moods in our area, as coronavirus is and will be another great topic and chance
for populists. We must also fight fear, when people fear that greater material or financial assistance provided outside the Czech Republic
could endanger their lives and those of their loved ones. Unselfish solidarity may be linked to the material "disadvantage" of the person
who provides solidarity, but the moral overlap of such assistance completely outweighs it. In the face of this challenge, our resilience and
determination will fill us with justified pride.

Indeed, we have shown that aid from the bottom is possible and effective already during the solidarity manifested during the (still present
and growing) refugee crisis, when some parts of the state and its representatives were not very happy with this assistance. And if I should
turn a little and comment briefly on the state while it is still here - it is the state that stands on us, our willingness to tolerate and
listen to the powerful. It does not depend on Babiš, who assures us generously that he will not limit democracy. He is ridiculous in his
stupidity when he thinks he will take the rest of our freedoms with a snap of his finger. It shows only the limited view of this "owner and
manager of everything and everyone" on the desires of man, which can be summed up in the exclamation of freedom, equality, fraternity.

It is clear to me that immediate assistance is needed not only by the Palestinians but also by the refugees (including a genuine and swift
solution to their faultless situation); With the example of the Palestinians, I just wanted to show that our society must persevere and,
when it comes to solidarity, start increasingly aiming beyond the horizon, as it should be with solidarity. The company will then bear the
slogan OUR WEAPON IS SOLIDARITY, and the powerful of this world may finally wonder what all free individuals can do when they join forces
and reach out to action.

Related Links:
A3:
FNB Social Quarantine Continues to Help Most
Vulnerable Drapes Against Money Logic
Digital Infrastructure for Solidarity Action

https://www.afed.cz/text/7148/na-vlne-solidarity-pomuzeme-i-palestincum-a-to-co-nejdrive

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Message: 6



The plan of amendment of the so-called The "special act" against the coronavirus epidemic was presented as a "shield" to protect society
against a deep economic and social crisis. Meanwhile, this project resembles rather the strictest "tightening" policies we know from the
crises in 2001-2004 and 2009-2013: employers receive generous support, and the working majority of the society is to protect business
through wage cuts and longer working hours. ---- "Protecting jobs" by hunger salaries ---- The only form of employment protection that was
envisaged in the "shield" are subsidies to remuneration and contributions to the social security system targeted at companies whose turnover
fell by at least 15% within 2 months after January 1, 2020. Employers who found themselves in in this situation, they receive two salary
savings tools:
- taking over all or part of the crew "Economic downtime"[1]
- reducing the working time of some groups of employees or all employees to a maximum of 0.5 full-time.

Both of these tools allow the employer to significantly reduce wages - during economic downtime by up to 50%, and with a reduction of
working time by 20%. In both cases, salaries after reductions cannot be lower than the minimum wage.

To such reduced wages, employers will receive additional payments from the budget, which will also include social security contributions.
 From the Guaranteed Employee Benefits Fund (FGSP) and the Labor Fund (FP), from half to 90% of the minimum wage (with economic downtime,
depending on the source of funding) or 40% of the average remuneration (with reduced working hours) will be refunded.

The government's "shield" is therefore intended to "protect" jobs only through enormous savings of employers in expenditure on the wage bill
- fully covered by employees and the state budget. Let us add that the Act does not require companies whose turnover has fallen, cut any
other expenses, although there are many sources from which they could draw funds in such a situation. Dividends paid to shareholders (in the
case of listed companies), representation expenses, sales and advertising, planned investments and remuneration of the management are safe.
There are no savings measures such as flattening the pay structure, reducing overtime or simply freezing pay.

Importantly, co-financing for downtime does not impose any obligations on employers when it comes to, for example, prohibiting collective
dismissals! Such conditions are provided only in the case of co-financing to reduce working hours - employers who receive them cannot make
redundancies for a period of 6 months (but only in relation to jobs for which they received co-financing).

The government, which says so much about solidarity, in practice all the costs of the crisis are passed on to employees and does not require
anything from employers, except for temporarily limiting the possibility of making redundancies after receiving funding.

Even more flexible working hours

Employers whose turnover has fallen due to the coronavirus epidemic will receive one more tool from the government that allows significant
savings - much more freedom in organizing working time by themselves.

The "shield" gives employers the right to unilaterally (without consulting trade unions!) Reduce the minimum period and weekly rest to 8 and
32 hours, respectively (currently the minimum is 11 hours a day and 35 hours a week). In parallel, after making arrangements with trade
unions or "employee representation" in establishments where the unions do not operate, the employer will be able to introduce an equivalent
working time system allowing for 12-hour changes. Additionally, with the introduction of this system, it is possible to extend the reference
period to 12 months.

What does this mean in practice? A shorter minimum rest period, with a longer billing period and facilitating the introduction of an
equivalent working time system means that the employer will be able to avoid paying overtime supplements without any problems and organize
the work in such a way that it will be possible to work for up to 16 hours a day. This solution is possible, if later - during the
accounting period - these moments of more intensive work will be "balanced" by periods when you work less hours a day or fewer days a week,
so that the average working time per week is 40 hours. With a one-year accounting period, however, this "sustainability" can only occur in
December - so it's hard to talk about any "balance".

Although the Act introduces one "protection" against excessive extension of working time - employers shortening the minimum rest periods to
8 hours a day are obliged to "return" employees and employees taken in this way 3 hours a day, but they have 8 weeks. The problem, however,
lies in the very introduction of the possibility of working 16 hours a day - without any restrictions related to e.g. the intensity of work
performed.

Weakening of trade unions and suspension of application of employment contract provisions

In theory, all the most important "anti-crisis" tools that employers receive require negotiations with trade unions or "employee
representation" (in establishments where unions do not operate). In practice, however, so constructed "anti-crisis" mechanisms put trade
union organizations against the wall: either consent to lower salaries or longer working hours, or dismissals. As we have already mentioned,
the Act provides absolutely no alternative sources of looking for savings on expenses not related to salaries or working time - unions
wanting to block "economic downtime" or changes in working time will therefore be presented by employers to the crew as "guilty" of possible
subsequent bankruptcy or dismissal group.

The Act in practice forces unions to sign agreements with employers also because the possibility of co-financing salaries and contributions
depends on the earlier signing of an agreement on introducing downtime or shortening working hours. At the same time, the Act does not
specify the time for which such an agreement may be concluded and in theory it is possible to conclude an agreement for a longer period than
the subsidies from the budget will be paid (3 months).

Moreover, in most workplaces, where trade union organizations do not operate, any negotiations will be a facade simulating "social
dialogue", because most often "employee representation" in such places is in practice indicated by the employer and there is no protection
against his repression, if, for example, she wanted to block changes that were unfavorable to employees.

The last "anti-crisis" mechanism contained in the shield is the possibility of concluding an agreement on the application of employment
terms less favorable than those resulting from employment contracts. Here, "savings" may relate not only to basic salary or overtime, but
also to: salary supplements, bonuses and awards (provided they are higher than those resulting from labor law provisions), additional
breaks, or other regulations that are more favorable than the minimum specified in the Labor Code.

Draining the Labor Fund and Guaranteed Employee Benefits

The funds from which the "shield" is to be financed in the part concerning employment relations are to come mainly from two special purpose
funds: the Labor Fund and the Guaranteed Employee Benefits Fund. FP finances support for the unemployed (benefits, training, internships,
career counseling, public works, etc.), while the FGSP pays remuneration and benefits for employees of those employers who have declared
bankruptcy. Both funds are supplemented with contributions that are paid from the salaries of persons employed under employment contracts
and mandate contracts.

In essence, these are funds that constitute the "socialized" part of our salaries used to support employees in the event of bankruptcy or
loss of employment. But the funds accumulated there can be consumed in their entirety by the government's subsidies for employers:

The draft state budget for 2020 assumes that at the end of the year FGSP will have approximately PLN 800 million, and FP - 10 billion (after
including receivables that should be paid, i.e. unemployment benefits). According to the government's assumptions, the cost of the shield in
the sections "employee security" and "enterprise financing" is a total of 104 billion (with 30 billion assumed for employees and 74 billion
for enterprise financing) - so it is clear that these funds are not enough to finance such an extensive plan of providing companies with
public money.

What's more, the government also assumes additional support for micro enterprises in the form of non-repayable (!) Loans up to 5,000. PLN -
micro-employers will not have to return them unless they release them for half a year after receiving these loans.

There is also a problem with the sources of financing the "shield": the Act does not provide for increased taxes for entrepreneurs or the
highest paid. It should be remembered that CIT rates (corporate tax) in Poland are systematically falling. Since 1992, they have been
changed 8 times and decreased from 40% (in 1992-1996) to two rates in 2017 - 9% and 19%. It is similar with PIT rates (tax paid by
individuals). We had the highest rates at three income thresholds in 1994-1996 (21% -33% -45%), and since 2009 we have two (18% and 32%),
which in practice, due to the very small number of people achieving income included in the second rate, introduced a flat tax.

If the government is serious about an extensive support program for working people, it will not avoid changing the tax thresholds. This
requires shifting the greater burden of dealing with the crisis to the richest people. In addition, CIT should be increased so that
enterprises also cover part of the losses associated with the crisis - as a form of compensation for the years during which they paid
minimum taxes.

Junk contracts - junk citizens

Strangely, the provisions regarding the possibility of applying for an allowance for persons employed under a mandate contract (referred to
in the Act as "downtime benefit"). First, lost income should be demonstrated in the form of commission or work contracts signed before
February 1, 2020. It can be seen that the originators have never experienced precarious work in their civil law contracts, unlike 2.6
million people in Poland who usually sign contracts during or after the execution of the order. This practice, although illegal, is
widespread and widespread on the Polish labor market, which means that the majority of people working under civil law contracts have no
evidence that they lost their earning opportunities in March 2020.

The second strange thing among the proposed provisions is the possibility of obtaining a downtime benefit by persons working under civil law
contracts only on condition that the contract (the one signed before February 1, 2020) amounts to an amount higher than half the minimum
salary, i.e. PLN 1,300 gross. Thousands of people earning their living on small orders (e.g. training, translations, office work such as
packaging, shipping) who sign several, and sometimes a dozen or so, contracts for several hundred zlotys per month, will only be able to
apply for half-pay assistance minimum as long as their current monthly revenues from these contracts do not exceed the planned amount of the
grant (PLN 1,300).

The third absurdity, excluding the majority of people working under civil law contracts from state support, is the necessity of submitting
an application for a grant by ... the principal, not the contractor.

Not a word about the unemployed

Although the government plans to finance the "shield" from the Labor Fund, it does not say a word about the unemployed who will be coming at
the moment. In January 2020, 922,000 were registered in labor offices. persons (the unemployment rate was 5.5%), but only 16.9% (155
thousand) were entitled to the benefit.

The Act does not assume an increase in the number of the unemployed (which must occur in a crisis). Nor does it provide for any change in
its amount (currently the basic amount of the benefit is less than PLN 750 net) or the rules for granting unemployment benefit, which for
many people is currently unavailable. At present, persons who have worked for a minimum of 12 months in the last 18 months under contracts
of at least the minimum wage are entitled to unemployment benefit. This excludes a number of part-time employees with a salary below PLN
2,600 gross and a number of contractors and other persons working under civil law contracts, which have variable monthly income and are in a
state of actual unemployment several times a year.

The question remains whether persons who register as unemployed in March and April will still have the right to apply for a downtime benefit
for persons working under civil law contracts.

Entrepreneurs under protection, tenants not

The Act introduces provisional protection for tenants freezing rents and the possibility of terminating the lease agreement until June 30
this year. Evictions are also suspended for the duration of the epidemic.

The scandal, however, is that protection of the right to a roof over their heads does not apply to people who have had debt in paying for
housing or other bills in the amount of one month's rent. This means that people who are already having difficulties paying bills and are at
risk of homelessness have been excluded from protection.

In the current circumstances, the situation rather requires a 90% rent reduction for all tenants. Let us remind you that such a reduction in
rents is assumed for entrepreneurs renting stores in shopping malls. It is also necessary to introduce protection for all tenants,
especially those who are struggling to pay bills; extend the housing allowance program, and after the epidemic threat and epidemic situation
cease, start a mass public rental housing program to provide affordable housing and stimulate the economy.

Summary - continuity of anti-crisis policy

Although the current government presents itself as a cabinet that has broken the legacy of eight years of the rule of the Civic Platform
coalition and the Polish People's Party, in the field of anti-crisis policy it reproduces the solutions developed in 2009-2013. The main
solutions aimed at "employment protection" are an extension of the provisions of the so-called "Second Anti-Crisis Act" of 2013 (Act on
special solutions related to the protection of jobs) - both "economic downtime" and shortening the working time together with subsidies to
"jobs saved" in this way were possible , if the decrease in turnover by 15% lasted for half a year. Due to the good economic situation, this
act was "forgotten" in a way because few companies used the solutions it contained.

For the trade union movement, this means that we are again facing the necessity of mobilization against attempts to pass the costs of the
crisis on to employees and workers, although this time we must organize it in extreme epidemic conditions.

Jakub Grzegorczyk, Katarzyna Rakowska

footnotes:

[1]Economic downtime is a different kind of downtime than the one described in art. 81 of the Labor Code - downtime within the meaning of
the Labor Code results from unrelated to the decrease in turnover or the economic situation of the enterprise, and for the duration of such
downtime the employee receives 100% or 60% of remuneration (60% in the case of persons paid on the basis of piecework or commissions)

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Message: 7




We seem to be living in unprecedented times. With the world teetering on the edge of either the collapse of the financial system or
environmental collapse, along comes this new coronavirus. A global pandemic has slowly forced the capitalists into almost becoming state
socialists such is their desire to prop up this calamitous system that only benefits a wealthy, greedy minority. Hundreds of billions of
dollars is being created through quantitative easing and other desperate measures whilst the UK government has said it will pay up to 80% of
worker's salaries if you are laid off because of the nationwide shutdown of non-essential services. ---- There must be some panic at
Whitehall pushing the Tories along this path, their biggest fear right now is thousands of unemployed penniless people seething in anger,
and where will they direct that anger? The panic buying, the flouting of rules concerning social distancing, the hordes of people taking
advantage of the closure of pubs and restaurants to go sightseeing, isn't that surprising is it? This pandemic is serious, and will force
people en masse to think about reality in ways they have never had to do before. Generation after generation of rampant advertising has
created a consumerist sensibility in many that won't simply drift away; there will be teething troubles as we give birth to a new restricted
world. How many weekends of no pubs and football will it take before we see the first signs of social disorder and violence? A nation of
selfish consumers will soon get tired of their huge food stock piles and Netflix, surely the human mind craves more deeper fulfilment?

At the start of this crisis there were about 4,000 intensive care units throughout the UK, with about 8 out of 10 already occupied, this
seems pathetically small in light of current events with a population of over 60 million people. Are we surprised? Over a decade of cuts to
the NHS and other front-line services has clearly exacerbated the situation. At some point people might start thinking about this link when
their grandparents die in a corridor waiting to be seen. And this is all Covid-19 is to Boris Johnson and his ilk, a numbers game. The
elites that run the UK deep down don't care about elderly or vulnerable people dying, if they did then they would have been investing in
essential services for this group of people the past ten years and more. No what they are worried about is how this might look. They are
terrified of stories about health professionals being forced to make brutal triage decisions that mean many will die from a lack of
capacity, nothing else. Nature's brutal ‘cull' in the eyes of the Tories will simply mean less money to pay out for people that cannot
contribute to society anyway, and the plunging stock market indexes simply mean to some that we are now entering a ‘bear market' which means
certain stock items are now nice and cheap, a good time to buy!

This is the mentality of the Ruling Class

But there is a glimmer of hope, and that as always lies with ordinary people. The fragility of the System and the illusion of its stability
has been laid bare in ways that ceaseless activism could not. We are seeing Mutual Aid groups spring up in local communities across the UK
as crisis sparks compassion in many who want to help out and reach our most vulnerable, our isolated, the many left behind by successions of
uncaring governments. Our ‘way of life', this sick consumerist culture that is squeezing the life out of the world has been savagely
attacked, ironically by a new disease. Planes are grounded, traffic is greatly diminished, the world takes a breath from decades of abuse
inflicted upon it. People are forced globally to take stock of their lives and to think about what really matters to them, close family,
friends and their communities. Of course there will be those who yearn for things to ‘go back to the way they were', but hopefully there
will be many who are now questioning basic assumptions about capitalism, the money system and the priorities of the Ruling Class. People
will ask themselves, ‘Why were we not better prepared for this?'

As the world continues to struggle to contain this virus, governments and other powerful corporate groups will struggle to contain their
urge to be selfish and destructive. The only reason they are acting in a humane fashion is because of the pressure from below. They dare not
do nothing because for decades they have attacked the very services that are most needed now. As people work from home and socialise more
with their neighbours, they might just question why things would need to go back to the old ways of doing things, when there is a much
brighter positive society within reach, if we simply use this time to think!

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/03/24/the-coronavirus-long-term-effect/

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Message: 8



As part of our campaign to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the March Revolution in the Ruhr area, we held a small commemoration at the
Northern Cemetery in Dortmund Eving a few days ago. Originally, this event was supposed to take place on a larger scale, but due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, it was carried out by a small circle instead. Even though we had to cancel the greater part of the planned activities
related to the March Revolution, it is important to us to continue to be active on the streets - taking into account the appropriate safety
precautions. COVID-19 must not throw us into a state of shock and prevent the projects we plan from taking place altogether. This
commemoration event should be an example of how we can continue to be active and reach people with our content via the internet.

These are the words of the speech given at the cemetery:

Dear Comrades,

We are standing here at one of the numerous memorials in the Ruhr area which commemorate the fallen of the March events. However, this is
one of the very few memorials that does not commemorate the fascist Freikorps or police units or that was only installed later, but that
originates from the time itself and was built by and for revolutionary workers. This memorial stone could only survive National Socialism
because it was overgrown and forgotten, and was only rediscovered later by chance.

But this stone here is remarkable for several reasons. There is not a single member of the Communist Party buried here, mind you! You might
be surprised now, after all, it says "KPD" (Communist Party of Germany) on it, and the DKP (German Communist Party, successor of the KPD
since 1968) comes here for a commemoration every year. And wasn't the March Revolution entirely a matter of the Spartacists, the Bolshevists
and the Communist Party anyway?

Far from it. The KPD had 30-50 members in Dortmund at the time of the March Revolution, and in the election after the suppression of the
liberated areas, it won just one percent of the votes in Dortmund.

It is important for us to remember all the revolutionaries of that time, regardless of their organisational affiliations. But please let us
at the same time be honest with each other and historically correct. While the KPD was a small, insignificant party with little influence on
the events in Dortmund at that time, the anarchist movement there was a mass phenomenon. In the Free Workers Union of Germany, the
anarcho-syndicalist trade union, about 20,000 people were organised in Dortmund alone in mid-1920.

For us it is sad - and yes - it also makes us angry, to see how the important part the anarchist movement played in the great social
experiment in the Ruhr area in 1920 has continued to be downplayed by all sides.

So it is all the more important that we are standing here today, at this grave of revolutionary workers. And as we mention their names, we
do so knowing that they were anarchists, social democrats and even liberals:

Tailor Wilhelm Kniese
Locksmith Friedrich Zürn
Roller Casper Humbert
Worker Heinrich Haase
Coal merchant Adolf Kuhr
Turner Wilhelm Wiechmann
Hairdresser Bernhard Hutzler
Iron worker Alex Grebba
Miner's apprentice Max Milke
Worker Hermann Utting
Hermann Altenscheid
and Ihring, of whom we do not know the first name.

At this point we would like to turn to our anarchist comrade Adolf Kuhr as an example.

Adolf Kuhr was a miner and was born on March 19th,1866 in Ruhrort. He was married and had several children. He lived with his family at
Bornstraße 228 in Dortmund's Nordstadt.

In 1911 he was expelled from the SPD because of "anarcho-socialist tendencies" and "party-damaging behaviour" - what an honour and distinction!

He was one of the founding members of the USPD, which had split from the SPD in 1916 because they no longer wanted to accept the SPD's
support of World War I. He was also secretary of the free association of miners.

As a radical worker he soon could no longer work as a miner and was thus kept afloat as a coal merchant by his comrades. After his death,
Kuhr's widow was refused survivor's benefits by the city of Dortmund, because he had not been killed as a "harmless curious person" but as a
"communist".

Adolf Kuhr's story is that of thousands of workers. They don't deserve our blind idealisation, but they damn well don't deserve to be
forgotten. Their sacrifice for the liberation of our class is something we must never forget.

Because of this: A hundred years ago, the wage-earning class here, on our own doorstep, was once so strong that, isolated and without the
support of other regions, it was able to drive out its oppressors for 17 days. With the help of a few favourable factors, a social
revolution could have really taken place at that time. This shows us that radical social change is possible.

In this knowledge, we place ourselves in the tradition of our pioneers. Not just to look back and mourn our weakness, which is so striking
in comparison. No, we look back to move forward! Who bravely defied the reaction, who betrayed the cause of freedom? What mistakes did the
revolutionaries of that time make, and what worked well? How does the situation then differ from our situation today? How did anarchists and
libertarian communists manage to organise tens of thousands of people?

With these questions we look ahead. We pay tribute to the our fallen comrades and call to them:

"We will continue your struggle! Our revolt is as old as time, and it will end only when our dream of a free humanity is fulfilled!"

Now, let's pause for a moment of silence.

https://ruhr.dieplattform.org/2020/03/27/de-eng-gedenken-an-die-maerzrevolution-in-dortmund-eving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Ly9RWURPQ&feature=youtu.be

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