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1.  Epidemic? State slaughter - The comrades of the Anarchist
      Federation of Turin, gathered in assembly on March 15, 2020 (ca,
      fr, it, pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire - UCL press release -
      Precarious people are not boss flesh (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  afed.org.uk: On Mutual Aid vs Covid-19 T Shirt Fundraiser
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Holand, vrije bond: Update, Anarchist Library Amsterdam (nl)
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - press release:
      State of health emergency: let's also impose a state of social
      emergency ! (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Facing the crisis
      By fighting the virus, transforming society (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  TO STOP IMMEDIATELY THE EXCLUSION AND EXTRACTION 
      SCHEME OF
      REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS By APO                [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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The hearse are lined up in front of the cemetery in Bergamo. This image, more than many others, shows us reality in all its rawness. You
can't even leave a flower. Their relatives couldn't even accompany them towards the end. They died alone, lucid, slowly drowning. ---- From
the windows, at set times, people shout, sing, knock the dishes and gather in a nationalist spirit evoked by politicians and the media.
"Everything will be all right. We will make it." -- The government with edicts that followed one another at a frenetic pace has suspended
the debate, even the feeble democratic confrontation, even the exhausted rite of representative democracy and has enlisted us all. Whose
does not obey is a plague spreader, a criminal, a madman. ---- Let us understand each other. Each of us is responsible for our own actions.
We anarchists know it well: for us, individual responsibility for our actions is the pivot of a society of freedom* and equality.
Taking care of the weakest, of the elderly, of those who, more than others, risk their lives, is a duty that we feel with great strength.
Always. Today more than ever.
An equally strong duty is to tell the truth. The truth that closed in houses in front of the TV never comes. The truth that staying closed
in houses in front of the TV we never see. But the truth is, for the most part, in front of everyone's eyes.
Those who seek a hidden truth, an obscure conspiracy warped by their favourite villain, close their eyes to reality, because those who open
them fight to change an unjust, violent, liberating, murderous organization of society.

Every day, even today, while people get sick and die, the Italian government wastes 70 million euros in military spending. With the 70
million spent in just one of the 366 days of this leap year, six new hospitals could be built and equipped and there would be some money
left over for masks, analysis laboratories and swabs for real screening. A respirator costs 4000 euros, so you could buy 17500 respirators a
day: many more than you need now.
In recent years, all successive governments have constantly cut spending on health care, prevention and the life of all of us. Last year,
according to statistics, life expectancy was reduced for the first time. Many people don't have the money to pay for medicines, visiting
fees and specialist services, because they have to pay rent, food and transport.
They have closed the small hospitals, reduced the number of doctors and nurses, cut beds, forced health workers to work overtime, because
there it lacks medical staff.
Today, with the epidemic, there are no more queues at the desk, no more waiting lists of months and years for a diagnostic investigation:
they have cancelled visits and examinations. We will do them when the epidemic will be finish. How many people will get sick and die of
diagnosable and treatable cancers, how many people will see their illnesses worsen, because the state have quarantined what was left of
public health? Meanwhile, private clinics are making a few publicity moves and multiplying business, because the rich never go without
treatment.

That's why the government wants us on the balconies to sing "We are ready to die. Italy called". They want us to be silent and obedient like
good soldiers, meat for slaughter, expendable. Afterwards, those who stay will be immune and stronger. Until the next pandemic.

That's why from our balconies, on the city walls, in the shopping queues, let's say, out loud despite the mask, that we are facing a state
slaughter. How many deaths could have been avoided if the governments of these years had made choices to protect our health?
It was not a mistake but a criminal choice.

Infectivologists over the years have warned of the risk we were running, that a serious pandemic was possible. Voices in the desert.
The logic of profit does not allow to cede. When the epidemic is over, pharmaceutical companies that don't invest in prevention will do
business. They will profit from the medicines discovered by the many researchers working for the community and not to enrich those who are
already rich.
We were accustomed to believe that we are immune to the plagues that afflict the poor, those who have no means to defend themselves, those
who do not even have access to drinking water. Dengue, Ebola, malaria, tuberculosis were the diseases of the poor, of "backward",
"underdeveloped" populations.
Then, one day, the virus embarked on business class and reached the economic heart of Italy. And nothing was like before.
But at first the media, experts, the government told us that the disease only kills the elderly, the sick, those who also have other
diseases. Nothing new. It's a normal fact: you don't need a medical degree to know that.
So everyone else thought the worst would be an extra flu for this year. This criminal information has filled the squares, the aperitifs, the
parties. This does not mean that individual responsibility is lost, which also passes from the ability to inform and understand, but it
takes away a pinch of that aura of sanctity that the government is trying to wear, to come out unscathed from the crisis. And who knows?
Maybe even stronger.

They tell us our home is the only safe place. That's not true. The workers who have to go out every day to go to the factory, without any
real protection, in spite of the little treats offered by Confindustria[Organization of industrial employers in Italy]to the "state"
unions[the bigger unions that everytime make the interests of the bosses], return home every day. There are elderly relatives, children,
weak people there.
Only a small part of those who go out to shop or get some air have protection: masks, gloves, disinfectants are not even available in hospitals.
The government claims that protection is not necessary if you are healthy: that is a lie. What they tell us about the spread of the virus
clearly denies it. The truth is another: two months after the beginning of the epidemic in Italy, the government has not purchased and
distributed the necessary protection to stop the spread of the disease.
They cost too much. In Piedmont region, family doctors talk on the phone to people with fever, cough, sore throat, inviting them to take
antipyretics and stay at home for five days. If they get worse, they go to the hospital. No one gets swabbed. Those who live with these sick
people find themselves trapped: they cannot leave alone those who suffer and need assistance, but risk becoming infected in turn if the
respiratory disease was due to coronavirus. How many have become infected without knowing it and then spread the disease to others, leaving
without protection?
House arrest and curfews won't save us from the epidemic. They can help slow the spread of the virus, not stop it.

The epidemic becomes an opportunity to impose working conditions that allow companies to spend less and earn more. Conte's[Chief of the
Government]edicts have provided for smart working wherever possible. Companies are taking advantage of this to impose it on their employees.
You stay at home and work via the Internet. Teleworking is regulated by a law of 2017 that provides that companies can offer it but not
impose it on their employees. It should therefore be subject to an agreement that gives workers guarantees on working hours, forms of
control, right to cover connection costs, coverage in case of accident. Today, after the decree issued by the Conte government to deal with
the Covid 19 epidemic, companies can force smart working without agreements or guarantees for workers, who must also be grateful for the
opportunity to stay at home. The epidemic thus becomes a pretext for imposing new forms of exploitation without resistance.
For regulated workers there are social security cushions, redundancy funds and supplementary funds, for precarious workers, VAT
numbers[indipendent contractors]and parasubordinates there will be almost no cover. Those who do not work have no income.

Whoever dares to criticize, whoever dares to tell uncomfortable truths, is threatened, repressed, silenced.
No mainstream media has taken up the complaint of the lawyers of the nurses' association, an institution that has nothing subversive. Nurses
are described as heroes, as long as they get sick and die in silence, without telling what happens in hospitals. Nurses who tell the truth
are threatened with dismissal. Those who are infected are not recognised as having an accident, so that the hospital company is not obliged
to pay compensation to those who find themselves working every day without protection or with totally inadequate protection.

Women's autonomy is being attacked by government management of the Covid 19 epidemic.
The care of children who stay at home because schools are closed, the elderly at risk, the disabled fall on the shoulders of women, already
heavily invested by the precariousness of work.
In the meantime, in the houses transformed into compulsory homes, feminicides are multiplying.

In the thunderous silence of most, during the prison revolt, 15 prisoners died. Nothing has transpired about their deaths except the
police's propaganda. Some, already in serious condition, were not taken to hospital but loaded onto police vans and taken to die in prisons
hundreds of kilometres away. A slaughter, a state slaughter.
The others were deported elsewhere. Prisons are overflowing, health and dignity of prisoners is not guaranteed even in "normal" conditions,
provided that it is normal to lock people behind bars. To safeguard them, the government has found nothing better than to suspend talks with
relatives, while every day the guards can come and go. The revolt of the prisoners has broken out in front of the real risk of the spread of
contagion in places where overcrowding is the norm. Those who supported the struggles of the prisoners have been attacked and reported on
criminal charges by the police. The repression, with the help of the measures contained in the government's edicts, has been extremely
harsh. In Turin they also prevented a simple gathering of relatives of the prisoners and activits at the entrance of the prison, deploying
troops at every access to the streets surrounding the Vallette prison[Prison of Turin].

The workers who went on spontaneous strikes against the risk of contagion, were in turn denounced for violating the government's edicts,
because they were demonstrating in the streets for their health.
Nothing should stop production, even if it is production that could be stopped without any consequences for the lives of us all. The logic
of profit and production comes first.
The government fears that, after the prison revolt, other fronts of social struggle may be opened up. Hence the obsessive police control,
the use of the army, to which, for the first time, public order functions are attributed, and not merely support the various police forces.
The military becomes policemen: the process of osmosis begun a few decades ago comes to an end. The war does not stop. Military missions,
military drills, weapons testings go at full speed. It's the war on the poor at the time of Covid 19.

The government has banned all forms of public demonstrations and political meetings.
Risking life for the master is a social duty, culture and political action are considered criminal activities.
It is an attempt, not even too veiled, to prevent any form of confrontation, discussion, struggle, construction of networks of solidarity
that really allow to give support to those who are most in trouble.

Democracy has feet of clay. In front of epidemic the democratic illusion has melted like snow in the sun. The measures of the president of
the council are accepted enthusiastically: no debate, no passage from the Parliament, the temple of representative democracy, but simple
edict. Whoever does not respect these edicts is an plague spreader, a murderer, a criminal and deserves no mercy.
In this way, the real culprits, those who cut health care and multiply military spending, those who do not even guarantee masks to the
nurses, those who militarize everything but do not do swabs because "each one costs 100 euros" sign absolution with the praise of the
prisoners of fear.

Fear is human. We should not be ashamed of it, but neither should we allow the political entrepreneurs of fear to use it to gain consent to
criminal policies.

We have fought to prevent them from closing small hospitals, from wiping out health care facilities that are valuable to everyone. We were
in the square alongside the workers of the Valdese, Oftalmico, Maria Adelaide[public hospitals that have been closed in last years], the
hospital in Susa and many other corners of our province.

In November, we were in the streets to contest the aerospace industry war exhibition. We fight against militarism and war expenses every
day. We are on the paths of the No Tav[movement against high speed train]struggle, because with one meter of Tav[of the new railway
project]you pay 1000 hours of intensive care.

Today we are on the side of those who do not want to die in jail, of the workers attacked and reported on criminal charges by the police,
because they protest against the lack of protection against the spread of the virus, with nurses and nurses who work without being protected
and risk their jobs because they tell what happens in hospitals.

Today, so many political and social opposition movements are silent, unable to react, crushed by moral pressure, which criminalizes those
who do not accept without discussing the situation of increasing danger triggered by the government choices of yesterday and today.
Limiting movement and contacts is reasonable, but it is even more reasonable to fight for safety. We must find places and ways to fight
against the violence of those who imprison us, because they do not know and do not want to protect us.
As anarchists we know that freedom, solidarity, equality in our thousand diversities is achieved through struggle, it is not delegated to
anyone, let alone to a government, whose only ethic is to keep our seats.

No. We're not "ready to die."[famous verse of the Italian national anthem]We don't want to die and we don't want anyone to get sick and die.
We're not enlisting in the infantry destined for silent slaughter. We're deserters, rebels, partisans.
We demand that prisons be emptied, that those who have no home be given one, that war expenses be cancelled, that everyone be guaranteed
clinical examinations, that everyone have the means to protect themselves and others from the epidemic.

We don't want only the strongest to survive, we want those who have lived so long to be able to continue to do so.
We want those who are sick to be able to have someone close to them who loves them and can comfort them: with two fewer F35 fighter bombers
we will be able to have all the protection necessary so that no one dies alone anymore.

Will everything go well? Will we make it? It depends on each of us.

The comrades of the Anarchist Federation of Turin, gathered in assembly on March 15, 2020

We dedicate this writing to the memory of Ennio Carbone, an anarchist, a doctor who dedicated his life to scientific research, trying to
take it away from the voracious hands of the industry that finances only what makes profit.
Ennio, in unsuspicious times, told us about the risk of a pandemic like the one we are living today.
We miss his voice and his experience in these difficult days.

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The health crisis is well established. It adds to an uninterrupted social crisis. Many workers are chained up during periods of
unemployment, temporary contracts, fixed-term contracts and undeclared odd jobs. For decades, the labor code has been broken, the rules have
been relaxed for employers. Today, the most precarious workers are paying him, finding themselves on the front line, not only to manage the
crisis, but also to .. keep spinning capitalism. ---- Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of the Economy, said this morning: he is calling on
workers in essential sectors to go to work. However, it is not only the essential sectors that continue the work. The industry continues on
its way, stopped only when the logistics chains are broken (even if some, like PSA, try to pretend that it is to protect employees). But
there is one important element to bear in mind: it is the precarious workers who, in essential or non-essential sectors, continue to operate
the machine in often appalling conditions.

The reserve army at work
In several regions, temporary workers' phones are still ringing at the moment. The agencies offer them missions in every way. Inevitably,
many workers who run the boxes are on sick leave or take care of their children at home. So who better to fill the gaps than this reserve
army, these millions of unemployed men and women ? Of course, the working conditions are terrible. No masks, gloves or hydroalcoholic gel,
insufficient cleaning of the factory, safety distances not respected ... All this is added to the already difficult conditions of these jobs!

Goodbye temporary workers !
In other sectors, on the other hand, it is the opposite. Interim contracts or fixed-term contracts which were to start these days are
canceled because activity is declining. We have seen cases at the SNCF, in the territorial public service ... Of course the contracts are
not renewed. This translates very concretely into an impossibility to pay the rent, gas and electricity, and to go to buy food or doliprane.

The adjustment variable in times of crisis
The precarious workers, who chain the usual periods worked or not worked, filling the holes in a capitalist system which takes advantage of
it to lower wages, find themselves today in an inextricable situation: going to work, and risking their health, but also risk spreading the
epidemic, or staying at home, but having no means of subsistence. However, some people already refuse these injustices. At Amazon, an
employer of temporary agency workers in disarray, the employees went on strike at the Montélimar, Douai and Chalon sites. Of course,
management poses unacceptable threats to them and them to break this just rebellion.

Urgent steps to take
To protect workers, it is urgent to make decisions commensurate with the extremely serious situation. It is also an opportunity to change
the model of society, because we can clearly see that capitalism is totally ineffective. We must now ban layoffs, maintain the wages of
workers in non-essential sectors and massively raise wages. We must also cancel the recent unemployment insurance reform.

Libertarian Communist Union, March 19, 2020

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Les-precaires-ne-sont-pas-de-la-chair-a-patron

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 07:47:38 +0200
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) afed.org.uk: On Mutual Aid vs Covid-19 T Shirt
        Fundraiser [machine translation]
Message-ID: <mailman.13809.1585115262.3032.a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
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As the global pandemic is upon us, a number of mutual aid groups have started forming across the country. These groups aim to provide
community support to those who are more at risk from the virus: be it help with running errands or cooking. This is a wonderful example of
Anarchistic mutual aid and solidarity! ---- To help raise funds to support this fantastic work, we are holding a design competition and will
subsequently be selling T-shirts on a non-profit basis to raise funds and keep these organisations in food, fuel, and supplies in general.
---- From the 20th of March till the 3rd of April we will be accepting design submissions which we will then put up for a public poll over
the following weekend. The favourites will be printed.

Entries must be in a single colour, as they will be screen printed.
Submissions should be sent as .pdf files to MUTUALAID@PUNX.UK

Those chosen designs will are be rewarded with a T-shirt and some assorted prizes tbd

T-shirts will be available in several sizes from the 10th of April at a cost of £15, with the option to make an additional donation.

Funds will be shared directly and regularly with groups to help them buy critical supplies and carry on their amazing efforts. This will be
done in co-ordination with those helping to organise the efforts on a national level and will happen immediately and without stymie.

More information and a list of local groups is on Freedom News.

Find out how to set up a mutual aid group and access other resources.

Supporting Organisations
Punx UK
Sabcat
AF
Freedom
Seditionist
We shall overcome
Bookfair 2020
Autonomous Design Collective
Class War

Please contact MUTUALAID@PUNX.UK if you would like your organisation to be added to the list.

http://afed.org.uk/mutual-aid-vs-covid-19-t-shirt-fundraiser/

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In this crisis of capitalism the anarchist library stays open, in a way that we find responsible and doable under the circumstances. Maybe
this is the moment to read that anarchist classic! ---- The social part of our library is closed: no bar, and please don't hang around
longer than necessary. Lending & returing books is still possible. If you want to lend books, you can search one in the libary, or look
beforehand in our online catalog. E-mail us on aga (at) agamsterdam (dot) org with the title and your personal details that you want to pick
it up and we will prepare it for you. Returning books is still possbile as usual.
Do you want to lend or return a book but you cant leave the house? E-mail us and we'll find a solution.
AGA, amsterdam
https://www.vrijebond.org/update-anarchistische-bibliotheek-amsterdam/

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The state of health emergency and the accompanying legislative arsenal is the only way, in the eyes of the government, to prevent a health
disaster by taking matters firmly in hand. For our part, it is a state of social emergency that we must defend in order to define our own
priorities: protecting the health and rights of workers but also ensuring that the needs of the entire population are met, without trying to
save the profits of the capitalists. ---- The government has introduced governing the postponement of the 2 th round of municipal elections,
allowing it to declare a "health emergency" and opening the possibility of legislating by ordinances on many topics. What is at stake with
this bill ? Strengthen the powers of the State to prevent a health disaster, "relieve" businesses and adapt the functioning of society to
containment measures.

The bill already adopted in the Senate is divided into three large parts:

the first part concerns municipal elections ;
the second part defines the framework of the state of health emergency ;
the third part arms the government to adapt the legal and regulatory framework to the exceptional situation.
Do not let the state manage the health and social emergency alone
A state of health emergency may be declared in the Council of Ministers for a period of 12 days - a period which can be extended by law.
Within this framework, the Prime Minister will be able to limit certain fundamental freedoms (freedom of movement, freedom to undertake,
freedom of assembly) and will be able to decide on the requisitions of all the goods and the services making it possible to fight against
the health catastrophe. The Minister of Health may prescribe all general or individual measures to combat the health disaster.

The problem is clear: if the epidemic continues to paralyze the economy, all production and distribution activities risk being interrupted,
endangering the entire population. In a situation like this, there are only three possibilities: either the state firmly takes over the
reins of the economy (discrediting in the process the economic liberalism that guides the action of successive governments), or The workers'
camp happens to take matters into its own hands, or it is chaos.

For the government, the challenge is therefore to be able, if necessary, to take complete control of essential economic activities not only
to ensure the health response to the epidemic but also to allow basic needs to be met. Leaving the state to manage this health, economic and
social crisis alone is a very risky bet and it now seems absolutely essential that the necessary requisition of businesses of vital interest
be done under the control of workers, as well as 'It is essential that healthcare workers directly confronted with the epidemic can
prescribe the appropriate measures, without trying to take care of the interests of the wealthy.

Prescriptions in every sense but little social
The third part of the law authorizes the government to issue ordinances, that is to say to modify the law without consulting the National
Assembly or the Senate in advance. It will thus be authorized to support directly or indirectly (by facilitating the recourse to partial
activity) companies, to allow the employer to fix as it wants the paid holidays and the RTT, to soften the obligations of the companies
vis-à-vis vis-à-vis their customers and suppliers but also to allow certain companies to derogate from the rules of public order and the
rules fixing working hours, weekly rest or Sunday rest.

At the same time, measures may be taken to adapt the intervention of occupational medicine or the consultation of staff representatives to
the circumstances, but it goes without saying that the trade union organizations will have to be particularly vigilant to avoid the
situation 'emergency allows bosses to make their employees work without limit or to dismiss massively according to the modification of the
law of collective proceedings.

In the context of this health emergency, the government nevertheless plans some social measures such as the extension of the winter break,
the continuity of care for the elderly and people with disabilities or the extension of visas and work permits. stay. But these measures
seem very meager compared to all that could be implemented to protect the whole population and directly support the most vulnerable.

Finally, if the confinement is to be prolonged, some adjustments are planned to lengthen the deadlines for the various administrative
procedures, to adapt the competitions or exams, to organize the organization of certain meetings (governing bodies of companies, authorities
of public establishments, meetings co-owners, deliberative assemblies of local authorities) but also to adapt the way in which justice is
done and in which police custody is organized. Again, it will be necessary to be extra vigilant in the face of justice rendered behind
closed doors with a defense provided by videoconference...

Many administrative measures, many measures to support businesses but not many measures to support those who are directly fighting the
epidemic, foremost among which are the nursing staff who, in the event of sick leave, continue to suffer a deficiency day ; not many
measures either to help anticipate the social crisis and offer workers the same flexibility as businesses.

One thing is clear: the social emergency is what we will impose on employers and the state.

Libertarian Communist Union, March 21, 2020

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Etat-d-urgence-sanitaire-imposons-aussi-l-etat-d-urgence-social

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Since the coronavirus epidemic reached France, the government has constantly wavered between containment measures - which have gone
crescendo - and the desire to preserve corporate profits, by allowing business continuity in non-essential sectors. ---- The Libertarian
Communist Union, meeting in an exceptional conference on March 17, thinks that it is necessary to reverse the priorities. The pandemic
requires measures that must necessarily upset the capitalists. And that will prove that society and the economy can turn in radically
different ways. ---- To stop the epidemic ---- 1. Barrier measures are needed which are not "class" measures , unlike what is happening
today. Confinement cannot be a function of the social hierarchy, with telework executives and workers forced to go to production sites.
Confinement cannot be a function of social hierarchy. Therefore: closure of all non-essential businesses and services, with full income
maintenance for workers on technical unemployment, including those with precarious status (temporary workers, fixed-term contracts,
temporary workers, etc.) ;

2. Work should only be maintained in areas vital to the care, supply and information of the population. We are thinking in particular of the
health system, agro-food, transport, food and health distribution, audiovisual media and the Internet to pass the instructions. Workers in
these sectors are on the front line ; the safeguard of the population rests on their shoulders. They must be rewarded, helped, supported,
starting by ensuring the care of their children, with preventive and protective measures.

3. Both for efficiency reasons and to prevent the indecent "coronaprofits" of the crisis profiteers , it is necessary to requisition the
private companies of these sectors, and integrate them into the public service, by placing their operation under the control of the workers
themselves. They are the ones who are most likely to know how to reorganize production chains to protect themselves from the virus, with
appropriate prevention protocols.

4. Beyond that, it is the whole of production and services which must be urgently reorganized. Industry and services must be entirely geared
towards the production of health and protective equipment, and the assurance of livelihoods for all. If the state and the bosses do not want
it, then it is up to the workers to impose it.

The workers who provide care and supplies are on the front line ; you have to help them, support them, reward them.
cc Pieter
To avoid the reissue of such chaos
1. The current situation demonstrates the need to requisition and socialize the entire pharmaceutical industry. This will relocate the
production of drugs, while France is now dependent on factories located in India and China for 60 to 80% of the active ingredients . This
will also allow research and development to be redirected towards meeting real needs, instead of production aimed at profit and which ruins
Social Security .

2. The health system must also be revolutionized by the requisition of private clinics and their integration into the public service. A
public service reinforced by massive hires and the creation of thousands of additional beds, with a revitalized territorial network. For
months, emergency personnel have been shouting their despair at the dilapidated state hospital after decades of neoliberal demolition. The
socialist, Gaullist or macronist politicians who orchestrated this disaster will have blood on their hands, and it must be said loud and clear.

3. The large retailers who, from Carrefour to Amazon, are rubbing their hands with the current situation and the giant profits it expects to
reap, must also be requisitioned and placed under the control of its workers. This will allow them to limit themselves to the distribution
of vital products, and to overhaul the whole organization of an increasingly dehumanized work through the combination of Taylorism and
digital control.

The large distribution which, from Carrefour to Amazon,
rubs her hands with the current situation and the huge profits she expects to reap, must also be requisitioned and placed under the control
of her workers.
What workers can do
1. The slogan of "general right of withdrawal" is the most suitable for the period in all non-essential sectors. Today, in several large
companies, walkouts take place to guard against contagion. But employees are still hesitant about deductions from wages for strikes. The
right of withdrawalmust be used as soon as possible for " serious and imminent danger " .

2. We must practice mutual social assistance, at the level of each building and each neighborhood: let's think of our most fragile
neighbors, elderly people, people with reduced mobility, sick people ... who have difficulty moving around to do their shopping. Let us
think of our neighbors who work in essential sectors, and who need to have their children looked after ... all while respecting "barrier
gestures". Telephone, Internet, applications, messages pasted in the hall of the building ... there are many things to do to organize this
mutual assistance.

3. Let us beware of xenophobic mistrust. No, our neighbors of Asian origin are not dangerous, and besides no one is specifically dangerous.
Europe, not China, is today the global epicenter of the pandemic.

Prohibit online ordering of non-vital products.
Many Amazon workers strike or exercise their right of withdrawal.
To limit social breakage
The pandemic was the trigger for a stock market crash and a long-awaited financial crisis by all serious economists. Following the 2008
crisis, the States had indeed pumped colossal sums into public funds to save traders and private banks ... which subsequently changed almost
nothing in their practices. Once again, therefore, the casino economy will crack, and it will undoubtedly be much worse than in 2008.

With its procession of layoffs and underemployment, this crisis will first hit the working classes who will face an increase in
unemployment, part-time work, precarious jobs ... with a drop in income as a result.

To limit the breakage, it is necessary on the one hand to reinforce social protection, to cushion the shock, on the other hand to make pay
the capital. This goes through:

the repeal of the unemployment insurance reform and not only its suspension ;
the repeal of the pension breakage, not just its suspension ;
the extension of the deadline for performing abortion for a period equal to that of confinement, to relieve congestion in hospitals and
anticipate the foreseeable consequences of confinement ;
free transport to reduce procedures, congregations and vectors of contamination ;
the prohibition of dismissals during the confinement period, the maintenance of the wages of temporary and temporary staff, on fixed-term
contracts and disguised employees (self-employed workers in particular). The capital will pay: in 2019 again, 60 billion euros disappeared
in the pockets of CAC 40 shareholders (+ 12% compared to the previous year) ;
the requisition of vacant accommodation, Airbnb rentals and similar, hotel rooms, to shelter, in conditions of dignified sanitary
confinement, homeless families, migrants and migrants who survive in wild camps or are locked up in detention centers, undocumented workers
who are sometimes crammed in homes or unhealthy squats.
for low income, a moratorium on rents and energy, water, telephone and Internet bills , the prohibition of rental evictions beyond May 28.
The government is taken of course by the situation. We can therefore impose things on it, but only if the social and union movement rolls up
its sleeves and tries to take matters head on. It is therefore crucial that all conscious and determined workers seize the union tool to
regroup their colleagues on a united and combative basis.

Society must change radically
Let us be clear: these emergency measures are fragmented. They respond to the need to stop the epidemic and limit social disruption. But
they will not prevent the economic crisis from happening, because it is the result of capitalism and the market economy. The virus was only
the trigger.

Faced with this unprecedented situation, capitalism has demonstrated its failure, but the State will seek to maintain by all means the
economic system in place, even if it means temporarily taking control of all economic activities, proceeding from interventionist manner in
the organization of production via requisitions.

For the government, this will be the only alternative to the chaos to which everyone-for-themselves would lead.

For us libertarian communists, the emergency measures that we are proposing, as well as the responsibilities that workers will impose, will
take and exercise today, draw an entirely different alternative. We have another project to defend: a project based on mutual aid and
equality, with a strict and planned organization of the production and distribution of essential goods but under the control of workers.

We think it is high time to completely rethink the functioning of society, to adapt it to everyone's capacities to meet everyone's needs.

We can do away with this system, by placing all the means of production and distribution in the hands of workers, replacing the market
economy with a socialized and self-managed economy, and the State with a system self-managed federalist.

Text from the debates of the exceptional UCL conference of March 17, 2020

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?En-luttant-contre-le-virus-transformer-la-societe

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 07:53:30 +0200
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Subject: (en) TO STOP IMMEDIATELY THE EXCLUSION AND EXTRACTION SCHEME
        OF REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS By APO [machine
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The demonstration of solidarity with refugees and migrants organized by the NO PASARAN Convention! to the Ministry of Migration Policy for
Saturday 21 March 2020, is canceled on the basis of the principles of collective self-protection and social solidarity with the spread of
the global pandemic. ---- We are in the midst of an immeasurable humanitarian catastrophe and an unprecedented social crisis, where the
gigantic contradictions of the political and economic organization of society are tragically revealed, and ultimately the criminal and
murderous nature of the state-capitalist system of power for the great majority of society. poorer and vulnerable social groups. The state
primarily defends its power and the accumulation of wealth in the hands of capital by depriving society of the resources needed to cope with
this catastrophe, with major shortages in the necessary medical infrastructure (personnel, equipment, hospitals) being a state and
capitalist crime.

Under this treaty, thousands of refugees and immigrants trapped in concentration camps under strangled, miserable and inhumane living
conditions face a Nazi-inspired exclusion and extermination regime without any possibility of self-extermination. At this moment when the
lives of thousands of children, women and men who are incarcerated in concentration camps are in immediate danger, the state is stepping up
its criminal anti-immigration policy of imprisonment, exclusion from medical care, bans on moving, deportation, deportation disruption of
asylum procedures, making strangulation conditions more strenuous. It converts all detention centers into closed prisons and condemns the
entire refugee and migrant population to the risk of uncontrolled virus infection with unintended tragic consequences.

TO PREVENT EVERY AVAILABLE THIS STATE CRIME IN LIFE AND DIGNITY

TO CLOSE THE CONCENTRATORS NOW

SOLIDARITY TO REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS

DANGEROUS ACCOMMODATION CONDITIONS AND MEDICAL CARE FOR ALL

¡NO MARKET!

Anarchic - Antiauthoritarian Stage "ANTIPNOIA" Occupation LELAS KARAGIANNI 37 Capture Property proceedings / Immigration NOTARA 26, Squat
for Refugees / Migrants SPIROU TRIKOUPI 17, CLASS tried (Anarchists and Communists Group), Anarchist Student ARODAMOS Assembly Antifascist -
Antiauthoritarian assembly N. Ionia - Heraklion, Comrades and Companions

http://apo.squathost.com/

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