#Worldwide #Information #Blogger #LucSchrijvers: #Update:#Part1 #anarchist #information from all over the #world - 13.04.2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  cnt-sindikatua - Support for self-employed women:
      cancellation of Social Security. (ca) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #303 - Rojava report:
      Hope for the best, prepare for the worst (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  vrije bond: What's going on in Chile? (ca, nl)
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Iwa-ait, NTERNATIONAL WORKERS ASSOCIATION: What impact will
      Covid-19 have on the world? by AKM Shihab [basf]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 5.  Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group macg: The Anvil Vol 9 No
      2 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  anarkismo.net: Greece, Volos: The fascism of charity And the
      weapon of solidarity by Vectrum [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Britain, Anarchist Communist Group ACG: DNRs, Age and Class
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - International,
      International anarcho-communist livestream (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  [Spain] Before the health crisis and the authoritarian drift
      of the State (ca, pt) By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



The Spanish State, which has allowed the realization of at least 200,000 ERTEs, affecting more than 1.5 million workers, and regardless of
whether these companies obtain exorbitant benefits, has forgotten all those people who work for themselves own without having hired third
parties. That is, 80% of the total of self-employed women. ---- This social fabric is usually made up of economically dependent workers;
that is, false self-employed workers who are still obliged to continue paying their social security without being working, either because of
the coronavirus directly, or because the company for which they work as false self-employed workers has accepted an ERTE. ---- It is
irresponsible and inconsistent, on the part of the Government, not to forgive these self-employed workers the quota to the General Treasury
of Social Security, when most are unable to work or have considerably reduced their income due to the crisis.

For this reason, the CNT requires that these autonomous persons, without dependent workers, be treated equally and must not pay the Social
Security fee for the entire duration of the state of alarm and 2 months later, considering that the recovery capacity economic of these
people is not comparable to that of a large company.

http://www.cnt-sindikatua.org/es/noticias/apoyo-a-las-trabajadoras-autonomas-condonacion-de-seguro-social

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Three months after the start of the military offensive by Turkey and its jihadist allies in northern Syria, the future of Rojava, where the
Kurdish and Arab populations are self-governing, is uncertain. ---- Since the Turkish invasion of October 2019, aided by the withdrawal of
American troops on Trump's orders, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have had to withdraw from Tall Abyad and Serekanye before the advance
of mercenaries from the Syrian National Army (ANS), made up of de facto brigades paid and armed by Turkey, many of whose members are former
jihadists from Daesh who have changed their uniforms. ---- At that time a wind of panic blew in the movement of solidarity with Rojava, many
thinking and writing that it was necessary to mourn this feminist, multi-ethnic and democratic revolution. We wanted to see what it was by
going there in late December 2019.

We very quickly noticed, crossing the border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Rojava, that nothing had changed in the regions which are not under
Turkish jihadist occupation. Finally if, there is now a floating bridge which allows to cross the Tiger, the previous times it was a big boat.

The conditions of embarkation and disembarkation of families loaded with bundles and young children were epic. The same officials from the
Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES, official name of the Rojava management entity) greeted us kindly and the
formalities were quickly settled.

On the road, we first stopped at the Derik refugee camp, where families forced to flee the region of Tall Abyad - Serê Konigê are received.
Tents of course, but equipped with gas heaters, and even small solar panels to provide some electricity, many sanitary facilities.

Some families have fled here for the 3 th or 4 th time, sometimes more, driven Afrin and the region Sere KÖNIGE. About 300,000 people had to
flee Afrin in January 2018, more than 300,000 were thrown on the roads by heavy bombing by the Turkish army in October 2019, without the "
international community" lifting a finger, and n '' brings any help to the Autonomous Administration for their reception. On the road to
Qamislo, we cross the Rimêlon oil production region.

A somewhat ghostly landscape with hundreds of wells stopped, because of the embargo, only 30% of the wells are in operation, due to the lack
of buyers for the oil.

Maintenance of Arab-Kurdish unity
In Qamislo, the big city of Rojava, the atmosphere is serene. The stores are overflowing with goods, no queues at petrol stations, young
low-cut girls and big hair in the wind are walking with their girlfriends in hijab.

The same Syrian police control traffic in the district of the great post which has always been under the control of the regime of Bashar el
Assad, but deal only with traffic according to agreements with the Autonomous Administration. The rest of the city, except the airport, is
under the control of the Asayich, the police of the autonomous administration. In Qamislo, we meet Polat Jan, commander of the SDF during
the battle of Deir Ez-Zor.

He explains that the Turkish invasion was a great test: " Everyone was waiting to see if the Arabs and the Kurds were going to remain
united, if Turkey could destroy everything that we have built in recent years. It failed: in regions almost 100% Arab like Deir Ez-Zor or
Raqqa, there was no uprising against the SDF. On the contrary, hundreds of young Arabs from Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor came to fight with us at
Serê Konigê against the Turkish invasion.

We did not have any problems with the Arab clans who did not withdraw from the SDF. Many have blamed us for depending on the presence of the
United States, but look; the United States withdrew from Kobanê, from Monbÿ de Raqqa and it is true that we lost Tall Abyad and Serê Konigê,
but the rest of the autonomous federation is intact and is still functioning."

High risk negotiations
We also meet Mohsen Tahrir, a leader of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (PDK), member of the Kurdish National Council (KNC). It must be
said that the supporters of the PDK, the party of Iraqi leader Massoud Barzani, numerous in the Qamislo region, bordering Iraq, often part
of a petty bourgeoisie owning land, are starting to worry.

They have already lost a lot with the invasion of the canton of Afrin, then Serê Konigê and Tall Abyad. " The Turkish threat hangs over the
Kurds. Their mercenaries loot, rape and kill, it is necessary that the Kurds unite. Our opinion is that Syria should be a federal state. "

A discourse that changes previous independence claims. On the front line, at Tall Tamer, the Syriac (Christian) fighters of the SDF are
positioned a few hundred meters from the M4, the main road which linked Qamislo to Aleppo passing near Kobanê. It is closed because the
jihadists are just on the other side.

The villages around Tall Tamer were predominantly Christian, heavily bombed and attacked by jihadists, bandits, Ceté, as they are called
here. They have been deserted by their inhabitants but are defended by the Syriac brigades.

At the headquarters of the FDS, we meet Mazloum Abdi, their general commander. It is December 24, there is a Christmas party with all the
military command of the YPG, YPJ, FDS, around the tree. Mazloum Abdi explains that there is no real return of the Syrian regime to the
region and in fact we did not see a single Syrian soldier during the two weeks of our trip.

" We are asking two things essential to the regime to obtain a long-term solution in Syria: one is that autonomy is part of the Syrian
Constitution, the other is that the SDF is constitutionally part of the defense system of the whole Syria. But with special status,
protecting northern Syria will be the responsibility of the SDF, SDF fighters will have to do their military service here, and the SDF
headquarters will be here in this region. It is a red line in the negotiations for us. "

To reach Kobanê, the M4 being inaccessible, we make a detour of several hours which takes us through Raqqa. The ancient capital of Daesh is
still largely in ruins.

Finally arrived at Kobanê, we immediately see the consequences of this second Turkish attack, after that of Afrin. The reconstruction, which
was in full swing last year, is completely stopped. Private investors are waiting to see the next events, because the fate of Kobanê, wedged
between two areas occupied by the Turks, is part of the negotiations between Turkey and Russia. Result the inhabitants dig tunnels
everywhere to try to resist possible bombardments.

Idlib massacre and Turkish fury
The future of Rojava will depend in part on the battle of Idlib. The verbal escalation between Erdogan and Russia could lead either to a
Turkish defeat if the Russians continue to support the regime, or to new agreements which Rojava could pay the price for.

The Syrian army (AAS) offensive in the Idlib region has enraged Erdogan, who is supplying reinforcements and equipment to enable the
jihadist brigades to defend the territory which had been granted to them by the Sochi agreements. But it seems that this agreement is called
into question by the Assad regime and Russia, whose incessant bombardments allow the advancement of the regime, resulting in hundreds of
thousands of civilians thrown on the roads.

But the uncertainty for Rojava, and the SDFs which are absolutely not participating in this offensive, is the fate that awaits them. Will
there be new agreements, which would give new concessions to the east of the Euphrates to Turkey to console it for the loss of Idlib ?

The Kurds and their Arab allies no longer trust the United States since the October invasion and are trying to negotiate with the Russians
and the regime to keep their gains.

Mireille Terrin

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Reportage-au-Rojava-Esperer-le-meilleur-se-preparer-au-pire-8577-8577-8577

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Message: 3



The recent info-talk about what's going on in Chile has been recorded and can be listened to now. The talk was in Spanish and has been live
translated to English. During the talk a few videos were shown that the speakers comment on, they are below this text. Do you want to make a
donation? The team behind the short documentary Chile in Flames wants to make a longer version, and needs your funding.

English audio https://cloud.disroot.org/s/kzSPCE7YRPWa2X8
Audio espanol https://cloud.disroot.org/s/tEcfeYgn8XTiLYK

https://www.vrijebond.org/whats-going-on-in-chile-opname-recording/

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Message: 4



What will happen to us in the next six months, a year, ten years? This question is now mine, yours and yours. All those who had jobs,
business, and day laborers asked the same. Now almost all of them are useless. Normal holidays are underway across the country. People are
trapped in the house for fear of Cororana. No work, no living. Those who do public service may not have such problems. But there is a sword
of uncertainty ahead of the rest. They question if the situation is normal, will we have a job? Can we get work? Will the mill factory
continue as before? Will I be able to do business with business? Or will we enter a new world situation? Many questions are now popping up
in the minds of many. Therefore, in today's writing, the subject will be incarnated.

Lots of answers and revolving around us again. Our government, society must cope with the situation and rebuild the economy, politics and
cultural environment. Maybe there will be something better in the past. Even though we have some disadvantages, maybe our society will
become more humane.

I think we may understand our environment and our neighborhood better in the future - we can work better in building our future - we can
shape the political economy in a new way. The world supply of goods can be adjusted to the new supply chain, wages and production system. I
will be more aware of the mental and physical health system of the working class involved in global warming and production. I'm talking
about a different kind of economy here. I have become more excited about this in the face of Covid-1.
As we deal with Covid-1, the weaknesses inherent in the elements of our social system are becoming apparent. The question arises as to what
is the priority among the social elements. As we tackle the world-wide COVID-1, new ideas and approaches to economic development have emerged.

In the economic field, four things have become increasingly clear. The rise of barbarism, solid national capitalism, national socialism and
mutual support in the larger council is a new society. But not all of them can be equal.

Not a very simple change:

Climate change and the Corona virus are just as relevant to our economic structure. If these two problems are related to "environment" or
"ecological" reasons. However, social people also play a role in that.
Yes, the problem of climate change involves the emission of certain gases, which absorb heat. However, many think this is an explanation of
the nature of light. To truly understand the problem of climate change, we need to understand exactly why gas is increasing the amount of
emissions. The problem with Covid-1 is tied to this formula. However, yes! The virus directly involved for this problem. The fact is that it
is impossible to solve this difficult problem if we do not understand the ethical and economic aspects of the people to control it.

If you want to solve the problem of Covid-I and climate change, you must eliminate unnecessary economic activities. Reducing unnecessary
economic activity will result in less energy consumption, and less greenhouse gas emissions. Covid-1 is spreading very fast. The logic of
this is very simple, people are getting together and spreading the disease. This is happening in the family, in the community, at work and
on the way. Controlling these areas will reduce the chances of the disease spreading.

Success can be achieved by disrupting communication with people and adopting other regulatory measures. However, good results cannot be
expected unless the actual patient is identified and isolated. We have seen in China, with the complete national lockdown, that the social
distance has been working effectively. To understand why the countries of America and the USA did not take this step immediately, we need to
look at the political economy.
A fragile economy:

Lockdown is pushing the world economy. We face a severe recession. This pressure is calling on some world leaders to ease the lockdown.
Even when the three countries were in lockdown, US President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Gerry Balsonaro called for it. Trump
called for the American economy to return to its former state in three weeks (he now admits that the social distance needs to be kept
longer). Balsonaro said: "We have to live our lives. The job must be kept ... We must, yes, come back to normal. "
Already in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was only slightly optimistic four days before calling for a three-week lockdown, saying that
the United Kingdom could reverse the spread of the disease within 12 weeks and restore everything. Although Johnson's statement is correct,
the situation that is currently underway will make it more likely. Which will have a huge impact on the economy of England.

The global economy that is now in the face of collapse is now as clear as daylight. The basis of business is to make a profit. If they
cannot produce, they will not be able to sell it. As a result, no profits and pockets will come. Which means that the number of unemployed
people is increasing. Do not hold anything that people do not need. When the business is good again, you will appoint people again. So now,
it is clear that the fear of losing jobs will spread around, many people will lose jobs. As a result, income will be reduced, shopping will
be less. We are moving towards an economic downturn.

Economist John Maynard Keynes, who has a frescipation, said: "In this scenario, the government will adopt a food program in exchange for a
lot of work. People will participate in it and earn a living. If the economic conditions are good then everyone will be back to normal. "

But we cannot revive our economy right now. Because the lockdown is going on in the world. People cannot go to work. Fear will spread
everywhere. Research says, to avoid corona, I want to stay home.

Economist Midway says, "Our economy is not a wartime economy in the face of Covid-1; Something more than that. So we have to build an
economy so as not to be forced to live in times of calamity, climate change, and other disasters - there is no shortage of life. "

So, we have to think differently about the economy. Our thoughts are connected - sold and bought, bought and sold. But we're not talking
about that economy. We are talking about an economy where resources are created in a way that only meets our needs. There is no consumerism.
Only what is needed will be produced. So that our environment is good.

The question of how you produce less in a socially equitable way has long been a concern for me and other ecologists, as the challenge of
underproduction is also central to tackling climate change. All else equal, the more we produce, the more greenhouse gases we emit. So how
do you minimize the amount of things you can do while keeping people engaged? Such questions may arise.
One of my suggestions is to reduce the length of the workday. People need to be allowed to work more slowly and with less pressure. None of
these directly apply to COVID-19, where the goal is to reduce communication rather than output. The main goal of the proposals is to make
you able to live the same way you need to reduce people's dependence on wages.
Why the economy?

The question arises as to what the economy is and why, in dealing with COVID-19. Currently, the primary goal of the global economy is to
facilitate the exchange of money. This is what economists call "exchange value."
The dominant notion of the current system we live in is that exchange value is the same thing as using value. Basically, people will spend
money for the things they want or need, and we can understand a little bit about how much this work of money costs its "use". It is for this
reason that markets are seen as the best way to manage society. They advise you to adapt to the market and in that case productive capacity
with quality of use is flexible enough.

Quid-1 has made one point clear and the one that left everyone in deep discomfort is how base and false our beliefs about the market are.
Around the world, governments now fear that critical systems will be disrupted or overburdened: supply chains, social care, but mainly
healthcare. There are many reasons to contribute to it. But let's look at the two things below.
First of all, making the most of the much needed social services is a tough task. This is in part because a major driver of profitability is
increased labor productivity: more work with fewer people. More people are a big spender in many businesses, especially those who rely on
personal care, such as healthcare. As a result, productivity growth in the healthcare sector is lower than in other economies, so its costs
rise faster than the average in other sectors.

Secondly, in many cases there are jobs that are not as socially respectable. Many of the traditional jobs exist only for the benefit of the
exchange; Just make money. They serve no greater purpose in society: these are what anthropologist David Gruber calls "bullshit jobs." Yet
they make a lot of money. Because to us they are mentors. For example - there are huge advertising industries and some huge financial
sectors. Meanwhile, we have a huge crisis of health and social care. They are forced to work in many ways. But the allocation for them is
not enough to lead a decent life.

Unnecessary or meaningless jobs

There are many meaningless jobs in our society. It has now become clear that there are no suitable people to deal with in Covid-I. This
epidemic is making it clear that the national disaster needs to be prepared at all times.

People are forced to make meaningless jobs because in a society where the value of exchange is the direction of the economy, the primary
products of life are mainly available through the market. That means you have to buy them and you need an income that comes from a job.

The other side of this currency is that the most radical (and effective) response we are seeing to the outbreak of COVID-19 challenges the
market dominance and exchange value. Governments around the world are taking steps that seemed impossible three months ago. In Spain,
private hospitals have been nationalized. In the UK, the possibility of nationalization of different types of transport has become very
real. And France is poised for greater business nationalization.

Likewise, we are seeing a breakdown of the labor market. Countries such as Denmark and the UK are offering an alternative income supply or
allowance to prevent people from working. This is the essential part of a successful lockdown. These measures are far from conventional
arrangements. Nevertheless, this is a positive aspect of the policy from which they are earning their income, and is being demonstrated by
the idea that people are able to survive even when they cannot work.

It reverses the dominant trends of the past 6 years. During this period, market and exchange values have been seen as the best way to
operate an economy. As a result, public systems are under increasing pressure to market, to operate as they are in the business of making
money. Likewise, workers have become more and more exposed to the market - zero-hour contracts and free-economy have removed the level of
protection from market volatility that offered long-term, stable and employment.

Covid-1 seems to reverse this trend, bringing healthcare and labor products out of the market and handing them over to the state. States
produce for a variety of reasons. Some are good and some are bad. However unlike markets, they do not have to be produced for exchange value
alone.

These changes give me hope. They give us the opportunity to save many lives. They even hint at the potential for long-term change that will
make us happier and help us cope with climate change. But why did it take us so long to come here? Were the countries so ready to reduce
production? The answer is in a recent World Health Organization report: They didn't have the right "mentality".

Our economic fantasies

For almost forty years the economic consensus has been trying. It caused a crack in the system of politicians and their advisers and limited
their ability to imagine alternatives. This mindset is driven by two connected beliefs:
- The market guarantees a beautiful and quality life, so it must be protected; And
- in the event of a crisis, it returns to normal within a short time.

This kind of mentality is widely practiced in Western countries. Especially in England and the US there are more people with this mentality.
But what we have seen is that they are one of the most disadvantaged countries in terms of facing Covid-1.

In England, in the first of the epidemic, the country's prime minister passed the reality and said that some elderly people had died. Those
whose immunity is low in the body. Then he and a veteran civil surgeon said, "There is not enough financial support to prevent the epidemic.
It's inhuman. The importance of protecting the precious lives of people should be given priority over all things. "
In the elite of American society, there was such a mentality that many elderly people would die happily without being submerged in the
economic depression in the United States. This approach endangers many vulnerable people (and not all vulnerable people are seniors).

One of the things the COVID-19 crisis can do is expand that economic imagination. The steps that seemed impossible for the government and
citizens three months ago, could change our perceptions of how the world works. Let us see where this newly created imagination can take us.
Four possible paths and approaches:

To help us in the future, I'm going to use a strategy from the field of Future Studies. You can accept the two factors that you think are
important to drive in the future, and what will happen to the different combinations of those factors.

One of the things I want to take into account is the value and centrality. Values are the principles that guide our economy. Do we use our
resources or resources to exchange and finance, or do we use them to make life easier? Centralization refers to the way things are organized
through smaller units or a larger commanding force. We can organize these elements into a grid, which can then be populated in real time. So
we can imagine what might happen if we tried to cope with coronavirus in four extreme combinations:

3) State capitalism: centralized response, exchange value prioritization
2) barbarism: decentralized response gives priority to exchange value
3) State socialism: centralized response, gives priority to
life saving.

National Capitalism

Rational capitalism is the dominant response we are now seeing around the world. Common examples are the United Kingdom, Spain, and Denmark.

The state capitalist society continues to value exchange as a guide to the economy. But it recognizes that state support is needed for
crisis markets. Given that many workers are unable to work because of ill health and fear for their lives, the state itself takes steps for
increased welfare. It extends lending activities and applies Keynesian principles by providing direct financial assistance to businesses.

Here such activities will be for a short time. The primary function of the steps taken is to keep the business moving towards buying and
selling in large quantities. In the UK, for example, markets still distribute food (although the government has relaxed competition laws).
Where workers are directly supported, this is done in a way that does not impede the functioning of the general labor market. So, for
example, like in the UK, employers need to apply for and distribute paid labor. And the size of the payment is based on the exchange value a
worker usually makes in the market rather than the utility of their job.

Could this be a successful scene? Most likely, however, only COVID-19 will prove to be controllable in a short period of time. As the entire
lockdown is avoided to maintain the viability of the market, the transmission of the infection still persists. For example, non-essential
construction is still underway in the UK, with workers mixing up on building sites. However, as the death toll rises, it will be more
difficult to maintain limited state intervention. Increasing sickness and death will encourage turmoil and profound economic impact, forcing
the state to take even more radical steps to try to maintain market activity.

Brutalism:

This will be a black chapter for us. Brutalism is the name of a future where we will rely on exchange rates as our guiding principle and
refuse to extend support to those who are now stuck outside the market due to illness or unemployment. It speaks of a situation we have not
yet seen.

Due to the failure of the business and the workers to starve, there is no provision to protect them from the harsh reality of the market.
Hospitals are not ready for extraordinary measures and are therefore overwhelmed. People die Barbarianism ultimately creates an unstable
state. Political and social conflicts are destroyed.

Now what if that situation has arisen? This may be due to a large number of malaria or epidemics. It may again be deliberate by the Mahesh
Mahal. Or if the government wasted no time in taking appropriate measures during the epidemic, such a situation could have arisen.
Therefore, if the proper treatment, medicine, care of the affected people are not properly regulated, everything around can be contradicted.
Countless patients will cause sudden death, chaos. Therefore, security and adequate funding for physicians should be allocated. Otherwise,
people will not accept anything from the state government.

It is to be remembered that none of the police, army and even minister bureaucrats can be protected from the epidemic. As a result, if a
chain breaks down, it will lead to a terrible situation. That is, social and political unrest will occur if the country's economy collapses.
And that unrest will lead the nation to an extreme waste.

National Socialism:

Russian socialism speaks of a society where economic and cultural change will bring about a big change. The welfare examples we are already
seeing in England, Spain and Denmark may expand.

Hospitals have been nationalized in those countries. Arrangements have been made to protect working people. Not all of these are dependent
on the traditional market. On the economic side and they have tried to fulfill the needs of the people without having to depend on the
elements of human survival such as food, fuel, and housing. In all these countries, all citizens are meeting the basic needs of the citizen
in a national way by giving them freely access.
Citizens no longer rely on employers as mediators between them and the elementary elements of life. Everyone pays directly and is not
related to the exchange value they create. Instead, payments are the same for everyone or they are based on work efficiency. Supermarket
workers, delivery drivers, warehouse stackers, nurses, teachers and physicians are the new CEO whoever they are.
It is possible that state socialism emerged as a result of the pursuit of state capitalism and the effects of a prolonged epidemic. If a
severe downturn occurs and the supply chain is disrupted. Then the state itself can come forward in terms of production and distribution.

There are risks to this approach - we need to be careful to avoid authoritarianism. But the positive side is - it can be one of our hopes
against the outbreak of Cavid-1. A strong state system to protect the core functions of the economy and society will be able to protect wealth.

Mutual Aid:

Mutual support and a potential future, where we take life-saving as the guiding principle of our economy. But, under these circumstances,
the Rastra does not accept a definitive role. Rather, individuals and social groups begin to provide support and care in their communities.

One problem in this case is that small groups or groups do not have the ability to store and run resources very quickly. However, mutual
support is able to take effective measures to prevent the spread of disease. They can break the chain of disease through mutual help. Able
to slow him down and stop him. People can plan for themselves and contribute to implementation.
This type of situation can arise from any other situation. It is a possible way of getting rid of barbarism or state capitalism and can also
support state socialism. We know that the community's response to West Africa's Ebola outbreak is significant. We are already looking for
some guidance in the future. Looking to provide mutual care and social support to social groups. We can see this as a failure of state
response. Or we can see it as a realistic, empathetic social response to a worrying crisis.
Hope and fear:

The extreme condition of these visions is the possibility of caricature and bleeding between each other. My fears are whether barbarism
originates from state capitalism. My expectation is that the combination of state socialism and mutual aid: a strong, democratic state that
will engage everyone to build a strong health system will take precedence over protecting the vulnerable from the shackles of the market.
Will reduce non-economic activities.
In the midst of a hundred fears, and some light of hope. COVID-19 highlights the serious shortcomings of our existing systems. It requires
radical social change to take effect. I have argued that the primary way of the economy, rather than being market dependent, is to start
using social for profit. In addition, we will create more humanitarian systems that will strengthen us in the face of future epidemics and
other impending crises, such as climate change.

The onset of social change can come from many places. Our basic task is to keep ourselves involved in the protection of life and development
of democracy for the people by keeping the social values and social morality at the forefront. And that should be the central focus of whose
politics now.

https://iwa-ait.org/content/kobhidd-19-bishbe-ki-prbhaab-phelbe

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Message: 5



Dear Comrades, The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 9 No 2 of The Anvil:
https://melbacg.wordpress.com/the-anvil/
It is at the top of the web page.  Alternatively, you can go direct to the issue:
https://melbacg.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/anvil-2020.04-v-web-final.pdf
Contents:
* The Plague
The issue is also attached as a PDF below.
In Solidarity,
Ablokeimet
for MACG.

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Message: 6



When the starting point is your reflex to a refugee child who has no milk and you end up sleeping peacefully with the mass imprisonment of
immigrants, you have already laid the groundwork for fascism with your charity. Any social resistance that has already subsided - goes hand
in hand with the softening of class antagonisms and the hypnosis of class consciousness - and reactions to a state of emergency have
subsided. There seemed to be no reflection on passers-by shopping next to the recent fas. gathering of gold diggers in Piraeus against
immigrants. Fascism has already been accepted as a democratic right of political choice. ---- The fascism of charity and the weapon of
solidarity ---- Protesting NGOs for inhumane conditions, anti-war announcements, anti-imperialist, anti-European, statements, placements,
shared food, medicine, blankets, thousands of outstretched hands giving and taking.

Lately, we have been experiencing more strongly than in the past the authoritarian reversal of neoliberalism, with the modern social
democracy of the SYRIZA-ANEL government, of all parliamentary parties, but also of extra-parliamentary parties and organizations supporting
political government and government. In the midst of the ongoing economic and social crisis, which is increasingly affecting the poorer
sections of the population, there is a constant need to invoke "extraordinary needs", such as terrorism, through the constant bombardment of
public opinion by the regime's media. In the state of emergency that we live in, the focus is on fighters who, by their actions, are a
threat to the system of domination, the system that oppresses our lives and our freedom. They are persecuted and imprisoned.

The next on the list of the state of repression are the thousands of immigrants who leave their countries with the sole purpose of survival.

The fascism of charity. Thousands of philanthropists, including the state and the United Nations, and the UNHCR, have gathered thousands of
basic necessities for refugees and "illegal immigrants" from the "unprecedented" social sensitivity of thousands of philanthropists. The
"smuggler" left and the "irregular" came now. They are the "good" refugees and the "foreign" illegal immigrants. This charity did not cut
any barbed wire, did not tear down any cells, did not throw any fences, did not stop any deportations, did not stop any fascists. This
tearful charity fed the media with topics to fill the report and hit numbers. This charity gave thousands of euros to NGOs, contractors, a
church, a state.

Now is the time for social sensitivity to look elsewhere and return to normalcy with a clear conscience that it has done its duty to the
children's eyes that caused remorse and guilt. Charity is ashamed to sincerely declare its relief that "illegal immigrants" are being
deported and imprisoned. Charitable comedian ladies who provide daily necessities for the distribution of refugees are eagerly claiming that
"Afghans are a savage people. The Syrians do not. I'm not a racist, I'm collecting things for refugees. " The state is holding thousands of
migrants in the camps of misery - because you are either fleeing war, poverty or any other death threat. You are an immigrant - he managed
to relieve and wash away in the collective unconscious of thousands of viewers and voters the immigration issue in Greece. The state did all
it could despite the suffocating economic pressure of the memorandum, the NGOs ran to every point of the refugee settlement, the citizens
collected and sent thousands of basic necessities, the EU He exerted pressure and did not care, the agreement was signed, FRONTEX and NATO
rushed to help and all is well now. Repatriation, expulsion of irregularities, no reaction. Everything was done as it should be, let's go
back now to the misery of the memorandum and let's put a little more back to support the state in its work. Jobs in concentration camps,
contracts for the construction of housing and food for migrants are presented as growth.

When the starting point is your reflex to a refugee child who has no milk and you end up sleeping peacefully with the mass imprisonment of
immigrants, you have already laid the groundwork for fascism with your charity. Any social resistance that has already subsided - goes hand
in hand with the softening of class antagonisms and the hypnosis of class consciousness - and reactions to a state of emergency have
subsided. There seemed to be no reflection on passers-by shopping next to the recent fas. gathering of gold diggers in Piraeus against
immigrants. Fascism has already been accepted as a democratic right of political choice.

Urban domination, impoverishing the thousands of migrants in camps in the mud, the cold, the lack of health care, sets the stage where their
transfer to closed "hosting centers" is the only "human" solution. With violent evacuations from MAT in Eidomeni in recent months, with the
incarceration of immigrants in Chios and Mytilene, but also in the concentration camps of Elliniko (where women from the prisons of
Korydallos are also being held), Corinth, Amygdaleza, in Paranesti, etc. deportations and imprisonment in Turkey, the state proves that its
mechanism is working perfectly and has already won the moral legitimacy of hundreds of thousands of viewers and voters, respectable and
civilized citizens.

Mrs. Koula with the pension of 340 euros cried for the refugee children. He cried a lot and put pressure. She bought milk and sent it to the
NGO where her niece works, an advanced girl. Ms Kula did not cry when the Golden Dawn killers were released, nor did she know that dozens of
political prisoners were rotting in prison. In Ms. Kula's collective unconscious, murderers have been morally legitimized - the state is
doing its job, running the trial - and political prisoners are the "terrorists" who threaten her life. She does not feel threatened by free
assassins, nor by politicians who cut her life short every day. There is also a threat from immigrants protesting against closed borders and
incarceration.

The state of emergency found almost no obstacles to the completion of its propaganda. It is not a matter of sovereignty to build consciences
for its own benefit. It has the tools for that.

Solidarity is our weapon. In the world of bosses, we are all strangers. Contrary to all the above, some people fight every day on the side
of the victims of the exclusion regime. They are the solidarity fighters who are fighting in every way so that the immigrants are not the
foreign body and the threat to the well-being of society. They are the political squatters of immigrant housing, the political assemblies
against the concentration camps, the self-organized popular assemblies and collectives fighting against political assignment and
governmentalism, they are the solidarity fighters fighting for the freedom to fight against the state of emergency. action and immigrants
who will be Europe's cheap labor force. They are the ones who will not make money, candidacy in elections and political goodwill with a
cinematic mantle through announcements and populist statements aimed at entering the parliament directly or indirectly. They are the ones
who have nothing to lose, as their state has already deprived them of everything through labor exploitation, unemployment, poverty, informal
persecution and marginalization due to their political proposals that stand against the system of exploitation of man by man. , who envision
and fight for another society of free people.

The poor people are not socially and politically threatened by the uprooted immigrants to escape death and oppression, nor by the militants
targeting banks and ministries, the exploitation system, the repressive state. They are threatened by the same murderous system that
imprisons anyone who stands in front of them. The oppressed in the world of bosses, in the society of profitability and exploitation, of the
dominant urban legitimacy, of state propaganda, we are all strangers. Because we do not serve this system of living except when we offer our
bodies and our consciences as a sacrifice on the altar of profit, economic and political.

We are born and grow up watered, by every dominant means of propaganda, the notion that we must compete with our neighbor "by stepping on
corpses" to survive, that we must become capable workers for the profit industry. How a woman should look vulnerable, be submissive to a
husband and boss, be the "right" mother, make her body a commodity, attractive, provocative so that she can get married, so that she is
socially acceptable. How a man must be strong, well-to-do, rich to be able to live, to work hard, to be socially acceptable. That if the
worker works hard he will be able to buy the same car as his boss who produces surplus value from his sweat. How we must be bent over and
accept the government as the saviors of our lives. To show unwavering perseverance in any policy that destroys our lives. To be silent about
every injustice. To be indifferent to every injustice. Looking for ways to be "comfortable" the moment everyone around us gets laid. To
grieve when the state propaganda defines it and to rejoice and be happy with everything it serves us, from interim loans to lunch shows.

Our only weapon against a state of emergency that impoverishes and imprisons is Solidarity.

Vectrum

https://vforvolos.espivblogs.net/2016/08/28/o-fasismos-tis-filanthropias/?fbclid=IwAR2SbqJ8mhn8h56iFN70U3PXTDblL1A9RpDcydscpddNarGG-n5
Related Link: https://vforvolos.espivblogs.net

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31820

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Age UK and Independent Age, two charities concerned with the care of the elderly, have warned against the increasing use of pressure for
elderly people to sign Do Not Resuscitate (DNR ) forms. It has created fear and anxiety among the elderly and a feeling that they are not
wanted and are superfluous to society. ---- As the statement from the charities says: "Difficult and painful decisions will need to be made
in the weeks ahead, but these must be made on a case-by-case basis, taking account of the risks and benefits, and people's own wishes,
through honest discussions between patients, doctors and families. We do not under-estimate the significant pressures being faced by all
staff working across our health and social care sectors at this difficult time, but it is crucial that we continue to protect people's
fundamental human rights. It would be completely unacceptable to abandon these rights in favour of taking blanket, discriminatory decisions."

An 86 year old woman in Scotland was recently pressurised by her GP surgery to sign such a form. In Brighton and Hove, a Clinical
Commissioning Group (CCG) wrote to care homes for elderly people. It stated that: "frail elderly people do not respond to the sort of
intensive treatment required for the lung complications of coronavirus... We may therefore recommend that in the event of coronavirus
infection, hospital admission is undesirable." It instructed care homes to "check they have resuscitation orders on every patient". In other
words those in care homes for the elderly should be left to die.

There have been reports of similar incidents in Leeds and Wales.

It is not just the elderly who are under threat from the DNRs. A Welsh GP surgery sent out a letter to all high risk coronavirus patients
and included those with "incurable cancer", "neurological conditions" and "untreatable heart and lung conditions". The mention of
neurological conditions is particularly worrying, as government guidelines include Parkinson's disease, motor neurone disease, multiple
sclerosis, cerebral palsy and those with learning disabilities.

Obviously those suffering from such dire diseases as motor neurone disease would actually experience a deterioration in quality of life if a
resuscitation was attempted. But those with some of the other conditions, including those with learning disabilities, have conditions that
are not life threatening in the short and medium term. What is particularly disturbing is that people suffering from such conditions are
amalgamated with those with terminal complaints. This reeks of the eugenics we referred to in our article, Age, Herd Immunity and Coronavirus.

The health services are under massive pressure because of the many years of cutbacks by Conservative, Labour and Conservative-LibDem
coalition governments. So the logic behind these letters is that the NHS cannot cope with many more chronically ill people. Whatever the
logic, these letters are appalling and disturbing.

We should remember that it is unlikely that DNR request letters have been sent to Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip (both in their nineties)
Prince Charles (over seventy) or any of the millionaires and politicians seen as elderly. These decisions are influenced by class. If you
are poor and old/have learning disabilities etc., you are deemed as expendable, and hang the stress this puts on you and your family. If you
are rich and powerful, no such qualifications apply.

This further emphasises the need to move towards a society that looks after and respects the elderly, those with chronic diseases and those
with learning disabilities. The austerity programmes of the last few decades are now breeding obscenities like these DNR request letters,
the huge pressure on over-worked and ill-equipped health workers, patients in chronic conditions suffering and dying in corridors.

No Going Back!

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/04/08/dnrs-age-and-class/

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Saturday April 11 at 9 p.m., don't miss the international anarcho-communist livestream ! ---- We will talk about the COVID19 health crisis
around the world, state responses, and our analysis. ---- Members of Solidaridad (Chile), Acción Socialista Libertaria (Argentina), Black
Rose Anarchist Federation (USA), Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (South Africa), Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland), Anarchist
Federation (England) and 'Union Communiste Libertaire (France). ---- ? You can follow the live live on the YouTube channel of our American
comrades from Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federacion Anarquista Rosa Negra: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfxMtG99e7ZGNUxAVaxcJmg
To see the live announcement on their site: https://blackrosefed.org/livestream/
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Livestream-international-anarcho-communiste

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Since the beginning of the year in Europe and in other parts of the world, we have faced an acute social crisis because of the COVID-19
virus and the infection it causes, the so-called "coronavirus disease", as it is commonly known. ---- In Spain, this crisis has been
aggravated by so many years of privatization and the dismantling of public health and other essential services by the hands of the political
parties that were in power both in the central state and in the various regional governments, legislating in favor of business interests. .
This brought serious consequences to the root of the social crisis in which we are immersed: the lack of personnel and resources to
successfully deal with the pandemic. In all this dismantling process, there is a neoliberal and, therefore, classist ideology. With the
dismantling of public health, private health has benefited, which puts constant limits and reticence when it comes to collaborating with
resources and infrastructure in managing the crisis.

The lack of resources and money has managed to prime a class perspective when it comes to administering and carrying out the relevant tests
against the virus. So, while they are selling us that this or that politician or businessman has the virus or not, the workers denied us the
possibility of knowing if we are infected or not. Until weeks after the declaration of the state of alert by the Government, in many
companies workers find themselves with a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), overcrowding in work centers and lack of plans in
companies to ensure safety and security. Cheers. This, of course, has consequences. Workers and our loved ones are the most vulnerable when
it comes to facing the virus. This vulnerability increases: without doubt the greater the precariousness of work, the greater the risk of
exclusion, and greater is the lack of resources when facing the social crisis. The safety and health of us and our loved ones was not
guaranteed at any time.

On the social level, the lack of sanitary devices and other types of emergency personnel led to the State's inability to cover people's
needs. This implied a drastic cut in rights and freedoms, and the authoritarianism on the part of the State's coercive apparatus (army and
police) and the exercise of repression and fear became more acute, if possible. Through the "Gag Law", three times as many administrative
sanctions were imposed in 12 days as those imposed in Italy in one month. There are several videos and testimonies on the internet that
document abuses of power. Even some sectors within the police have denounced the "macarismo" and the lack of control that exists in their
institution. In addition, abuses of power, the exercise of social control and vicinal lynching in the neighborhoods are promoted and
normalized, always against the most vulnerable collectives. This normalization of authoritarianism and coercion, the institutions' calls for
national unity, the warmongering language, the nationalist exaltation and the presence and mediatization of the army, sadly bring us closer
to this obscure recent dictatorial past that it seems that many people refuse to overcome.

This social crisis can only be overcome by weaving and practicing networks of solidarity and mutual support in our daily lives. It is
something intrinsic to the human being that we need to be associated both to support the people who need it most, and to defend our
interests as workers. It is necessary to support the most vulnerable population, overcoming in several ways the feeling of loneliness and
uncertainty that implies confinement in our homes, isolation and fear. Supporting our neighbors who need it most and our co-workers, both in
those circumstances in which we are obliged to go to work, and outside the scope of work.

The organization between equals and the practice of solidarity will be necessary to combat the subsequent crisis that will come when the
pandemic is overcome. Only when organized can we resist the employer's offensive to cut labor rights with the excuse of minimizing economic
losses, and to overcome the fear of cuts in rights and freedoms on the part of the State to continue consolidating its hegemony.

For anarchy.

Iberian Anarchist Federation - FAI

federacionanarquistaiberica.wordpress.com

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