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Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - AL #304 - Digital,
      Big Brother: Out of our cities and our schools ! (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Britain, SOLIDARITY FEDERATION: Battling Boris Defeats the
      Coronavirus (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 3.  Britain, Class War Daily Friday 10 April 2020 - Spirit of
      1945 NO GOING BACK (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #304 - Ecology, No,
      the virus has no "virtues" (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 5.  Britain, AFED, Nottingham: ORGANISE! MAGAZINE PANDEMIC
      SPECIAL ISSUE - SPRING 2020 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  avtonom - Belarus: civil society took over the state's
      social functions [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Greece, APO: In prisons the state kills! Poster of the Group
      against the Patriarchate [machine translation] 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Webdito,
      Trajectories towards group immunity: confinement vs laissez-faire
      (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  Greece, vogliamo tutto: Solidarity in the struggles of
      prisoners [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



On February 3, the Marseille administrative court annulled the decision taken by the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur regional council to set up
an access control system by facial comparison and tracking of students' trajectories in two high schools in the region. A first victory
which announces other fights to come against the Orwellian nightmare of "safe city". --- "A jackhammer to hit an ant", this is how at the
Administrative Court of Marseille the public rapporteur qualified the measure, taken in December 2018 by the regional council of
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, to approve a tripartite agreement as "experimentation" with the company Cisco on the implementation of an access
control device by facial comparison and trajectory monitoring within the Ampère high schools in Marseille and Les Eucalyptus in Nice.
According to the opinion given this fall by the National Commission for Data Protection (CNIL), the court, seized by La Quadrature du Net,
the League for Human Rights (LDH), the Federation of Parents' Councils of pupils (FCPE) and the CGT Educ'Action of the Alpes-Maritimes,
judged that to manage the entrances and exits of a high school, facial recognition is a "disproportionate measure"in the existence of
alternative, and humane, measures which are less detrimental to rights and freedoms. This is the first jurisdictional decision regarding
facial recognition, and therefore the first victory in a long battle to come in order to ban all facial recognition technologies and devices.

The Big Brother experiment
Another hearing at the beginning of March, still at the Marseille administrative court, was to rule on the setting up, in Marseille, of a
system making it possible to automatically alert the police of the slightest "abnormal behavior" detected by video surveillance cameras. .
The system would allow operators to carry out "automatic processing of data[...]in order to detect anomalies / incidents / remarkable facts"
or even to allow "detection of anomalies not identifiable by an operator" . The scope of these "automatic treatments" ranges from
"incivility» (Tags, deterioration of street furniture) to the resolution of criminal cases. The device also provides, as has already been
tested in Saint-Etienne in 2019, for sound analysis devices of the urban environment.

Safe city or jail city ?
The city of Nice under the impetus of Christian Estrosi wants to go even further. On the menu: facial recognition and detection of the
emotions of tramway users based on the technology of a French start-up, Two-i, which promises, based on the analysis of emotion, to erect
"statistical rules to predict behavior" . The projects of "safe cities" , safe city, refer to the utopia of technoscientific infallibility.
Behind the promise of a hypothetical future bright future guided by science are emerging surveillance, control, repression and tracking of
"abnormality", which is always defined according to the interests of the dominant.

David (Grand-Paris Sud)

Cisco between censorship and espionage
Recall that the American company Cisco was involved in 2011 in the implementation of an Internet censorship system for the benefit of the
Chinese government and that a Guardian investigation revealed in 2014 that the NSA intercepted Cisco equipment intended for export for
espionage purposes... A strange alliance for a regional council exclusively made up of elected representatives of the right and the extreme
right !

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Big-Brother-Hors-de-nos-villes-et-de-nos-ecoles

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Great news that Boris is now out of hospital and resting at Chequers after defeating the coronavirus. Where others have succumbed to the
virus through lack of willpower, our brave Boris took on the virus, and showing true Dunkirk spirit, single-handedly beat the virus through
pure strength of character. It was great to see the press exercising their right to criticise and hold to account, in the world's greatest
democracy, by falling over themselves to heap praise on our truly courageous leader. Totally disregarding the acute suffering of the
thousands who have died in hospital, the media was able to lift the spirits of the nation by focusing on the high spirits of our leader from
is ICU bed and his whiling away the hours in hospital by reading the comic book Tintin.
The nation can now look forward to the return of battling Boris to the daily government briefing. During which Boris will once again
demonstrate that, though he has been run a close second by ministers during his absence, he is the supreme master when it comes to answering
questions by talking a lot while at the same time saying absolutely nothing.

Now that Boris has his hand again on the tiller of government, we can now look forward to the return of inspirational leadership. The same
inspirational leadership that, disastrously delayed the lockdown, joked about washing hands, gave us the nonsense of herd immunity, went
missing in the crucial weeks of February, made a complete hash of testing, left health and careworkers withoutPPE and has failed to
coordinate the production of ventilators.

The government, with the help of her majesty and a servile press, has been able to deflect government away from its disastrous and chaotic
handling of the crisis by turning the narrative into one of national character and fighting spirit. Meanwhile, away from this jingoistic
nonsense, thousand suffer and die unnecessarily.

http://www.solfed.org.uk/manchester/battling-boris-defeats-the-coronavirus

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THE GENERAL SPIRIT of,demobbed soldiers "they got us into the war and we had dig them out of it", resulting in a massive Labour victory.
People who had fought for six years - my dad - were not going to go back to feeling inferior to their "betters". A new spirit of "we're as
good as they are" was pervasive in the working class. ---- Flanagan and Allen provided the mood music. One result was a mass squatting
movement by demobbed soldiers and their families, involving hundreds of thousands seizing empty houses and ministry of defence buildings.
---- Now we must also adopt a NO GOING BACK attitude. Are all of our working class heroes who have sacrificed so much - bus drivers, nurses,
shop assistants, cleaners etc etc - going to go meekly back to the status quo and the huge wealth divide?
A wealth divide which
rewards those with inherited
wealth, the bankers and property
developers against those who do
all the work. Rewarding those
who keep luxury flats empty as
investments; rewarding those
who would build separate
entrances for cleaners and
nurses in the obscenity of poor
doors segregation. Is this what
we're fucking dying for?
There are thousands of
empty properties in London
and elsewhere. A massive new
squatting movement would
show that we ain't going back.
So after the lockdown is
over and the street parties blaze
on like VE Night, we need a
massive action based on NO
GOING BACK. Something like
a general strike the week after
lockdown ends.
If not us, who? If not now,
when? Social justice for all.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1trv3hV-2OZ56IdpJ_jJYw7L9my0nt980/view

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Due to the slowdown in production and the fall in greenhouse gas emissions, many media outlets have highlighted the benefits of the epidemic
for the planet. The situation is not, however, encouraging from an ecological point of view. ---- SARS, Zika, Ebola, Covid-19: in recent
years, epidemics caused by viruses have multiplied. Political analyzes often stop there, judging that the emergence of new pathogens is
perfectly "natural". Epidemics would be inevitable, the simple result of a perpetual process of contamination of humans with new infectious
agents. In reality, epidemics are not completely "natural", as much the emergence of new viruses as the spread of the disease they cause
stem from deep political dynamics.
The phenomenon is now well known: the destruction of natural habitats (deforestation in particular) accelerates the emergence of new
viruses, increasing the number of potential epidemics. Two biogeographic processes which may seem contradictory take place simultaneously.
On the one hand, wild species whose habitats are disappearing are pushed into new spaces in which they do not usually live. These new
environments can be the reservoir of hitherto unknown infectious agents, whose infection is generally not dangerous for animals but can be
dangerous for human beings - this is precisely the case with the new coronavirus.

Comparing the concentration of nitrogen dioxide in China, between 1 stJanuary and 25 February 2020.
cc ESA / NASA.
Direct risks of contamination
On the other hand, interactions between animals and humans are increased by the destruction of habitats: the newly infected wild species are
more in contact with domesticated animal species and their owners, thereby increasing the direct and indirect risks of contamination. It
would be audacious to assert that the current spread of the coronavirus is primarily the result of such ecological processes, but these do
indeed contribute to the recent multiplication of epidemics.

However, the coronavirus cannot be simply understood as a "revenge of nature" in the face of attacks by humanity. Since the interactions
between humans and non-humans are permanent, the artificialisation of the soil which leads to the destruction of habitats accelerates the
process more than it makes it appear. This acceleration is not the result of a uniform "humanity", within which each individual bears the
same responsibility. It is above all the result of ecologically devastating policies, which relate to a specific way of inhabiting the
Earth, inherited from colonial domination.

This "living" is essentially based on the exploitation of the soil and the living things, human or non-human, which are there. It is on this
basis that modern capitalism was formed, reproducing this colonial scheme of subordination of human beings and land by the capitalists to
fuel production and guarantee their profits. In short, talking about the "ecological benefits" of the epidemic is completely contradictory,
since it obscures that it is the result of the model of society from which we want to emerge.

Hundreds of millions of animals parked for intensive breeding on giant farms, such as in China or the United States, it is a particularly
favorable environment for the development of epizootics, which can be transmitted to humans.
cc Eveline Chao
Beyond the absurdity of naming them thus, it is important to return to the famous "ecological benefits" on which some have insisted. These
mainly concern the reduction of CO2 emissions - they fell by a quarter in China during the confinement period. Its effects are sanitary -
atmospheric pollution decreases - and climatic - fewer gases contributing to the greenhouse effect are emitted. Difficult to celebrate this
temporary drop, for at least two reasons.

First, if we follow the example of the reduction in emissions during the 2008 crisis, the latter will be quickly offset by the revival of
activity as soon as the epidemic is contained. Above all, millions of employees are forced to go to work despite the epidemic, exposing
themselves to contamination in the workplace, while their activities are not essential in times of pandemic.

 From an ecological point of view, the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions could therefore be much greater if the capitalists did not seek
to guarantee their margins. The theory of the coronavirus as revenge of nature and / or as a carrier of ecological opportunities comes up
against the limitless reproduction of capital.

Building an ecological society
Only a significant decrease in energy, and therefore in material production, will make it possible to correct the ecologically disastrous
trajectory imposed by the capitalists. For them, the opportunity to make a profit will always have priority - forcing workers to return to
their jobs during the pandemic illustrates this very well. Ultimately, only a radical democratic transformation would allow this change of
trajectory. But the dissociation between the "ecological benefits" of the epidemic and its origins, which are also ecological, prevents such
political treatment. To limit the possibility of new epidemics but also in response to the multiple environmental upheavals in progress,
building an ecological society is a real emergency.

According to its libertarian origins, political ecology offers interesting directions in this sense, which differ from classic
environmentalist proposals. Getting out of capitalism, although insufficient to build an ecological society, is an absolutely necessary
condition.The " colonial inhabitant" of the earth could then more easily be overturned, leaving a large number of wild spaces free without
the need to sanctuarize them - because this method promoted by environmentalists is also colonial [1].

Political ecology also brings a reflection on work, backed by antiproductivist proposals for a democratic redefinition of "needs " and
self-management of production. Finally, the development of a health system freed from the financial pressures that have been imposed on it
for too many years, and from which everyone could benefit indiscriminately, even in times of epidemic like the one we are going through,
will be made possible.

Toinou

Toinou is an author on the blog Perspectives printanières . This article is adapted from his text "The epidemic has no virtues".

Validate

[1] The American national parks model has developed to the detriment of the indigenous populations.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Non-le-virus-n-a-pas-de-vertus

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Message: 5



Due to the pandemic the Anarchist Federation decided not to print an issue of Organise! but we are publishing one online instead. The
current special issue contains articles by AF, member federations of our International, and others. ---- Read online in a reader app:
http://organisemagazine.org.uk/2020/04/15/organise-pandemic-special/ ---- Alternatively, download the special issue PDF here:
http://afed.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/organise_pandemic_special_issue_spring_2020.pdf ---- Having had a few contacts by email
recently asking about what's going on locally, here are some links:
Coming up in March-May 2020: ---- Ex-libris booksale events (books and more): http://www.maskedbooksellers.org.uk/booksales.htm ---- XR
events at Sumac Centre: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/extinction-rebellion-nottingham-20254996379
Some good local sites to check regularly:
The Sparrows' Nest (anarchist library and archive): http://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/
People's Histreh (radical history group): https://peopleshistreh.wordpress.com/

Five Leaves (radical bookshop): https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk

The Sumac Centre (anarchist social centre): https://sumac.org.uk/

https://nottsblackarrow.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/organise-special-online-issue/

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Columnist avtonom.org Mikola Dzyadok has now created a chat in Minsk to coordinate volunteer initiatives that counteract the covid-19
epidemic. He told what was happening in Belarus, where until recently authorities had ignored the threat of coronavirus. ---- Alexander
Lukashenko's position was originally this: coronavirus is mass psychosis, fiction, someone needs it, Belarus will survive it all. The bird
and swine flu epidemics have practically not reached Belarus. He said that this was all nonsense: you need to be treated with vodka, a
tractor, you need to eat more oil. You also need to breathe from the fire and goats! These were his recipes. He says that he has white goats
at home, and this is the best cure for coronavirus.
In recent days, rhetoric has begun to change: on the one hand, under the pressure of really growing large numbers - in Belarus there are
already[officially]two thousand infected (at the time of recording the interview - Avtonom.org) and under pressure from public opinion. It
can be seen that in this situation Lukashenko absolutely does not fall into the mood of most Belarusians.

People see that all over the world this is a serious problem, the government is taking enormous measures, and it cannot be that everything
is so cool with us, and badly all over the world. We must immediately say: we do not know the true extent of the epidemic. There was a lot
of evidence that doctors were forced to sign non-disclosure papers. Plus, the mutual responsibility of doctors in their professional
communities does not allow them to "substitute" their bosses by talking to reporters.

The Ministry of Health officially recognized (at the time of recording the interview - Avtonom.org) 16 deaths. Nobody believes that there
really are so many, probably much more. Why is the situation still not catastrophic? Probably, we have not reached the peak of the epidemic
yet. Just recently, the Minister of Health said that the peak is expected in late April or early May.

Although it is impossible to say that nothing is being done: some targeted measures have been taken even, in my opinion, before the new
year. For example, Chinese students have extended their holidays. Suspected of coronavirus was immediately isolated. But most of the society
wants tough measures, up to complete quarantine. Yes, it will hit the citizens themselves: we don't have Russia, they won't just pay wages
to anyone. However, a large part of society is frightened and requires more decisive action from the authorities.

At the moment, even mass events are not prohibited here. Recently, Lukashenko played hockey, there were full stands for students of the
military academy. At the same time, antiseptics hang everywhere, there are a lot of masked people on the street, the Ministry of Health
recommends transferring everyone to a remote site, but it started very, very recently, a couple of days ago. Time was lost.

Nobody goes to the football championship (in Belarus it has not been stopped yet, its broadcasts were bought by TV channels from Russia,
Israel and Ukraine - Avtonom.org) , although tickets are on sale. Therefore, matches are held in the empty stands. Not to say that everyone
is conscious, but there are fewer people on the streets and in transport.

We didn't close the borders: we were saved by the fact that all around us closed the borders. Recently it was Palm Sunday, believers
gathered at the Red Church, about a hundred people. Coronavirus is not a hindrance to them. Every day there are rehearsals of the parade on
May 9, as if nothing had happened. Lukashenko said: we will not cancel the parade, this is sacred for us. For Lukashenko, to cancel the
parade is to acknowledge that something very extraordinary is happening in the country. And the cancellation of the parade will be too
contrary to his recent statements. I will not be surprised that the parade will be held either in the empty stands, or there will be
driven-up cops and military men from the Belarusian Republican Youth Union (Belarusian Republican Youth Union - Avtonom.org) .

The Ministry of Education wanted to introduce quarantine in educational institutions, such a decision was made, but was canceled the next
day - Lukashenko personally did not allow it. But two weeks passed, and the school holidays were extended for six days. The Ministry of
Education issued recommendations that let anyone leave their children to study at home. As far as I know, in Minsk, very few children come
to school, there are five in classes.

  Doctors who had first-level contacts[with coronavirus patients]were simply closed in hospitals, they work and live there. There are some
cases that doctors quit for fear of infection. Doctors are not arrested for talking to the press, but they are threatened with dismissal.
There was a case, one female doctor rolled out the VKontakte panic post, she was summoned to the prosecutor's office for this: this is so
far the most severe repression against doctors.

  I did not track whether Belarus was buying lung ventilation devices, but a big puncture came out with masks. As soon as the epidemic
began, they were all sold out in pharmacies. Although Lukashenko said: our light industry has found millions of masks, we want to sell them
to Germany. But really they are not even for citizens of the country. In aggregate, the distrust towards the authorities has grown very
much, it was not high before.

Lukashenko, who has always been able to guess the mood of the people, now carries things that obviously contradict common sense, change his
shoes on the go. First he called for "vodka treatment," and then he says that the virus infects drinkers. Everyone really doesn't like that
Lukashenko speaks rudely about those who died from the coronavirus: a famous actor died in Vitebsk, Lukashenko - they told him to stay at
home, he's to blame. And the other victim had excessive weight: Lukashenko says that the virus takes away the weak, he died - it's his own
fault.

In connection with this, the Belarusian social networks launched a flash mob "the last word of the president": what will Lukashenko say
about you if you die from a coronavirus. And ridicule accordingly - parody his accent and rhetoric.

Lukashenko has no backup plan. What is happening now is a flaw in the management system in which all decisions are made individually. The
entire population is held hostage by the stagnation and stupidity of one person.

The Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, bypassing Lukashenko, are trying to do something, but, of course, they are very limited.
Although Lukashenko already understood that the situation posed a threat to his power, he slowly began to change shoes. The state media are
doing the same. Rhetoric is very controversial. On the one hand, state television launched a "take care of the elders" social advertisement,
on the other hand, one TV presenter, licking Lukashenko and his coronovirus dissident literally, stated that "Belarus is not a hysterical
teenage girl covering her face under a mask, but a proud republic Partisan! " All this provokes a rather disregarding attitude towards what
is happening in a part of the population (those who believe in gossmi). They say that the whole class, the president says the matter.

As for the volunteers. They began to appear by themselves. People began to post announcements in the hallways that they were ready to go to
pharmacies and shops instead of elderly neighbors. I gradually began to gather such people, find their contacts and created a chat in a
telegram for self-help groups, and there are already more than a thousand participants there. They coordinate those who are ready to go to
the shops, help with transport, sew masks, collect money for hospitals, print flyers, whatever. Who is what a lot. On Google map we marked
places where there are volunteers and those who need help, hospitals and private people. Right now there are 14 places where help is needed,
and 25 places where help is offered.

Doctors connect: some cafes began to cook food for doctors for free, some brought water to doctors. Businessmen take off on masks,
protective suits and ventilation devices. There was a taxi that takes doctors for free, people provide them with housing for the rest. Also
received one of the hotels. Someone offers legal assistance, someone psychological, someone offers help to victims of domestic violence. I
won't remember everything.

The backbone of the volunteer movement is made up of human rights defenders, NGOs, and opposition activists. Anarchists, unfortunately, are
not properly represented in this movement. Of course, there are also enough politically unbiased people. People, say, from the segment of
readers of independent media are included, and it is very large in Belarus.

There is no strict confrontation between the volunteers and the authorities: I think it will not be until the state feels that it can cope
on its own. It is unclear when it will be, he clearly has few resources. But there was a surge in detentions for posts on social networks or
extremism, pressure on bloggers. This seems to be not directly related to coronavirus, but, in fact, the state, screwed up in the areas of
healthcare and ensuring the safety of citizens, left only a punitive function. A huge percentage of social obligations of the state is now
performed by civil society.

And many see it. I have repeatedly heard from politically unbiased people phrases in the spirit of "why then is this state necessary"? Many
people feel that the state has abandoned them. It really is. When hospitals are crowded with people and a mustachioed cockroach from the
screens says that "this is all psychosis, there is no problem" - where does the trust in the state come from? Most of all, I would like now
that this distrust of the state and the skills of self-organization could somehow flow into the political channel.

https://avtonom.org/news/belarus-socialnye-funkcii-gosudarstva-vzyalo-na-sebya-grazhdanskoe-obshchestvo

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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:07:42 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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Subject: (en) Greece, APO: In prisons the state kills! Poster of the
        Group against the Patriarchate [machine translation]
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  "Today, April 9, the detainee Azizel Deniroglou died in her ward, helpless, while she was facing some heart problems, while she also had a
high fever. He was begging for help all night, he had chest pains and could not breathe. According to testimonies, she was not even measured
and we are unaware of the real causes of her death. The shift manager threatened her with a report, because it bothered her. The lifeless
body of our inmate was pulled out with a sheet, in front of the shocked eyes of the whole wing. The tragic event took place in the 5th wing,
where about 120 people are stacked." ---- DOWNLOAD THE HANDS FROM THE WOMEN WHO ARE RAISED ----  "The death of our inmate Demiroglou Azizel
was a catalyst and led to the uprising of the prisoners. The response to the death of our inmate and the mockery of the ministry that, while
promising to be decongested in prisons, does not do so was brutal violence. MATs destroyed prison facilities, chased and beat women. A
detainee with epilepsy who is receiving strong medication, was hit on the head by the MAT and all over her body while she was dragged and
thrown into her ward like garbage, hitting and cursing her. At the time of the MAT invasion, the uprising had already ended. It is the first
time in the history of prison struggles that a MAT invasion has been ordered to violently suppress a peaceful protest. "

Excerpts from the words of the women prisoners in the Eleonas prison in Thebes

IMMEDIATE DEVELOPMENTOF STATE BUILDINGS:

  - Immediate decongestion of prisons due to coronary heart disease.

- Now release all patients, the elderly, babies with their children and those who are considered vulnerable groups, ie a total of 1/3 of the
prisoners.

- To release NOW all / all prisoners who have served 2/5 of the mixed sentence.

REMEMBER TO THE BARBARITY OF THE CRIME, THE PANDIMIA AND THE CONTINUOUS STATE AND CAPITALISTIC CRIME

WE HAVE SOLIDARITIES!

TO GRAMME PRISONS AND STRATOPEDIA OF CONTRACTING OF OFFERS AND TRANSPORTATIONS

AGAINST STATE AND PATRIARCHATION - FOR HANDMADE AND ANARCHY

group against patriarchy- Anarchist Political Organization | Federation of Collectivities

http://apo.squathost.com/

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By not confining the population, group immunity can be achieved fairly quickly, but at the cost of a massacre. By confining the population,
we slow down the spread of the epidemic, giving the hospital system time to adapt, and making it possible to carry out a massive screening
campaign ... provided that we have the material means (masks, kits test). The French state, after sabotaging the public health service for
years, oscillated between the two strategies before resolving to containment. ---- If the so-called "total containment " strategyis today
rather well accepted in France, several States are still resistant to it. In Europe, Switzerland and Germany, for example, are still in
"partial containment". Sweden, it is downright still not confined, despite more than 400 deaths due to Covid-19 (figures from April 5).
Outside Europe, Trump and Bolsonaro continue to minimize the current pandemic and refuse to order containment, in the name of saving the
economy.

In several African countries, containment is not topical either, this time in the name of the predominant place of the "informal economy"
and of the famines that containment could trigger. In order to better understand the different issues, let's go back to the debates in
mid-March, when the French State was illustrated by its hesitations to launch containment.

The temptation to leave: group immunity by laissez-faire, without saying the words
Macron said Thursday, March 12: "This is why I ask tonight all people over the age of 70, those who suffer from chronic diseases or
respiratory disorders, people with disabilities, to stay as long as possible at their home. They can, of course, leave their homes to do
their shopping, to ventilate themselves, but they must limit their contacts to the maximum."

He then chose to maintain the first round of municipal elections, against the advice of many doctors. The next day, the various ministries
summon the trade union organizations, insisting on one point: work continues, only certain well-identified staff can stay at home. At the
same time, Minister Blanquer says that 50% of the population could be affected, just like Angela Merkel who talks about 60 to 70% of the
German population. The Minister of Health says that "80% of people have few or no symptoms, so it is a virus that is asymptomatic or mild in
the vast majority of French people."

Only Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, clearly names the objective sought: group immunity, and assumes his strategy:
laissez-faire. Finally, on March 23, faced with an explosion in the number of deaths and infected people, Boris Johnson turned around and
established the containment of the population of the United Kingdom [1]

Are you sick to stop the epidemic ?
"Laissez-faire" is a strategy to stem a virus: we let people "resistant" contract it, they develop resistance, and beyond a certain
threshold, the virus can no longer spread in the population and disappears, without having had time to impact those "at risk". According to
the basic theoretical models in epidemiology, this threshold is worth 1-1 / R0, R0 being the average number of people to whom each carrier
transmits the disease in a healthy population and without prior immunity (optimal conditions for the virus).

It is estimated for Covid-19 between 2.2 and 3.5, with a median [2]in the scientific literature which stands at 2.8, which gives a threshold
of 55% to 71% of the population, with a median of 64%. We thus find the figures advanced by Merkel and Blanquer.

Let us therefore suppose that people over 70 or frail are completely spared from the disease and calculate the number of deaths for the
other age groups. We know the death rate by age group in China (which under our assumption would have been much higher since the hospitals
would have been overloaded with patients) and the distribution of the French population by age group, it is therefore enough to multiply and
add.

With a proportion of 64% of people infected, we still find 300,000 dead, 60% of whom are 60-70 years old. This is the figure advanced in Le
Monde [3], which Macron probably had before his eyes.

What conclusions for group immunity ?
In conclusion, Macron initially opted for a quasi-laissez-faire strategy by simply closing the schools, despite the fact that part of the
scientific monitoring committee presented him with models explaining that this could lead to be 300,000 to 500,000 dead. We have known since
that Professor Raoult, at the time a foot in a foot outside the scientific committee, opposed, and still opposes, the generalized
confinement of the population, preferring it, as well d others, a massive screening campaign and confinement of the sick only - but we had
to do it in time !

Macron had therefore first chosen, as usual, to harmonize from below: no massive screening, which should have been decided in February, and
no general confinement. By letting it go, he hoped thus undoubtedly to limit the economic impact on large companies. In early April, Trump,
Bolsonaro and others are still of this opinion.

Macron ended up changing his mind, presumably under pressure from doctors who were alarmed by the coming saturation of hospitals. But the
confinement decided late did not ultimately avoid saturation of the hospitals. By harmonizing the strategy from below, it harmonized the
results from below !

For its part, the UCL affirms that with a public hospital service in good condition, a real stock of masks and public research which is also
in good condition, the alarm bell could have been sounded earlier and we could have avoided class containment at work today in France. By
anticipating better, by not compromising with big employers wishing to preserve their bank accounts, we could have implemented a less
liberticide health strategy, with a screening campaign, confinement of the sick only, appropriate barrier gestures by the population earlier
and a significantly lower risk of saturation of hospitals.

UCL "Sciences" working group

Validate

[1] "Coronavirus: the United Kingdom in turn establishes a containment of its population" , Le Monde, March 23, 2020.

[2] Not to be confused with the average: the median allows two sets of the same size to be separated, which means that half of the
thresholds are below 2.8 and the other half above

[3] "Coronavirus: group immunity, a risky bet" , Le Monde, March 16, 2020.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Trajectoires-vers-l-immunite-de-groupe-confinement-vs-laisser-faire

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Recently, a series of mobilizations have been taking place in prisons in many countries. The main measures taken by the states to "deal"
with the COVID-19 pandemic in prisons were bans on visits, meetings with lawyers and the sending of objects. These measures make the
condition of incarceration even more horrific, while they are obviously in no way related to any kind of realistic treatment of the pandemic
in prisons. The Italian prisoners of war fought against these measures, which turned into the largest revolt of prisoners in the modern
history of the Italian state (in 28 prisons), during which many escapes took place. Competitive mobilizations took place in the prisons of
Spain, France and other countries.
The Greek state took similar measures. Thus, there were many mobilizations in the prisons of Larissa, Chania, Korydallos and Agios Stefanos.
These mobilizations came to demonstrate the murderous state indifference, demanding that measures be taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19
within the walls. They aim to satisfy demands such as the (announced) decongestion of prisons through the release of people with small
sentences or people belonging to vulnerable groups (the elderly, drug addicts, chronically ill people), access to self-defense means,
lifting of sanctions the state and information from experts on precautionary measures. Stacked on top of each other, with very little means
of self-protection and non-existent medical care, the inmates and the inmates are in great danger.

The response of the state was as expected: transfers, threats of disciplinary action, beatings, destruction of personal belongings,
intimidation and isolation of the fighters. Anarchist Pola Roupa, who was forcibly taken to a prison in Eleonas, along with a 65-year-old
detainee who was expected to be released, was targeted from the outset. The same happened with the anarchist Nikos Maziotis, who just a few
days later was also violently imprisoned in Domokou prison. The state vehemently isolated the members of the Revolutionary Struggle, due to
their consistent militant stance in prisons, their participation in the mobilizations, as well as to intimidate the rest of the fighters.

The state assassination of Atice Demiroglu in the Eleonas prison, after the complete indifference of the human rights activists to her calls
for help and hospitalization, led to the revolt of the imprisoned women. The uprising was met with outrage as MAT stormed the jail after it
was over and attacked the inmates, who are now facing disciplinary action.

The same repressive tactic was followed by the state, respectively, for the protest mobilizations and the hunger strikes of the migrants in
the concentration camps in Paranesti, Drama, in Moria, Mytilene and Corinth. State repression has been accepted by immigrants in other camps
as well, since under the pretext of the pandemic, the isolation and exclusion regime in concentration camps is taking on a fully militarized
form.

However, we are not surprised by what is happening in the dungeons of democracy. Because in this way every state throughout history and
around the world and every government (left or right) manages the inmates. Prisoners, immigrants, and other marginalized sections of the
oppressed and exploited are therefore the "surplus population," the collateral losses of the "war" he declared against the pandemic.

The condition of incarceration is in itself aggravating to the mental and physical health of the people and is an inhumane and punitive
measure of control and exclusion. The real criminals are the state and capital, because they impose and perpetuate the barbaric conditions
of exploitation and oppression, poverty, misery, alienation, the destruction of nature, man and ultimately life itself. Fighting against
inequality, oppression and state violence not only does not make you a criminal, but it shows that you have chosen to live with dignity. As
anarchists, we have been and continue to be in solidarity with all the struggles of the exploited and oppressed to improve their lives. We
are fighting for the destruction of the state, of capital and any authoritarian social relationship, for the destruction of the chains of
domination, for the social revolution. For a world of economic equality, political freedom, social solidarity.

Let's not get used to death.

Solidarity in the struggles of prisoners and immigrants defending their lives and dignity.

For the demolition of every prison.

https://kathodon.espivblogs.net/?p=1520

https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2020/04/16/allileggyi-stoys-agones-ton-fylakismenon/

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