#Worldwide #Information #Blogger #LucSchrijvers: #Update: #anarchist #information from all over the #world - #Part2 - 10.04.2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire - UCL press release:
      Disappearance of Yoann Isambert, the international secretariat of
      the CNT (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  India, Demands and statements regarding the Kovid-19
      epidemic. (pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: More Coronavirus
      Strikes (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #303 - Read: The
      school of cynicism (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Do not pay for a crisis that is not yours! By Artur Decone
      -- By ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Greece, Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of
      Collectivities: Against the pandemic and the ongoing
      state-capitalist crime - Society will win! [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

7.  Bulgaria, anarchy.bg: What do you think about the state of
      emergency? (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: Important class
      struggle resource for the pandemic (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  Britain, Class War Dily right on your doorstep! -- BOSSES
      EXPLOIT CORONA CRISIS (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



Yoann Isambert, of the CNT's international secretariat, died on April 2 at the age of 31. ---- With a CNT flag, Yoann had paraded, on
January 11 in Paris, in the red and black pole of the great demonstration of support for the Kurdish left. He was also an active member of
the Sulidarità association , which helps Corsican political prisoners and their families. ---- The Libertarian Communist Union associates
itself with the pain experienced by its relatives, friends and comrades. We reproduce the farewell letter published by its Education Workers
Union of Seine-Saint-Denis (CNT-STE 93). ---- YOANN, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE AT OUR SIDE ---- On Thursday April 2, our comrade, Yoann Isambert
died. His sudden disappearance plunges us all into immense sorrow. The pain is up to the wonderful being that was Yoann. All our thoughts of
course go first to his partner, his family, his friends. Their sadness is unimaginable and we will support them as best we can in the face
of all the trials that will be going through. We also take over from them to ask everyone to be attentive to their privacy. Support, without
being intrusive. Without a doubt, Yoann, with the modesty that characterized him, would have found this balance.

We also think of his students and colleagues. Yoann was a history and geography teacher at Les Mousseaux college in Villepinte. We know that
he will leave a huge void there as his investment in the students and in the life of the college was important. The CNT education union
stands alongside colleagues and we will also provide them with all the necessary support. Yoann loved his work and his students. His
fighting spirit was flawless in the struggle for a truly emancipatory, non-authoritarian and egalitarian school.

His union involvement in the CNT was an essential element in Yoann's life. Our union, but also our entire confederation loses a very great
activist. A being so rich in knowledge, curious, critical, gentle, attentive. All these qualities made him a cement between us. He marked a
number of new and new members with his warm welcome. And even if he refused to be a model, it is certain that many of us have been inspired
by him. Yoann brought an intelligence, a reflection, a calm, a quality of exchange, a humor, a rage against injustice, a correctness of
analysis, a joy of living. He was there, always present, never leaving his place to support daily self-management, including in the tasks of
" little hands  ". Even if we, his comrades in STE93, are all devastated by his loss, we do not forget all of the CNT comrades who are
already mourning his absence.

Without compromises, Yoann was keen to seek points of convergence, to appease conflicts, to create unity. Yoann wanted to do battle with
capitalism, the source of so much injustice and social inequality. And his fights were resolutely international. Yoann was involved in many
struggles for peoples' self-determination. His action was so great that it is impossible to mention them all here. We therefore also think
very warmly of our Kanak comrades because Yoann has always been by their side in their legitimate struggle to get rid of French colonialism.
We also think of the Kurdish comrades with whom Yoann brought his international solidarity to life. We know that for you too, his loss is
immense and your grief immeasurable.

A fight was essential for Yoann: that for the liberation of Corsican and Basque political prisoners. It was through these battles that he
met CNT activists and finally joined us. But he never forgot, or put aside his historic commitments. On the contrary, he always sought to
bring them to life. Many members of the CNT were also proud to have been able to participate, to their measure, but thanks to Yoann, in the
Parisian march of December 2017 for the end of the exception of which Basque prisoners are victims.

The CNT education, in agreement with the companion of Yoann, offers to continue these essential fights that he led, by participating in an
online prize pool whose full amount will be donated, in equal parts, between the Solidarity Committee with the Basque people (CSPB) and the
Solidarità association for Corsican prisoners.

www.lepotsolidaire.fr/pot/n90jiyvs-PourYoann_faire-vivre-ses-combats

Thank you Yoann for letting us know you.

Your whole person will carry us into the battles that we will wage. Comrade, you will always be by our side !

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Disparition-de-Yoann-Isambert-du-secretariat-international-de-la-CNT

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Message: 2



By Muktivadi Ekta Morcha (Libertarian Solidarity Front, anarcho-syndicalist organization) ---- Coronavirus and the effect of the lockdown
implemented without proper and adequate planning are proving fatal to the working class. In Delhi alone, one lakh workers have to sit at
home without pay, due to the shutdown. ---- Not only this, due to the closure of public transport means such as rail and interstate buses,
many workers have to return to their villages on foot hundreds of kilometers! This crisis is equally serious in Madhya Pradesh. ---- Health
workers stand in the forefront of this crisis. Due to the negligence of the government machinery, they do not even have adequate protection
equipment. Apart from this, the workers delivering all kinds of essential services to the people are also facing constant danger.

The Muktivadi Ekta Morcha (MEM) together with the workers demand from the Central and Madhya Pradesh government special protection and care
for these insecure and brave laborers.

Our demands:

1. Companies and the government should ensure that workers in the informal sector, whether their company gives them ‘laborer' status or not,
get a monthly compensation of Rs 7000.

2. High quality safety gear - mask, gloves etc. - should be provided to all delivery personnel, cleaning personnel and workers employed in
all essential services.

3. During this epidemic - and even further - workers like cleaning and delivery workers get regular laborer status and increase their wages,
delivery rates and boost rates so that they do not have to work for 12 hours to sustain themselves.

4. Minimum monthly allowance should also be given to irregularly employed or unemployed laborers.

5. Free ration, fuel, medicines and care should be provided immediately to all the workers' families and their dependents.

Statement by Muktivadi Ekta Morcha (Libertarian Solidarity Front, anarcho-syndicalist organization) in times of coronavirus.

https://muktivadi.blackblogs.org/2020/03/28/ncov/

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Message: 3



M&S workers strike over coronavirus fears ---- Eighty workers at the Marks and Spencer distribution depot run by the DHL company at Swindon
walked out on March 24th and 26th over dangerous working conditions and lack of precautions over COVID-19. They demanded that M&S sort out
the situation. ---- Postal Workers ---- We reported earlier on postal workers coming out on wildcat strike at Alloa in Scotland over
coronavirus concerns. We can now report that another fifteen workers did the same at Lochgelly, in Fife and there are reports of Edinburgh
postal workers also walking out. ---- Earlier in March, postal workers went out on wildcat strikes in Southwark in London and Bridgwater in
Somerset for similar reasons.
Hull Building Workers
One hundred steel construction workers at the Tricoya site, where a wood chip acetylation plant is being built, voted unanimously on March
23rd to walk out on strike over coronavirus safety measures. Working conditions mean it is impossible to implement social distancing whilst
working, and even on break times. They said they would not go back to work until tea breaks were split, as well as starting and working
times. Management caved in on these demands, and workers returned to work.

Medway

Medway bin workers employed by Medway Norse walked out on March 30th over failure to supply PPE equipment and the closure of public toilets.
Talks are ongoing.

Barnsley

On March 30th, 500 ASOS workers at the Barnsley warehouse in South Yorkskire went out on strike.

France

Workers at the Amazon distribution centre at Montelimar in southern France walked out on March 18th followed by a national calling in sick,
with a half of the workforce taking part.

At the Carrefour supermarket in Vitrolles near Marseille, workers went out on strike on March 30th after two workmates were diagnosed with
COVID-19. They demanded the ceasing of sales of non-essential items and a thorough disinfecting of the supermarket.

Italy

300 workers at the Amazon warehouse at Calenzaro, near Florence, walked out on March 30th after two suspected COVID-19 cases were reported.
They demanded the end of distribution of non-essential items, a new face mask for each shift and regular disinfecting of the warehouse.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/04/02/more-coronavirus-strikes/

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Message: 4



This new collection of journalistic texts by Victor Serge (Viktor Lvovitch Kibaltchitch, 1890-1947) completes the book Retour à l'Ouest
(Agone, 2010), which included a good part of the weekly chronicles that the former collaborator of the press French libertarian [2],
fascinated by the October Revolution and converted for a time to Leninism, had published in La Wallonie, one of the few French-language
newspapers where his pen was welcome. ---- This book brings together 18 articles, published between October 4, 1939 and February 11, 1940 in
the Parisian daily newspaper L'Intransigeant, a newspaper whose displayed "  anticommunist  " position could accommodate the collaboration
of this libertarian at heart [1]and avowed idealist who was always Victor Serge.
When the latter gave him his first article, it had been a month since France had declared war on Germany and just over five weeks since we
learned of the signing, on August 23, 1939 in Moscow, of the pact of non-aggression between Germany and the USSR. It is on this collusion
that Victor Serge looks into the long investigation that opens the volume, a complicity that he traces back to the year 1932, when the
Communists decided to ally themselves with the Nazis to destroy social democracy.

The other articles concern the purges in the Red Army, the repression against the communist refugees in Moscow and finally, the enormous
difficulties met by the USSR in its military offensive against Finland, launched in November 1939. This one is still in run when, on
February 11, 1940, Victor Serge wonders if "  Finland can hold out  " in what will be his last paper for L'Intransigeant.

Victor Serge, The school of cynicism . From World War II and its reasons, September 2019, Nada Éditions, 128 pages, 14 euros.
Finally, in the article which gives its title to this volume, Victor Serge notes the pruning operated by Stalin on his book The Questions of
Leninism, from which he has just concealed the interview given to the English writer HG Wells, harsh judgments formulated in 1934 with
regard to Nazism no longer in place after the signing of the pact with Hitler's Germany.

The publication of this beautifully crafted booklet, embellished with drawings by Vlady (the son of V. Serge), very carefully presented and
annotated by Charles Jacquier, is very good news for people attached to the work of this intransigent intellectual and free, privileged
witness of one of the most important and darkest eras of the past century.

Miguel Ángel Parra

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[1] In 1947, Victor Serge declared to Víctor Alba: "  I speak to you as an idealist ? God ! There are only the idealists, the resigners and
the totalitarians present.  "

[2] Established in Barcelona, he also collaborated in the Spanish anarchist press: it was in the columns of Tierra y Libertad that he
inaugurated in March 1917 the pseudonym which made him famous.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Ce-nouveau-recueil-de-textes-journalistiques

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Message: 5



Once upon a time there was an established order whose main logic was to make you work so that you had money to pay to live. For! Now an
easily contagious virus has threatened that order. It is not safe to live with other people and therefore it is not safe to work. Therefore,
if there is no more work, there is no more money. Alive! You see, when you don't have a job, but other people do, you're in shit alone. When
nobody has a job, we're all in the shit together. Mathematics teaches us that less with more is less, but less with less is more! So,
actually, no one is in the shit. ---- The gentlemen who command this order that is not so well established are desperate. They want to keep
making you believe that their money is worth something. They want you to take risks, not for your family as they try to make you believe,
but for them! Without the logic of work, you are no longer needed. And like the innocent child who had the courage to shout that the king
was naked, we must have the courage not to face a problem that is not ours.

One of the proofs that this old order was not made for our well being is that the most essential need that we have, that of having a roof,
is also the most expensive. And more and more expensive, by the way. It represents the largest share of your budget and, therefore, is the
first that you should abandon in this scenario where there is no more money. Rest assured, in one of many attempts to show that they care
about you, you will be given a handout that is not being able to be evicted for a good period of time if you do not pay. But at the front,
as soon as they have an opportunity to put on some clothes and go to the salon to try to restore order, they will throw a debt on your back,
which is nothing but other money that does not exist.

When that moment comes, and if it comes, the more people we are, the more strength we will have. When it came to defining the rules of the
game they forgot to limit the number of players and it turns out that we have a lot more players than masters. So, it's up to us to get up
from the table and say we don't want to play anymore! Remember two very important things: it is your fault that none of this is happening
and every crisis brings with it an opportunity to build something new.

In April, do not pay the rent. Not in May either. As long as this crisis lasts, don't pay. Talk to others about the importance of not paying
the rent, either. Be prepared and available to help and be helped when you come to charge for something that we already know is no more.

Let us resist together.

There are arms.

[1]Short story: The King's New Clothes:  https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Roupa_Nova_do_Rei

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Message: 6



For several weeks now, we have been facing the specter of the deadly evolution of the COVID-19 virus pandemic. A virus that mainly affects
vulnerable groups in the population, but not only. The vast majority of the social and class majority face the risk of disease and thousands
of people in our class die en masse around the world, deprived of the means necessary to protect them. ---- Today, the complete anti-social
and murderous nature of the state-capitalist system is tragically emerging. social and class basis, his parasitic existence on it,
committing another crime against it. ---- The plundering of enormous socially generated wealth and available resources by the economic and
political elites, the overcrowding of populations in big cities, labor camps, prisons and concentration camps for migrants and refugees, the
long-standing economic downturn in health and health systems at the time for themselves the opportunity to enjoy the best possible care,
demonstrate that:  The  state and capitalist system of organization of society, which already condemns millions In the face of famine,
disease and war, people are fighting not against the evolving pandemic, but to keep their privileges intact, their political and economic power.

This is confirmed by the government's war announcements, which on a daily basis remind the huge blow to the economy that the whole crisis
will bring and try to reach a consensus on the overall social restructuring that they are preparing to implement in the near future. support
capital because of its declining profitability. On the occasion of the evolving pandemic, a new round of attacks on workers and society is
being prepared. What is presented today as "solidarity benefits" to the social base, tomorrow we will be called upon to pay many times over
at a huge cost to the lives of millions of people who are already suffering from the unequal battle of our day.

Because the reality is that the battle against the evolving pandemic is being waged by the social and class base, despite the adverse
conditions imposed by its tyrants. The battle against the evolving pandemic is being waged by many and many who, realizing the danger to
their neighbors, are taking the necessary measures of individual and collective self-defense, giving up their backlog to buy what should be
readily available to the entire population. . It is given by doctors and nurses who, with self-sacrifice and enormous personal effort, give
every scope of their energy by sickening themselves, in order to save lives. It is given by all employees who are forced to go to work every
day, to couriers, to the "take away" stores of the restaurant, to the MMM and to the supermarkets that keep the supply chain open with the
risk of their health, farmers and cleaning workers.

It is the social and class base that, in such difficult conditions, highlights its enormous potential, struggling to withstand a pandemic,
amidst the condition of generalized poverty and misery. And it is the state and capital that continue to reproduce themselves, being not the
solution to the pandemic, but an obstacle to tackling it .By depriving food, medical supplies, forces available from this battle, pricing
human lives and speculating on death. The only thing they have to promise is the complete militarization of society, the repression of those
who survive. They are already preparing for the next massacres, the imposition of dystopia, by funding armies instead of hospitals, cops
instead of doctors. They favor businesses and bosses, while at the same time looting even more labor gains, with employer arbitrariness and
impunity growing in the midst of a pandemic, with layoffs, uninsured work, over-exploitation. Even now, they are carrying out repressive
operations against militants, displacing immigrants, hitting and seriously injuring anti-fascists, such as in Rethymno.

They are the ones who have been trying for years to dismantle public health structures through underfunding, redundancies, and the closure
of hospitals. The result is that few intensive care beds are available, compared to the actual needs. The working doctors and nurses give a
titanic fight and we stand in solidarity with their every claim.  We demand the immediate and unconditional mass recruitment (instead of
mockery with limited contracts and voluntary work) of medical and nursing staff and the provision of all the required resources and means,
in order to meet the needs of the population in care, heavy and unhealthy stamps throughout health personnel as well as welfare so as not to
lead to complete exhaustion and serious risks to their own health.

They are the ones who have trapped tens of thousands of people in extremely dangerous conditions. Their health due to the conditions of
confinement is in even greater danger and we will not accept their treatment as a consumable population. We demand immediate support
measures for prisoners and decongestion of prisons. We demand the release of refugees and migrants from concentration camps and the
relocation of empty hotel units to protect themselves from the pandemic, as well as the creation of special health structures for all.

They are the ones who have impoverished workers and the unemployed to the point of absolute misery, and as a result they are facing the
danger of starvation. We demand the payment of wages to the workers regardless of the situation of the company in which they work as well as
special care for the poor and the unemployed. It is imperative to seize every available resource from the stolen social wealth that the
politically and economically powerful have gathered in their hands and to dispose of it in the social body.

The possible continuation of the repressive campaign on the part of the state against militants and structures of the struggle in the midst
of this treaty, falls into the category of war crimes and as such will be recorded and addressed. Arrests and extraditions in the context of
"business as usual" by the bastards of the ministry PRO.PO. It means that they do not hesitate to consciously and with a plan that puts the
lives and health of fighters and, consequently, of society as a whole at immediate risk, in order to achieve their age-old goals.

Collective and individual self-defense measures in the midst of an unprecedented situation that endangers the lives of many do not in any
way mean surrender to the dispositions of the state and capitalist dictatorship, which will want to impose even heavier living conditions
for the vast majority of society. Our self-restraint at home is for reasons of social conscience that are completely honest as opposed to
the hypocritical interest of the state and bosses who still force a large part of the social and class base to go to work, while its field
of work is not related to meeting the compelling needs of society, (simply by demonstrating the relevant affirmation) with a real risk to
its life. Which puts the population in quarantine but makes no move in the area of improving the health system, either by hiring new staff,
or by opening new beds in ICUs, or by supplying medical equipment. The state and the police are not, and could never be, guardians of social
consciousness and solidarity.

We prefer the creation of special solidarity groups that will take all the necessary precautionary measures in order to help the most
vulnerable in their basic needs.

The resources for the protection of society as a whole have been and have been produced by the workers, but their management is in the hands
of a few who have repeatedly proved indifferent to human lives, in the face of their power and profits . So as we know that the state and
capital only after social pressure are forced to provide the basics, because they prefer to maintain the power and wealth of a minimal
minority instead of the health and life of many thousands, when and where the reasons of conscience dictate. we take to the streets to fight
for life and against death, but taking all necessary measures for individual and collective protection against pandemic.

The battle of the social and class base against the epidemic is the first necessary step for life to continue. It will be necessary to give
a second battle, against the state and capitalist system that imposed those conditions in order to spread the virus much more deadly, much
more massively and which today imposes absolute control over us.

Solidarity, mutual aid and struggle are not forbidden or quarantined. Class warfare, especially on the part of the rulers, has not been
quarantined and must not be stopped unilaterally.

We will continue as human beings and not as individualized cannibals, as resisters and not surrendered and frightened, as anarchists, the
struggle for a society of free equals that will prioritize the protection of the vulnerable, as first and foremost the needs of society as a
whole. Its main concern is the prosperity and service of society and not a strong caste, which leads humanity to the dystopia of death,
misery and control.

No fired, no homeless, no hungry, no helpless and abandoned alone in the pandemic

NO STEP BACK TO OUR NEEDS
FOR ALL
FOOD, HEALTH, DRYING

REMEMBER TO THE DIFFICULTY OF CONTEMPORARY COMPLETION, TO THE STATE AND CAPITALIST BARBARITY THAT PRODUCES THE DEATH...

SOCIAL SOLIDARITY AND CLASS SELF-GOVERNANCE

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities

March 2020

site: http://apo.squathost.com/ | Mail: anpolorg@gmail.com | fb: anpolorg | Twitter: @anpolorg

https://ipposd.wordpress.com/

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Dear friends, (listeners, viewers, readers, sympathizers, associates) ---- The state of emergency introduced by the authorities in
connection with the new epidemic has put us in an unusual situation. We may not have witnessed such pressure on people's lives for decades.
---- Although we are all ordinary people - working and unemployed, parents and children, it is also difficult for us to analyze the
situation and would like to have a broader view of it. ---- Therefore, we would be grateful if you would write to us what you think of the
state of emergency, the response to the epidemic and the situation. What are you doing to survive economically and psychologically in the
face of increasing pressure from power. We will use the letters we received to better understand what is happening and publish the most
interesting ones.

You can email us at fab@a-bg.org, through the FAB facebook page or through the contact form .

The EPA radio team

https://www.anarchy.bg/

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Message: 8



Statement from the comrades behind the excellent website feverstruggle.net ---- The Covid-19 pandemic is putting workers around the world in
face of a common and simultaneous problem. The current situation ends up serving, in practice, as a laboratory for capital and governments
to restructure productive forces and improve their exploitation and control technologies. The crackdowns that are now taking place are
probably here to stay. This suspension of normality intensifies conflicts around work and reproduction. News about proletarian struggles
appears all over the globe: protesting against the sanitarian condition in their workplace, refusing to work through wildcat strikes,
mutinies in the prisons, organizing for rent strike etc. ---- Our role is not to propose solutions to help capitalism to solve this crisis.
All capitalist solution means maintaining of exploitation.

Our efforts must focus on conflicts related to exploitation: under what conditions do we continue to be forced to work? What about our wages
during the confinement? Will we have to work the hours stopped later? Will there be layoffs? And what for self-employed, precarious or app
workers? How are we going to pay the rent in the end of the month? What about the prisoners? And what about the migrants, trapped between
increasingly militarized borders, detention centers or overcrowded migrant camps?

As it is a global issue, it seems urgent to establish an international platform of inquiry and exchange around these struggles. A platform
that allows us to map, investigate, disseminate, discuss, put in contact and stimulate experiences of proletarian confrontation during the
pandemic.

Our aim is to build an exchange collective formulation between autonomous groups of workers from different countries. Fever publication
principles are based on this minimum common criteria:

1) Fever will focus on class struggle. We take the side of the working class, engaged in struggles against the divisions that separate us in
white and blue-collar workers, and in private and public sector employees. Against the State, that constructs some of us as illegals and
others with papers, but unemployed and without any benefits. We fight the divisions that see us only as nationalities or any other
identities. On the other hand, we don't want to remain workers and we believe that only through our involvement in communities of struggles
we can abolish the world of merchandise and waged labor. At the same time, it's important to analyze the movements of our enemies - the
capitalists and the State - once the pandemics forces them to restructure the production process. In this crisis, as in general, the State
is, organizing the defense of capital and private property to the detriment of the interests of the working class. The victory of our
struggles requires the destruction of the State, which we must think of in practical terms. We are facing preventive counter-insurgency
mechanisms and this site will also be a space to think about this strategic issue for the movement.

2) Fever is not interested in abstract programs or lists of demands detached from concrete processes of struggle.

3) Fever avoids conspiratorial or negationist tendencies. We are really facing a pandemic: thousands of people are dying around the globe.
Denying this reality is insane. On the other hand, celebrating the "ecological" or "revolutionary" impact of covid-19 massacre is not only
stupid from a proletarian point of view but also the sign of a morbid elitism.

The texts are published mainly in English, and then translated to as many languages as possible. Although we focus on struggle reports, we
are also interested in analytical articles.

We do not expect a website with a unique position. Disagreements and controversies are important for reflection: within these basic and
general principles, we want to stimulate public debates.

Making new ties between proletarian comrades around the world is also part of our aims. If you want to submit a text or join efforts with
Fever, contact us!

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/04/06/important-class-struggle-resource-for-the-pandemic/

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Message: 9


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sDSVyoXxM_hupGyBZJd03h2hFQNz_3qV/view THE COVID-19 CRISIS has made it perfectly clear that the same old
class politics of 100 years ago is still alive and well today. ---- Back in 1919, our ancestors came home from spilling their blood in the
wars of empires to lay dying of "Spanish Flu" in some workhouse or other. Jump forward a century and we see those who've suffered a decade
of the Tories' war on the poor are once again sent off to the front. Once again we'll end up in makeshift hospitals; this time in the vast
capitalist cavern of the Excel Centre or whatever other repurposed warehouse they can find for us. ---- Once again it is "lions led by
donkeys", as the Eton toffs who would have us believe they are "born to rule" prove they couldn't run a piss-up in a brewery. With 12 weeks'
notice they are still playing catch-up. No clear strategy, no ventilators and no PPE (personal protective equipment). Once again the working
class are being sent over the top by braying toffs. Once again they are woefully under-equipped. Once again they cough up their lungs on the
incompetence of their rulers - only this time it is Covid-19, not mustard gas. Once again our leaders try to con us it is all in the name of
our nation and our families.
And once again the reality is that it's about
the ruling class continuing to make their profit
on the backs of working-class sacrifice.
For weeks we've been hearing stories of
people being forced to risk their health, that
of their families and that of their communities
and the health workers who will treat them,
as they are forced onto packed trains to do
jobs which their bosses claim are essential
- when what they really mean is essential to
their bank balance. Workers already exploited
in the gig economy, in the bogus self-
employment of the building site, in the call
centres, warehouses and distribution centres,
are told to work or starve. Not to feed the
country or to transport essential supplies
- but to keep the economy running. Plenty
of bosses were lined up to claim, like Mike
Ashley at Sports Direct, that their little bit of
the capitalist profit-mongering machine was
an essential service. Building sites stayed open
to build the luxury penthouses that would
forever stay empty as ghost investments for
the super-rich. Government offices refused
to let workers work from home although the
technology was available - meaning they
still had to make the hazardous journey into
work, despite their customer-facing functions
having been suspended. Royal Mail refused
to suspend lucrative door-to-door (or junk
mail) contracts. Every unnecessary job, every
unnecessary worker being forced to travel, is
another potential death - and since this is a
contagion, an exponential number of deaths
leading from that.
And all of the workers who are being
forced to work, whether genuine key
workers or not, report the same thing in
their workplaces. Lack of hand sanitiser or
washing facilities, lack of social distancing
and lack of protective equipment. Across
the country, it has taken walkouts to force
management to provide the safeguards they
are legally obliged to - proving how uncaring
and corrupt they are. Like in all wars, this
lack of equipment and these walkouts are
downplayed while government ministers talk
about the Blitz Spirit and the Queen quotes
Vera Lynn. Fuck off with your nationalist lies!
While Boris, Charlie and the other parasites
get tested at the drop of a hat, our workmates
are dying! Undiagnosed, uncared for, leaving
their families, their children, unable to even
grieve, unable to see them buried! Transport
workers, delivery workers, cleaners and
health staff; all being sent over the top by the
incompetent Old Etonian Generals, coughing
and spluttering their way around the country,
to their castles and second homes. Second
homes?! The workers they are condemning
to an early grave struggle to afford a home of
any description! Just like it was a century ago!
Make no mistake, the working class are
heroes. We're keepin this country running,
and we're doing this in the face of the bos-
ses' continued greed and lack of care. You
can fuck off with your bleating about people
in parks. It's the bosses' lack of care and de-
reliction of duty that is putting us at risk -
not a couple of cunts with a frisbee.

While Boris, Charlie
and the other parasites
get tested at the drop
of a hat, our workmates
are dying

And although they were unable to plan
for the pandemic, the boss class are already
planning to take their place back at the
head of the queue when the crisis subsides.
Now we see who the real benefit scroungers
are! Profiteers sniffing round government
contracts. Billionaires self-isolating on their
yachts and tropical islands, while getting
the government to pay their wage bills. An
unending parade of parasites queuing up to
stick their snouts into government's coffers.
Well fuck 'em! Not this time. We owe it to
our comrades to build a society that allows us
all to dream the same dreams; that allows all
our children to thrive. We've seen just who
keeps the country running - and just who
cares for nothing and no one but themselves.
Fuck the bosses! Power to the workers!

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