Today's Topics:
1. zabalaza.net: Youtube: Anarchist-communist webinar on
world's health crisis, including ZACF/ Zabalaza, 11th April 2020
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
world's health crisis, including ZACF/ Zabalaza, 11th April 2020
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Collective
grandstand, Covid-19: popular neighborhoods on the front line !
(fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
grandstand, Covid-19: popular neighborhoods on the front line !
(fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Poland, rozbrat: CORONAVIRUS AND CYBERNETIC ALLEVIATION --
Jaroslaw Urbanski [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Jaroslaw Urbanski [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. International of Anarchist Federations: GREECE - POSTERS
FROM GROUP AGAINST PATRIARCHY (APO) FOR THE
FROM GROUP AGAINST PATRIARCHY (APO) FOR THE
STATE MURDERS IN
PRISONS (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
PRISONS (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Britain, Class War Daily FRIDAY 17 APRIL 2020 - What's Left?
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. US, WSA, ideas and action: Wayfair Workers Walk Out! By
Sachio Ko-yin (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Sachio Ko-yin (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Czech, AFED: Reproduction as a shared farm -- Do we want to
pay unpaid work or do it together? [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
pay unpaid work or do it together? [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. ait russia: Poland: Let's get public spaces back! [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
What does the crisis mean for the working class and poor, and for our struggles and strategic perspectives? The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist
Front (ZACF), South Africa, participated in a recent online panel with sister organisations from across the world on 11 April 2020. For
those who were unable to tune in, you can enjoy a video recording here: ---- youtube.com/watch?v=YQpCp9MBFj8 ---- The event was hosted by
Black Rose / Rose Negra Anarchist Federation (U.S.). Cde Warren McGregor of ZACF makes many valuable points: a transcript of his points will
follow in another post. Other participation was from Acción Socialista Libertaria (Argentina), Solidaridad (Chile), Union Communiste
Libertaire (France) and Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland).
https://zabalaza.net/2020/04/19/youtube-anarchist-communist-webinar-on-worlds-health-crisis-including-zacf-zabalaza-11th-april-2020/
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Message: 2
The Covid-19 epidemic is hitting working class neighborhoods hard, and it is closely linked to inequality and discrimination. A collective
forum signed by the Libertarian Communist Union (UCL). ---- For several weeks the world has been hit by the Covid-19 epidemic and
particularly France, which has become in the space of a month one of the countries most affected by the virus. ---- If the virus does not
make a distinction between human beings, regardless of their origin or social class, it is the social inequalities created by successive
government policies and the catastrophic or even criminal management of the current government that comes to make a social and racial sort.
in the population. ---- We condemn with the utmost firmness all the remarks of certain politicians or editorialists, aiming to pass the
people of the working-class districts for animals, for irresponsible. Containment is respected as much in working-class neighborhoods as
elsewhere.
Since the beginning of this crisis, people from immigrant backgrounds and lower-income neighborhoods have been on the front lines of this
epidemic. They are in the health sector, in retirement homes, nursing homes, hospitals ; these are the nursing assistants, the ASH, the
nurses, etc.
They are also found in occupations essential to the life of the population: cleaning agents, railway workers, traminots, forklift operators,
storekeepers, deliverers, cashiers, etc. These people from lower-income neighborhoods are also forced by pressure from the government and
employers to work in companies that were not essential to the life of the country during the epidemic, such as in construction, the
automobile or the metal industry, thus putting them in danger.
It is also in these working-class neighborhoods that active solidarity is set up by young and old alike spontaneously. Portings of meals,
gloves, masks, explanations of the need for confinement to the exchange of words with the most isolated people ; solidarity is total and
often on the part of the poorest.
Many people have had loved ones severely affected by the virus, and many have died. The first figures attest to this, with the increase of
more than 40% in the mortality rate in one month in Seine-Saint-Denis . If the virus comes from pangolin, it is not responsible for it. On
the other hand, it is social and racial inequalities that contribute to slowly killing these inhabitants.
For decades, resources for health have been increasingly scarce. Resuscitation beds per inhabitant are less numerous in lower-income
neighborhoods and certain countryside than elsewhere. Concerning doctors, there are 54.6 general practitioners per 100,000 inhabitants in
the 93 against 71.7 in Ile de France. People are dying because it has become increasingly difficult for them to access care. Inequalities
persist during confinement.
There are those who walk in the beautiful districts, and the inhabitants of the districts which are repressed down from their home sometimes
while going to make their shopping. Many people can neither read nor write, yet they too must provide a certificate to go shopping. Almost
10% of the country's fines were served in the 93 department alone, that is to say the level of repression.
How can you not want to take the air and breathe, when you have been confined for 4 weeks, in cramped and often unsanitary apartments ? It
is, moreover, sometimes and paradoxically confinement in cramped and over-occupied housing due to the lack of social housing, which kills.
This is the way people from an immigrant background living in working-class neighborhoods, criminalized in the streets and in the media, are
treated , while they often pay a higher price in the face of the Covid-19.
The inequalities do not stop there. Insufficient transport, exploding unemployment, multiplication of redundancies or end of contracts,
without forgetting a youth of the districts which lives head-on social inequality in learning, lacking means and concrete aids.
We will not fall into this scam of national unity, which would like us to let the weakest die without saying anything, as if it were a fatality.
We urgently demand the shutdown of non-essential businesses across the country.
We demand sufficient means to protect those on the front line from the virus, in health as well as in production.
We demand massive tests for the entire population, as well as the requisition of empty accommodation and hotels, in order to protect the
families who need it.
We demand transport allowing those who work for the survival of the population, to do so without danger, in connection with the demands of
the employees and unions of the companies concerned.
We demand that social assistance be increased so that the precarious can live a more dignified life.
We demand that layoffs, breaches of contract be prohibited and that wages be maintained at 100%.
We demand that rents, especially energy charges, be frozen.
We demand a major plan for the public hospital.
We demand the end of facies checks which generate unbearable police violence.
We demand the shelter as well as the regularization of the administrative situation of migrants and undocumented migrants.
Residents of lower-income neighborhoods will not once again be the easy scapegoat of a struggling power.
Faced with a government serving the big bosses, it is not up to us to pay for their economic crisis or their catastrophic management of the
health crisis.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Covid-19-les-quartiers-populaires-en-premiere-ligne
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Message: 3
When the epidemic broke out in Poland, together with a group of activists we organized a protest against increases in the price of public
transport tickets in Poznan. On March 10 from the morning we were with posters and banners on the city council. Before entering the meeting
room, a stand with hand sanitizer was already set up, but nobody was wearing masks or keeping distance and we were breathing fully. ----
Keywords coronavirus Poznan City Council authority Social control There was already excitement among the councilors, high officials and city
presidents about the epidemic. They were convinced that they were undergoing historical test. When the Poznan city council dominated by PO -
despite calls to return to the problem after the epidemic - voted for a 20% increase in public transport fares, we promised ourselves that
"we would come back". Today it is not so certain.
On March 13, an epidemic emergency was introduced in Poland, and a week later - an epidemic status. However, the "heroic" period in the
fight against coronavirus quickly ended. Since then, the authorities - both local and central - have changed their rhetoric and views on
what is happening in connection with the plague several times and where it is all going. First, we were to deal with the "invisible invader"
in two weeks, at the latest by Christmas. To declare victory in such a short time did not succeed. They began to wait and prepare for the
upcoming "decisive battle" - the "peak of the disease", which was to take place around the holidays, after the holidays, in the second half
of April, at the turn of April and May ... And maybe - as some say today we crossed it imperceptibly. There is less and less talk about the
summit. This type of argument has been replaced by another - on the second wave of autumn cases. The fight against coronavirus is therefore
to last not several weeks or even months, but even a year or two. Maybe longer?
WE ARE ALL SUSPECTS
On March 30, Minister of Health Lukasz Szumowski said that the restrictions that had been introduced earlier were "insufficient" and that,
in order to prevent the increase in morbidity, - in the opinion of many commentators senselessly - practicing individual amateur sport in
the open air and access to the forest. That day we had 193 new infections and two deaths from COVID-19. When on April 17 Szumowski lifted
these restrictions and announced the doctrine of "defrosting" together with the prime minister, the situation from the epidemiological point
of view was definitely worse - 461 infections and 18 deaths. However, it turned out that masks would ultimately provide us with security.
This is another turn in power rhetoric. This is best demonstrated by the change in forecasts regarding the potential expected percentage of
those infected with coronavirus. Initially, Szumowski talked about 10-20% of Poles, now 60%. Maybe more. We are therefore all suspicious,
potential carriers of the germ. And a sign of this - the need to wear a mask.
Behind these changing narratives lies the assumption that the tactic so far has not been won. Power elites suggest that success was
impossible because our society is too mobile, undisciplined, and prone to insubordination. It is therefore necessary to act differently.
There is no room here for reflection that the threat lies in the authorities' reactions. Belated, exaggerated, inadequate to the situation
and finally dictated by ignorance. The government does not want to admit that the virus was responded too late, two months were wasted (from
mid-January this year) to prepare the health service and society for the epidemic. It was possible to produce (purchase) the appropriate
number of masks, coveralls, respirators, tests, appoint infectious hospitals, run laboratories, prepare staff and procedures. You could
protect seniors, and subject all preparatory steps to public consultations, inscribing them in democratic rules. When the epidemic broke
out, Morawiecki did not know what to say - whether he was prepared for it or rather surprised. One day he said yes, the other day he said
the opposite. It was also pointed out to him by the media.
Recently, adviser to President Duda of the National Security Bureau prof. Andrzej Zybertowicz defended the authorities, arguing that no
government in the world was prepared for a pandemic, and the Bureau lay on the table a number of analyzes talking about at least a dozen
types of risk (including perhaps the threat of an epidemic, because it no longer remembers), which is unknown there was what to choose.
Apparently nothing was chosen or wrongly chosen. Who is responsible for this? Well, rather not society.
DEMOCRACY TEST
The crowning argument that the government was unprepared was the issue of coronavirus testing. The number of tests performed clearly affects
the detection of infections and is (was?) One of the basic strategies to counteract the effects of an epidemic. However, the Minister of
Health first claimed that there are enough of them in Poland, adequate to the needs and no less than elsewhere. Today, looking at the number
of tests carried out in the 27 countries of the European Union and Great Britain, we can see that Poland is closing (along with three other
countries) this rate. Yes, in some countries the problem of infection occurred faster, and thus more tests were done in the long run.
However, this is not the rule. For example, in the Czech Republic, where the first coronavirus infection occurred only four days earlier
than in Poland,
In addition, during Easter in Poland carelessly - despite the already existing laboratory capabilities - a total of about 20 thousand. tests
that would detect an additional several hundred, maybe even 1,000 infections. To this doubt, Szumowski simply replied that apparently there
were no such referrals and he did not take responsibility for it. The issue of testing is slowly ceasing to be the center of attention, the
focus is on the invention of the vaccine. "There is no data," said Szumowski on April 17, "that the epidemic would end in summer or fall. We
must have a perspective for vaccine preparation. " However, by controlling the number of tests carried out, the government can build (though
only up to a point) the justification for its actions, one by accumulating the number of cases, sometimes reducing.
This is amazing, but in the melting pot of various scientific arguments, an opinion is always "revealing" that justifies the new government
guidelines (whether about masks, peak incidence, the importance of testing, etc.). One of the virologists was to say now that the tests are
not particularly needed, because they describe the situation many days ago. They do not detect the coronavirus itself, but the antibodies
that appear after infection. They are therefore not of great direct importance in the fight against the epidemic. However, the demand for
universal access to tests (and immediately) seems to be one of the most important. They will allow us to regain control over our own lives
so as not to be dependent on the changeable and blind verdicts of power. Her manipulations and silences.
RETURN OF THE ORWELLIAN WORLD
In the context of the murky and contradictory narratives of the government, more and more guesses are born about its true intentions. Is it
more than business and health, not about our life and health, to seize the opportunity and capture full control? Sudden decisions about
restrictions, announced with theatrical exaggeration, were first caused by fear of security, and now they are presented with the conditions
of "new normality", which we will reach in stages. Morawiecki's program of building a "pandemic society" based on isolation, identification
and computerization sounds like a Maoist party program. In many cases you can see a clear choke on Chinese success in the fight against
coronavirus, but based on electronic surveillance, ubiquitous monitoring and social atomization combined with strict laws. Not only on the
Yellow River, but also on the Vistula it is speculated that since it is possible to electronically control hundreds of thousands of
quarantined, it is technically possible also on the scale of the whole society. Neoliberal media say that, for example, in Switzerland, the
services react when a banned number of people meet in one place, based on data from mobile operators. If it is possible in China, even in
Switzerland, this cradle of democracy, can it not be in Poland? in Switzerland, the services react when there is a banned number of people
meeting in one place, based on data from mobile operators. If it is possible in China, even in Switzerland, this cradle of democracy, can it
not be in Poland? in Switzerland, the services react when there is a banned number of people meeting in one place, based on data from mobile
operators. If it is possible in China, even in Switzerland, this cradle of democracy, can it not be in Poland?
What seemed to be an inevitable torment for two weeks or months of the epidemic, for two years could mean the establishment of a new and
essentially totalitarian system. Complete transformation of social relations and the system of exercising power. The Morawiecki program is
nothing more than an announcement of a cybernetic labor camp, and Minister Szumowski's tired and caring look beats the eyes of the new Big
Brother. The fight is about to go far beyond the price of MPK tickets.
https://www.rozbrat.org/publicystyka/kontrola-spoeczna/4715-koronawirus-i-cybernetyczny-lagier
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Message: 4
"Today, April 9, detainee Azizel Deniroglu died in her chamber, helpless, while facing some heart problems, and having a high fever too. All
night, she pleaded for help, she had chest pains and she couldn't breathe. According to reports, they didn't even take her temperature and
we ignore the real causes of her death. The shift manager threatened her with a report because she was bothering her. Our fellow inmate's
lifeless body was dragged out with a sheet in front of the shocked eyes of the whole wing. The tragic event took place in the V-wing, in
which around 120 people are piled up". ---- HANDS OFF THE WOMEN WHO FIGHT ---- "The death of our fellow inmate Demiroglu Azizel was a
catalyst and led the prisoners to riot. The answer to our fellow inmate's death and the mockery of the ministry, which while had promised
the decongestion of prisons did not do so, was brutal violence. Riot police destroyed objects in prison, chased and beat women. A prisoner
with epilepsy receiving strong medication was hit in the head by riot police on all over her body as she was being dragged and thrown into
her chamber like trash while beating and cursing her. At the time of the riot police invasion, the uprising had already ended. This is the
first time in the history of the struggles in prisons that a riot police invasion has been ordered to violently suppress a peaceful protest."
excerpts from the words of women prisoners in Elaionas prison, in Thebes
IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION OF THE INMATES' DEMANDS
-Immediate decongestion of the prisons due to the coronavirus pandemic
- Release NOW all the prisoners who are patients, elderly, the mothers with their children and those considered vulnerable groups, that is a
total of 1/3 of prisoners
- Release NOW all prisoners who have served 2/5 gross sentence.
AGAINST THE BRUTALITY OF CONFINEMENT, THE PANDEMIC AND THE ONGOING STATE AND CAPITALIST CRIME
WE ARE IN SOLIDARITY!
DEMOLITION OF ALL PRISONS AND CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS
AGAINST STATE AND PATRIARCHY - FOR EMANCIPATION AND ANARCHY
group against patriarchy -
Anarchist Political Organization| Federation of Collectives
facebook.com/InternationalOfAnarchistFederations/posts/1373907596152895
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Message: 5
2013 BC - Before Corbyn - most of the UK'S Trot groups had formed a working alliance of some sort which would have stood candidates in the
General Election. The progress has been acrimonious but at last they had a platform to stand on. ---- The surprise victory of Jeremy Corbyn
led to the immediate end of Left Unity. All hands were now wanted for support for Corbyn - and boy oh boy can the trots spot a gravy train
when they see one. Shades of the last crony days of the GLC. When lifelong opponent of reformism were falling over themselves to land plum
adviser jobs so was it at Labour HQ. ---- Just take one example - Andrew "Drummond" Murray, Scottish Aristo, Communist adviser to Corbyn on
£100,00 a year. And now we survey the wasteland of the 4 years hard slog through the institutions has resulted in abject and zomplete
failure. The trots now wake up to a Chernobyl wasteland with no signposts or leaders. Leaderless they waste months convincing themselves
that Rebecca Long Bailey is the heir of Corbyn.
I don't believe that the Labour
Party will die - it is valuable
for providing an alternative,
which ain't no alternative at
all.
So what are their options?
1. Campaign against Starmer
for another 4 years slog
through meetings
2. Convince themselves
Starmer is really a closet
socialist
3. The SWP and SP will slog
on alone
4. Try and burnish some of
the old policies into newly
discovered gold. Make
the nationalisation of the
railways into the new NHS.
Get the blue skies visionaries
on the case.
None of these will do the
trick. As an old Maoist
comrade told me "with l
Labour little hopblacvke -
without Labour no hope" ,
and so they soldier on like
Napoleons retreat from
Moscow.
If I was a Trot I'd vote for
Andrew Burgin - a genuinely
nice man and a wonderful
gossip who was a main mover
in starting Left Unity and
was a long time supporter
of the WRP - the ultra
Healyite Death Brigade.
He tells the story of being
on duty at the Red House
- the black lubianka where
comrades were re-educated
- in Derbyshire - the night
before the Gerry Healy
revelations were to break. He
was handed a pistol and told
to look out for a Bonapartist
attack. Thankfully he
survived. That's the kind of
armed comrades the Labour
Party needs
- not a wimp-like Starmer
who has never even taken a
pitchfork to a Bonapartist.
THREE THINGS YOU
NEVER KNEW ABOUT
TGE WRP - YES IT'S
STILL GOING
1. Only Trot group in the
UK to have a woman leader
- which is one more than
Labour has managed - rare
pic of Sheila Torrance.
2. They always want to make
trade union leaders fight.
3. Vanessa Redgrave did not
"get her tits out for the lads"
as requested by striking
miners in Mansfield
4. The miracle of Newsline:
The WRP still produces
it's daily newspaper and
a comrade will cycle over
and push it through your
letterbox.
Seriously this is a
phenomenal achievement
which I admire. UK
anarchists by comparison are
seriously lacking in energy.
THE CLASS WAR DAILY
NEEDS YOU TO PUT YOUR
SHOULDERS TO THE WHEEL
COMRADES. FULL STEAM
AHEAD THROUGH THE SHIT!
Pic: Sheila Torrance - only
leader of Trot group in UK
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wqpVm4DTiA8_AfOlJdhXgeJc_M_KvU8z/view
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Message: 6
On June 26, hundreds of workers and those in support protested outside the Wayfair Boston outlet. The workers quickly organized a walk-out
in response to an order the online furniture store received from a government contractor for $200,000 of materials. This government
contractor, it was discovered, manages Detention Facilities at the US Southern Border. The Facilities have been condemned by global human
rights organizations for illegally detaining and separating children from their families and for holding children in inhumane conditions.
The Trump administration has used these facilities to get support from a rising tide of anti immigrant racism in the US. The Wayfair
worker's walk-out and protest was bolstered by the twitter account @SleepingGiants and the worker's account @wayfairwalkout.
http://ideasandaction.info/2020/03/wayfair-workers-walk-out/
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Message: 7
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
What does the crisis mean for the working class and poor, and for our struggles and strategic perspectives? The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist
Front (ZACF), South Africa, participated in a recent online panel with sister organisations from across the world on 11 April 2020. For
those who were unable to tune in, you can enjoy a video recording here: ---- youtube.com/watch?v=YQpCp9MBFj8 ---- The event was hosted by
Black Rose / Rose Negra Anarchist Federation (U.S.). Cde Warren McGregor of ZACF makes many valuable points: a transcript of his points will
follow in another post. Other participation was from Acción Socialista Libertaria (Argentina), Solidaridad (Chile), Union Communiste
Libertaire (France) and Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland).
https://zabalaza.net/2020/04/19/youtube-anarchist-communist-webinar-on-worlds-health-crisis-including-zacf-zabalaza-11th-april-2020/
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Message: 2
The Covid-19 epidemic is hitting working class neighborhoods hard, and it is closely linked to inequality and discrimination. A collective
forum signed by the Libertarian Communist Union (UCL). ---- For several weeks the world has been hit by the Covid-19 epidemic and
particularly France, which has become in the space of a month one of the countries most affected by the virus. ---- If the virus does not
make a distinction between human beings, regardless of their origin or social class, it is the social inequalities created by successive
government policies and the catastrophic or even criminal management of the current government that comes to make a social and racial sort.
in the population. ---- We condemn with the utmost firmness all the remarks of certain politicians or editorialists, aiming to pass the
people of the working-class districts for animals, for irresponsible. Containment is respected as much in working-class neighborhoods as
elsewhere.
Since the beginning of this crisis, people from immigrant backgrounds and lower-income neighborhoods have been on the front lines of this
epidemic. They are in the health sector, in retirement homes, nursing homes, hospitals ; these are the nursing assistants, the ASH, the
nurses, etc.
They are also found in occupations essential to the life of the population: cleaning agents, railway workers, traminots, forklift operators,
storekeepers, deliverers, cashiers, etc. These people from lower-income neighborhoods are also forced by pressure from the government and
employers to work in companies that were not essential to the life of the country during the epidemic, such as in construction, the
automobile or the metal industry, thus putting them in danger.
It is also in these working-class neighborhoods that active solidarity is set up by young and old alike spontaneously. Portings of meals,
gloves, masks, explanations of the need for confinement to the exchange of words with the most isolated people ; solidarity is total and
often on the part of the poorest.
Many people have had loved ones severely affected by the virus, and many have died. The first figures attest to this, with the increase of
more than 40% in the mortality rate in one month in Seine-Saint-Denis . If the virus comes from pangolin, it is not responsible for it. On
the other hand, it is social and racial inequalities that contribute to slowly killing these inhabitants.
For decades, resources for health have been increasingly scarce. Resuscitation beds per inhabitant are less numerous in lower-income
neighborhoods and certain countryside than elsewhere. Concerning doctors, there are 54.6 general practitioners per 100,000 inhabitants in
the 93 against 71.7 in Ile de France. People are dying because it has become increasingly difficult for them to access care. Inequalities
persist during confinement.
There are those who walk in the beautiful districts, and the inhabitants of the districts which are repressed down from their home sometimes
while going to make their shopping. Many people can neither read nor write, yet they too must provide a certificate to go shopping. Almost
10% of the country's fines were served in the 93 department alone, that is to say the level of repression.
How can you not want to take the air and breathe, when you have been confined for 4 weeks, in cramped and often unsanitary apartments ? It
is, moreover, sometimes and paradoxically confinement in cramped and over-occupied housing due to the lack of social housing, which kills.
This is the way people from an immigrant background living in working-class neighborhoods, criminalized in the streets and in the media, are
treated , while they often pay a higher price in the face of the Covid-19.
The inequalities do not stop there. Insufficient transport, exploding unemployment, multiplication of redundancies or end of contracts,
without forgetting a youth of the districts which lives head-on social inequality in learning, lacking means and concrete aids.
We will not fall into this scam of national unity, which would like us to let the weakest die without saying anything, as if it were a fatality.
We urgently demand the shutdown of non-essential businesses across the country.
We demand sufficient means to protect those on the front line from the virus, in health as well as in production.
We demand massive tests for the entire population, as well as the requisition of empty accommodation and hotels, in order to protect the
families who need it.
We demand transport allowing those who work for the survival of the population, to do so without danger, in connection with the demands of
the employees and unions of the companies concerned.
We demand that social assistance be increased so that the precarious can live a more dignified life.
We demand that layoffs, breaches of contract be prohibited and that wages be maintained at 100%.
We demand that rents, especially energy charges, be frozen.
We demand a major plan for the public hospital.
We demand the end of facies checks which generate unbearable police violence.
We demand the shelter as well as the regularization of the administrative situation of migrants and undocumented migrants.
Residents of lower-income neighborhoods will not once again be the easy scapegoat of a struggling power.
Faced with a government serving the big bosses, it is not up to us to pay for their economic crisis or their catastrophic management of the
health crisis.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Covid-19-les-quartiers-populaires-en-premiere-ligne
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Message: 3
When the epidemic broke out in Poland, together with a group of activists we organized a protest against increases in the price of public
transport tickets in Poznan. On March 10 from the morning we were with posters and banners on the city council. Before entering the meeting
room, a stand with hand sanitizer was already set up, but nobody was wearing masks or keeping distance and we were breathing fully. ----
Keywords coronavirus Poznan City Council authority Social control There was already excitement among the councilors, high officials and city
presidents about the epidemic. They were convinced that they were undergoing historical test. When the Poznan city council dominated by PO -
despite calls to return to the problem after the epidemic - voted for a 20% increase in public transport fares, we promised ourselves that
"we would come back". Today it is not so certain.
On March 13, an epidemic emergency was introduced in Poland, and a week later - an epidemic status. However, the "heroic" period in the
fight against coronavirus quickly ended. Since then, the authorities - both local and central - have changed their rhetoric and views on
what is happening in connection with the plague several times and where it is all going. First, we were to deal with the "invisible invader"
in two weeks, at the latest by Christmas. To declare victory in such a short time did not succeed. They began to wait and prepare for the
upcoming "decisive battle" - the "peak of the disease", which was to take place around the holidays, after the holidays, in the second half
of April, at the turn of April and May ... And maybe - as some say today we crossed it imperceptibly. There is less and less talk about the
summit. This type of argument has been replaced by another - on the second wave of autumn cases. The fight against coronavirus is therefore
to last not several weeks or even months, but even a year or two. Maybe longer?
WE ARE ALL SUSPECTS
On March 30, Minister of Health Lukasz Szumowski said that the restrictions that had been introduced earlier were "insufficient" and that,
in order to prevent the increase in morbidity, - in the opinion of many commentators senselessly - practicing individual amateur sport in
the open air and access to the forest. That day we had 193 new infections and two deaths from COVID-19. When on April 17 Szumowski lifted
these restrictions and announced the doctrine of "defrosting" together with the prime minister, the situation from the epidemiological point
of view was definitely worse - 461 infections and 18 deaths. However, it turned out that masks would ultimately provide us with security.
This is another turn in power rhetoric. This is best demonstrated by the change in forecasts regarding the potential expected percentage of
those infected with coronavirus. Initially, Szumowski talked about 10-20% of Poles, now 60%. Maybe more. We are therefore all suspicious,
potential carriers of the germ. And a sign of this - the need to wear a mask.
Behind these changing narratives lies the assumption that the tactic so far has not been won. Power elites suggest that success was
impossible because our society is too mobile, undisciplined, and prone to insubordination. It is therefore necessary to act differently.
There is no room here for reflection that the threat lies in the authorities' reactions. Belated, exaggerated, inadequate to the situation
and finally dictated by ignorance. The government does not want to admit that the virus was responded too late, two months were wasted (from
mid-January this year) to prepare the health service and society for the epidemic. It was possible to produce (purchase) the appropriate
number of masks, coveralls, respirators, tests, appoint infectious hospitals, run laboratories, prepare staff and procedures. You could
protect seniors, and subject all preparatory steps to public consultations, inscribing them in democratic rules. When the epidemic broke
out, Morawiecki did not know what to say - whether he was prepared for it or rather surprised. One day he said yes, the other day he said
the opposite. It was also pointed out to him by the media.
Recently, adviser to President Duda of the National Security Bureau prof. Andrzej Zybertowicz defended the authorities, arguing that no
government in the world was prepared for a pandemic, and the Bureau lay on the table a number of analyzes talking about at least a dozen
types of risk (including perhaps the threat of an epidemic, because it no longer remembers), which is unknown there was what to choose.
Apparently nothing was chosen or wrongly chosen. Who is responsible for this? Well, rather not society.
DEMOCRACY TEST
The crowning argument that the government was unprepared was the issue of coronavirus testing. The number of tests performed clearly affects
the detection of infections and is (was?) One of the basic strategies to counteract the effects of an epidemic. However, the Minister of
Health first claimed that there are enough of them in Poland, adequate to the needs and no less than elsewhere. Today, looking at the number
of tests carried out in the 27 countries of the European Union and Great Britain, we can see that Poland is closing (along with three other
countries) this rate. Yes, in some countries the problem of infection occurred faster, and thus more tests were done in the long run.
However, this is not the rule. For example, in the Czech Republic, where the first coronavirus infection occurred only four days earlier
than in Poland,
In addition, during Easter in Poland carelessly - despite the already existing laboratory capabilities - a total of about 20 thousand. tests
that would detect an additional several hundred, maybe even 1,000 infections. To this doubt, Szumowski simply replied that apparently there
were no such referrals and he did not take responsibility for it. The issue of testing is slowly ceasing to be the center of attention, the
focus is on the invention of the vaccine. "There is no data," said Szumowski on April 17, "that the epidemic would end in summer or fall. We
must have a perspective for vaccine preparation. " However, by controlling the number of tests carried out, the government can build (though
only up to a point) the justification for its actions, one by accumulating the number of cases, sometimes reducing.
This is amazing, but in the melting pot of various scientific arguments, an opinion is always "revealing" that justifies the new government
guidelines (whether about masks, peak incidence, the importance of testing, etc.). One of the virologists was to say now that the tests are
not particularly needed, because they describe the situation many days ago. They do not detect the coronavirus itself, but the antibodies
that appear after infection. They are therefore not of great direct importance in the fight against the epidemic. However, the demand for
universal access to tests (and immediately) seems to be one of the most important. They will allow us to regain control over our own lives
so as not to be dependent on the changeable and blind verdicts of power. Her manipulations and silences.
RETURN OF THE ORWELLIAN WORLD
In the context of the murky and contradictory narratives of the government, more and more guesses are born about its true intentions. Is it
more than business and health, not about our life and health, to seize the opportunity and capture full control? Sudden decisions about
restrictions, announced with theatrical exaggeration, were first caused by fear of security, and now they are presented with the conditions
of "new normality", which we will reach in stages. Morawiecki's program of building a "pandemic society" based on isolation, identification
and computerization sounds like a Maoist party program. In many cases you can see a clear choke on Chinese success in the fight against
coronavirus, but based on electronic surveillance, ubiquitous monitoring and social atomization combined with strict laws. Not only on the
Yellow River, but also on the Vistula it is speculated that since it is possible to electronically control hundreds of thousands of
quarantined, it is technically possible also on the scale of the whole society. Neoliberal media say that, for example, in Switzerland, the
services react when a banned number of people meet in one place, based on data from mobile operators. If it is possible in China, even in
Switzerland, this cradle of democracy, can it not be in Poland? in Switzerland, the services react when there is a banned number of people
meeting in one place, based on data from mobile operators. If it is possible in China, even in Switzerland, this cradle of democracy, can it
not be in Poland? in Switzerland, the services react when there is a banned number of people meeting in one place, based on data from mobile
operators. If it is possible in China, even in Switzerland, this cradle of democracy, can it not be in Poland?
What seemed to be an inevitable torment for two weeks or months of the epidemic, for two years could mean the establishment of a new and
essentially totalitarian system. Complete transformation of social relations and the system of exercising power. The Morawiecki program is
nothing more than an announcement of a cybernetic labor camp, and Minister Szumowski's tired and caring look beats the eyes of the new Big
Brother. The fight is about to go far beyond the price of MPK tickets.
https://www.rozbrat.org/publicystyka/kontrola-spoeczna/4715-koronawirus-i-cybernetyczny-lagier
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"Today, April 9, detainee Azizel Deniroglu died in her chamber, helpless, while facing some heart problems, and having a high fever too. All
night, she pleaded for help, she had chest pains and she couldn't breathe. According to reports, they didn't even take her temperature and
we ignore the real causes of her death. The shift manager threatened her with a report because she was bothering her. Our fellow inmate's
lifeless body was dragged out with a sheet in front of the shocked eyes of the whole wing. The tragic event took place in the V-wing, in
which around 120 people are piled up". ---- HANDS OFF THE WOMEN WHO FIGHT ---- "The death of our fellow inmate Demiroglu Azizel was a
catalyst and led the prisoners to riot. The answer to our fellow inmate's death and the mockery of the ministry, which while had promised
the decongestion of prisons did not do so, was brutal violence. Riot police destroyed objects in prison, chased and beat women. A prisoner
with epilepsy receiving strong medication was hit in the head by riot police on all over her body as she was being dragged and thrown into
her chamber like trash while beating and cursing her. At the time of the riot police invasion, the uprising had already ended. This is the
first time in the history of the struggles in prisons that a riot police invasion has been ordered to violently suppress a peaceful protest."
excerpts from the words of women prisoners in Elaionas prison, in Thebes
IMMEDIATE SATISFACTION OF THE INMATES' DEMANDS
-Immediate decongestion of the prisons due to the coronavirus pandemic
- Release NOW all the prisoners who are patients, elderly, the mothers with their children and those considered vulnerable groups, that is a
total of 1/3 of prisoners
- Release NOW all prisoners who have served 2/5 gross sentence.
AGAINST THE BRUTALITY OF CONFINEMENT, THE PANDEMIC AND THE ONGOING STATE AND CAPITALIST CRIME
WE ARE IN SOLIDARITY!
DEMOLITION OF ALL PRISONS AND CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS
AGAINST STATE AND PATRIARCHY - FOR EMANCIPATION AND ANARCHY
group against patriarchy -
Anarchist Political Organization| Federation of Collectives
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2013 BC - Before Corbyn - most of the UK'S Trot groups had formed a working alliance of some sort which would have stood candidates in the
General Election. The progress has been acrimonious but at last they had a platform to stand on. ---- The surprise victory of Jeremy Corbyn
led to the immediate end of Left Unity. All hands were now wanted for support for Corbyn - and boy oh boy can the trots spot a gravy train
when they see one. Shades of the last crony days of the GLC. When lifelong opponent of reformism were falling over themselves to land plum
adviser jobs so was it at Labour HQ. ---- Just take one example - Andrew "Drummond" Murray, Scottish Aristo, Communist adviser to Corbyn on
£100,00 a year. And now we survey the wasteland of the 4 years hard slog through the institutions has resulted in abject and zomplete
failure. The trots now wake up to a Chernobyl wasteland with no signposts or leaders. Leaderless they waste months convincing themselves
that Rebecca Long Bailey is the heir of Corbyn.
I don't believe that the Labour
Party will die - it is valuable
for providing an alternative,
which ain't no alternative at
all.
So what are their options?
1. Campaign against Starmer
for another 4 years slog
through meetings
2. Convince themselves
Starmer is really a closet
socialist
3. The SWP and SP will slog
on alone
4. Try and burnish some of
the old policies into newly
discovered gold. Make
the nationalisation of the
railways into the new NHS.
Get the blue skies visionaries
on the case.
None of these will do the
trick. As an old Maoist
comrade told me "with l
Labour little hopblacvke -
without Labour no hope" ,
and so they soldier on like
Napoleons retreat from
Moscow.
If I was a Trot I'd vote for
Andrew Burgin - a genuinely
nice man and a wonderful
gossip who was a main mover
in starting Left Unity and
was a long time supporter
of the WRP - the ultra
Healyite Death Brigade.
He tells the story of being
on duty at the Red House
- the black lubianka where
comrades were re-educated
- in Derbyshire - the night
before the Gerry Healy
revelations were to break. He
was handed a pistol and told
to look out for a Bonapartist
attack. Thankfully he
survived. That's the kind of
armed comrades the Labour
Party needs
- not a wimp-like Starmer
who has never even taken a
pitchfork to a Bonapartist.
THREE THINGS YOU
NEVER KNEW ABOUT
TGE WRP - YES IT'S
STILL GOING
1. Only Trot group in the
UK to have a woman leader
- which is one more than
Labour has managed - rare
pic of Sheila Torrance.
2. They always want to make
trade union leaders fight.
3. Vanessa Redgrave did not
"get her tits out for the lads"
as requested by striking
miners in Mansfield
4. The miracle of Newsline:
The WRP still produces
it's daily newspaper and
a comrade will cycle over
and push it through your
letterbox.
Seriously this is a
phenomenal achievement
which I admire. UK
anarchists by comparison are
seriously lacking in energy.
THE CLASS WAR DAILY
NEEDS YOU TO PUT YOUR
SHOULDERS TO THE WHEEL
COMRADES. FULL STEAM
AHEAD THROUGH THE SHIT!
Pic: Sheila Torrance - only
leader of Trot group in UK
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wqpVm4DTiA8_AfOlJdhXgeJc_M_KvU8z/view
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On June 26, hundreds of workers and those in support protested outside the Wayfair Boston outlet. The workers quickly organized a walk-out
in response to an order the online furniture store received from a government contractor for $200,000 of materials. This government
contractor, it was discovered, manages Detention Facilities at the US Southern Border. The Facilities have been condemned by global human
rights organizations for illegally detaining and separating children from their families and for holding children in inhumane conditions.
The Trump administration has used these facilities to get support from a rising tide of anti immigrant racism in the US. The Wayfair
worker's walk-out and protest was bolstered by the twitter account @SleepingGiants and the worker's account @wayfairwalkout.
http://ideasandaction.info/2020/03/wayfair-workers-walk-out/
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Reproductive work is all activities aimed at 'reproducing a human being', from caring for children, sick and elderly people, to cooking,
cleaning, growing vegetables in the garden, to education, or creating a safe and pleasant environment to relax after other work. The
Italian-American thinker and activist Silvia Federici analyzes her from a feminist perspective and points out that as we begin to perform
reproductive work together, in a shared way, we get out of capitalist relations and begin to deeply transform society. ---- The reproduction
of human beings is a very large area. After all, what else is life? We can relate reproductive work to a number of areas such as education,
housing, maintaining social relationships, agriculture, health, security and combating violence. Often these are everyday activities that
are sometimes so obvious that we do not see them. In the countries of the rich global North, reproduction is identified as domestic work and
care because much of the reproductive activity is provided by the (welfare) state, such as health, education, or the market (eg food supply).
Female labor, unpaid labor
As you can guess, most of the care (for children, the sick, the elderly) and housework are the responsibility of women. In the Czech
Republic, women account for 98-99% of those on parental leave to look after a small child. Research by the Institute of Sociology of the
Academy of Sciences, on the other hand, showed that men estimate that they spend 15.4 hours a week on care and housework, while women
estimate their involvement at 38 hours per week. This is 2.5 times more than men and represents about 70% of the workload (for more on
research see Care and Bake You ). Women also often care for aging parents - both themselves and their partners. This is the "second shift"
that the feminist movement speaks of.
Welfare states that have so far provided a range of care services, such as nurseries, nursery schools, nursing services, hospitals,
retirement homes, now often argue with the economic crisis, the weak economy, the need to conserve, etc. and reduce spending in areas
related to reproduction .
Public care is being phased out, and responsibility for it is individualized - let everyone take care of themselves. The state shifts the
cost of care to individual families, where it is performed mainly by women, and free of charge.
Personalization of care can also be an opportunity for the commercial community to offer private nurseries and nurseries, private homes for
the elderly or paid care services for babysitters, babysitters, cleaners and nannies (once again it is mainly women). Housework and care
suddenly gain some market value. But it is a very precarious, precarious job, often without set working hours, without the possibility to
negotiate the level of pay or dignified treatment (the unions of domestic workers are very rare in the world). This is reinforced by the
fact that the work is often performed by migrant women whose position is very precarious and whose residence permit ties to employment.
In families who cannot afford paid domestic work and paid care, the responsibility for this sphere remains with women who do it as unpaid
work. Indeed, without unpaid work, the system would collapse: capitalism and its profit-making logic necessarily presuppose some external
resources that are not paid for, whether they are natural resources or unpaid labor. Without unpaid work to provide wage workers with food,
a clean and comfortable dwelling where they can rest and gain strength for a new working day, it would simply not be possible. There is
simply no money to pay for that huge mass of unpaid labor in the capitalist system.
So there is not much talk about housework and care - it is a matter of course, it is the role of women, it is their "nature". There are tons
of books about how this nature is made and built in childhood, and it is one of the basic themes of gender studies.
Feminists demand an evaluation of reproductive work
In the Czech environment, initiatives requiring the evaluation of unpaid work are rare and tame. One of the few exceptions was the case of
divorce by ecofeminist Marie Hais in 2008. According to a court ruling, Hais was to pay her husband half of the value of the common flat,
about 1.5 million, which they had acquired during the marriage. Hais, according to her article on the British Letters, was a year before
retirement and without savings, threatened execution. Her husband, on the other hand, had money because he had invested in common money in
common money, and his income remained: they are not - according to the Supreme Court ruling - included in the joint property of the spouses.
So Hais calculated the value of housework and the care she had invested in her family in twenty-two years. She got five million. She then
demanded that this amount be taken into account in the distribution of the assets. However, the Court of First Instance did not accept that
argument.
An example of seeking a more systematic change in the perception and appreciation of domestic work is the Italian-American Wages for
Housework campaign, which was set up in the 1970s and sought to highlight the role of women's unpaid work in keeping capitalism running. Her
important theorists were eg Nicole Cox, Silvia Federici, Selma James or Mariarosa Dalla Costa. The first ideas of the campaign are in the
spirit of Marxist feminism, since the campaign followed the operaist idea that wages are absolutely crucial for the struggle of workers
against capital. Essential texts of the campaign are essays Antiplanning from the kitchen , Wages against homework or Why is sexuality
work(some of which were published Collectively Against Capital and are available on the web), which offer a great feminist analysis of
reproductive work and the role of women in it.
The authors show here how capitalism is indispensable in capitalism for the regeneration of workers' power - without it, they would not be
able to perform such work at work. But because it is unpaid (the system does not want and cannot pay it), it is not actually perceived as
work. The authors show that identifying domestic work with the nature of women, with femininity alone, makes it impossible for women to
protest against the second work shift in the household - it is not possible to protest against nature. And because it is work without pay
that could be negotiated with the employer, the workers' movement and the unions do not perceive the complaints of housewives that they are
oppressed and exploited and refuse to grant reproduction the status of work. Moreover, housework by taking place in individual families and
without an apparent employer is isolated work, without the possibility of defense through trade unions.
But the Wages for Housework movement did not only require women to be paid for reproductive work because of the money itself - it was about
domestic work becoming perceived as work , not the nature of women, and for the workers' movement dominated by men and their agenda, the
exploitation of women in capitalism began to be perceived as a relevant topic and reason for class struggle. Wages for Housework appealed to
both women and men to refuse to maintain the situation where capitalism is being fed unpaid labor, and thus continues to work.
Today, the echoes of this campaign can be found, for example, in the struggle for the rights of sex workers or domestic caregivers, which
are moreover often migrants from poor South and East countries.
Silvia Federici, who is probably the most important figure in Wages for Housework, but has further developed the topic of domestic work and
the role of women in the economy and is currently involved in criticizing economic globalization and neoliberalism. as a functioning
alternative to capitalism.
Reproduction and revolution
In pre-capitalist or non-capitalist societies, labor and its fruits are often shared, while capitalism benefits from the isolation and
fragmentation of production, reproduction and consumption. This means that people spend more, consume more (for example, in the household
area, this means that every household has its own washing machine, its vacuum cleaner, its blender, etc.) and that it does not rebel because
of its isolation. They perceive their difficulties as an individual failure.
However, if we refrain from performing reproductive work, that is, caring and housework, and doing isolated activities together, the
Federation will have far-reaching consequences for society as a whole.
What are the benefits of shared reproduction work? First, when work and responsibility are shared, the care provided is better. It is often,
or rather, the case that parents take turns in caring for a whole bunch of neighborhood children or that the wider community cares (which
may mean simply visiting and purchasing) old people. Sharing this work is not so grueling for a single person who cares, care is provided,
and social ties within the community are further strengthened.
Second, it's cheaper. Especially when cooking together, it saves money on large purchases, which is especially positive for economically
weaker groups.
This is related to the third positive - reducing the existence of dependence on the labor market and goods, because we will not have to buy
or sell reproductive work or perhaps vegetables from community gardens, which in this perspective is a source of non-freedom and exploitation.
Fourthly, setting up reproduction as a shared good has a revolutionary potential: when people do something together, they talk about their
problems. On the one hand, they learn that their problems are often not individual, but have some systemic cause (such as poverty resulting
from racism and begging of people in overpriced hostels). Naming such a problem is a prerequisite for some collective action. But by working
together, there is also real solidarity, thanks to which people can support themselves when it comes to a tough collective action.
In fact, sharing reproductive work is very non-violent, bringing about a "pre-revolutionary policy," that we are already trying to live what
we would like "after the revolution".
Not just theory
But in order not to leave behind beautiful ideas, we need to see if we can find some inspirational examples of shared reproduction work.
Logically, they appear primarily in poor areas and in times of crisis, and are often backed by women because they are linked to reproduction
in many societies and have historically been more dependent on access to shared, shared resources than men.
Silvia Federici states that, for example, during the economic crisis of the 1980s, 'ola communes' were created in Peru and Chile. Since it
was no longer economically sustainable to buy and cook for individual households, women began to prepare food together. But it was not just
about food and cost reduction, but about mutual support and protection from violence by both the police and the violent men.
In Africa, there is a grassroot activity called Home Based Care Alliance, bringing together women on a range of topics related to their
lives, whether it is the mutual support of widows, housewives or families with AIDS.
In the Brazilian Landless Movement, where women played an important role, household chores such as cooking or dishwashing were also
performed together - and both women and men were involved.
However, the defense of reproductive commons does not only concern purely domestic work and often goes much further, because in countries
where a large part of the population lives in the countryside, the state of the environment also has an immediate impact on reproduction.
Women who are responsible for obtaining food, water and fuels are therefore at risk of dehydration or water pollution, forest destruction
and soil erosion. This created two big green movements, Chipko in India and Green Belt in Kenya. Chipko prevented commercial felling of
forests, while in the Green Belt women planted trees to prevent desertification. In neither case was it an environmentalist activity, but a
struggle for survival, because the state of nature is directly linked to human life and health.
However, we do not have to go far for examples of community reproductive work. There is a very dense network of community, maternity and
family centers in the Czech Republic, most of which were not established as expert non-profit organizations providing a service, but as a
meeting place and help.
In the anarchist scene, we can mention the roots of sharing reproductive work in Prague's Salé, where the parent group Mamatata meets,
cooking together, etc. Another example is the summer anarchist camp for children and parents.
No common without community!
When we talk about reproduction and shared goods in such a broad scope and globally, there is one more reason to do reproductive work
together, in the community.
German sociologist and ecofeminist activist Maria Mies says that by completely disconnecting production, reproduction and consumption,
global capitalism has actually allowed brutally exploiting nature and people, because consumers on the other side of the world do not see
what is happening in production. Such a disconnection supports our irresponsibility and the ignorance of what is happening somewhere on the
other side of the world, so that our life actually stands on someone else's death.
A very symbolic example of this disconnection is shown by American activist Inga Muscio when he writes that roses delivered to the US market
are grown in Mexico. Flowers, which mean love in America, are a source of disease and death in Mexican plantations because they are sprayed
with chemicals, after which women who grow and harvest roses have different health problems, abort or give birth to children with different
health problems.
Silvia Federici says that we cannot talk about the sharing of goods until we refuse to build our lives, reproduce ourselves on the suffering
of others and until we refuse to be seen as separation from them. That is why it sets out the motto "no common without community" , where
both cooperation and responsibility are crucial.
So we are going back to the message of the Wages for Housework campaign through the arc: it is essential to include in the political agenda
around communalization and thematization of shared goods the reproductive work that is the foundation of every society. If we melt over
shared public space or the absence of copyright on the Internet, but our women or mothers still work hard in the home, our rhetoric of
shared goods will be very hypocritical.
As the Federation writes, "it is not possible to create an alternative society and a strong self-producing movement without redefining forms
of reproduction in a more cooperative way and removing the boundary between personal and political, and political activism and reproduction
of everyday life . "
This message could be interpreted, among other things, so that if we want the anarchist movement not to disappear because the old anarchists
are leaving and the new ones have not yet arrived, we should consider how its functioning and reproductive work are set.
Resources:
* Silvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero . PM Press 2012
* Inga Muscio, Autobiography of the Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society . Seal Press 2005
* Magdalena Hornová (ed.), Take care and bake you. Report on unpaid work in the Czech Republic . Gender Studies 2012
Wikipedia: Wages for Housework (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wages_for_housework)
* Marie Hais, I sue for the system, because my time is not money. British letters , 23. 12. 2008 (www.blisty.cz/art/44377.html)
Published in Existence No. 1/2015 on Commons.
Related Articles:
Commons
Generally Shared Goods Against Capitalism and Beyond
Free Culture
https://www.afed.cz/text/7159/reprodukce-jako-sdileny-statek
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In recent weeks, members of the Polish Union of Syndicalists (ZSP, sections of the International Workers Association) have organized public
events in a number of cities in Poland or participated in such events. A major protest is planned in the coming weeks in support of workers
affected by the epidemic and against the government, which prefers to help businesses out of state funds rather than the most precarious and
vulnerable members of society. ---- Many of the members of the Union, often together with other libertarian activists, participated in
direct mutual assistance to people - from making and distributing masks to providing hospital workers with special equipment and helping the
homeless. However, for several weeks now, the Union has been calling for a mass protest over the issue of "when will we be able to return to
the streets again." It is clear that the government plans to open shopping centers, but not allow protests. It may try to keep the ban on
protests for a whole year or even longer. But this cannot stop us!
Mass protests did indeed take place in Poland this week - albeit not in typical form. On April 15, parliament voted on a number of idiotic
bills proposed by various right-wing lobby groups. The greatest outrage was caused by the project, which, in fact, prohibits any abortion
(currently they are allowed only in cases such as rape, incest or serious health problems - but even then it can be difficult for women to
achieve this). Other bills were just as annoying. One of them banned sexuality education and criminalized "sex promotion" to minors.
Another, proposed by the hunters, allowed them to take children with them for hunting. Another, anti-Semitic, concerned property restitution ...
The week before, a number of unions and members of ZSP and other organizations said they intend to take part in the protests, including
taking to the streets, despite all the bans. Currently, even 2 people are required to walk 2 meters apart, and "meetings" of more than 2
people are prohibited - with the exception of church events, although there are restrictions. Decentralized networks of women, using the
slogan "Strikes of women", said they also intend to express their protest. Some who did not want to leave the house hung posters in the
windows and banners on the balconies. However, many people from the libertarian milieu and Women's Strike initiatives were determined to
take to the streets.
A couple of days before the scheduled protest, some anarcho-syndicalists began to go outside in T-shirts with inscriptions and posters,
demonstrating that it is possible and necessary to regain public space and that it is possible to do this, even with the observance of the
rules of "social distance". Later that day, anarcho-syndicalists found that some people resorted to the same small protests - they stood on
the street with posters in their hands, observing the distance. It turned out that the idea is spreading, and dozens of such protests are
taking place throughout the country, with the participation of hundreds of people. Motorcyclists and cyclists were also organized. Since
there are no real restrictions on the movement of cars, people drove in droves to different cities, especially in Warsaw. Many of them hung
posters in glasses, waved flags and honked. It was clear
In Warsaw, anarcho-syndicalists wanted to enter the parliament building. It turned out that hundreds of people had already gathered there,
despite the ban. A few days earlier, members of the ZSP and other activists spread information on how to legally reject police fines. The
police opposed the people gathered at the parliament and tried to fine them, but everyone refused to recognize and pay a fine. In other
cities, people held various actions, contrary to the ban, but kept a distance for health reasons. In some cities, the protest was expressed
in a more typical way - with banners, speeches and tables with literature. In Warsaw, police threatened protesters with long-range acoustic
devices, claiming that they were in danger at the height of the epidemic. But really the only ones
The next day, the government announced that it would phase out quarantine: it would be allowed to go to the woods, shopping centers, and the
cinema. However, no one mentioned when the ban on protests will be lifted. Therefore, it seems that people are not going to wait for
permission to express their disagreement. The government sees no problem in the fact that people constantly work in crowded shopping centers
or work without any protection, but claims that standing in the fresh air at a distance from each other is dangerous! So the
anarcho-syndicalists intend to return to the streets very soon, as evil as ever.
https://zsp.net.pl/need-reclaim-public-space-protest-0
https://aitrus.info/node/5448
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