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1.  [Chile] Communiqué of the Anarcho-feminist Circle Ni Amas
      Ni Esclavas in face of the pandemic and the return to normality
      By ANA (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  ait russia: Riots against isolation regime spread across
      France [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  US, black rose fed: Healthcare Workers: Back-To-Work Strikes
      Can Put Health Before Profit (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  

4.  Te Kaupapa Papori - Communalism Aotearoa (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: Land, Space and
      Covid-19 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Britain, freedom news: This week in Class War Daily
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Britain, SOLIDARITY FEDERATION: Dispute against YPP lettings
      closed (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  Gemany, die plattform: On the call of SDA/IFA for articles
      for Gaidao special edition on the "Pandemic State of emergency"
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
9.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Unit call, The
      anger of working-class neighborhoods is legitimate (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1


More than a month after the publication of the "first" confirmed case of COVID-19 in Chile and with the growing installation of fear,
paranoia, gender violence and mandatory and / or voluntary confinement in our homes, we had to avoid abandoning the streets , of the
material and physical protest (because we have the "virtual" left), to give way to a "change" of focus and to focus the concern for the
different health and survival strategies (the latter for the least and not privileged in the distribution of the cake ) that we must adopt
in order to protect ourselves and address the pandemic that has been attacking and threatening the entire world since December 2019. ----
the advance of the various territorial assemblies formed as spaces of alternative organization to the institutional monopolizing world of
politics and its exercise, and everything that was concretely attempting against the permanent "state of things" and for life's sake, was
paused or forgotten as already the powerful aspire. However, we, those of yesterday, now and always, are here, observing every step, speech
and state measure that they employed in this context of "catastrophe" (which is so convenient to the government), observing as with each
"aid" (bonus) that take the "benefit" of the most "vulnerable" (Of course, with the stipulations presided over by them that they are
vulnerable), the avarice and thirst for wealth accumulation with which these parasites of the State and capital operate is more evident.

Because we DO NOT decay or forget!

The streets will be recovered!

The revolt continues!

Neither love nor slaves, Anarcho Organized Feminists!

Anarchofeminist Circle Ni Amas Ni Esclavas

Translation> Sol de Abril

Related content:

https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2019/12/02/chile-relato-do-encontro-anarcofeminista/

anarchist news agency-ana

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Message: 2


Unrest and protests in the poor suburbs of French cities continue for the fourth consecutive night. Starting near Paris, they spread to
other settlements. ---- The number of incidents is increasing across the country. According to police sources quoted in the Figaro daily
newspaper, sanitary isolation contributes to this because of the coronavirus epidemic, which is difficult to maintain in places where, under
normal conditions, police and firefighters are attacked. ---- One of the hotbeds of tension was Strasbourg, where unrest last night swept
two suburbs. The deputy mayor of Strasbourg, in charge of security, Robert Herrmann admitted to the local radio that "we feel that tension
is growing" (https://gorodfinansov.ru/frantsiya-v-ogne-gnev-buntuyushhih-usilivaetsya.html). On April 23, the French Prime Minister
unexpectedly arrived in the city to meet with local authorities and discuss the situation. The mayor of Strasbourg Roland Rees and the
chairman of the council of the Lower Rhine department, Frederick Berry, at the meeting, demanded that the prime minister gradually remove
the isolation regime in Alsace from May 11
(https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/grand-est/bas-rhin/strasbourg-0/coronavirus-ce-que-on-sait-visite-surprise-dedouard-philippe-strasbourg-fin-du-confinement-1819984.html)

The epicenter of the protests remain the suburbs of Paris. On Wednesday night, police threw incendiary devices and stones and burned
barricades in the communities of Gennevilliers, Nanterre and Villeneuve-la-Garenne (department of Hautes-de-Seine), Olneu-sous-Bois and
Montreux (department of Saint-Saint-Denis). In Geneva, a school building was set on fire, which was badly damaged. In Nanterre and
Villeneuve-la-Garenne, police were periodically fired from firecrackers and fireworks. 9 people were arrested at night
(https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/nouveaux-incidents-en-banlieue-parisienne-une-ecole-endommagee-par-un-incendie-a-gennevilliers-20200422).

Police later reported other incidents in the ???le-de-France region around Paris. In the department of Hautes-de-Seine, 11 people were
arrested, including 5 in Clamart with Molotov cocktails. In Agnier and Nanterre, vans were bombarded with them. In Corbey-Essonne, the
suspect was arrested after the discovery of projectiles for throwing and pyrotechnic devices. In Trapp and Poissy, a dozen unidentified
people set fire to and fire from the pyrotechnic police. The clashes began at 21.30 and continued until midnight. In Val de Marne, the
police station in Champigny-sur-Marne was first fired twice from fireworks; CRS police officer was slightly injured.

Although the prefect of the Paris police banned the sale, transfer or carrying of fireworks and pyrotechnic products until April 27, on
Tuesday evening the authorities were forced to issue an order "to avoid any contact with intruders in order to avoid injuring the police."
In just 3 nights of clashes, 31 people were arrested.

Interior Minister Castaner on Wednesday confirmed in the Senate: "There are no neighborhoods in which our forces would not intervene." He
cited the example of Marseilles, where up to 300 protocols on violation of isolation rules are compiled every night, including two-thirds in
quarters. In Saint-Saint-Denis, every evening it is necessary to coordinate 3 operations in urban areas from the air.

In this last department 220 thousand inspections were carried out, 38 thousand warnings were issued - twice as much as the national average.
In the province, the hot neighborhoods are Roubaix and Tourcoing. Mobile protest groups of up to 20 people set fire to garbage cans and
cars, and then from 21.20 to 2 a.m. they fought continuously with the police
(https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/banlieues-des-tensions-persistent-la-polemique-enfle-20200423)

In Gennevilliers, police discovered 15 pyrotechnic devices. Arrested throughout this territory 15 people.

Clichy-sous-Bois Mayor Olivier Klein explains: "In poor neighborhoods, the public health crisis overlapped with the social crisis. And we
probably didn't take into account the consequences. Staying home and stopping work - even informally - this exacerbates the difficulties"
(https://fr.euronews.com/2020/04/23/les-incidents-violents-dans-les-banlieues-font-craindre-un-embrasement)

https://aitrus.info/node/5452

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Message: 3


Following the release of a recent video statement, healthcare workers members and allies of Black Rose / Rosa Negra produced a follow up
statement calling for organizing around back-to-work strikes to oppose the drive to put profits ahead of collective health by exposing
millions of workers to untold risks. Catch their list of tips for starting the conversation at the end. ---- By Black Rose/Rosa Negra
Healthcare Workers ----As healthcare workers, we are intensely fearful of the calls for a quick "back to normal" that are growing in volume
and being echoed across the media and Trump administration. We want to help give other workers the tools they need to keep us all safe by
refusing to return to work if they are called back before it is safe.
Starting with a protest in Michigan last week, right-wing rallies calling for the immediate reopening of the economy have been held in
dozens of cities now. What has really been behind the quick spread of these nearly identical rallies has been the money and organization of
right-wing foundations that want to sacrifice life to appease the stock market and get Trump re-elected. These pro-pandemic rallies are one
more example that these right-wing capitalists don't care about our lives, and that the worship of the market is nothing more than a death cult.

Healthcare Workers on the Front Lines
The role of healthcare workers is to dedicate ourselves to caring about other peoples' lives and there's no better symbol of this than the
images of nurses in Denver, Colorado standing proudly, arms crossed, blocking right-wing protesters. This is one of the most direct examples
of how healthcare workers have found themselves thrust into confrontation with the forces that put profit first - but behind this image is a
wave of direct action taken by frontline health care workers over the last two months.

Healthcare workers nation-wide are not only raising their voices to support social distancing, but also to say that much of our failure to
prepare for the pandemic is rooted in a broken healthcare system that is built for failure. A healthcare system that prioritizes profit over
people has led us to where we are now and will continue to create unnecessary crises that cost human lives.

With these billionaire-backed protests getting massive media attention and with Trump pushing hard for a quick reopening of the economy, it
is currently looking likely that many governors will attempt to get people at "non-essential" businesses back to work within the coming
weeks. This will vary greatly state by state, with states like Texas and Florida preparing to take some of the most disastrous action, while
states like California and Washington will likely follow a safer path.

When Is It Safe to Risk Our Lives?
The question on everyone's mind is how do we know when it is actually safe to return to work? Right now, no one knows exactly. The science
on the spread of the coronavirus is still evolving. You will probably hear different things from different sources, as scientists struggle
to work out a consensus. Because the risk of returning to work too early is so great - it could unleash a much greater second wave of
infection, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths - it is best to err on the side of the most cautious voices.

The CDC and government agencies have shown themselves to be easily pressured by the Trump administration. They have abandoned scientific
principles in favor of market forces and made extremely dangerous recommendations that we as healthcare workers have had to fight back
against - promoting bandanas or scarves for protection being one example. For this reason, we must pay attention to independent scientific
recommendations on the return to work process instead of relying on politicized agencies.

One thing we do know is that a return to work is only possible if we have a robust testing system in place, which we are currently far from
having. Public health experts and the COVID-19 response in countries such as South Korea, teach us that the virus can be effectively
contained with strict contact tracing, after the number of cases has been reduced to a low number. Contact tracing means that the population
is broadly tested and all those who are positive, or who have had contact with other positive individuals, are strictly quarantined. The
shortage of testing kits and the piecemeal public health response in the U.S. means that we are not prepared for this strategy. One new
report from Harvard University estimates that the US will need 5 to 20 million daily tests in order to safely re-open the economy - yet we
are currently only at around 170,000 daily tests. We will need the infrastructure and capacity to safely care for and quarantine infected
people outside their homes as well. This leaves us with the next best option to protect ourselves, which is broad social distancing.

Solidarity is Our Weapon and Our Defense
If bosses and governments order you back to work before it is safe, you have the responsibility to protect your own health and the health of
our communities by refusing to work.

There have been waves of strikes and workplace actions since the crisis began. They have been effective in getting workplaces shut down and
safety practices improved. While transit workers across the country have been disproportionately affected by Covid-19, bus drivers in cities
like Detroit, MI, and Birmingham, AL, have organized strikes and work stoppages for protective equipment and social distancing controls,
winning important concessions. "Essential workers" have organized sickouts, walkouts and work stoppages at workplaces ranging from McDonalds
franchises to Amazon and Kroger warehouses, to shipyards. While many of these conflicts are ongoing, many workers have successfully forced
management to comply with demands around health and safety concerns. Most of these workplace actions are not being driven by union
leadership, but rather by rank-and-file workers who are simply refusing to work in unsafe conditions.

No matter what we do, there will be a mass refusal of work when the economy is officially reopened. Just like millions of tenants acted out
of necessity by not paying rent in April, capitalists will try to prematurely restart businesses and many workers will inevitably stay home
or call in sick. But spontaneous and individual actions are easily defeated by the powerful and organized capitalist class. When we unite
our voices and our actions we can shift the balance of power to be in our favor. A widespread strike against back-to-work orders will be the
fastest way to bring the capitalists' death march to a halt.

Starting the Conversation on Back-To-Work Strikes
As healthcare workers who are putting people before profits, we want to ask you to start talking to your co-workers and preparing for an
organized refusal to return to work. By organizing now, workers can have a much more effective impact and can build the foundation for
future workplace organizing to improve health and safety.

Here are some ideas for what we think furloughed or temporarily laid off workers can do to protect our health through building workers' power:

Get contact info for as many of your co-workers as possible.
Check-in with them individually. See how they're doing, what their struggles have been going through the quarantine, and what you and your
co-workers can do to support them.
Talk to your coworkers one-on-one about their concerns about returning to work before the virus is contained and risking exposure. Are they
worried about infecting at-risk relatives? Do they think it's safer to stay home with unemployment or family leave pay?
Ask for a commitment to not go in to work if called back, and ask them to talk to at least one other corker about striking (and follow up!).
Create a committee of your coworkers who show the most commitment to organizing and are the most effective at getting other coworkers on
board. Start a group chat together, and have a virtual meeting together.
Think about how your boss will react. Prepare your coworkers for that. Create a plan for how to talk with your boss (for example, agree to
only talk with your boss collectively on a conference call, and not one by one). Think about what is going to happen after the first day.
Agree on a plan for what minimum demands need to be met before you go to work, and how long you can stay out on strike together.
Link up with other workers in your area or industry! Unite to bring up demands that go beyond your workplace, like extending unemployment to
cover workers who refuse unsafe working conditions.
If you are starting to talk with your coworkers about resisting the return to work orders, we encourage you to think of this as just the
beginning. The basis of all workplace organizing is the committee. So if you can create that in this moment, then you have a foundation for
your next steps forward to continue transforming your workplace to be healthier and safer. Many of the health crises that plague our country
are rooted in the exploitation, alienation and inequality of the capitalist economy. If, workplace by workplace, we can grow a new workers
movement to overthrow this system, and radically restructure our labor without bosses, hierarchies or profit, then we can all live much
healthier and happier lives.

As healthcare workers during this pandemic, we have been working hard to care for our community's well-being. Now we are asking our fellow
workers across other industries to use their power as workers to keep us all safe by organizing to refuse a return to work. Our bosses and
politicians won't put people before profit, so we have to rely on each other.

Additional Notes
If you are in a union: You can reach out to your union rep if you think that they would be supportive, but remember that this has to be your
action. No one else can make it happen for you. Some unions like UNITE-HERE have laid off much of their staff and others are more interested
in working with employers to get their members back to work. The same basic steps for organizing apply whether you are in a union or not,
because power lies in your organization and relationships with your co-workers, not with the paperwork and officialdom of the union.

If you are an office worker: If you are currently working from home but you're worried about being called back to the office where the
coronavirus could be easily spread, you can also organize with your coworkers to refuse to come back to the office, and demand more time
working from home or additional safety practices.

If you're a parent: Talk to your child about staying home if the schools try to reopen for the spring semester. Make a resistance plan
together with the teachers and other parents.

Read the statement by Black Rose/Rosa Negra Healthcare workers on the current crisis "In the Fight of Our Lives: Healthcare Workers Speak
Out" or read more on worker struggles during the Covid pandemic "Coronavirus Sparks Wave of Walkouts and Wildcats."

https://blackrosefed.org/back-to-work-strikes-can-put-health-before-profit/

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Those of us in the movement for climate justice have for many years advocated for systematic and radical changes to our economy and society
to avert the threat of climate chaos. For decades, scientists have warned us about the implications of sea-level rise, droughts and
super-storms to the point that we are now finding ourselves in earth's sixth mass extinction event. While our movement against further
fossil fuel extraction, the destruction of forests and the growing economic disparities within society has grown in recent years, we are
still largely dealing with governments and corporations who remain part of the problem and are unwilling to shift. ---- 1. COVID19 - an
outpouring of solidarity and mutual aid ---- The last few months has seen the spread of COVID19 to all corners of our planet. A virus with
no cure is killing and infecting thousands. Communities, iwi, councils and governments are rising up to the challenge to contain the virus.
We are witnessing an outpouring of love, solidarity and mutual aid in the community and governments are taking drastic measures to protect
the vulnerable in our society. The climate movement has nothing but admiration for how we are responding collectively and decisively.

2. Not going back to ‘normality'

Governments across the globe have pledged economic stimulus packages to support workers and companies who are facing the brunt of virus. In
Aotearoa, this includes the tourism industry, which has more or less collapsed with entry restrictions; the hospitality sector; musicians
and artists; and will also have long-term serious implications on the agricultural industry.

Government intervention is a must in these difficult times. But let's be clear - the last thing we want is to return to ‘normality'.

Let's just dissect ‘normality' for a few sentences. Is it normal that the current rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000
times higher than natural background rates? Is it normal that the past hundred years have seen global temperatures rise by over 1 degrees
due to human activity? Is it normal that the world's 26 richest people own as much wealth as poorest 50% together? No. no and no.

There is no going back to normality because normality is destroying our planet and our lives. So the last thing we should be doing right now
is to collectivise the losses of companies that have been destroying this planet for decades.

3. Survive the pandemic - but extinct by the end of the millennia?

Surviving this pandemic is a priority. It has to be. It is a matter of survival, particularly for poor, indigenous and marginalised
communities. But let's intervene in the economy so that we not only get through the pandemic, but so that we also get through this millennia.

4. Capitalism is not our future

Capitalism is a relatively new economic model. For thousands of years, humans have lived in relative harmony with each other and the
environment in tribal communities. Yes, there were rough times. Yes, there was war. But the presence of war, environmental degradation,
disease and inequality with our current model is unprecedented. Capitalism is the root cause of the climate crisis. The never-ending
concentration of economic and political power in the hands of a few at the expense of everyone else is bringing misery and hardship on a
massive scale. We have to move on. We have to admit that capitalism was a bad mistake, learn from our mistakes and find collective solutions.

5. Solutions are beautiful - and they are everywhere

While the current pandemic has shown us the fragility of our own existence, it has also demonstrated that human nature is ultimately caring,
kind and follows the maxim of ‘one for all, and all for one'. Values like solidarity and mutual aid - values that are so antithetical to the
capitalist paradigm - run so strongly in our communities.

While many of us are involved on a day-to-day basis defending and expanding communal spaces and ideas as solutions to the climate crisis, we
must be vocal now that we collectively seize this moment to move away and leave behind the age of capitalism, the age of plastic, the age of
human domination over nature.

https://communalism.noblogs.org/post/2020/04/24/climate-justice-a-movement-for-radical-change/

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Message: 5



The ACG has published two pamphlets and given several talks on the issues surrounding land and the city (see our publications page for more
details). Covid-19 has brought the problems of capitalism and current society into sharp focus, eg cuts and austerity, putting profit before
need, and the treatment of low paid workers in the essential service. The same applies to land and urban space. ---- uring the lockdown, we
are told to stay at home. There may be some who are happy to bury themselves indoors with their computers and smart phones and live in
cyberspace. However, study after study has shown that getting out and having some contact with green spaces is essential for both mental and
physical health (See the ACG pamphlet on health). This is why the government has sanctioned getting out once a day for exercise. The
experience, though, varies according to class. The richer you are the more access you have to society's resources and the same goes for land
and space. In other words, the well-off will have more room. Class determines where you live and what you own. The statistics say it all:

69% of land in the UK is owned by 0.6% of the population.
70% of land is agricultural land and 150,000 people own all of it.
UK housing is concentrated on 5% of the country's land mass so people owning their own home represents a small amount of total land ownership.
1/3 of British land is still owned by aristocrats.
432 people own half the land in Scotland.
Experience of Lockdown

The very wealthy will have huge estates giving them miles and miles of land to roam. If they live in the city, they may have a mansion in
some secluded area near to a park such as Hampstead Heath. Those a bit lower down on the scale of privilege will still own large houses in
areas with easy access to green spaces. Rural Surrey and Kent are scattered with houses with immense grounds and woods and hills in which to
wander at their doorstep.

Living in the city is another matter. Taking the statistic- UK housing (Including private gardens) occupies only 5% of the country's land
mass, and with a large part of the 5% taken up by big properties of the well-off, it means that the rest of us are squeezed into a very
small area indeed. Many are piled on top of each other with no garden or even balcony. A study has shown that private gardens make up more
than a third of the area in the wealthiest London wards but just a fifth in the poorest.

This has been the housing policy for decades- cram the working class into small space. It saved money for the government when it was
building council flats and more recently it makes massive profits for developers as there are more flats to sell per acre of land. And there
are plans to make London even denser. Global real estate company, CBRE, says in a recent document that ‘Rising densities in all our cities
will create new social and economic opportunities by 2040'.

For those living in such cramped conditions, getting out is vital. However, it is not just the space at home that is an issue; space outside
is also limited. London has a population density of 5,590 people per square kilometre. But certain boroughs, where a large proportion of the
working class live, are more densely populated than others. Inner East and South London has 11,200 people per square kilometre whereas the
more suburban boroughs have just over 300. Birmingham has an average of 4,110 and Manchester 4,485. Glasgow as a whole has 3,400 per sq. km,
whereas the working class area of Govan Hill has over 11,000. Many other cities in the world may be worse off (Dhaka in Bangladesh has over
44,000 people per sq. km and Paris has 21,498), but still if you want to go out for a walk in the more densely populated areas of British
cities, it is not easy to avoid other people. Walking becomes a case of ‘dodge em' as you have to jump out of the way of joggers and go onto
roads to avoid coming too close to people on the narrow city pavements. Density figures do not take into account the space actually
available to people to move about. Most of the square kilometre will be taken up by roads, car parks, houses, offices, supermarkets etc. So
what counts is how much green space is available.

London is known for its parks and gardens but the biggest parks are in the wealthier areas- in fact this is what would have pushed house
prices up in the first place. Epping Forest has long been used by people from East London as a place to escape the city. It is a huge
woodland of 5,900 acres. No problems for social distancing there! However, only those who live within walking distance can take advantage of
it. And of course if you live close enough to walk to Epping Forest you will be pretty well-off. The average house price is £533536!

The value of access to green spaces for health became an issue before the pandemic and is even more of an issue now.

According to one study, income-related inequality in health is affected by exposure to green space. Those living in the most deprived areas
are 10 times less likely to live in the greenest areas. Those living closer to green spaces tend to live longer than those with no green
space. Older people live longer in areas where there is more green space close to their homes. Children who live close to green spaces have
higher level of physical activity.

Those in working class areas will often struggle to find green spaces and if they do, they will often be crowded because there is not enough
space to go around. The East London canals are packed with walkers, joggers and cyclists making a walk a bit of an ordeal. But where else is
there to go? The council even closed one of the biggest spaces, Victoria Park, down for several weeks (now reopened but with reduced hours).
In the other densely populated area of south London, Brockwell Park was closed for a period. Another study has shown that it is the poorest
of London that are suffering the most from lack of access to green spaces. The wealthiest wards had the greatest proportion of public space
on average at 35% compared to 25% in the most deprived.

Capitalism - again!

Like just about everything else, we do not have to look far to find the ultimate cause of the lack of space for the working class. It is
another example of profit before anything else. There have been massive cuts in parks budgets and public land is being sold off to the
highest bidder, usually for another luxury housing development or an investment opportunity for speculators. Making working class areas more
green and pleasant to live in is not a priority- it does not make a profit. Class inequality is seen so clearly in what people own and the
quality of their environment. The land owning system with a few owning most of the country has to change. In addition, the class system
itself must be abolished so that the stark inequalities in housing and access to green spaces are eliminated.

There are big questions to answer about land use in cities: how big should cities be, how dense should they be, what space for nature, what
about vehicles taking up huge amounts of space with roads and car parks, should we have more space for growing food?These can only be
answered when we all have a say in making decisions and when human health and well-being is the goal, not profit and privilege for a few.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/04/20/land-space-and-covid-19/

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Message: 6



It's been another busy week for Class War Daily: the world's only daily anarchist newspaper (we think; please feel free to alert us to any
others). Here's a quick round-up of what they've been covering. ---- Monday 20th April ---- The Daily led with an open letter to UK
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, written by some who actually works in the sector. The writer spoke for the
whole country when they wrote "when will this government simply humble itself, acknowledge it's mistakes, and proceed to show our elderly,
our social care workers and the NHS the respect and dignity we all deserve?" ---- This issue also had an article by a former NHS worker, a
letter from a reader reflecting on the awful levels of deaths in care homes and a plea for people not to treat the NHS like a charity. It
asks "where is the rage?"

Class War Daily 20/04/2020Download https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CW-Daily-10-2004201.pdf
Tuesday 21st April
Tuesday's CWD called for a general strike in the UK on the first Friday after the lockdown is lifted.

It also had an update on the situation for the homeless during the lockdown. Isn't it funny that local authorities can suddenly find places
for people?

5G conspiracy loons also took a hit with their theories: "5G conspiracy theorists are nothing more than the useful idiots for Johnson, Trump
and the rest of the capitalist elite, who would deflect from their catastrophic handling of the Covid-19 crisis, which is costing literally
1,000s of lives every day."

Class War Daily 21/04/2020Download https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CW-Daily-11-2004211.pdf
Wednesday 22nd April
Your rip-roaring soaraway Class War included wise words from author Philip Pullman, including "we must burn out the old corruption and
establish a better way of living together." What's not to like about that! This was accompanied by an article urging everyone to demand
more. We cannot simply go back to ‘normal'. The back page included news that the government is debating opening parts of the economy back up
again. Who fancies some Covid 19 anytime soon?

Class War Daily 22/04/2020Download https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CW-Daily-12-2004221.pdf
Thursday 23rd April
In this edition news of the reality from the front line of postal services. There's a letter from a Mr Gove (or was it satire?). There's
also news from six branches of Pizza Hut in south London in which workers have not been paid properly.

Class War Daily 23/04/2020Download https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CW-Daily-13-2004232-1.pdf
Friday 24th April
CWD starts to build towards May Day with a call for people to make some noise from isolation at 2pm on the day itself. A top Tory is called
out for suggesting that the virus isn't very serious. This edition includes what may well be the very first parliamentary sketch in an
anarchist publication, as the first PMQ's for Kier Starmer is presented like nowhere else. A letter from a reader also prompts a reply as
CWD goes mildly interactive.

Class War Daily 24/04/2020Download https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CW-Daily-14-2004244-1.pdf
The Daily will return with the new issue tomorrow, 27th April.

Jon Bigger

https://freedomnews.org.uk/this-week-in-class-war-daily/

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Message: 7



housing dispute; student lettings; direct action; casework anarcho-syndicalism; Liverpool ---- Our dispute against YPP Lettings has been
closed after the tenant accepted an improved offer, a reduction in rent of 22% (or £660). The letting agency made an offer before any direct
action was needed, although we had declared our intent to undertake such action. ---- Liverpool Solidarity Federation was contacted by a
tenant of Gravity Residence. Due to the pandemic she had to move back to her family home, leaving behind all her belongings in the
apartment. Since then, she had tried to reach a sensible agreement with YPP to finish her tenancy earlier. The YPP position was
unreasonable, they offered a shameful 5% deduction from her total amount if she paid all the amount by the beginning of April.

Liverpool SolFed started to support the tenant and in conjunction with her sent a demand letter. At first, YPP ignored the demand letter and
kept in their position. Unfortunately, the position of the agency did not change during the upcoming days, even though the tenant offered
different solutions, and their last offer was just a repayment plan.

Liverpool SolFed then started a public dispute. The idea was to reach other tenants in the same position and ask them for their support and
involvement. We always think that union makes us stronger. Unfortunately, at this stage no more tenants joined the dispute.

After we had written an article, but before the campaign had properly started, YPP offered the tenant a 22% (or £660) reduction in rent. The
tenant was satisfied with this offer and we decided to cease the campaign.

We think this is quite a good deal, because it satisfied the tenant. We are glad to support other tenants in the same situation and we think
this dispute demonstrates that agencies are not being honest when they say they cannot offer discounts while their properties remain empty.
Considering the campaign didn't start in earnest, we feel that we could have won a bigger reduction from YPP and that YPP can clearly afford
to make reductions, or even cancel contracts, and are simply trying to profit off of the crisis.

YPP quickly conceded here just from the threat of direct action. Elsewhere rent strikes have seen a resurgence, in Plymouth alone over 200
students have gone on strike. Now is clearly the time to fight back against landlords and other pathogens.

http://www.solfed.org.uk/liverpool/dispute-against-ypp-lettings-closed

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Message: 8



The comrades of the Federation of German-speaking anarchists want to publish a Gaidao special edition on the "Pandemic State of emergency"
and call on text posts by May 20. A supportive initiative that will certainly produce an interesting online newspaper. ---- Here's the Call
for Papers: ---- Anarchist perspectives on the social crises associated with the Corona pandemic ---- The world is facing the most violent
pandemic since 1918 between the health crisis and economic standstill. Governments prescribe behaviors, initiate full bundles of measures at
an urgent pace, explain the shutdown, and lace of laws to mitigate the economic follow-up costs of the crisis. Since it became more serious
in the German-speaking countries, the crisis has also been used to demonstrate the strong state and to present a powerful collective
experience to the population through media fireworks.

But even though we're all mortal, we're not all in the same boat. Comprehensive reactions to the threat to the health of a substantial part
of the population - such as contact blocks, assembly and event bans - bring to the surface, what is otherwise everyday reality in the
existing rule of state, capitalism, patriarchy and nature domination: in the emergency of the declared State of emergency, the hour of the
executive, democratic rights and freedoms can be eliminated with an eyelash strike - which much of the population accepts or even demands.
The healthcare system has been broken for years by the neo-liberal sale of public goods, both in the EU and the FRG. Workers in the health
sector are not paid appropriately and care work is only worth anything in capitalism if it contributes to maximizing profit. The call and,
in case of doubt, repressive enforcement of "social distancing" are enormous difficulties for homeless people, precarious employees,
self-employed, women * with violent partners, prisoners, refugees in camps as well as people with social and mental problems.

Even for emancipatory social movements and anarchists, the crisis changes the conditions of action. Because certain restrictions on
fundamental rights and surveillance technologies prove functional from the point of view of the rule, it is unlikely to be fully withdrawn
without pressure. An online demo, video conference exchange or chat organization may be quite nice, but are not the same as the direct
encounter of the participants. On the other hand, new solidarity structures are also created and the slowdown gives people time to deal with
others (unless they don't hang out on Amazon and Netflix alone or like conspiracy theories on social media).
For anarchists, in times of emergency, the basic questions arise themselves, how they actually hold it with their opponents to the state in
doubt and with which social structures they would face a global threat like the Corona pandemic.

With regard to this crisis, the texts, discussions and forms of action in anarchist contexts are very diverse. This is not least because we
are actually dealing with a new situation to which there are no simple answers.

We call on contributions for a special issue of Gai Dao to map the various aspects of the current crisis situation and the different
perspectives on it and thus contribute to the analysis.

Questions we want to ask among other things are:
- How to analyse the current situation and the related developments?
- What shifts and new constellations arise in the state, the ratio of populations to state, in global capitalism?
- What are the consequences of the health threat and the measures and behaviours prescribed within its framework?
- What role does technocratic governance play by experts and technological instruments such as e.g. tracking smartphones?
- Who bears the consequences and costs of the current measures in the long term?
- What aspirations for self-organization are there, how do they work and what potentials lie within them?
- What opportunities do we see in the experience of solidarity against the rule order?
- How can anarchists organize, empower themselves and reach people in times of emergency?
- What personal thoughts and sensations do you have regarding the Corona pandemic and what experiences do you have during this time?

Please submit your contributions by May 20., 2020
We wish for texts that come to the point and are still not half-sided but also not lead desert. It shouldn't be much more than 12.000 signs.
Since we will not have this special edition printed (it will only be available online), we have more space available. Yet we will make a
selection.

Send your texts to redaktion-gaidao@riseup.net. Ours (new ones! ) public keys and fingerprint can be found here:
https://fda-ifa.org/gaidao/kontakt-2/.

With solidarity, your Gai Dao collective

Source: https://fda-ifa.org/call-for-papers-corona-sonderausgabe/

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Message: 9



In this unitary appeal published on the Bondy Blog, Mediapart and Regards, 40 associations and collectives, trade union and political
organizations, take a stand against the social injustices, racist discrimination and police violence that plague working-class
neighborhoods. The Libertarian Communist Union (UCL) is a signatory. ---- During the night of April 19 to 20, several working-class
neighborhoods experienced nights of revolt. ---- The evening before, a man almost lost his leg in Villeneuve-la-Garenne after a violent
attempt at police arrest, and that is what set the powder on fire. ---- The populations living in lower-income neighborhoods are on the
front line in the face of the health crisis: they are among those who work in the "  essential sectors  ", those who allow our society not
to collapse today.

However, social inequalities, already glaring, are reinforced by the management of the coronavirus and will explode with the economic and
social crisis to come. This is already demonstrated, among other things, by the particularly high excess mortality in Seine-Saint-Denis
since the start of the epidemic.

Racist discrimination, already unbearable, is reinforced by police impunity and violence and humiliation are increasing in working-class
neighborhoods. We can add to it the discriminatory curfew imposed on the inhabitants of these districts by the city of Nice. These glaring
injustices are documented, no one can ignore them.

So we say it very clearly: we refuse to send back-to-back the revolts of the populations in the working-class districts and the serious and
unacceptable violence exerted by the police.

We do not reverse the responsibilities and we say it just as clearly: these revolts are the expression of a legitimate anger because the
police violence does not stop.

Inequalities and discrimination must be vigorously fought and abolished: with the populations of working-class neighborhoods, we will take
part in this just fight for equality, justice and dignity.

April 23, 2020

First signatory organizations:

ACORT, Citizen's Assembly of people from Turkey

ATTAC, Association for the taxation of financial transactions and citizen action

ATMF, Association of Maghreb Workers of France

Île-de-France Popular Solidarity Brigades

CCIF, Collective against Islamophobia in France

Cedetim, Center for International Solidarity Studies and Initiatives

CGT, General Confederation of Labor

CGT of the National City of Immigration History

Collectif de la Cabucelle, Marseille

Collective of November 5 - Angry Noailles, Marseille

Collective of November 10 against Islamophobia

Adama Committee

CNT-SO, National Confederation of Labor-Workers' Solidarity

CRLDHT, Committee for the Respect of Liberties and Human Rights in Tunisia

Together !

FASTI, Federation of Solidarity Associations with all and all immigrants

SUD Education Federation

SUT PTT Federation

SUD-Rail Federation

Revolutionary feminists

Women equality

Plural women

FO Childhood Protection 93

FTCR, Federation of Tunisians for citizenship on both sides

FUIQP, United Front of Immigration and Working-Class Neighborhoods

JJR, Revolutionary Jews

Solidarity market

Memories on the move, Marseille

Movement The revolution is underway

Mwasi, Afrofeminist Collective

NPA, New anti-capitalist party

The outcast

PCOF, Communist Party of Workers of France

PEPS, For a popular and social ecology

SNPES-PJJ FSU, National Union of Education and Social Workers PJJ of FSU

SQPM, Syndicate of Popular Neighborhoods in Marseille

UCL, Union libertarian communist

Villeneuvoise Local Union, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges

UJFP, French Jewish Union for Peace

Solidaires union union

UTAC, Union of Tunisians for Citizen Action

This call was originally published on Friday April 24 on the Bondy Blog , Mediapart and Regards .

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?La-colere-des-quartiers-populaires-est-legitime

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