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Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #305 -
      Antipatriarchy, Containment: My body, my choice except in the
      corona period ? (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  anarkismo.net - Podcast: Mass movements in Latin America by
      Libertäre Aktion (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Britain, CLASS WAR DAILY (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Bangladesh Anarcho Syndicalist Federation - BASF: The bloody
      history of the tea workers revolt (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Greece, dynian horse APO: PATRA: Intervention in my market
      in Gounari [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  ait russia: Whose crisis is this? [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  ait russia: Paris suburbs fight again [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - UCL Economy
      Working Group, The false dilemma of protectionism and free trade
      (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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The current health crisis amplifies the consequences of patriarchal society. As domestic violence increases, police harass those who go out
to buy pregnancy tests and hygienic protections while access to abortion is complicated and the WHO announces a shortage of condoms. ----
Violence against women, from the start of confinement, increased by more than 30% and continues to increase. It cannot be said enough the
majority of violence (physical, sexual and psychological) suffered by women takes place in the home. In a context of total isolation, women
find themselves locked up with their attackers, with no possibility of escape. The same is true for many, many LGBTI youth forced to return
to families for whom non-acceptance is at risk of violence.

Patriarchal violence also includes that of the police. Witness the women, often racialized and working class who have been victims of
violence and police threats for simple purchases. Several women report[1]threats of fines and intimidation because they have gone out to buy
hygienic protections or pregnancy tests. One of them testified that her companion was fined "because if Madame really needs[sanitary
napkins]she only has to go out and get them herself". We can be alarmed by the safety of transgender men going out to buy periodical
protection. For this police which respects the patriarchal order it is not a question of purchase of first necessity [2]and it is up to
women to assume these questions.

In addition, the UN fears a global shortage of condoms, linked to the production of rubber in Malaysia currently blocked by containment. If
France should not be affected because, for once, of sufficient stocks, a rise in prices is to be feared and with an increase in STDs and
unwanted pregnancies.

Back at home, women in danger
The mobilization of hospitals to treat the victims of Covid-19 makes access to abortion difficult (already complicated by the disappearance
of local structures). In the hospital, the slots reserved for abortions have been eliminated and the out-of-hospital facilities close for
lack of caregivers or protective equipment. Yet an abortion remains urgent, since it can only be done during 12 weeks of pregnancy (and 14
weeks of amenorrhea). We can however welcome the decision of the High Health Authority of April 9, urged by advocates of abortion, to extend
to 9 weeks, against 7 currently, access to medical abortion at home. For minors, there remains a 48-hour reflection period, two compulsory
meetings and support by an adult.

In a period conducive to the expansion of the patriarchy, we must remain vigilant against the macho violence that takes place in the family
lockup. Even if confined, we can continue to inform about the systems put in place to help victims of gender-based violence and to set up
neighborhood solidarity. The pandemic cannot be an excuse for a retreat from the achievements of women, it is necessary to maintain constant
feminist pressure to assert our rights.

Sarah (UCL Bordeaux)

Validate

[1] The Verbalized site (because) inventories the testimonies on the abusive fines related to the exits during the confinement.

[2] Since 2015, the change in VAT for hygienic protections from 20% to 5.5% has made them enter the list of essential products.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Confinement-Mon-corps-mon-choix-sauf-en-periode-de-corona

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Where do they come from? Where do they stand? What's next? ---- A member of the Anarchist Federation Rio de Janeiro tells about the
developments and incidents in Latin America over the last 30 years. To be discussed are the "socialism of the 21st century", the renewed
rise of neoliberalism, the current wave of uprisings in the region and an outlook into the future. ---- The podcast was recorded at a public
presentation by a member of the Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro, held in English on 24 January 2020 in Bern, Switzerland. The event
was organised by the Libertäre Aktion (libertaereaktion@immerda.ch). ---- Download-Link: https://wolkig.ch/index.php/s/6iwS3JFFQWBbxpF ----
After the military dictatorships fell in the late '80s, Latin America went through a turbulent decade in which the political semi-freedom
and the aggressive neoliberalization made space for renewed social movements, like the revolutionary Zapatists in the '90s and the massive
riots in Argentina in 2001.

In many cases, this conjuncture led to the rise of the so-called '21st century socialism': progressive governments with leaders coming from
the movements that aimed to redistribute wealth and develop their countries, therefore creating a 'third-world pole' opposing the US-hegemony.

Over the last few years, almost all of these governments have fallen because they've been involved in corruption scandals or pushed by
military pressure and, in some cases, by street protests. A renewed, aggressive neoliberalism has replaced these governments, and it has
brought extreme far-right ideas and figures with it.

In recent times a new wave of uprisings has spread through Latin America - the people are organizing themselves and taking to the streets
against this destructive economy, claiming their rights with their own voices.

What happened? Did the '21st century socialism' fail? Or did it not even exist in the first place? And what is happening now? Will the
popular organization overcome the fascists, the bourgeoise, imperialism and the bureaucrats?

The news reproduced by mass media is chaotic and confusing, but we had a chance to talk to a member of FARJ/CAB* about these questions and
to help us understand what autonomous and auto-organized revolutionary organizations in Latin America are doing and thinking.
*
FARJ = Federação Anarquista de Rio de Janeiro (Anarchist Federation Rio de Janeiro)
CAB = Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira (Anarchist coordination Brazil)

Podcast on mixcloud.com

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31898

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Message: 3



Yesterday at 12:05 PM ·
Today in Class War Daily 22 MAY:
Where is the Fucking Angry Brigade?
Britain Rebels Against the Ruling Class
Up the Ante

https://classwar.uk/2020/05/22/where-is-the-fucking-angry-brigade

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rides-mudi-odhikar ---- Heart Grocer:: ---- Today is the historic 20th of May. Tea Labor Day. The whole world today is devastated by the
deadly corona virus attack. In the current situation, when people of all walks of life have to fight against the deadly corona virus, the
working people of the country have to fight with it against the perpetual scarcity, poverty and exploitation and oppression of the owner
class. Corona's attack on the working class is a new or temporary thing, but the exploitation and oppression of the working class has been a
daily reality for him for ages. As a result, the working class has repeatedly had to unite and fight for liberation. Kshatriya has to make
history of new battles. 99 years ago today, thousands of protesting tea workers wrote such a struggling history. On this day in 1921,
hundreds of tea workers were indiscriminately shot dead by the Gurkha forces protecting the interests of the British government and garden
owners. The Gurkha forces chose the path of this barbaric massacre after failing to stop the historic "Mulluke Chal" movement organized by
thousands of tea workers in protest of the oppression and inhuman torture of the owners. This day of history stained with the blood of
thousands of workers is celebrated as "Tea Workers' Day".

Today we are fascinated by the beautiful and tidy tea garden, once upon a time it was an uninhabited inaccessible forest. Today's
eye-catching tea gardens are the result of hundreds of years of relentless struggle by helpless poor peasants from different parts of the
subcontinent and their descendants. India has a long history of developing the tea industry. As far as is known, At one time tea cultivation
was not practiced anywhere else in the world except China. The English started tea cultivation in India in 1836. Later, in 1854, commercial
tea cultivation began in this region through the Malnichhara Tea Garden in Sylhet. The relationship of labor with production is inextricably
linked. And the main purpose of production in the ownership system is profit. In search of a solution to this production and profit, the
owner class made a cruel history of exploitation of the workers. In order to buy cheap labor, the English chose the path of deception from
the very beginning. Indigenous groups such as the poor and famine-stricken Sawtal, Lohar, Kurmi, Munda, Kulbil, etc. of Central India and
Orissa, Bihar, Madras, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. He collects the farmers of Bakura etc. as tea workers. Poor farmers were shown the
dream of a better life. It was said in the garden of Assam, "If you shake a tree, you will get money." The persistence of the workers who
entered the garden on the condition of lifelong work under the deception of the English and the persuasion of the brokers is still present
today.

When the workers who have left their traditional homeland come to Assam and see that the dream of a better life is far away, they have to
work hard and survive by constantly fighting with the animals. Darkness descends on the lives of tea workers, deprived of the unknown and
modern civilized world. From the beginning, tea workers have not been given any permanent land, no civic benefits. In addition, tea workers
were then made like medieval slave workers. It was legal to arrest and beat a tea worker who fled the tea garden because he could not bear
the oppression of the owner. In this case the rising labor, Disease and poverty are the constant companions of tea workers. Where is the
time to build a movement for the workers who are struggling to make ends meet? Moreover, from the beginning, the tea workers were isolated
from each other. Workers in one garden were not allowed to go to work in another. Again, since they were people from different provinces of
India, from different tribes, there were differences in their solidarity and language. On the other hand, there was no organized labor
movement at that time that would show them the way. As a result, even though no organized movement could be formed then, the workers
sometimes became rebellious. Although organized labor movement developed in India in the early twentieth century, Bipin Chandra Pal tried to
create some work with tea workers in the late nineteenth century. There were people from different tribes so there was also a difference in
their solidarity and language. On the other hand, there was no organized labor movement at that time that would show them the way. As a
result, even though no organized movement could be formed then, the workers sometimes became rebellious. Although organized labor movement
developed in India in the early twentieth century, Bipin Chandra Pal tried to create some work with tea workers in the late nineteenth
century. There were people from different tribes so there was also a difference in their solidarity and language. On the other hand, there
was no organized labor movement at that time that would show them the way. As a result, even though no organized movement could be formed
then, the workers sometimes became rebellious. Although organized labor movement developed in India in the early twentieth century, Bipin
Chandra Pal tried to create some work with tea workers in the late nineteenth century.

Meanwhile, in 1917, an unprecedented event took place in the history of the world. The Russian workers, under Lenin's leadership, founded
the "Socialist Soviet Union." The effects of this socialist revolution were felt all over the world and its impact was felt in the labor
movement in India. Workers of different gardens went on a spontaneous strike. The owners of the gardens became more involved in the
spontaneous movement of the tea workers. On the other hand, the anti-British movement in India then took root. Kshatriya is the strongest
tide of non-cooperation movement in India, The effect of which also falls on the workers. In 1920, a political movement in the Surma Valley,
chaired by Abdul Karim, called for a boycott of the business and tea gardens of foreign owners, forcing tea workers to leave the tea
gardens. The influence of the anti-British non-cooperation movement and the intoxication of liberation from the misery of their lives
brought the tea workers down to the battlefield. The tea workers unanimously revolted, boycotted the garden and took to the streets. They
decided to return to their homeland. Fear of owners, arguments of brokers, The tea workers went out to return to their homes without caring
about everything, but they did not know how to return to their homes. He only knew that they would have to return to their homeland by
train. The tea workers did not get tickets even after going to the railway station due to the instructions of the owners. At one stage it
was decided that they would leave for Mulluk on foot along the railway line. The historic "Let's go to Mullu" campaign started. About 30,000
tea workers, led by Pandit Deosharan and Pandit Gangadayal Dixit, united in this "Let's go to Mullu" campaign.

Tea workers walk along the railway line. Destination Chandpur. In this long journey, under the direction of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das,
Congress leader Yathindra Mohan Sen was by the side of the tea workers from the very beginning. Workers sometimes rest on the way. Along the
way the villagers listened to their grief, misery and provided other assistance including serving food. Many workers also died on the way.
After suffering hundreds of miles, the workers reached Chandpur Meghna Ghat on May 20, 1921. The tea workers wanted to go to Calcutta by
ship from Chandpur Meghna Ghat. But the ship authorities refused to take them on board because the workers did not have the money to pay the
rent. After many pleas, the ship's officials could not be persuaded, but the tea workers were forced to board the ship.

Meanwhile, the garden authorities were already working to stop the tea workers. They sent their representatives to Chandpur with the help of
local administration, Commissioner Kiran Chandra Dey, Magistrate Sushil Singh and other gentlemen to suppress the revolt of the tea workers.
When the workers wanted to board the ship by force, the Gurkha forces of the British government started firing and torturing them
indiscriminately. Hundreds of tea workers were shot dead instantly. Thousands of workers were injured. Not just ships, The workers waiting
at the Chandpur railway station were also subjected to brutal torture. The attack of the Gurkha forces created a hellish atmosphere in the
shipyard and railway station that day. The helpless tea workers and their family members were killed and their bodies were cut off and
thrown into the river so that the bodies could be drowned in the river. To quell the revolt of the tea workers, the police arrested a number
of tea workers, including Pandit Ganga Dayal Dixit and Pandit Deosharan, the two main leaders of the movement. Pandit Ganga Dayal Dixit
sacrificed his life by going on a long hunger strike to protest against this barbaric and unjust attack on the tea workers and the
mistreatment of the jail authorities.

Tea workers marching along the railway line chanted "Gandhiji ka joy" and "Bande mataram" during the "Let's go to Mullu" campaign. But when
Mahatma Gandhi was asked to support the tea workers' movement, Gandhiji did not support the movement because of the compromising political
views, but advised the tea workers to return to the tea garden. On the other hand, Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das rushed to Chandpur as soon as
he heard the news of this barbaric murder of tea workers. He stood by the injured and agitating tea workers with local leaders. Many leaders
and activists of the anti-British movement, including the revolutionary Masterda Suryasen, played a role in the tea workers' movement. In
support of the tea workers' demand, the workers of Assam Bengal Railway started a strike. Deshbandhu Chitta Ranjan stood by the railway
workers. He called on the workers to continue their strike. This barbaric organized on tea workers About 25,000 railway workers went on
strike in protest of the killings. The students, including railway workers and ship workers, united with the tea workers that day. After the
revolt and the labor movement, the British government was compelled to form a Royal Commission to abolish the girmit system and bring the
workers back to the garden with a promise to provide them with rations and other benefits. Thousands of tea workers protested against the
exploitation and oppression, which over time still exists today. Tea workers played a heroic role in the great liberation war of 1971
against the exploitation of Pakistani rule after the British exploitation. But even after 49 years of independence, tea workers are deprived
of their land rights, minimum wages, education and medical rights. As a result, tea workers are still fighting for land, minimum wage,
education and medical rights. Students and people including ship workers. After the revolt and the labor movement, the British government
was compelled to form a Royal Commission to abolish the girmit system and bring the workers back to the garden with a promise to provide
them with rations and other benefits. Thousands of tea workers protested against the exploitation and oppression, which over time still
exists today. Tea workers played a heroic role in the great liberation war of 1971 against the exploitation of Pakistani rule after the
British exploitation. But even after 49 years of independence, tea workers are deprived of their land rights, minimum wages, education and
medical rights. As a result, tea workers are still fighting for land, minimum wage, education and medical rights. Students and people
including ship workers. After the revolt and the labor movement, the British government was compelled to form a Royal Commission to abolish
the girmit system and bring the workers back to the garden with a promise to provide them with rations and other benefits. Thousands of tea
workers protested against the exploitation and oppression, which over time still exists today. Tea workers played a heroic role in the great
liberation war of 1971 against the exploitation of Pakistani rule after the British exploitation. But even after 49 years of independence,
tea workers are deprived of their land rights, minimum wages, education and medical rights. As a result, tea workers are still fighting for
land, minimum wage, education and medical rights. Deprived of the right to minimum wage, education, medical treatment. As a result, tea
workers are still fighting for land, minimum wage, education and medical rights. Deprived of the right to minimum wage, education, medical
treatment. As a result, tea workers are still fighting for land, minimum wage, education and medical rights.

The Tea Workers' Movement has been observing "Tea Workers' Day" since 2000 and the Bangladesh Tea Workers' Federation has been observing
"Tea Workers' Day" since 2000 to accelerate the Tea Workers' Movement to learn from this history. The movement of the tea workers on that
day could not be completely successful in the face of brutal oppression and barbaric oppression by the owner class. But the bloodbath of the
tea workers has made this revolt a new history, a path of struggle. For more than one and a half hundred years, this "Mulluke Chal" movement
of tea workers will be the source of the consciousness of the struggle for the rights of the oppressed and deprived tea workers.

https://bangladeshasf.org/caa-shrmik-bidroher-rktsnaat-itihaas/

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On the morning of Saturday, May 23, there was an intervention in my market on Gounari & Boukaouri by 15 comrades. Hundreds of tricks were
thrown inside the store and texts were distributed to the world and to the workers. ---- "My Market" fired an employee in Patras with the
sole justification of consuming (within the store) expired product (croissant) intended for the trash. ---- During the previous period of
the pandemic and restrictive measures, the company recorded one record after another in its turnover and employed part of the staff with
indicated employment, taking advantage of the recent anti-labor bills and "rubber" hours in the industry. Today, unpaid workers are unloaded
with cheap pretexts and extortionate methods. ---- A Pentane in widespread terrorism and crackdown on slavery and misery imposed by the
state and the bosses in the workplace, there is another way. The way of organizing the workers, the resistance, the claim and the
social-class struggle.

REMEMBER TO WORKING TERRORISM

? CLASS SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

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

NO STEP BACK TO OUR NEEDS EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE: FOOD, HEALTH, ORDER

anarchist group "dynian horse" / FROM & comrades -i

https://ipposd.wordpress.com/

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We publish a translation of the text from the German left-wing resource "Magazin", which cites and critically examines the main arguments of
supporters and opponents of universal isolation as a measure to combat the coronavirus-19 epidemic. Constructed in the form of a discussion
between opponents, the text gives a clear idea of why the current health problems have arisen and how the ruling classes use the current
situation for their own purposes. The material in question is primarily about Germany, but what has been said is quite applicable to other
countries, including Russia. ---- The conversation of the thinker with concern about the coronavirus and the health crisis (it can be
imagined as an internal dialogue in the same person) ---- A .: Everyone is talking about the virus. But we are not. ---- B .: How is it not?
We are talking too. Can't you see what's going on?

A .: Viruses have always been and remain a part of our life. Sometimes we defend ourselves against them. Sometimes this is done by our
immune system. And sometimes we need the help of a doctor.

B .: Coronavirus is a huge danger! For all of us, and especially for the elderly and the sick. Perhaps for smokers.

A .: It is unlikely. In addition, coronaviruses are already known to us. Four of them cause numerous flu outbreaks every year. And there are
three more that we also know: SARS, MERS and SARS2. Now we are talking about this very last. And we do not know how dangerous it is. On the
one hand, we are dealing with math. This is a puzzle with many unknowns. Seeing only a certain result, we can falsely assume that everything
comes down to only one of these factors. But if other factors are added, the equation will not converge. If we could determine the values of
other factors, from A (asbestos) and L (air pollution) to T (tobacco smoking), then V (virus) would no longer look so omnipotent and
frightening. All calculation models have the disadvantage that they scatter like a house of cards, if one of the factors is not taken into
account.

B .: But there are figures and facts! What to do with the growing number of infected? What to do with the increase in the number of dead?

A .: On the other hand, this is an area of statistics. Even if mathematically we knew all the unknowns, we should still consider the result
in relation to other data. To know how high mortality is, you need to know and compare average statistics. To know the number of infected,
you need testing, no doubt. It is not possible to deduce propagation speed from current testing practice. After all, so far there has been
only an increase in positive tests. After all, people with typical symptoms are checked. Thus, the growth of positive test results reflects
only the increase in the number of tests in suspicious cases. This is a pure tautology, not saying anything about the spread of the virus.
And, above all, about his danger. We know little about this virus, and this is in obvious disproportion to the observed reaction.

B .: But statistics should not obscure specific things from us. Indeed, 10% of people have severe symptoms. Our duty is to save them.

A .: Another statistically incorrect conclusion. You need to know the total quantity, but this is not. Therefore wander in the fog. Only 10%
(if so many) of people with symptoms can fear a severe course of the disease. Moreover, such a move does not depend on the virus itself, but
on other factors, such as age and the presence of other diseases. Indeed, in our days, they die not only from this virus. This virus is not
a fatal disease, such as Ebola, where the chances of survival are 10%. People die with a coronavirus, not a coronavirus. As already
mentioned: we always live with viruses, more or less dangerous. Coronavirus is not deadly and may not even be particularly dangerous, but it
spreads very quickly. This happens with flu viruses. Under other, better circumstances, there would not be much talk about this. But then
suddenly everyone began to see in other people only the threat of viral infection. However, before it was not otherwise. Under capitalism,
man is no helper to man!

Now about ethical duty. Yes, any, even a small number of people need protection. But current measures rather hinder this. After all, they
are so all-encompassing that the effect of the virus on people remains in them as in a black box - and targeted protection is not guaranteed.

B .: But isn't social distance the best opportunity to protect yourself and others? We do not know how the virus will behave, but because of
solidarity we remain at home. This is the path of minimum risk, which makes maximum protection possible.

A .: First of all, we protect the destroyed healthcare system from overload in this way. She was saved before the destruction in such a way
that she threatens to fall apart from itself not a very dangerous, but widespread infection. Lack of personnel, overloads and lack of
equipment have been discussed for many years. So all this is no longer a surprise. By the way, not everyone can stay at home - you need to
be able to afford it. So at least for this reason it will not protect everyone. But solidarity does not mean that everyone suddenly begins
to act as if they are in mortal danger, which in fact is not. Act must be targeted, and not direct actions indiscriminately. At the moment,
it seems, first of all, the spread of panic and fear is occurring. Shock exposure is highly desirable

B .: But the situation is really emergency! In such a situation, we must take full responsibility and cannot behave as usual. If we respect
each other and keep our distance from each other, we will survive this crisis.

A .: Why should we consider an emergency situation that they have been talking about for the coming years for years? This is only possible
if you ignore it or want it. And why should we all now be held accountable? The health care system was deliberately destroyed and
privatized. Her goals themselves have changed. She no longer belonged to social security, but was supposed to serve as a means of making a
profit. And now we are clearly seeing what we know. But at the end of February, the Minister of Health insisted on his discussion on the
closure of hospitals!

B .: Well now, the health system is being helped. They give more money, more staff. New emergency hospitals are being built. And even the
army helps. This could lead to future changes. Care professions are gaining greater public recognition.

A .: Just make a lot of efforts to leave everything as it is. No one calls into question the senseless system of lump-sum payment of
services for a single case of treatment or making a profit as a goal. The medical and pharmaceutical industry can pretty rub their hands.
They are also rewarded for their antisocial actions. They should be immediately expropriated! And drive those responsible in the streets.
Only, of course, in compliance with a safe distance and wearing masks. Do not think about changes for a long time! And recognition is worth
something only when it does not come down to symbolic applause. Or sweet words. This would require a change in society. And he who expects
this from the rulers is mistaken about their intentions.

B .: Seriously? Doesn't the government react quite intelligently in this crisis? It is enough to look at other countries - there you can see
much worse forms of the ongoing processes, in medical and political terms.

A .: Do you still believe that the virus threatens us. But all those who destroyed and want to continue to destroy public health are far
more dangerous. Our lives are always threatened by disease. Because of this, we do not stop living, but we need medical treatment - for
everyone and for free. We are threatened by the fact that social wealth is in the hands of those who not only want to deprive us of access
to it, but also protect it with violence - in the first place, of the state. The ban on leaving the house is a panic reaction of the
government, as the situation takes on the features of uncontrollability. Anyone who praises the idiocy of the government as some kind of
draconian measure, simply legitimizes with his - with his own encouragement - fear the most inadequate of all measures.

B .: The ban on contacts, the ban on leaving home and forced closure - this is all temporary until improvement comes. They are not
inadequate, they simply are not applied consistently - for example, in enterprises.

A .: Until there is an improvement in what? The government does not say what it intends to do over time. It only says that the infection
curve should be slowed down. That is, about the fact that the virus will adapt to the capacities of hospitals, which are not enough. But
rhetoric betrays everything: everyone now bears responsibility. The rules should be followed. Discipline and cohesion are needed. This is a
classic authoritarian neoliberalism. You need to feel guilty if you are sick, and do not dare to demand the right to health from the
government. Under the guise of ideological empty phrases, people are required to refuse. And by the way, yes, in the German arms production,
not a single conveyor should stop for a minute, with or without contact prohibition. But is this an argument for banning contacts?

B .: It is about slowing down the growth curve of new infected people, otherwise collapse is threatening. In such a situation, not a single
person should be exposed to risk.

A .: This is just one of the points of view. Virologists are by no means unanimous. One of them was made by an adviser to the government,
and, as it were, by chance, for the biggest restrictions and, moreover, he only blindly sees only the molecular biological level, but does
not know human society. And also confuses the honor of the scientist with fidelity to the government, for which he is revered. Other
virologists are not only more liberal politically, but also more critical. And they are more interested in how the virus affects a person.
But political decisions are justified just by insurmountable medical circumstances, which, upon careful examination, turn out to be only the
stubborn personal opinion of one expert in a very limited molecular biological field. And then it is enforced by police across the country.
All this is very doubtful. Especially if the measures seemingly called to serve to fight the virus, promise to be worse than the virus
itself. How does isolation work - especially for the elderly and the sick? Loneliness is already considered a dangerous folk disease - in
the UK there is even a ministry for loneliness. Of course, this translates the social problem into the medical plane, but at the same time
shows that it has serious consequences.

B .: But otherwise thousands of people will die - as it was in Bergamo and in Spain! This must be prevented, if possible, even if collateral
damage is caused.

A .: We still need to investigate why such a bad situation has developed in Bergamo. This is also due to the extent to which the local
health care system has been destroyed - including under the sign of the German-European policy of austerity after the 2007 crisis and with
many other factors. The photographs are terrifying, but with the help of terrible photographs, politics is made - just like with the help of
decorative, but unused corpses in large American cities to intimidate people with their president, as if they no longer knew who he was. As
for Europe: the German government very quickly and clearly informed the Italian that there would be no generalization of debts at the
European level. But what, at the same time, the German economy will be saved by huge loans. For Italy and Spain, this is impossible; they
will go bankrupt. What is happening now we could already see during the so-called "refugee crisis". When nothing more can be done
politically, they try it with terrible and compassionate photographs. This is a politically helpless reaction to arrogance and inequality in
Europe. And at the same time it serves to establish the jargon of horror about decisions concerning life and death. Moreover, such sentences
are passed by society itself. The poor die on average 10 years earlier than the rich.

B .: But this is cynical! Are you going to deny that people are dying in Italy?

A .: I cannot and will not deny that people are dying. But the question is why this is happening. And in what these deaths are used for.
This world is cynical, not the one who talks about it. It's obvious that in the current health crisis, we are talking about a claim to the
sole rightness and political power. But both of them must remain invisible - that is, precisely with ideology.

B .: This is too much given by conspiracy theorists on the network who deny the virus.

A .: To deny the virus is nonsense. But even virologists argue how dangerous it really is. And to determine the proportionality of the
measures taken - this in a democracy should be the task of every citizen. However, the government proclaimed the end of the world, and then,
of course, everything was justified. The leftists were simply outwitted: it was enough to shout out "solidarity" - and all of them here as
they sat down peacefully in their kitchens in housing communities. Here even the government was surprised how easy it was to abolish
fundamental freedoms. Just one hygiene prescription! This is a test of fascism, a little training for a serious case. And the virus here
came in very handy. All parties rallied around the government. And they all get something: the green ones have more bike lanes, and the
right ones have closed borders. And the maneuver showed that you can rely on the media: immediate self-standardization. They voluntarily
participate in the hunt for violators of the rules and stigmatize the so-called improper behavior. Critical communication is no longer
practiced. Instead, a scene of confrontation is played out between two opponents - a viral threat and a brave government. And every layman
from the middle class now publishes his own coronavirus diary from a self-imposed delusional quarantine.

B .: But a lot of fake news also runs. Right-wing supporters of conspiracy theories are spreading rumors. The media informs about figures
and facts, and does not sow panic.

A .: Large-scale misinformation is carried out with the help of figures and facts. As if they were explaining something. The problem is that
such an interpretation was almost always deliberate: government measures have no alternative. Now it is slowly changing. Trending opinions
were branded as fake news. It was especially interesting when the position of heretics a few days later without any reservations appeared in
the so-called "quality" media already in the form of an official position. In crude systems of domination, this always happens: the
opposition is persecuted, but if it is right, the government takes over its position as its own. And the panic is sowing with might and
main: on the pretext of warning against it. One doctor from Vienna a hundred years ago already knew how the desired is expressed through the
opposite.

B .: But should one in such a situation show little confidence in the effectiveness of the measures? What is necessary is always partly
reasonable.

A .: That is what the government is speculating on. It creates facts that paralyze rational thinking. The fact that they do not rely too
much on trust is already indicated by the talk of "characteristic testing," which was used to justify the ban on leaving the house. The
population is now under suspicion. But this also shows how great the desire for crisis is. It is a dream of all authoritarian characters who
now rule decrees and orders, but without parliament and opposition. All of Germany dreams and enjoys. That the economic and political crisis
was coming, they already foresaw. The social conflict was postponed many times - it was both thirsty and feared at the same time. And here
comes the emergency due to the virus, which allowed the repressed to return in a transformed form. For some, this is a war against an
internal enemy, for others - against the outside. Or the fight against lack of discipline and cohesion. All the powers that be use the virus
for their own purposes. Among other things, how well this works is demonstrated by the fact that in Germany only companies with billions of
profits stopped paying rent, but not thousands of tenants who barely make ends meet from month to month: this is a "community of common
destiny", thanks to the crisis.

B .: At the moment, this is not about politics, but about public health. Governments must protect him, this is their task. And we are
interested in saving life. This is the most crucial interest.

A .: Bourgeois governments have long been not worried about the fate of that part of the population that is excessive for capital. How
simple it would be to prevent thousands of deaths from tuberculosis! But it will not bring benefits. Assistance in committing suicide has
long been a ubiquitous practice with indulgence for the pharmacological industry - this can be seen in the example of opioids in the United
States. No, the conflict is political: it unfolds between the conditions of reproduction of those who own capital and those who do not have
it. The former want hospitals for a few solvent patients, and the latter for everyone. Ultimately, we are talking about political power. The
question is: Whose crisis? Who will win?

B .: But now there is urgent help for the victims, including independent workers and small entrepreneurs. The German state has reserve funds
to help everyone. Even the ban on new debt for state bodies is being softened. Perhaps even the end of the neoliberal doctrine!

A .: Instead of expanding public infrastructure such as healthcare before, they are now distributing funds to hold out. True, only to its
own population, generalization of debts at the EU level, by the will of Germany, will not be. Thousands of people will find themselves in a
state of poverty and unemployment, despite all the loans and help. In other countries, people probably will not bear it in silence, perhaps
in Germany too. Neoliberalism has by no means ended, and the virus will not end it - this is what people themselves must do. Now any social
movement is being suspected of spreading the infection and is immediately blocked. But for a long time it will not remain so. The ruling
circles also anticipate this, therefore they act even more authoritarianly for preventive purposes. Part of the future conditions of the
struggle is to prevent this.

B .: I'm afraid. I would not want to get infected, wither, or die on the floor of the hospital or in the gym, lose friends or relatives.

A .: We are all afraid. We are afraid of death - but also of social death. This fear lives on capitalism, betting that the fear of death is
stronger than the desire for a better life. This is the secret of slavery. One of ours once said in a poem that we should be afraid of a bad
life more than death. We should again learn to lose fear together. Well, or at least not to be afraid more than necessary - and then the
virus will not be the greatest of our fears. And, perhaps, the socialist republic of polyclinics will rise from the ruins of the global
health care system, and not the ugly fascist state of survival.

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For the third night in the northwestern Parisian suburb of Argenteuil, riots and fights with the police have not stopped. A new outbreak of
"rebellion in the suburbs" occurred after a police car hit an 18-year-old Sabri Shubi who was riding a motorcycle. The increase in social
tension is caused by totalitarian measures introduced by the French authorities under the pretext of "combating the epidemic." ---- On the
night of May 17-18, battles between local youth and the police continued until the early hours of the morning. In the video posted on the
network, it was possible to see how the squads of police special forces CRS move around the residential quarter. Protesters bombarded them
with fireworks and set fire to containers, building barricades, and there were clubs of tear gas in the air
(https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-france-security/youths-clash-with-police-in-paris-suburb-of-argenteuil-idUKKBN22U0IG).
Police fired from rocket launchers and smashed bus stops.

On the second night, from May 18 to May 19, the unrest resumed at about 23.00. In the video one could see burning cars and garbage cans,
shots from rocket launchers, Molotov cocktails flying in policemen and gas clubs. 3 police officers were injured. 3 cars burned. The police
captured 6 people (https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Societe/Deuxieme-nuit-de-tensions-a-Argenteuil-apres-la-mort-de-Sabri-1686028).

Police said about 80 young people were involved in the "riots," mainly in Dahl, Sita-Champagne, and Rue-Charcot, but there was no direct
physical confrontation. Police forces totaled 200 officers, including CRS reinforcements and gendarmes. The police cordoned off the quarter
and dispersed the small dispersed groups with gas
(http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/argenteuil-nouvelle-nuit-de-tensions-apres-la-mort-a-moto-de-sabri-19-05-2020-8319588.php)

On the night of May 20, unrest continued until 3 in the morning. The police again invaded the quarter. In the area of the Paris Commune
Square, guards of the capitalist order were fired from rocket launchers, bombarded with bottles and stones, set fire to garbage cans. 4
people were arrested
(https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/argenteuil-quatre-personnes-interpellees-au-cours-d-une-troisieme-nuit-de-violences-1589950692)


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The false dilemma of "free trade" and "protectionism". The absurdity of the international measure of unemployment illustrated by the latest
French figures. State support for the tourism sector. Here is the program for this new note from the UCL Economy Working Group ! ----
Against the false "free trade / protectionism" dilemma: productive autonomy ---- The economic crisis which is hitting the whole world has
revived the interminable debates between supporters of protectionism (whether it is "intelligent", "united", or "European") and defenders of
free trade. What to think of these debates ? The "radical", communist or social democratic left is willing to speak in favor of one form or
another of protectionism against liberal globalism. We would therefore be tempted to think that protectionism is the solution favorable to
popular interests when free trade serves bourgeois interests. But is it that simple ?

In reality, these two types of trade policies have been alternated frequently by bourgeois states since the beginnings of capitalism, and
even before. "Mercantilism", roughly the old form of protectionism, was put in place from the reign of Louis XIV by Colbert in order to
support exports and increase national wealth. We can not yet say that Colbert was a socialist ... But it is also true that the XIX th
century was marked by widespread opening of trade borders, as well as the end of the XX thcentury, after decades of protectionism. This
protectionism is also applied in a heterogeneous way according to the sectors: the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) applies a strong
European protectionism for the agricultural field, contrary to most of the other sectors subjected to the fluctuations of the international
trade.

What interests do these policies serve ? On closer inspection, they essentially defend a fraction each time different from bourgeois
interests: free trade supports big industrial-financial capital, largely uprooted. But protectionism carries the interests of the national
industrial bourgeoisie least integrated into globalization. When it applies to agricultural production, it also defends the interests of
large landowners.

One might think that joining the less dominant bourgeoisie, that which is little or not integrated into the big world trade, is more in line
with the interests of the people. After all, are we not in the same boat? But refocusing on a national bourgeoisie more linked to state
interests will only take us from one end to the other of the same quagmire. We workers would be exposed to the permanent economic war being
waged by the capitalist states. Protectionism could certainly allow some relocations and slightly reduce the pressure of international
competition in the short term, but it is also the instrument of aggressive export policies against other countries and of probable
imperialist escalations like the one taking place at the moment. between the United States and China. So that protectionism carried out in
France could very quickly turn against us. Finally, multinationals do not necessarily exploit their employees more, on a country scale,

We must fight against the totality of policies which put each working people in competition with the others. Protectionists or free traders,
they are never more than two sides of the coin of the ruling class. All these policies fuel imperial rivalries and nationalism, making the
permanent threat of war hover above us. We don't have to take sides with one fraction or another of our exploiters. The good of our people
cannot and should not be achieved at the expense of that of others. If we really want to defend it, then we have to organize solidarity.
Everything that can reasonably be produced must be produced locally, from a socio-economic and ecological perspective. But in parallel, it
is necessary to systematically cooperate with other peoples to produce goods on a large scale that cannot be locally, and to organize useful
and peaceful exchanges. This project has a name: productive autonomy. Let us defend there to defend our class and refuse the false dilemmas
of the parasites who govern us.

To go further: https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Contre-le-libre-echange-l-autonomie-productive-5148

The troubling unemployment figures
The publication of unemployment figures for the first quarter in France, which shows a drop in the number of jobseekers in category A jobs,
has caused a lot of reaction as it does not seem representative of the current period. We do know that March was marked by a historic
increase in unemployment. The health and economic crisis put an end to the interim missions and given the economic situation, the fixed-term
contracts were clearly not renewed. In terms of hirings, there is a 29% slowdown in people leaving job center job seekers' files. Hiring
declarations, for their part, decreased by 22.6%. [1]

By the end of June, the OFCE (French Observatory of Economic Conditions) expects France to account for 600,000 more unemployed people. These
figures are based on the international definition which qualifies as unemployed anyone who has not worked in previous weeks, who is actively
looking for work and who is available to take up a new job in both. weeks to come. The most widely used definition of unemployment is
therefore simplistic. In the current period, many people are simply unable to actively seek work and are therefore not considered to be
unemployed. [2]The international unemployment indicator is already highly problematic in normal times, because it leads to underestimating
the share of forced part-time work and precariousness in general. But it becomes, in the present crisis, purely and simply absurd.

These impressive figures are nevertheless low compared to what we can see in the United States, where there are 3 million more private
workers every week. In France, the partial unemployment scheme acts as a buffer. But for the past few weeks, the government has been pushing
to reduce the number of people on short-time work. The number of workers on partial unemployment has risen from 12.4 million last week to 11
million workers today. [3]The crisis is far from behind us. We do not know when and under what conditions the most affected sectors such as
hotels or restaurants will be able to revive. The government's decision to allow French people to go on vacation this summer is a decision
to limit the economic crisis and not a logical decision from a health point of view. According to Eric Heyer, economist at the OFCE: "We
will be at an unemployment rate of around 10% in June and perhaps beyond 12% at the end of the year". Nothing very reassuring ...

What policies are looming against the economic crisis ?
Everywhere, the contours of the economic crisis are becoming clearer. All countries, to the extent of their capacities, adopt support
schemes for their national economies. Often, these plans are accompanied by a declared desire to return to a form of "relocation", which
could eventually lead to chain protectionist policies. States are going into debt, and in the more or less short term, everything suggests
that new austerity measures will befall the populations. The European Union is on the way to finding a common agreement on a recovery plan.
This attempt is supported by the Franco-German government duo, which proposes to raise it to 500 billion euros. [4]A sum at the very least
high with regard to the budget of the union (1% of European GDP) but also very low from the point of view of the total wealth of the EU and
the recovery plans announced separately by each State. [5]This plan would be financed by a loan made directly by the EU on the financial
markets, and reimbursement would be provided by the EU itself and not by the Member States. The reversal of the German position, hitherto
hostile to any pooling of debts at European level, is emblematic of the risk of implosion of the EU if it is unable to find common ground
between its various components. It constitutes a reaction to the anti-European Central Bank judgment recently issued by the Karlsrhue court.
[6]Several northern European countries have already explicitly opposed this proposal, which it is difficult to believe will succeed as it
stands. [7]

In France, it is around tourism that announcements have intensified this week. This sector, which represents 7% of GDP and 2 million jobs,
has in fact been almost completely shutdown for two months. There is growing concern among professionals about the fear of prolonging
confinement this summer, which would simply mean the collapse of thousands of companies among the 62,000 in the sector, many of which have
already been condemned. Government declared this sector "national priority "And dedicates to it a plan of 18 billion Euros ... without
social compensation for the employers, while tourism, whose harmful environmental effects are proven, relies largely on a seasonal workforce
often over-exploited and under -paid. The question of employment is also one of the main concerns in the event of reopening, employers
worrying about the possibility of social movements. The idea of a government platform for volunteers is gaining ground ... despite the
blatant failure of the one set up for agriculture ! After its failed operation, the French state tends to align itself with its European
neighbors, by facilitating the arrival of low-cost immigrant labor from Eastern Europe. [8]At the same time, the abusive use of fixed-term
contracts and Interims will be facilitated by the signing of special agreements at company level. As for CSEs, they will be able to draw up
to 50% of their operating budget to finance social activities: as many means withdrawn for their action to defend employees.

This note was produced by the Economic Working Group of UCL, aiming to synthesize essential data on the economic situation that we are going
through with the coronavirus crisis. It has evolved in the form of a newsletter, structured in several articles of various sizes. It is as
sourced and factual as possible, and aims to link the main data on the economic situation with more general political and social analyzes.
However, it was carried out by activists who are not economic professionals. Do not hesitate to make any constructive feedback.

Validate

[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2020/04/28/hausse-histor-du-chomage-au-mois-de-mars_6037997_823448.html

[2] https://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/baisse-en-trompe-l-oeil-du-taux-de-chomage-au-premier-trimestre-20200514

[3] https://www.liberation.fr/france/2020/05/15/avec-11-millions-de-salaries-concernes-le-recours-au-chomage-partiel-amorce-sa-decrue_1788442

[4] https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2020/05/18/la-france-et-l-allemagne-proposent-un-plan-de-relance-europeen-de-500-milliards
-d-euros_6040040_3234.html

[5]
https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politique/accord-franco-allemand-500-milliards-ne-suffiront-pas-a-reequilibrer-le-budget-de-l-union-europeenne-20200521

[6] https://www.franceculture.fr/economie/cour-de-karlsruhe-contre-bce-un-combat-politique-plus-que-monetaire

[7] https://www.ouest-france.fr/europe/ue/europe-pourquoi-le-plan-macron-merkel-de-500-milliards-d-euros-n-est-pas-encore-arrive
-bon-port-6839983

[8] http://cqfd-journal.org/CQFD-no167-juillet-aout-2018

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