#Worldwide #Information #Blogger #LucSchrijvers: #Update: #anarchist #information from all over the #world - 16.05.2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Antipatriarchy,
      Containment must also be thought of for women (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Greece, "Black & Red": THE STATE SAVES CAPITALISM [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Czech, AFED: Anniversary of Michal Kácha [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 4.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #305 - Digital, Apps,
      drones ... the sanitary alibi of general surveillance (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  avtonom: "When we help each other without trying to cash in,
      everyone gets better" Interview, Peter Gelderloos [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Greece, grupo anarquista disinios ippos APO: SOLIDARITY TO
      THE PEOPLE NASA WHO FIGHTS FOR THE EARTH AND 
      FREEDOM [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Germany, fau: During the Corona emergency: (de)
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:14:39 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL -
        Antipatriarchy, Containment must also be thought of for women (fr, it,
        pt)[machine translation]
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On a daily basis, we women experience inequality and violence. For many of us, this observation was strongly accentuated with confinement.
This one, as announced by the government will only worsen this situation because, even if some of us will be able to go back to work, we
will have to undergo the injunctions to "makeup for lost time" while still working advantage than usual. And for the others, who will remain
confined to the regions most affected by the virus, no measures are on the horizon. ---- Almost two months after the start of confinement,
none of the long-awaited emergency measures had been taken to relieve women, particularly the most precarious, the most hampered by their
rights and the most affected by the consequences of this confinement. However, these measures had been requested by the women themselves and
in particular the field workers. In particular with regard to support for sectors employing mainly women essential to the functioning of
society during confinement (health, education, maintenance of premises, sales, etc.). This calls for easier access to abortion and
contraception, the guarantee of social and economic rights, access to social services and health, rights for migrant women. In just as much
urgency,

Not only have all of the issues that we raise not been addressed, but the women, whom the precarious, violent, destroyed confinement, when
it does not kill them, are sent back to hellish rates.

We are endangered by the passivity of the public authorities, even though they are the first concerned.

To be a woman is already to be precarious . But, in times of crisis, this precariousness increases. Precariousness that we also owe to the
many austerity measures taken in recent years: labor law, unemployment, retirement, etc.

It is now essential to:
Support the sectors mainly employing women and all the so-called "front line" trades.
Guarantee women's economic autonomy and social rights.
Provide solutions allowing a real reconciliation between family and professional life during confinement. That until the normal resumption
of the school and the modes of collective reception of the early childhood for all and all: to allow the mothers of family who wish it to be
able to keep the partial unemployment after June 2 and to profit from additional aid.
Guarantee the safety of women victims of domestic violence: eviction from the domicile of the violent spouse, creation of jobs intended to
support women victims of violence, etc.
Support single-parent women.
Support all trans people: Domestic violence, isolation, insecurity, problems accessing treatment, postponement of operations, etc.?
Support women's access to health and their sexual and reproductive rights: abortion and contraception, mental and physical health.
Guarantee the rights of migrant women (with or without papers) and their children.
Protect women prostitutes.
UCL Antipatriarchate Commission, May 9, 2020

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Le-confinement-se-doit-de-penser-aux-femmes-aussi

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Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:15:20 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) Greece, "Black & Red": THE STATE SAVES CAPITALISM
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On the evening of May 5, in Agios Ioannis Square, in Agia Paraskevi, police forces attacked and tried to evacuate the square with the use of
tear gas. Three days later, the police attacked Agios Georgios Square in Kypseli. Suddenly and without any warning, the lights in the square
are turned off and MAT forces, using tear gas, flash and blind force, try to drive the people out of the square. We are only in the first
days after the lifting of traffic bans, where the gradual opening of the market is being attempted, in order to restart the economy. Of
course, this intention does not seem to be able to serve the needs of the social majority. ---- From the thousands of workers in undeclared
work and the insecurity of the pandemic workers to the exhausting hours of supermarket and delivery workers, it seems that the weight of the
pandemic and its consequences is being lifted by the social and class base. In addition, the thousands of refugees and migrants stacked in
concentration camps, the retaliatory shifts and the government's refusal to decongest prisons and psychiatric hospitals show that life and
health are not valuable to the state. On the contrary, the main purpose of public administration is to preserve its sovereignty and the
political and economic interests of it and its elites.

The transition period we are going through now is just the first round of detection of the new reality in which the state is trying to
impose the management features that will allow it to direct its policy the next day, which has as its core the coordinated attack. to the
Plebeian masses, so that the crisis of the pandemic can be paid once again by the weak. So in the squares and in the repression of the
people who frequent there, there is nothing but the pursuit of the state to control and intimidate the parts of the world that have always
been against it and their concentration can potentially create rifts and problems.

The important point at stake in this confrontation with the state order of repression is the preservation of a path where mass social and
class resistance will begin to walk immediately. In order for the social movement to mobilize the necessary forces for a victorious battle
against the state and the bosses, while it makes it clear that it does not oppose the consequences of the pandemic together with the state,
the police and the owners, it also has that level of consciousness. so that it can successfully implement social self-protection measures.
Especially at this time, Observance by the world of self-defense is a necessary policy to include all people who are vulnerable to pandemics
and even more disadvantaged due to the state's exclusion policies and the bosses' class aggression. We all want to fight together.

Virus protection, we must emphasize again, does not start with the state. On the contrary, the dissolution of the NSS and public health show
the importance that the state attaches to people's lives. Doctors, nurses, cleaning and nutrition workers, those who have given and are
fighting the virus are the real protagonists in defending society. And yet it is the state that wants to emerge as the exponent of social
interests, simply because it is occasionally forced into an elementary suspension of economic activity, while at the same time shielding
itself from repression in order to avoid its own questioning.

Finally, the bills passed in the middle of a pandemic show that the only issue for the government is to continue to enforce it and to make
the exploitation gigantic. When they pave the way for capital to develop new areas of profitability, plundering nature, creating education
for the few, while strengthening surveillance and discipline, removing basic demands on immigrants, as they did through nature bills,
educational restructuring. , and the anti-refugee bill, those below must immediately take their place on the road to the struggle.

In the face of this gloomy reality reserved for all the oppressed by the powerful of this world, we propose solidarity, social mutual aid
and the organization of all from below to claim what belongs to us. We continue to fight for the overthrow of the state and capitalism, for
the creation of a society without exploitation and oppression, for the creation of a society of equality, solidarity, freedom and justice.

ONLY THE PEOPLE SAVES THE PEOPLE

Collectivity for Social Anarchism Black & Red

member of the Anarchist Political Organization | Federation of Collectivities

https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/

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Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:17:55 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) Czech, AFED: Anniversary of Michal Kácha [machine
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On May 12, we commemorate 80 years since the death of the Prague anarchist and co-founder of the Czech Anarchist Federation, Michal Kácha.
---- We wrote about Kách, for example, HERE , HERE or HERE, and today we would like to remind this important personality of the movement
with a short memorial text and a few rare photographs. Above all, probably a hitherto unpublished photograph of the 62-year-old Kácha from
1936, ie a few years before his death. ---- We have also prepared for download (in PDF and versions for e-book readers and similar devices:
EPUB or MOBI ) a now sold-out pocket brochure dedicated to this unforgettable figure, published by the Anarchist Federation in 2015.
The following excerpt is from the memory of journalist and novelist Emil Vachek, which was published in 1961 in the magazine Plamen (vol. 3,
no. 7, pp. 62-65) under the title "Kácha, Hašek and the Others". Emil Vachek came from Hradec Králové and found himself in Prague as a
seventeen-year-old enthusiastic anarchist in 1906.

Vlasta Borek led me to Michal Kách. Kacha was never alone, as all the apostles were always surrounded by people. This time, however, Antonín
Boucek was with him; this "of course" has its meaning, because Boucek, a typical homeless man, orphaned after Neumann's departure for
Vienna, was baked boiled in the Práce editorial office without actually helping her, because he was more a man of spoken words - and
goodness - than written words. Kách's friend Marie Müllerová was also present, a woman according to whom I still imagine revolutionaries.
Later, she took me, Benjamin, as a mother.

Kacha, a man rather small than of medium build, slender and graceful, disheveled red hair and equally colored beards, with small but
eternally laughing eyes, later my kind protector, half older brother, half father, was, as I knew, heart and engine. his retinue. Because
Kácha did not editor-in-chief: he lived in a leaf and in his co-workers, he enjoyed it richly and with love, his unfading activity pulsating
in him like blood in his body. The work was created by the whole team at the time, of course, but Kácha was the one who kept the guard
uninterrupted and aimed the cannons in the right places. The work itself was a magazine that had little in common with the term "magazine"
common in our country. Not a magazine that is "made". The work was like a traveling pulpit, an impromptu meeting of the people, and
sometimes a street where wounds were planted.

Characterizing Kácha, a personality that is extraordinarily flexible in a spiritual sense - on the outside he looked rather casual - still
shattered by an idea and tenaciously executing it, is not a toy. I am almost tempted to write that he was a noble, chosen democrat. The
label "selectness" actually belonged to his entire group, culminating in it only in an original and almost inaccurate way. Originally a
shoemaker. and the need to fight for it, this shoemaker's apostle took a step behind us; for he feared that he would be considered an
authority and a leader.

Details sometimes characterize better than long explanations. Once, when he was to sit for a press offense, they told him that he could take
a single book to prison. Without embarrassment, he chose Sabatier's work on St. Francis of Assisi. He later lent it to me. She was
beautiful, poetic and matter-of-fact, as the French can do. The anarchist Kácha, who was in favor of "direct action", loved a saint who
recommended not only absolute poverty but also boundless humility. But the points of contact could not be overlooked. Kácha and his more
famous predecessors despised property, both were rioters against the lords, Kácha cheerfully fighting, St. Francis humble; and they both
promoted it, believed it more, by all means.

The last time I saw this anarchist Hans Sachs,[1]was rummaging through a bookstore in Spálená Street in the bibliophiles with the expression
of a man who was happy with them, though not money, so that he could buy them. I remember his inconspicuous, almost playful performance, his
organizational passion. He acted a lot and wrote little. It should be added that he had a great, sometimes immense influence on people and
that he was loved by them, and surprisingly by those about whom his favorite song Karmanola[2]sang, that it must be, to hang all the
townspeople! At the same time, he was unable to harm anyone. His fortnightly was of a very high standard. He worked on it with his party day
and night. And when the number was done, we put the prints still smelling of printing black into the tapes, carried them to the post office
and all the way from the Eagle's Nest, as it was called his apartment-editorial office in Cimburkova street in Žižkov, we threw them into
the open windows of the homes of the poor. Sometimes we also wore them to meetings of the Social Democrats and national workers, and we
exported them there.

They called us anarchists, we called ourselves that. What exactly was anarchism? In my eyes, it meant the right to an unfettered free life;
I loved this right without peace and so quite relentlessly I believed with Rousseau that a person is extremely good, that I once, still in
Hradec, persuaded a young, intelligent gendarme to join us...

[1]Hans Sachs (1494-1576) was a German poet and playwright, a trained shoemaker. He was famous for his great skill and his efforts to
broaden the cultural horizon of broad readers. For a sharp anti-church satire, he was temporarily forbidden to publish.

[2]Caramel is a brisk, sarcastic and intensely revolutionary anonymous song from the time of the French Revolution. It spread in 1792 after
the removal of King Louis XVI and became the anthem of the armed sansculotts. Her text describes the fate of the monarch and his wife Marie
Antoinette. Napoleon Bonaparte forbade the singing of Karmanola.

Photo:

1) In the perex Photograph of Michal Kácha with his signature and date December 29, 1936

2) Elisabeta (Liesl) Deutschová (born 1901, the last report about her is from 1941 in connection with the deportation to Lód)) in Kách's
bookstore in the center of Prague, photo sometime from the turn of the 30s and 40s

3) Official approval of Elisabeta Deutschová as Michal Kácha's deputy in the operation of his bookshop trade on 11 May 1938

4) Attendance list from the preface of the CAF Congress in December 1912 (Kách's signature under number 16)

5)... and the Austro-Hungarian repressive color, inextricably accompanying anarchists on their path to freedom

https://www.afed.cz/text/7169/vyroci-michala-kachy

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Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:21:47 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #305 - Digital,
        Apps, drones ... the sanitary alibi of general surveillance (fr, it,
        pt)[machine translation]
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Since the start of containment, digital gadgets and tools brandished as "solutions" to the crisis have been breaking out. From drones to
mobile "health" applications, everything is good for testing ... and hoping to gain market share. Far from being proportionate and only
calibrated tools for the crisis, they define a "solutionist" vision of capitalism which claims to be the ultimate remedy for all ills. ----
The drones are out ! All the options are there: infrared detection, on-board megaphones that prompt individuals to return home,
communication of individuals' positions to the police, taking a temperature, etc. Companies specializing in the manufacture, repackaging or
data processing of drones have not missed the opportunity to make product placement with the police and the gendarmerie [1]. Between
large-scale field data collection and the dykes of respect for the law which jumped in the name of the health emergency, each company wants
its share of the market.

Take the example of telephone operators. How do we know that the capital has been deserted by 12% of its inhabitants ? This figure does not
fall from the sky, but from telephone operators' relay antennas: it suffices to count the connections on the terminals. If these data are
certainly aggregated and anonymized, we have no doubts about the very lucrative market shares that their sale represents [2].

In recent days, in anticipation of a possible conditioned deconfinement, the idea that is rising in France is to launch an application,
StopCovid, on the example of TraceTogether developed by Singapore. Once installed on his smartphone, StopCovid would report his own Covid-19
contamination to people around him. The non-guaranteed purpose of saving time on the spread of the disease leaves questions open: will the
installation of the application be consented or compulsory ? If consent is requested, what is the guarantee that social and management
pressure will not make it an obligation ? What about people without smartphones ? [3]

No need to list the dangers of these tools to manage our daily life. History shows us that exceptional measures become the rule once the
crisis is over: Intelligence law, inclusion of a permanent state of emergency in the law, DNA filing, etc.

"There is no need for legislative provision"
Combative responses are scarce. Worse, the president of Reporters without Borders, Pierre Haski, went so far as to declare on the radio:
"Asian companies are proving to be much more reactive than Europe in adapting existing technologies to an urgent need. They are also more
tolerant of intrusive technologies in our private lives[...]. But in the midst of a pandemic like the Covid-19, who will refuse to allow
them to be deployed if they allow the outcome to be accelerated ? There will always be time to worry after..." [4]The end justifies the
means ! Added to this is "pragmatism "Of the Cnil, safeguard of digital freedoms in France which, through its president Marie-Laure Denis,
tries to reassure us: "It is also necessary[that the individualized monitoring]respects the principles of data protection: proportionality,
retention period, provisional nature, security, etc. In this case, there is no need for legislative provisions" [5]. Difficult, even with
the tongue of wood, to hide that the red lines will be crossed. Remember that proportionality is a relative concept, leaving the power to
define it as it pleases.

The rhetoric is well oiled. With each state of crisis involving the amazement of the greatest number, the dominant thought legitimizes the
need to tighten the screw even more. Apparently, we would have a hard time understanding that any claim to preserve our freedoms is naive at
best, at worst criminal.

"Disperse !" In several cities, surveillance drones have appeared over empty streets ...
Reporting is good, taking action is better
With a steamroller as powerful by its penetration in the minds, it is tempting to give up and focus your energy on other fights deemed
easier in pandemic times, such as direct solidarity. But in doing so, would we not be precisely yielding to big-Brotherian propaganda, to
incessant injunctions for individual responsibility ? And if we are already capable of expressing such resignation, how can we be sure that
anyone who is at least aware will refuse to install the application to trace the spread of the virus ? But then, how to fight ? Perhaps by
recalling that once again, the essential is elsewhere: in collective responsibility.

The source code of any tracking application must be public (free software), consent must be debated and considered collectively in order to
better weigh the pros and cons, the data collected must be put out of the hands of the State and the sector. private, their use must be
limited in time and decided collectively.

For the capitalist power of our time, technology must be able to provide a neutral and effective "solution" to every problem in society.
This depoliticizing "solutionism" must be refused [6], because the technique is never neutral. Taking the time to make these reminders, to
discuss them with our loved ones, without inquisitive guilt, will allow us to thwart the internalization mechanism of voluntary servitude.

UCL Librism Commission

Validate

[1] "Coronavirus: Two-i makes its technology available to state actors" , Le Journal des entreprises, March 25, 2020.

[2] "Orange recycles its geolocation service for the pandemic" , La Quadrature du Net, March 28, 2020.

[3] "The health crisis does not justify imposing surveillance technologies" , La Quadrature du Net, April 8, 2020.

[4] "Good use of technology makes it possible to fight against the coronavirus" , France Inter, March 24, 2020.

[5] "Coronavirus:" Contact tracing applications call for special vigilance "" , Le Monde, April 5, 2020.

[6] Evgeny Morozov, To solve everything, click here! The aberration of technological solutionism, FYP editions, 2020.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Surveillance-generalisee-l-hydre-de-Lerne

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Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:22:11 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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Subject: (en) avtonom: "When we help each other without trying to cash
        in, everyone gets better" Interview, Peter Gelderloos [machine
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The Victory Day parade was held in Belarus at the weekend, and before that there were also two Passover, Radunitsa, Subbotnik and two Palm
Sunday. Now Belarus is among the European leaders in terms of the growth rate of cases. Quarantine has not yet been introduced in the
country and at the state level the problem is still considered to be "coronapsychosis." Against the backdrop of a critical situation, dozens
of Belarusians united, organized training camps, sew masks, protective equipment, take out the necessary equipment and respirators from
under the ground, make plastic shields and provide all this to physicians and vulnerable groups of people. This mutual assistance is one of
the largest in the history of modern Belarus.
Telegram channel NALITZO spoke with writer Peter Gelderloos. Why are we talking to him? Because in his books, Peter collected historical
facts about in which countries and for which peoples the practices of mutual assistance worked. Peter read in the media about the mutual
assistance and initiatives of Belarus during the pandemic and told us why people can help each other in absolutely any country and under any
regime. The conversation also touched on the issue of women's vulnerability during a pandemic, the topic of domestic violence, and Peter
explained why the work of social workers and medical staff is not considered dangerous for women.

Peter, you read the article on the Guardian about Belarus, what can you say?

What is this madness. On the one hand, the situation is the same as in many other countries where states and markets work poorly in helping
people. But the situation in Belarus seems more black and white, your state actually openly refuses help. Thus, this very clearly indicates
the effectiveness of mutual assistance.

Do you think that a pandemic breaks masks and shows that the state does not care about people?

During a pandemic such as COVID-19, physical distance and social solidarity must be practiced to protect older people, healthcare providers
at the forefront of the battle, and people with pre-existing medical conditions. However, measures taken by governments - often called
social distance - are not aimed at protecting people, but at protecting the economy. They are partly aimed at reducing the spread of the
virus, and more consistently aimed at maintaining social control.

What is your situation with protecting people during a pandemic?

I will talk about two states: the USA, where I come from, and Spain, where I live now. The absolute inability of the US government to do
anything meaningful to protect people from a pandemic is a wonderful illustration of the weaknesses of society, which is designed from the
very beginning in accordance with capitalist logic. It is the richest country in the world, but it also has more extreme poverty than most
other countries that are considered rich. That is why it ranks first in terms of mortality and infections. The poor and people who are
systematically racism (blacks and indigenous peoples) make up a disproportionate share of the dead. Companies like Amazon have large
stockpiles of protective equipment, but hospital workers lack it. The government raised a lot of money trillions of dollars to support the
stock market and large corporations, but they do not provide any assistance in renting, providing enough tests or paying for treatment.
People who get sick often get $ 30,000 in hospital bills. The absolute inadequacy of capitalism is manifested in the fact that hospitals
dismiss doctors and nurses in the midst of a pandemic.

Why are they doing this?

This is not profitable. They earn most of their money through optional operations that are suspended for the duration of the pandemic, so
they get rid of employees to cut costs.

The main "hot spots" of the pandemic were nursing homes, where older people live until death, in prisons (where the poor and people
suffering from racism live until death). The main carriers of the disease were businessmen and tourists returning from business trips,
police and prison guards.

The government's response was by no means aimed at protecting people from a pandemic. In fact, some politicians and investors have said that
the virus will be useful for the economy in the long run, killing many old people who receive money from pension funds. The words "Stay at
home" were more recommendations than a real lockdown (Note. Ed. - isolation), and of course, most of the population did not actually stay at
home. This is because people from the middle class are extremely individualistic and do not care about killing other people, and people from
the lower class are forced to go to work if they do not want to ultimately remain homeless.

And what happened in the USA with mutual assistance during the pandemic?

In the United States, the real measures that protected people did not come from the state or large corporations. These were hundreds of
mutual assistance initiatives that safely distributed food and essentials, initiatives that often also produced masks and disinfectants. It
was the rental strike launched by the anarchists that allowed thousands of people not to pay rent and to avoid evicting their homeowners
(and in May the rental strike will increase even more). It was the uprisings of the prisoners that allowed some to flee and drew attention
to the conditions in the camp. And these were strikes of workers who forced companies to provide protective equipment, or to close factories
and distribution centers, which became "hot spots",

But in Spain there was real isolation ...

Yes, Spain, on the other hand, set a real block in mid-March. It is important to understand that in the transition from the fascist
dictatorship to democracy, very few changes have been made to the Spanish police and judicial system. Obviously, the police use all their
power, the ability to stop anyone at any time, to keep people away from the street. About 10,000 people were arrested and 800,000 fined for
going out. True, these very stringent measures quickly slowed the spread of the virus. At that time, Spain became the number two country in
terms of the number of infected and dead. But we see that these measures were not aimed at protecting people. For example, people were fined
or arrested for taking to the streets alone, without even going 10 meters from other people. Or two people who live in the same house, go
out together to take out the trash. If they live in the same house, then they are not going to infect each other, taking out the garbage
together. Such measures are designed to control people, and not to slow down the virus. Similarly, in early April, the government began to
weaken isolation, despite the fact that cases of infection and death are still very high. They did this to allow a significant portion of
the population to return to work. Immediately, infections and mortality increased again, but still they fined people (the penalty was almost
a whole monthly salary) for going out to do physical exercises, or for the mother going out with her baby. The Spanish government (leftist
government) also gave an unprecedented amount of money to banks and companies and facilitated the dismissal of workers, but did not lower
the rent. In Spain, on average, people spend 50% of their income on rents, and, of course, unemployment is growing.

As in the United States, self-help initiatives and an annuity strike organized by anarchists have dramatically changed the lives of some of
the most vulnerable. In addition to food and basic necessities, mutual assistance is also focused on mental health during total confinement.

As I understand it, in addition to the necessary things, there were also initiatives to support mental health? And why, if not a secret?

We must remember that health is a multifaceted thing. It cannot be reduced only to infectious diseases. It has been proven that in people,
especially in the elderly, health deteriorates when they are isolated. People with heart disease can suffer greatly if they are not allowed
to exercise.

People with mental problems are also at risk of being locked indoors. And for a month and a half, the government did not even think about
the children, as if they did not exist.

For a month and a half it was not possible to play, talk, get stuck inside, looking at the screens all day (smartphones, computers). This
can have an extreme impact on the development of a small child. Obviously, even a government that has taken such extreme measures as Spain
does not care about people's health, it only cares about the economy.

In Belarus, the dictatorship, but, the people still self-organized and began to actively supply remedies to doctors. They also organized a
camp for the homeless, a camp for staff who work in a boarding school. What do you think, how can this phenomenon be explained?

Because all people have the opportunity to organize themselves, all people can practice mutual assistance, even if they have no experience
with this. Humans are social beings. If we did not have an innate ability to self-organize, horizontally, we would not exist. Governments
are a recent invention in the history of mankind, and they have always been accompanied by a deterioration in health and a weakening of
human freedom. Their advantage is that they are well able to conquer territory and centralize power, but as soon as we destroy their
mythology, they will lose their power over us, and we will be able to organize our society in such a way that health, freedom and happiness
will become the highest goals, and not a few profit.

When we help each other without trying to cash in, the deficit disappears and everyone becomes better. This is called mutual assistance. As
Kropotkin showed more than a hundred years ago, mutual assistance is an important part of the evolution of species. And we see this even in
such a completely individualistic, capitalist country as the United States, when the government is completely unable to help people, people
begin to help each other. Belarus is another example. In the midst of a natural disaster, people rise to organize and fulfill their needs,
as well as take care of the most vulnerable, like the homeless. It can happen anywhere.

Can mutual assistance be considered a protest?

Such initiatives can be seen as a protest, because they express neglect of the apathy of the government. Or they can simply be seen as
survival. In the end, it is one and the same thing: governments and the economies they operate (whether they are called capitalism or
socialism) do not contribute to our survival.

Is solidarity stronger than dictatorship?

Solidarity can be stronger than dictatorship. Many dictatorships were overcome by solidarity and rebel movements of the people, like fascist
Spain, as a dictatorship in Greece, as an apartheid regime in South Africa. But also, dictatorships can unleash a huge amount of violence to
keep people in subjection, like Hungary in '56, Czechoslovakia in '68, anti-racist uprisings in the USA in the '60s, and, of course, recent
protest movements in Belarus and Russia. People should protect each other, spread, avoid isolation and develop means of self-defense.

Does dictatorship forgive solidarity and self-organization?

In specific situations, if she does not have the ability to suppress the movement, if she fears collapse, or, on the other hand, if she does
not feel threatened by self-organization initiatives, the dictatorship may decide not to use repression. One example in Cuba in the early
90s. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the intensification of the US blockade, Cuba did not have access to oil, its economy
collapsed. People escaped mass starvation by organizing themselves by creating horizontal food-growing initiatives with a network of urban
gardens and rural farms and the distribution of this food. The government has done nothing. They were afraid that if they intervened, people
would rise and overthrow them. Therefore, they allowed self-organization to exist and were waiting for a better moment to confirm their
authority. In contrast, in Chile, when the indigenous people began to conquer their land and organize, the police unleashed a very brutal
repression. The conflict is still ongoing. And this is under democracy.

What do you think should Belarus draw after a pandemic?

That their government doesn't give a damn about them. And these are not the smartest, most capable people who rise to the top and gain
control. These are the most power-hungry. And quite often power-hungry people are sociopaths. Like Donald Trump.

In social security and medicine, a large percentage are women. They recycle, they die. But no one says that women are again in a vulnerable
position. Why do you think this happens?

In a patriarchal society, women are taught that it is their responsibility to take care of other people, put the needs of others above their
own needs, while men are taught to be selfish and put their own needs first. This has many consequences. On the one hand, more workers in
sectors that focus on care (such as health and social services) will be women, and in the event of a pandemic or other health emergency,
they will be at the forefront, at greater risk. If a lot of them die, in a patriarchal society this will become normal, their death will not
be noticed. It also means that women face greater poverty.

There are more single mothers than single fathers, and "female" work is paid less. In any health crisis, poor people suffer the most.
Therefore, women find themselves in a more vulnerable position.

By the way, patriarchy is very important for supporting autocratic governments and capitalism. The patriarchy divides society against
itself. He teaches one half of society to be selfish, to care only for their own interests or how to take root within the framework of
existing hierarchies (like faithful soldiers, policemen, bureaucrats ...), and the other half teaches only to take care of their own family,
take care of their fathers and husbands, no matter how cruel they may be.

How to deal with domestic violence that increased during a pandemic?

Autonomous women's shelters created by feminists provided an important safe space during a pandemic. Definitely only they can help women.
Imprisonment has greatly exacerbated domestic violence. The government excluded this problem from their vision of health during the
blockage. Conclusion not only greatly aggravated the problem, but also the state of emergency greatly complicated the search for solutions.
Communication is limited, so it is difficult for people suffering from domestic violence to get in touch with a group that could help them,
and opening new homes for shelters or protesting against rapists is almost impossible, since people taking to the streets in connection with
such activities will be arrested.

What consequences do you think a pandemic will bring?

Governments around the world are trying to normalize totalitarian technology, total observation. This is also a moment of systemic conflict.
The American empire is dying, its total failure is obvious to everyone, but there is no clear new leader for organizing global capitalism.
The next system will not be better than the one that ends now. It will have to give strong answers to the economic crisis, climate change
and environmental disaster. But these decisions will not necessarily be good for us or for the planet. The state always turns the crisis to
its advantage. But at the same time, it is an opportunity. Today, very few people believe in the lies of capitalism and the state. Their
masks were erased, as you said. More and more people see that self-organization and mutual assistance are possible, that they work better
than the state. 2019 was marked by a wave of global uprisings and movements stronger than everything that has happened since 1968. And now,
in 2020, after we saw that you can get up and fight back, we see that we can take care of ourselves and create something better. These are
the two basic elements needed to make a revolution. The last element is to remember our history, and not to make another revolution, which
simply creates a new, more oppressive ruling class. We must completely break with capitalism, with the state, so as not to trust leaders and
saviors, but at least once to trust ourselves. necessary for the revolution. The last element is to remember our history, and not to make
another revolution, which simply creates a new, more oppressive ruling class. We must completely break with capitalism, with the state, so
as not to trust leaders and saviors, but at least once to trust ourselves. necessary for the revolution. The last element is to remember our
history, and not to make another revolution, which simply creates a new, more oppressive ruling class. We must completely break with
capitalism, with the state, so as not to trust leaders and saviors, but at least once to trust ourselves.

Is it possible to organize autonomy in any country?

Yes. All people have the opportunity to organize themselves, create free societies without coercive power. But this is not easy. This
requires immediate changes, here and now, in how we think and what methods we use, but it is also a very long struggle. It will take
generations to heal from all the consequences of the state, capitalism and patriarchy, from contaminated soil to individualism and trauma.

Peter later sent the following message in addition to the interview:

I hope that my interview will help spread some critical ideas and that mutual assistance initiatives in Belarus will continue to flourish!
All the best!

https://avtonom.org/news/kogda-my-pomogaem-drug-drugu-ne-pytayas-nazhitsya-vsem-stanovitsya-luchshe

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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:23:38 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) Greece, grupo anarquista disinios ippos APO: SOLIDARITY
        TO THE PEOPLE NASA WHO FIGHTS FOR THE EARTH AND FREEDOM [machine
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AGAINST THE ASSASSIN ASSAULT OF THE COLOMBIAN STATE, ITS PARAMILITARY GROUPS AND THE LICENSORS OF THE TERRATENIENTES ---- "We continue with
the exercise of the Liberation of our Mother Earth from the clutches of savage capitalism that only brings us biological, military, armed,
social, cultural, political and economic warfare, generating misery in the communities." ---- The Nasa are an indigenous people who live in
the North of Cauca in Colombia. In recent years they have begun the process they call Liberation of Mother Earth, which consists of actions
to recover territories that are in the hands of private companies. The hitmen from the sugar mills, the police and the army fight with
stones and sticks, invade the plantations of the landowners, destroy the monocultures and plant food.
 From the North of Cauca to Chile and Mexico, the resistance and the struggles for life, land and freedom remain alive.
anarchist group "disinios ippos"

member of the anarchist political organization (?PO)

https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2020/05/11/

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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:38:31 +0300
From: a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
To: en <a-infos-en@ainfos.ca>
Subject: (en) Germany, fau: During the Corona emergency: (de)
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Until further notice, our consultations will only take place online at https://meet.fau.org/BeratungDD. You will need a computer with
internet and a microphone. In case of technical problems or urgent cases you can also reach us quickly by mail or Mon-Thu 11-19 o'clock
under 0159 051 89 548

https://www.fau.org/vor-ort/dresden/copy_of_online-beratung-online-support-meeting

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