#Worldwide #Information #Blogger #LucSchrijvers: #Update: PART2 #anarchist #information from all over the #world - 25 MAY 2020

Today's Topics:

  
 1.  Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: Bye bye, Rico!
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  A-Radio Berlin: El Salvador: An anarchafeminist perspective
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 3.  el miliciano cnt-ait chiclana: Collectivism and
      individualism, by Salomé Moltó (ca) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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 From the editors of Going Postal, the ACG postal workers' bulletin... ---- The boss of Royal Mail, Rico Black, has been forced to resign,
jacking it in on Friday May 15th. ---- Rico Black became boss of Royal Mail two years ago, with the aim of smashing postal workers'
militancy and further privatising the postal services, at the behest of the big shareholders who now run Royal Mail. As an incentive to
carry this out, he received £10 million in salary, pension benefits and other perks. He has a penthouse apartment overlooking Lake Zurich in
tax-haven Switzerland worth £2.3 million and he took a jet every week to his job at RM because he didn't want to give up his flat. ----
After Black and his cronies pulled out of a national deal for workers on jobs and conditions, a ballot organised by the CWU, the postal
workers union, recorded a massive majority of 97% ready to strike. When Black resorted to the courts to have this overturned, a second
ballot recorded a 94.5 vote in favour of strike action. The CWU bureaucrats used the coronavirus pandemic to wriggle out of any real strike
action.

Sensing weakness, Black struck. On 28th April, he announced the ending of the Universal Service Obligation (USO) which meant that only
parcels could be delivered on Saturday, with no delivery of letters. This jeopardised the jobs of 20,000 postal workers. At the same time
Black showed his contempt for the CWU by refusing to negotiate with them.

Black had overpaid his hand with rumblings of a threatened mass walkout and on May 1st backed down and dropped the scrapping of USO. He was
undoubtedly under pressure from the Johnson government, for whom postal strikes were the last thing they wanted during the pandemic.

As a result Black was forced to resign. Postal workers are pleased to see the back of him, although he left with a massive severance
payment. He will get nine monthly payments of £489,000 and RM will give him up to £50,000 towards legal fees and a maximum of £25,000
towards outplacement support, as well as various other handouts. In addition, he will keep his "golden hello" payment of £5.8 million.
Meanwhile postal workers barely get by on their wages.

Postal workers have also gained a bonus for work during the pandemic in the form of a lump sum of £200. The fight isn't over though, despite
the departure of Black. In line with the wishes of the rich shareholders, he had planned to run down the letters deliveries, and turn the
packages and parcels side of RM business into something similar to Amazon. He failed, but new bosses might well attempt to continue along
these lines.

Black was forced to resign just like the previous RM boss, Sue Whalley. This has been due to posties militancy and not to the supine
attitude of the CWU leaders.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/05/21/bye-bye-rico/

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Dear all, ---- We are now republishing an interview by The Final Straw Radio (TFSR)with Elisa, an anarchafeminist in San Salvador, El
Salvador, talking about the neo-liberal government of Nayib Bukele's GANA party (that won the presidency in 2019), repression, immigration,
relation to the US and anarchist organizing there. ---- Notes on this audio: ---- The TFSR hosts recorded the whole interview in English
with their own voices. As A-Radio Berlin we added the Spanish original in the background so you can hear the whole interview as Voice-over
version. ---- You'll find the audio (to listen online or download) here: ----
https://www.aradio-berlin.org/extra-el-salvador-an-anarchafeminist-perspective/ ---- Length: 22 min ---- You can find other English audios
as well as all issues of the monthly anarchist show "Bad News" here: https://www.aradio-berlin.org/en/audios-2/.

Among our last audios you can find:
* An interview with an organizer of the first feminist Congress in
Wroclaw, Poland: https://www.aradio-berlin.org/feminist-congress-in-poland/
* The second part of a long conversation about Brazil and exile with two
Brazilian activists living in Portugal:
https://www.aradio-berlin.org/brazil-2020-1-em-fevereiro-tem-carnaval-a-conversation-about-brazil-and-exile-part-2/
* The first part of a long conversation about Brazil and exile with two
Brazilian activists living in Portugal:
https://www.aradio-berlin.org/a-radio-in-english-brazil-2020-1-em-fevereiro-tem-carnaval-a-conversation-about-brazil-and-exile-part-1/
* A call for a Week of Solidarity with the Political Prisoners of the
revolt in Chile: 13.-19.1.2020:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2020/01/11/chile-13-19-1-2020-woche-der-solidaritaet-mit-den-politischen-gefangenen-semana-de-solidaridad-con-lxs-presxs-politicxs/
* A feature about the first anniversary of the Yellow Vest Movement in
France, from the perspective of Toulouse:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2020/01/02/a-radio-in-english-one-year-yellow-vest-movement-in-france-a-feature-from-toulouse/
* A series of audios from the social revolt in Chile:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2019/10/20/zur-situation-in-chile-deesen/
* An interview about the Brexit from an anarchist perspective and the
situation in Great Britain:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2019/09/13/a-radio-in-english-brexit-and-anarchism/

Enjoy! And please feel free to share!

A-Radio Berlin

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ps2.: Please note: We are always looking for people willing to lend us a
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English as well as people able to do voice recordings - in order to
amplify our international radio work. You can contact us at
aradio-berlin/at/riseup(dot)net!

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How many times have we asked ourselves what makes peoples move, what internal force pushes them towards one or another purpose. ---- We
observe groups pushed by certain illusions towards defined goals, not always progressive, even if they want to pretend. Illusions and
projects that inflame a certain group as individuals. ---- That is why we are so struck by the fact that, within a collective, artistic,
economic, political and of whatever nature, someone stands out more than others, the fundamental idea that nests them, seems to flow more in
a single person than in all the rest pushing harder on the project undertaken, what force pushes that individual more than the rest of the
group? Why does this cellist interpret this solo better? Because he is virtuous, as they usually say. And it is true that this person stands
out from the rest of the set for his great ability, but he leans on and nurtures himself from the set, because he is born from him and owes
himself to it.

This is usually the argument that is used to make you understand that "we are not all the same" and here it is applied that, therefore, some
deserve more reward than others, hence the whole range of injustices that we experience. You have to put together an argument, political
structure or whatever justifies the abysmal difference between those who are downstairs, normally holding the whole building, and those who
are upstairs, ordering something and taking most of the benefits.

Seen this way, it seems like a solid argument, which cannot be argued. During the "cold war", there were great debates according to
individualism, identified by the USA, where individual value was synonymous with triumph, both personal and economic. Instead, the
collective system identified with the Soviet Union, that is, with communism. If we had to present a study of one or the other system, the
work would be exhaustive due to the elements that can be put on the side of one argument as well as the other.

Today it can already be affirmed, at least that is how many political scientists and sociologists do it, that individualism has won the
battle against collectivism. We are not so sure. First, because in Russia a dictatorship ruled and collectivism was nothing, the five-year
plans were planned thousands of kilometers away from the reality of the physical and human space in which they wanted to be applied. Then
there is a concept that has been given little importance; On the other hand, it seems to us that when carrying out any project it takes on
total importance, that is: property.

That's right, the concept of property, which Pierre-Joseph Proudhon so deeply and in detail exposed, gives us an element of reflection:
There is a great difference when a person executes an order emanating from a superior boss or when that person performs a job because In
short, he makes it his, because it belongs to him, because it is his responsibility, because he interprets it as something that belongs to
him. This is the strength of a concept of property that makes things move more firmly. In such a way that both political, ideological and,
mainly, religious groups take on unusual strength.

But we continue to ask ourselves: what gives the human being the strength to push the collective towards constant progress? It is true that
the capacities are many and diverse and the will of a project is equally so.

We would also like to propose that: why not try to combine the two concepts? Pregnant with individualism towards a collective good where the
value of each one is respected, fostered in a common good, that would be, in essence, an open path towards federalism. Sometimes projects
are born out of dreams or ideas that were intended as utopian but with which progress has not stopped at all.

Collectivism and individualism
Article by Salomé Moltó
Orto Magazine nº 196

http://elmilicianocnt-aitchiclana.blogspot.com/2020/05/colectivismo-e-individualismo-por.html

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