#Worldwide Information Blogger #LucSchrijvers: Part2 Update: #anarchist information from all over the #world - 1.06.2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  anarkismo.net: A libertarian socialist view of the
      capitalist and health crisis in the Americas by Americas
      Coordinator (ca, it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 2.  Greece, liberta salonica: Pre-assembly for the motorized
      transition to Diavata prison [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Greece, Black & red APO: If you want a vision of the future,
      imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. George Orwell,
      1984 [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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The Americas Coordinator held a virtual talk on May 9 on the current situation in America, particularly in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and
the United States from a libertarian socialist perspective. During the discussion, the different analyses and future projections that each
organization builds on this moment of world economic crisis were expressed. The Covid-19 pandemic deepened the miseries generated by this
capitalist system in all territories. ---- So far, this Coordinator is made up of the following libertarian political organizations: Acción
Socialista Libertaria (Arg), Solidaridad (Ch) and the Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation (USA), who have been making visible,
through an international communications campaign, that "capitalism is the pandemic," and that "another world is possible". Within this
framework, the talk "The capitalist pandemic, organization and struggle from the Americas" was organized to expose and debate the current
moment, how it affects our territories, and in what way, as organizations, we are thinking about this conjuncture and future projections.
There was also a special invitation to Vía Libre Grupo Libertario (Colombia), through comrade Luisa.

 From the Coordinador, we are committed to working concretely in popular organizations in struggle. We believe that the task of uniting and
organizing ourselves as peoples is urgent, to denounce this system that has historically made our lives precarious.

The panelists began by explaining the current situation in each of their territories, the state of the health system and the economy of
these regions. For comrade María Paz of Solidaridad, the crisis generated by Covid-19 hits those countries hardest where the health system
is highly segmented or privatized. "This occurs due to the principle of understanding health as a business under which private systems
operate, privileging profits over the health of our peoples." They added that in the first months of this year, Chile had its highest level
of unemployment in the last ten years: it reached 8.2%.

The scenario for workers is complex. The design of the dictatorship's plan for labor, the constant precariousness of work during the
transition and the lack of strong union structures are factors that keep working people unprotected, noted the comrade. The Chilean
government transferred the costs of the crisis to the workers, such as through the "employment protection law" in which companies are
allowed to suspend contracts while maintaining the employment relationship but workers must cover their own costs. Thus they protect the
profits of companies. Something similar happens in Argentina, with the government of Alberto Fernández, who launched a program to subsidize
companies by paying half of their salaries, which exposes a large transfer of money from the public to the private sector, emphasized
comrade Angela of Acción de Libertarian Socialist (ASL).

They added that for the sector of the population that ran out of income (or saw them drastically reduced), the government implemented an
emergency income of 10,000 pesos, which does little to help survive with a very high cost of living. According to Angela, the government has
not identified the precarious situation that almost half of the workers experience (there are approximately 42% informal workers); 12
million registered for said program while the government expected 3 million. Thus, the amount allocated to family assistance is much less
than that provided to companies. And they continue to negotiate the implementation of an extraordinary contribution of 1% of the great fortunes.

In Argentina, from the beginning the discourse utilized by the government was very effective, guaranteeing "the care" of the population.
However, in "many neighborhoods and popular settlements, it is impossible to comply with a quarantine: there is overcrowding in homes, lack
of basic services such as drinking water, lack of hygiene items, bathrooms shared by many families, among other shortcomings. These
neighborhoods have become important centers of transmission, and even increase deaths there." And, they pointed out: "it is a scenario where
it is clearly seen how the most concentrated capital, the financial sector, the banks, the oligarchy, the multinationals, are taking
advantage of this crisis to advance at the expense of our living conditions."

A similar situation is experienced in Colombia. "The situation of the female workers at this time of health crisis is critical due to the
numerous dismissals that have occurred and that have forced them to abide by the quarantine without receiving income, endangering their
lives and integrity and forcing them to go out and look for work. exposing their bodies to the virus," said comrade Luisa of Vía Libre.

In turn, she noted that in that region poverty facilitates the spread of endemic, preventable and curable diseases, such as Dengue, Malaria
and Measles present in our continent before the arrival of SARS-CoV-2. "The new reactionary and neoliberal wave has further aggravated the
structural problems of the region through policies of austerity and precarity, manifested in overcrowded and poorly equipped health services
in which many public hospitals are falling apart and dozens of hospitals are found closed and broken. Thus, public health provision is of
very low quality. "

In this scenario, they observe how the crisis made evident the cruelty of capitalist exploitation that in these times endangers the most
vulnerable population in order to stay afloat and continue to benefit some through the efforts of others. A day before the mandatory
quarantine, on March 19, there was a mobilization in the industrial zone of Bogotá due to massive layoffs, which have been deepening in
recent weeks.

Comrade César of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation of the United States, the territory with the most cases and deaths from the coronavirus
in the world, said that the migrant and African-American population are the hardest hit in this crisis. "The health system is privatized and
linked to the work of each person," that is, whoever has a job could access a health plan, otherwise many from the south travel to Mexico to
buy inhalers, some medicine or to see a specialist. Nor is it prepared to be able to provide basic needs, guarantee access to abortion,
hormonal therapies for trans partners, and much less to face the pandemic," said Cesar.
They also delved into the situation of women, lesbians, trans, transvestites and non-binary peoples in the context of isolation. "What we
have seen in Chile is an increase in the number of calls received to make complaints (70% more calls) and that the number of femicides has
increased considerably worldwide. The quarantine situation (confinement) leads to situations of violence and we are forced to stay in our
homes, since many times the home itself is a place of risk for children, women and gender dissidents," said comrade María Paz. In Argentina
the same situation occurs, the comrade Angela gave the example of the struggle of workers from the telephone line 144 to attend to
situations of violence and the constant denunciations of poor working conditions and the increase in violence.

Comrade María Paz added that a few weeks ago, in Chile, Macarena Santelices, the great-niece of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, who openly
defends the dictatorship and all measures of state repression to protect "the nation," was announced as the new Minister of Women and Gender
Equity. In contrast, various self-managed initiatives have emerged at the local level; for example, carry out surveys and draw up emergency
plans in situations of patriarchal violence. Also, the Feminist Coordinator 8M together with other feminist organizations have promoted the
campaign "In Network We Take Care" to deliver various feminist tools and useful data to face patriarchal violence in quarantine.

In both territories of Chile and Argentina they agree that gender violence increased from the quarantine, "where we are forced to live with
our aggressors and our abusers and those of our daughters," said Angela of ASL. And she added that from the State, the policies that are
promoted end up being basically propaganda, since they do not attack the underlying problems or give real help to people who are going
through a situation of violence, such as offering some specific refuge resource, housing, financial support, childcare, etc. In this
context, the role of justice and the heterocispatriarchal binary view of the State on this sphere of our lives is also evident.

In Colombia the situation is similar to that in the south of South America: "the pandemic has managed to make more visible (or in certain
cases simply visible) both the structural problems linked to the capitalist economic system and its contradictions, and the gender-based
violence perpetrated by the patriarchy," assuring that in part it increases male violence by forcing women to live with their aggressors. A
structural axis of this system that is repeated in all territories. Comrade Luisa also recounted the situation that a large sector of the
trans population is going through, living on precarious sex work that in these times has frozen, exposing them even more to situations of
precariousness and exploitation of their lives. In turn, she mentioned the imprisoned women and sexual dissidents who have carried out
different strikes in defense of their rights.

En tanto, Cesar manifestó que en EEUU las mujeres en su mayoría son trabajadoras esenciales, son las cajeras en los supermercados, las
doctoras o enfermeras en los centros médicos, que sumado a su precarización también afecta esta situación a su psiquis. También denunció que
las compañeras trans están sin acceso a terapia hormonales por lo que corren muchos riesgos su salud. "No es que no hay recursos sino que lo
utilizan con la intención de controlar a la gente en todos lados".

Then, in the talk, they turned to the actions and organizational experiences of the working class in this context, which have been carried
out in the different territories. For Angela from ASL, concretely and in the heat of struggles and the conflicts that are taking place are
aimed at sustaining the basic needs of the class. "Everything that could be guaranteed in the midst of this pandemic is thanks to the
workers who continue to support the health system, education, energy, food, transportation and food in the neighborhoods," said the comrade.
And they added: "the employers attack us with layoffs, suspensions, salary cuts, while the union bureaucracies deliver all our rights
without a minimum of discussion, and the State represses any attempt to defend our class."

In this sense, she stated that "in ASL, in each territory where we are inserted, we try to promote solidarity among workers, organization,
assemblies to be able to intervene wherever possible, in the discussion about our working conditions, elements of hygiene and care,
supporting our conflicts, occupations, making community meals".

Meanwhile, the comrade from Solidaridad said that for them the pandemic finds them in some way better prepared post October 18. "The process
of recomposition of the social fabric that is strongly promoted from the revolt gives rise to different and new forms of organization. In
this context, local and territorial organization is of key importance, and it is the different territorial assemblies or organizations of
that type, generated in the heat of the revolt, who have taken on tasks to tackle the different areas of the reproduction of life that are
problematized by the crisis," she related.

She also highlighted the importance of the feminist movement, especially the 8M Coordinator, responding from the beginning of the health
crisis with a "feminist emergency plan in the face of the coronoavirus crisis," concentrating on territorially organized collective care,
the confrontation of patriarchal violence, a call for a strike for life and emergency measures that put the health of each and everyone
above the profit of a few.

Mass layoffs and non-payment are also experienced in Colombia. Comrade María Luisa recounted various conflicts that occurred, such as on
April 7 (in the midst of quarantine) there were marches and blockades by construction workers, and more at the end of the month, workers
from the multinational Tenaris carried out a massive "cacerolazo" in Cartagena, denouncing layoffs and late payment. "The situation leads us
to think of the urgency of unionizing this precarious sector which has been hit hard by the crisis."

In turn, they also mentioned the protests of social sectors demanding food aid in this context of crisis, receiving repression from the
State. And they highlighted: the struggle of health workers becomes more important than ever, since their lives, as well as the lives of
people who now suffer from COVID-19, depend on an improvement in working conditions, increase in salaries and equipment, staff and
protective resources against the virus."

Meanwhile, according to Cesar in the US, the working class is organizing. In some cases they are asking for the factories to be closed due
to increased transmission of the virus, and in others, when they are out of work, many of them can no longer pay their rent, which is where
their highest percentage of salary goes. In the latter sector, they are organizing Tenant Unions, looking for ways to organize to resist
evictions and they intend to expand to reach a national strike.

After several exchanges between the panelists on the repressive advance in the territories, the authoritarian turn and the current role of
the State, they finished with future projections to face this world economic crisis. For the comrade Luisa, "the future is somewhat
uncertain" although she affirmed that a serious blow is coming to the working class and to various oppressed social groups in the effort of
Capital to get out of the economic crisis it is facing now and which will become more acute in the coming years. Grupo Vía Libre highlights
the value of solidarity and mutual aid initiatives that are being carried out at the moment; they listed a series of self-managed solidarity
actions and affirmed that "these spontaneous signs of brotherhood among workers, reaffirm the idea and practice that an alternative society
is possible, since the Coronavirus pandemic has crudely exposed the injustice and inequality of the capitalist system . The ties between the
members of the working class are strengthened, to achieve the construction of a strong people that will become imperative in this new phase
of struggle against Capitalism and the State."

For his part, Cesar of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation expressed that higher levels of politicization are being generated among workers,
the situation has changed a great deal, mass dismissals in certain places have generated greater organization in labor unions. "The
important thing is that there are grassroots organizations that exist right now and many people who have never been involved in anything
begin to look favorably on those organizations."

Meanwhile, Angela from Argentina stated that this situation presents a long and difficult road ahead, "it is really essential to work on
unity from below and stop all attempts to further subvert our living and working conditions. It seems to us that the only way to get out of
this crisis is by generating ties between employed and unemployed workers, with solidarity, mutual aid, unity in the struggles and
accompaniment in the conflicts. Being aware of any advance against our class, reacting firmly to stop it, occupying the street if necessary.
" In turn, they highlighted the importance of "being present in the organizations of our class and to fright from there," and the urgency of
debating with sister organizations to achieve higher levels of unity. And they highlighted the need to "generate spaces of direct power of
the people, organizing ourselves in our neighborhoods, in factories, in schools, in homes, in health centers, in every place where we are."

While comrade María Paz said that at the local level, Solidaridad has the conviction to "promote a social political front that is capable of
unifying living organizations of the working class and peoples in struggle to face the crisis under the same platform . A platform that
allows consolidating the fabric of revolt with its feminist, anti-capitalist and libertarian spirit, in an organizational platform that
coordinates from the ‘ollas comunes' to the general strike ". At the same time, she pointed out that they identify that there is no way out
without regional and global coordination. "The crisis is global in an unprecedented way and therefore we have a historic opportunity to
strengthen ties of solidarity and international debate to build an anti-capitalist, feminist and libertarian program that crosses borders,
in the same way that the working class crosses borders, despite of all the restrictions that the states seek to impose".

The Americas Coordinator will continue to mount virtual talks in the coming weeks to delve into different axes, and weave real networks at
the regional and global levels from a libertarian perspective, within the framework of the international campaign "Capitalism is the
pandemic: another world is possible". We have to create the foundations of that new world that we carry in our hearts.

You can see the full video on the platforms of each organization:

Acción Socialista Libertaria
Black Rose / Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation
Solidaridad

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31905

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(where Sadi Naci Özpolat, fighter of the Popular Front is being held): Saturday 30/5, 14:30 at the Labor Center of Thessaloniki ---- The
state of emergency in Turkey after the failed coup in July 2016 is in full force. The Erdogan regime is trying to purge its internal
enemies. But apart from his rivals in the ruling camp, he is attacking the social base, the people of Turkey and their organizations.
However, these attacks are not unprecedented for the Turkish resistance movement. Although Erdogan wants to overcome Kemalism, he is
following his worst traditions of dealing with the left in the country. Part of this attack is the case of the revolutionary band Grup Yorum
and the "People's Advocates".
In recent months, three militants have died after a grueling hunger strike. Help Bölek, singer of Grup Yorum, fell after 288 days of hunger
strike. It was followed by fighter Mustafa Koçak after a 297-day hunger strike, with Grup Yorum bassist rahimbrahim Gökçek being the last to
die in 323 days. All of them were imprisoned on false charges and tortured several times, while the Turkish state tried to force them to
eat, a practice that is also considered torture under international conventions. But none of them bowed. Until the last moment, they
remained steadfastly committed to the cause of the liberation of the working class and the peoples of Turkey, not hesitating for a moment to
give their lives for this purpose. The Turkish state's stance against them is so great that it attacked police and paramilitary bastards at
their comrades' funerals, and went so far as to seize the dead body of rahimbrahim Gökçek, in order not to turn his funeral into a
demonstration against the regime. Now all three are symbols of resistance that with their sacrifice inspire the struggling peoples all over
the world.

Prisons are the hells of bourgeois democracy. They are the places where violence and the imposition of the dominant system are a daily
occurrence for inmates. They are the warehouses where those who are left over from the productive planning of capital accumulate, as well as
fighters who oppose domination, with the aim of overthrowing it. In prisons, the methodical procedures of discipline, obedience and
consolidation of the dominant social and productive relations are intensified. Violent attempts are being made - sometimes by psychological
and sometimes by physical force - to extract the consent of prisoners to the tyranny of the state and capital. Prisons are the test
environment for state authoritarianism. The state and its staff, which staff the prison staff, cut and sew according to the authoritarian
try, away from the public spotlight and the attention of the other social body. At the same time, however, prisons aim to intimidate them
outside the walls. They show them what awaits them if they think about dealing with the state, capital and their ancillary mechanisms.

Where humanity is leveled, there, in all kinds of prisons, it is where the curtains of bourgeois democracy close for good; there is where
the Power is applied in the most nightmarish way; sometimes watered with blood.

Prisoners' rights were not granted by the state. They are conquests of many and long struggles, first of all of the prisoners themselves and
then of the solidarity movement. The further domination of state and prison authoritarianism automatically implies the creation of a
negative legacy for the whole of the social base and first of all for the prisoners themselves, and we must not allow this under any
circumstances.

The hunger strike continues until death. Lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal, as well as political prisoners Didem Akman and Özgür Karakaya,
are now over 100 days old. Their requests are as follows:

-To accept the requests of Grup Yorum immediately.

- Let the lawyers of the People be released.

- To remove the regime of injustice in political persecution.

-To annul all unjust sentences given as a result of retaliatory trials and remove obstacles to the right to a fair trial, such as covert
witnesses.

We wholeheartedly stand in solidarity with the difficult struggle of our comrades in Turkey. Internationalist solidarity is stepping up
their struggle and could be a stumbling block to Erdogan's plans for the complete annihilation of the movements in Turkey. Our struggle
knows no borders. It is common. When one of us is hit, wherever he is, we are all hit.

As part of the international 3-day solidarity action for ubiquitous prisoners, we call for a pre-assembly for the motorized transfer to
Diavata prison (where Sadi Naci ,zpolat, militant of the Popular Front) is being held, on Saturday, May 30, at 14:30 in Ergatiko K.

IN ????? HELIN BÖLEK, MUSTAFA KOÇAK, IBRAHIM GÖKÇEK

VICTORY IN THE STRUGGLE OF PERINA STRIKES IN TURKEY

AGAINST FASCISM AND STATE TERRORISM IN ANY

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2020/05/29

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For the umpteenth time a uniformed in America kills a colored man. The cop is drowning George Floyd, pressing him with his knee on his neck,
adding another incident of police oppression to the huge list of those murdered by state violence in the United States. Since Tuesday,
protests against racism and police brutality have started in Minneapolis, sparking mass riots. During the protests, one of the protesters
was found dead by a pawn shop owner's bullet (with the information so far), also entering the list of people who died because they belong to
the class and social base. Of course, we have no illusions. The state and capitalist brutality has repeatedly shown its true face.
The class/racist structure of American society is a given. The Ku Klux Klan para-state acts have been replaced by the state's legal police
officers. Every day minorities in the US are subjected to violence and racism, with 40% of the murders by the police and 35% of the
prisoners being African-Americans. A look at the covisd-19 death rates proves the unequal treatment they face. They die of the virus three
times more than the white people because of various causes, such as non-access to the health system, low income, poor working
conditions. The misery that African-Americans are experiencing in the ghettos is suffocating as George was suffocating under the cop's boot.
I can't breathe. A slogan that includes the cry of all oppressed from all parts of the world. Racism and fascism are everywhere and they are
fed by the state and capitalism.

Some insist on exorcing brutality by saying the well-known: «fortunately we are not America.» And yet it is enough to belong to a minority
in any country to be murdered. All you have to do is be an immigrant, refugee, lgbtq + person, woman, anarchist, and you can get on the
floor, too, and you can get beaten until you leave your last breath. As long as you belong to the oppressed of this world, your life has no
value. As long as you fight against the bankrupt system of oppression and exploitation, you can get into the murderous target of the
authorities and the law. As long as the killer wears a uniform and their act is not considered blamable. Right now, Derek Chavin, the
policeman who killed George Floyd, (like his accomplices in the Thomas Lane murder, Tao and Alexander Kweng murder) is free and no legal
proceedings have been initiated against him. Looks like for a while he's just going to have to replace the cop's clay with the hood of Ku
Klux Klan. Shift change.

Police everywhere in the world are a medley of armored racists and murderers. And that is exactly what the state itself wants to be the
police, so that it can effectively carry out the task it is charged with: torture the weak and protect the strong. George Floyd and Jacques
Costopoulos had an audience - they belonged to the class and shared social identities that the dominant paradigm hates. The state and its
police will continue to step on the neck to death of the weak and impoverished while society records the killings on its mobile phone,
instead of rebelling against its oppressors. Because the fact that no one has reacted, possibly fearing the uncontrolled violence of the
police, means that the police's authority is not afraid of anyone and continues to run over the oppressed. The uprising is a one-way street
for social self-defense and the attack against police brutality and death order of the state.

For George Floyd, Jacques Costopoulos, Eleni Topaloudi..For Alexis Grigoropoulos and the Turkish hunger strikes...

THE SOCIAL UPRISING IS A WEAPON OF SELF-DEFENSE OF THE OPPRESSED

SOLIDARITY AMONG THOSE RIOTING IN MINNEAPOLLIS AND AROUND THE WORLD AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE & STATE REPRESSION

Group for social anarchy «Mauro & Kokkino», member of Anarchist Political Organisation

https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/if-you-want-a-vision-of-the-future-imagine-a-boot-stamping-on-a-human-face-forever-george-orwell1984

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