Today's Topics:
1. alas barricadas: The closure of Nissan and public aid. (ca)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. US, San Fransisco: Workers Solidarity Alliance WSA - We
Support the Uprising (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Newsletter from Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group MACG:
The Anvil Vol 9 No 3 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Britain, solfed: Returning to work after the lockdown and
staying safe (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. [Chile] Online conference: Covid-19 Latin America - June 6
By ANA (ca, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Britain, UPDATE, Anarchist Communist Group [ACG] Bulletin
#15 - for Supporters and Sympathisers (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. icl-cit: [IWW] Solidarity with the uprising happening across
the U.S.A. (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. icl-cit: Victory of Workers at Myan Mode! (ca)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. KARAKÖK AUTONOME TR/CH: Black Lives Matter - Solidarity
Demo at US Embassy in Yerevan (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
10. Greece, anarchist "dynian horse" APO - Gathering and march
in Patras against the looting of nature [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
11. Czech, AFED: "I can not breathe" -- Report from the Prague
demonstration against racism and police violence [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
12. Britain, AFED, organise magazine - Food Not Bombs Callout! |
Statements (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
13. "Black & Red" APO - Information on the Solidarity
Demonstration of the US insurgents [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On Thursday May 28, the management of the multinational automobile company Nissan announces the fateful news: it will close its plant in
Barcelona in December, causing the loss of some 3,000 direct jobs and some 27,000 indirect ones. Nissan's president in Europe rules out any
alternative: "There is no viable solution to keep the plant open." ---- The workers directly affected are divided between the Zona Franca
factory (2,462 people), Montcada i Reixac (161), Sant Andreu de la Barca (223), El Prat (117) and the logistics hub of the Port of Barcelona
( 81). But the scale of the problem is much larger than these already bulky figures: hundreds of small component plants, suppliers of all
kinds, tens of thousands of jobs, are also at stake. And, in addition, there is another element that we must take into account: the fact
that this closure is not an isolated event, but rather the symptom of a fundamental problem, of a substantial crisis in the Spanish
industrial model and even the mobility model. of our global society.
The automobile industry represents in Spain about 10% of the GDP. Among automobile factories, component factories and distribution networks,
more than half a million people are directly linked to the sector. Spain is the second European manufacturer of vehicles. Today, it has
seventeen car and van factories, which power some of the largest component companies on the continent. But in all these factories there is
nothing to do but assemble models designed abroad, within the framework of value chains whose management is located in other countries.
Volkswagen, PSA, Renault, Nissan, Mercedes ... none of these automobile giants has its command center in the Spanish State.
In addition, the automotive market is in crisis, due to the combination of several processes: the expansion of the Covid 19 pandemic, which
has brutally impacted demand, and the need for a qualitative technological advance to adapt the industry to the crisis. global ecological,
favoring the transition to the electric car.
To try to promote this process of adaptation to the budding ecological crisis, the employers of the sector have promoted sounded
concentration processes in recent years, such as the merger of the Fiat Chrysler (FCA) automobile group and the French manufacturer PSA,
Peugeot-Citroën , in December 2019. These processes allow to accumulate capital and save costs, as well as centralize human resources and
knowledge, so that a greater investment can be made in the research and development process aimed at implementing new electric mobility
solutions. . Given the technological bottleneck that represents, for the automotive industry, the development of batteries and the use of
scarce mineral resources,
One of these great alliances is the one established between Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi. Without having merged, these three automobile
giants have established joint work and task-sharing mechanisms in recent years, as well as cross shareholdings. Nissan's shutdown should be
seen, too, in this scenario. In presenting their joint strategy for the coming years, the alliance of these giants has decided to spread the
markets geographically: Renault will focus on Europe and the United States, and on the development of the electric car; And Nissan will do
it in Asia and in research on the autonomous car.
In its withdrawal from Barcelona, Nissan leaves many fringes to close: in the last fifteen years it has received more than 22 million euros
of public aid to keep its plant in the Free Trade Zone open, the recovery of which is ruled out, in addition to another three million,
Awarded, but not yet paid, for an unpainted vehicle paint facility. In addition, it has rented the space of its factory with the Consorci de
la Zona Franca (an entity participated equally by the Barcelona City Council and the State), until 2022. The rental agreement establishes
that you must pay the rent until that date, even if he leaves, and that he must dismantle the facilities and certify that the soil is
decontaminated, in addition to paying the corresponding compensation.
Nissan workers are in an extreme situation. Encouraged by the announcement of the closure and subjected to the added pressure of the
problems of all kinds generated by the pandemic, it is difficult to mobilize the entire social and community fabric that is going to be
irreparably damaged by the closure of the plant. Javier Turrillo, a member of the Company Committee, tells us in the CGT union lists:
"The situation is very bad. We have been on an indefinite strike for more than a month. We have been weeks like a picket in front of the
plant and nobody enters or leaves, but the mobilization is complicated by the pandemic. The automotive issue is very difficult. The idea of
doing a lot of production already shows that it is not the future. There are alternatives: focus on the electric car. Nissan has seen that
it has to decrease global production. He has decided: I stay at home and nationalize what I have. "
"Despite the aid they have received," Javier tells us, "the effort that the workers have made since 2009, they are leaving. It has been many
years without salary increase. We have given up even in the hours. We have worked until Saturdays. There have been double salary scales,
with a lower salary for new entrants. Nissan shouldn't be leaving. Our alternative is nationalization and its reconversion, to give work to
all workshops, suppliers, etc. May the State nationalize it, as they are doing with dozens of companies throughout Europe. "
The alternative of nationalization is not far-fetched. France has approved aid of 5 billion euros to Renault, so that it does not close its
plants in the French country. And remember that the French state still has 15% of the company's shares. In addition, the recent
billion-dollar public aid to airlines in France, Germany and the Netherlands reminds us that when an activity is considered strategic,
states are empowered to intervene. The Spanish government has demanded that 10% of the € 750 billion European aid line, announced a week ago
by Ursula Von der Leyen, be earmarked for the car industry. There is no doubt that much of the funding for the community New Green Deal
will, too. Maybe,
Víctor Mariño, union delegate from the Central Unitaria de Traballadoras e Traballadores (CUT) at the Citröen factory in Vigo tells us that:
"Some companies always take advantage of the circumstances. The employers are taking advantage of this situation to leave as reinforced as
possible. It seems good to me what the French government does. When in its day it nationalized the PSA group, in 2008, because it saw that
it could be absorbed by the Chinese. That public aid be given to the sector is fine, but there has to be a commitment, as in France. Not
only workload, also develop the project. "
"The government of the Xunta" -Víctor tells us- "has more than 180 million euros in aid, but with total opacity. Part of the money that was
given was used to set up auxiliary companies in the North of Morocco. On the other hand, the problem of nationalization is who stays the
brand. My utmost solidarity and support for Nissan workers and their environment. We are talking to other unions to get all the automotive
workers there on a specific day. "
The Spanish production model, it has been said ad nauseam, is mainly made up of tourism and the inflation of recurring property bubbles. It
has been based on flexible, precarious and cheap work. High-value-added and highly-skilled activities, which implies high wages and job
security, have traditionally been linked to industry. For this reason, the necessary reindustrialization is always spoken of as one of the
central elements of a new production model that increases social welfare.
What is not said so much is that reindustrialization, in order to really have that virtuous effect that it is supposed to have, must be
accompanied by economic sovereignty. In other words, only if the strategic activities of the national economy are firmly rooted in the
country, both as a shareholder and when making fundamental decisions about the business model, can a virtuous circle of reindustrialization,
integration and increase in wages. If the owner of the industry can take it here or there, depending on the ups and downs of global capital
flows and the recurring crises of the system, industrialization is always on loan. Even more so if the European Continent-State that should
prepare the harmonized integration of the continental economic structure,
Meanwhile, the 30,000 workers who see their life projects in danger due to the closure of Nissan take to the streets to demand our
solidarity. Nationalizing the company to build a public strategic industry benchmark could be a good idea. Above all, if it is accompanied
by mechanisms for the effective participation of workers and the community in the management of the company. In other words, a substantial
democratization of decision-making.
José Luis Carretero Miramar.
http://alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/43911
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Message: 2
Statement by East Bay Group of Workers Solidarity Alliance ---- The unprecedented scope of the uprising this past week reflects widespread
discontent on various levels - and widespread disdain and criticism for the racist and repressive role of the police as an institution in
the USA. The immediate issue is yet another police murder of a black man - the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops. But the protests
have often mentioned other recent police killings of black people. ---- We demand justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery
and the many other hundreds of black people murdered by police in the past year. Since the point blank cop shooting of Oscar Grant in 2009,
more than 200 people have been shot and killed by the police here in the Bay Area - Mario Woods, Alan Blueford, Kenneth Harding Jr and
others. Just in the last few days Vallejo police shot and killed a young man on his knees with his hands raised. No cop in Vallejo has been
disciplined for deadly force in the past decade despite the many shootings by police.
The problem is very deeply entrenched in this country. The police have long been allowed a special legal immunity from prosecution and given
a free hand to keep the "lower orders" in their place. The first professional police force in the USA was created in the 1790s in
Charleston, South Carolina for the purpose of keeping slaves under control. In the north the first paid police forces arose with industrial
capitalism and a "dangerous" class of propertyless wage-workers employed in the early factories - and subject to periodic unemployment and
food riots and strikes. Thus the police were set up with the dual role of protecting both white supremacy and class oppression.
Local budgets throughout the USA are weighed down with vast budgets - for noise weapons and Humvees and body armor and endless raises while
the sanctity given to the police budgets by the Chamber of Commerce types leads to less money for public services that can provide housing
and health care and education.
Even though police are often recruited from the working class, they are no more working class than are the supervisors and managers who
police us in the workplaces. Cops are supervisors of the streets. They are part of the bureaucratic control class that includes middle
managers, judges, prosecutors, corporate lawyers and military brass. Their job is to run the corporations and the state and keep everything
going for the benefit of the wealthy owning class at the top.
Part of their institutional position in the USA is their separation from any real civilian control. And the special privileges of police
unions exist to support the repressive role of the police. That's why police "unions" are allowed to negotiate over discipline and
participate in official investigations of police violence and illegality. This allows them to push back against periodic popular pressure on
politicians or police chiefs after the latest outrage. Police unions almost never show any solidarity towards other workers in struggle -
because they are an arm of the repressive system.
Workers can stand up to them - as bus drivers have done during this uprising, refusing to haul police or prisoners captured by the cops.
This is a position that has been backed up by locals of the Amalgamated Transit Union and the Transport Workers Union.
Abolition of the police is thus a revolutionary demand. An amazing aspect of the present moment is that some members of the Minneapolis city
council are now proposing to disband the Minneapolis Police Department. City councilman Steve Fletcher has described their city's police
department as "beyond reform" and a "protection racket." "Several of us on the council are working on finding out what it would take to
disband the Minneapolis Police Department and start fresh with a community-oriented, nonviolent public safety and outreach capacity," he says.
This uprising has achieved an amazing scope - large mass marches day after day, not only in big cities, but extending far out into suburbs -
such as Walnut Creek, Clayton and Santa Rosa here in the Bay Area. Not only big urban centers but protests in small towns out on the
prairies, such as Fargo North Dakota or places like Tyler, Texas.
A Morning Consult poll says that the protests are supported - either strongly or to some extent - by 54 percent of Americans. This is vastly
more support than achieved by the astro-turf, business-supported "re-open" protests to end shelter in place protections against the
pandemic. Those were only supported by 22 percent. According to another poll, three-fourths of Americans see the killing of George Floyd as
a sign of the underlying problem of racial injustice in USA.
This wide support - and the intensity of the moment - reflects a whole series of things coming together and bearing down on the working
class majority. In the midst of the pandemic millions have lost their employer-dependent health care, and more than 40 million have filed
for unemployment benefits under a creaky unemployment system - a third of those who have filed have not received any money yet. And racial
disparities are on display in the pandemic also: The deaths to black and Latino people have been far higher than among whites.
The more than 150 wildcat strikes in the past two months are another aspect to the current discontent - including many strikes over unsafe
working conditions such as lack of personal protective gear. And with people losing their income and not having money for food, rent strikes
are also on the rise. And meanwhile the Congress focuses on more billion dollar bailouts for business interests. Thus in this situation the
oppressive and wretched reality of present American institutions bears down on millions.
The multi-racial crowds of young people in the protests are there partly because they are fed up with the engrained racist patterns of
police violence and thus express solidarity with the victims of this violence. But it's also in their own interests to participate in this
uprising because multi-racial solidarity is needed for effective struggle for the changes that would benefit them. Many see their own dire
prospects and see the way they are treated as disposable by the Lords of Capital.
https://www.facebook.com/wsabayarea/posts/2667054596732781
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Message: 3
Dear Comrades
The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group is pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of The Anvil, its newsletter:
https://melbacg.wordpress.com/the-anvil/
There is one article: Justice for George Floyd.
A direct link to the file is here: https://melbacg.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/anvil-vol-9-no-3-web.pdf.
And finally, a PDF is attached below.
In Solidarity,
Ablokeimet
for MACG.
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Message: 4
Working from home ---- The government guidelines are clear, your employer should take all reasonable steps to allow you to work from home.
You should only be asked to return to work if it is not possible to work from home. If your employer is demanding you return to work when it
is possible to work from home, write to them making it clear that they are breaking government guidelines. ---- If you are working from home
your employer still has a duty of care. They should protect your mental and physical wellbeing, including providing you with all the
equipment and information you need to work from home safely. ---- Returning to work ---- Your employer must carry out a covid-19 risk
assessment before you return to work. In the risk assessment they should set out in detail what measures they will be putting in place to
protect you from COVID-19. The risk assessment should be made available to you, demand a copy if necessary.
The risk assessment should be specific to your workplace and/or job. It should cover all the daily tasks carried out at your workplace and
what measures your employer is putting in place to protect you from COVID-19.
For example, in order to ensure social distancing, your employer should re-design workspaces so that people can remain at least 2 metres
apart from each other, zone different areas for different staff, use mobile phones or walkie talkies to communicate, stagger start, finish
and break times, create one-way walk-throughs and staircases, open more entrances and exits, to name a few alterations.
Once you have a copy of your risk assessment you should examine it closely and discuss it with the people you work with. If you think that
the measures outlined in the risk assessment do not do enough to protect you, make it clear to your boss. The best way to do this is by
getting together with your workmates and demanding increased protection.
You should also ensure that your boss is implementing the measures outlined in the risk assessment and allowing you enough time to do your
job. Employers often introduce safety measures that make it harder to carry out tasks but still expect you to do your job in the allotted
time. This often results in workers ignoring safety measures in order to get the job done on time. Don't let this happen to you. Discuss it
with your workmates and demand more time to do your job safely.
What to do if you return to work and do not think it is safe
If you do not think that your place of work is safe, discuss it with your workmates and then make it clear to your boss that you need
increased protection. If your employer refuses to make changes, you have the right, under Section 44 of the 1996 Employment Rights Act, to
refuse to work or carry out a specific task that you consider dangerous.
If your employer is not complying with government guidelines, for example by not putting in measures to ensure social distancing, you should
be covered by the act. Though the act only refers to "employees' ' it may be the case that some people classed as "workers" will also be
covered. Before refusing to work, it is best that you write to your employer making it clear that you feel they are breaking government
guidelines with as many people as possible signing the letter. Rather than walking out, it might be best to withdraw to a place of safety
within the workplace or outside in a carpark. In doing so you should make sure you maintain social distancing at all times.
Taking action against your employer is never easy but in many ways there has never been a better time to get organised and fight back.
Public awareness of the dangers of COVID-19 is high and employers are running scared of any bad publicity in regards to not protecting
workers from the threat of COVID-19.
Remember you are not alone you can contact SolFed for support and advice.
http://www.solfed.org.uk/manchester/returning-to-work-after-the-lockdown-and-staying-safe
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Message: 5
Comrades and companions, it is very grateful for us to extend the invitation to you this Saturday, June 6th at 3:00 pm. Through our Facebook
page, to participate in the videoconference: "Impacts of Covid-19 in Latin America". ---- It is necessary to open a communicative channel in
which anarchist organizations from different territories in Chile and Latin America can converge and report how the pandemic is living in
the broad spectrum of what this means: how it has affected us socially and in the territories we inhabit, which it happened in the work
environment and what were the pandemic reach in the social organization that each space invited to this instance, raises from its
territoriality.
Confirmed organizations and individuals:
1. Cordillera Libertarian Assembly.
2. Anarco Feminist Organ of Santiago.
3. Santiago Anti-Racist Group.
4. Various Trade Union of Santiago.
5. Bío Bío Anarchist Assembly (Southern Chile)
6. Individuality of Ckalama (Northern Chile)
7. Society in Resistance Various Crafts of Valparaíso.
8. Anarchist Federation of Mexico.
9. OUTSIDE Argentina.
10. Individuality from Cochabamba, Bolivia.
We hope to count on your participation, health and social revolution!
Various Trade Union Santiago
anarchist news agency-ana
rain on the beach
the sky kisses the sea
- seagull waits
Zeze Pina
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Message: 6
There is a lot of excellent anarchist material online but we are concerned this does not reach a wide enough audience. We also need hard
copy material to reach those who may not consider looking at anarchist websites like our own. During the coronavirus pandemic we have
produced several pamphlets and stickers with messages such as ‘No Return to Austerity and Cuts', ‘No Return to Profit before Need', and
‘Make the Rich Pay'. We are also working on other material which will be either free or sold at low prices to campaign for fundamental
changes in how we organise things like food production, work and health. ---- Our aim is to publish pamphlets, a free newspaper, a magazine,
and stickers to promote radical social change during and after the pandemic. ---- https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/support-the-acg *New Pamphlets*
*Food, Health and **Capitalism: Covid-19 and Beyond*
This pamphlet goes to the roots of the current pandemic, locating the causes in capitalism, including land use, the way we organise food
production, and what we eat. It starts by looking at zoonotic diseases - those that have moved from animals to humans - and discusses how
capitalism created the environments for lethal human-animal interactions.It moves on to discuss industrial agriculture, its use of
antibiotics, pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, and its impact on health. The pamphlet then continues with a look at food consumption and
the role of capitalism in facilitating not just zoonotic diseases but also non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
Unhealthy diets are discussed in the context of food insecurity, domination by global food corporations and class inequality.
*Price: £3.50, including postage, for this 44 page pamphlet.*
*Order your copy via *londonacg@gmail.com
For more ACG publications, visit our publications page <https://www.anarchistcommunism.org
*Anarchism and Violence*
/Anarchism and Violence/, published May 2020 is a pamphlet from the Surrey group
<https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/?nltr=Mjg7MTg1O2h0dHBzOi8vc3VycmV5YW5 of the Anarchist Communist Group.
The pamphlet contains extracts from Malatesta's "Life and Ideas". The issues covered are as relevant today as they were when it was first
published 25 years ago by the London group of the Anarchist Communist Federation.
In the booklet, Malatesta discusses the question of violence and why adequate means are required to resist force.
*Price: £1.50, including postage, for this 16 page pamphlet.*
O*rder your copy via *londonacg@gmail.com <mailto:londonacg@gmail.com>
*NEW STICKERS AVAILABLE!*
We have 12 sticker designs with slogans such as ‘No Return to Austerity and Cuts', ‘Support Key Workers? Protect Them and Pay Them More' and
‘Our Health, not the Health of the Stock Markets'. These are all relevant now as we begin to face threats of austerity and making the
working class pay the costs of the pandemic- as if we haven't already paid enough!
ACG members and others have put up these stickers around the country. Help us spread the message of resistance and order your bundle now
from londonacg@gmail.com. Choose any amount, e.g. 5 or 10 of each design. We will send them for free but if you could make a donation to our
Crowdfunder appeal, that would be great https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/05/01/support-the-acg-publications-fund/.
*AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST.....THE ACG WEBSITE
We have been adding articles and news items to our website on an almost daily basis on events in the USA, the pandemic -why it happened,
what workers are doing about it, etc- and lots more.
Read them here: https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/
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Message: 7
The Industrial Workers of the World and Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee are in solidarity with the uprising happening across the
U.S.A. ---- The recent murders of George Floyd in Minnesota, Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, Tony McDade in Florida, and Breonna Taylor in
Kentucky are not isolated incidents. Within the racist history of the United States, Black and Brown bodies have consistently been treated
with such callous disregard. ----- The uprisings across the country in response to the death of George Floyd are expressions of justifiable
rage against an unjust system. Until the lives of Black and Brown individuals are treated with the dignity they deserve, justice will never
be served. Police will continue to ignore pleas of, "I can't breathe," while the criminal justice system will act to protect those who
murder in the name of ‘law and order.'
President Trump's denunciation of these protests online has only exacerbated concerns for the safety and well-being of others. Racist
rhetoric coming from state officials which describes protesters of color as "thugs" must be condemned for the cover it gives to dehumanizing
those who seek a future without oppression.
As an international union with a long-standing history of interracial solidarity, we stand united with all members of the working class in
their fight against racism, police repression, and state-based violence. Moreover, we reaffirm our commitment to our motto, "An injury to
one is an injury to all." We appreciate Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, Transport Workers Union (TWU), and many other unions
whose bus drivers refused to transport police to make arrests or transport arrested members of the working class. This is the kind of power
a union can have, when we are united. We call upon our members to similarly refuse to give their labor to any attempt to interfere with the
call for justice, and for outside unions to cease assisting or protecting the police in any way. We call upon the AFL-CIO to immediately
remove police "unions" from its federation, and to actively condemn all such "unions" which are actively injurious to the solidarity of the
working class. We call upon all other unions to provide material aid where possible to those protesting, and to denounce racist police violence.
Until there is justice, there can be no peace for the working class.
https://www.icl-cit.org/iww-solidarity-with-the-uprising-happening-across-the-u-s-a/
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Message: 8
Since the International Conference of Labor Unions in the Garment Industry in Colombo (Sri Lanka) in February this year, comrades of the ICL
have been following the struggle of garment workers in different factories in Myanmar. One of them is run by Myan Mode Co., Ltd within Shwe
Linban Industrial Zone in Yangon Region. ---- Workers there produce mostly for brands such as Zaraand Mango and have been resisting union
busting efforts by the factory owner. At the end of March 571 workers were dismissed, 520 of which were union members. From the start ICL
members support their struggle. ---- We are happy to hear that two months of strikes and protests resulted in a victory for the workers!
There were those workers who didn't accept the offered compensation from the factory owner during negotiations. They were reinstated
immediately and started work again on June 1st. Then there were those workers who joined the walk-outs and strikes but accepted the
compensation. They were also reinstated from July onwards. Both groups consist of 74 workers. The remaining dismissed workers will be
rehired once orders from brands come back in.
Below is a message of the General Secretary of Myan Mode Union to people across the world who supported their struggle. Also a picture was
taken in front of the factory with those workers returning to work on June 1st.
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
We reached the agreement with Myan Mode employer on 30th May 2020. We wanted all our dismissed union brothers and sisters to be reinstated
but due to the harsh resistance from the employer, we negotiated with the employer for the immediate reinstatement of all dismissed workers
who did not take compensation and the reinstatement of all walk-out workers in June and July who joined the strike to protest the employer's
unfair dismissal of union workers.
This was not an easy fight. It took exactly two months to reach to this level of progress. This progress would not have been possible
without your assistance and solidarity to our fight.
We wholeheartedly thank you and we hope someday we cay return your solidarity. We returned to work on 1st June and took photos in front of
the factory to show our heartfelt thanks to all the people who assisted and supported our fight. The photos are attached here and they are
public. The group in the photo is small and we will take another photo with bigger group when all the 74 workers are reinstated and returned
to work in July.
Solidarity
Mg Moe
https://www.icl-cit.org/victory-of-workers-at-myan-mode/
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Message: 9
A small group of people gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan to show solidarity with African-Americans and all people currently
protesting across the US. ---- The protesters condemned the killing of George Floyd and other African-Americans by US police. They carried
posters declaring "Armenians For Black Justice", "Defund Police", "No Justice No Peace" and "Black Lives Matter" and "Abolish Police". ----
Afterwards, they handed a letter to embassy staff, demanding that the U.S. government defund police departments and decrease U.S. military
presence globally.
https://karakok.wordpress.com/2020/06/07/black-lives-matter-solidarity-demo-at-us-embassy-in-yerevan/
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Message: 10
On the occasion of the World Environment Day, a call was made to a rally in Georgiou Square by the Patras Athletic Movement against Aeolian.
---- We supported the rally with banners against the looting of nature by the "machines" of development - Struggle for the Earth and Freedom
and shared hundreds of texts , followed by a march in the city center with the participation of about 300 people in which we formed an
anarchist bloc. ---- The defense of the natural world and the organization of life in harmony with it, as well as the defense of public -
free space are fundamental factors for the development of society in the direction of freedom, autonomy, collectivization and creativity.
Today, the defense struggles of the natural world and public space that erupt in places where looting and destruction are planned and the
ability to live decently live in local communities are often trapped within the boundaries of local, institutional protest, the legal
framework, representation, mediation and assignment. However, in many cases they unite the majority of the residents of the affected areas,
while several times they go beyond the institutional framework of protest by challenging state and municipal actors and institutions.
This requires a comprehensive social awakening, overcoming commitment, mediation and inaction, strengthening social and class struggles,
building broad, self-organized, anti-institutional fronts and creating embankments wherever the state is. and capitalist aggression. On your
part, expecting nothing substantial from the institutions and their mediators, and being deeply aware that the rationale for assigning them
leads to the resignation and defeat of social struggles, organize your resistance from below by setting up reservations, state and capital
uprisings. Support local resistance initiatives that are essential to the dynamics and development of the struggle, and address the whole
cost of the struggle and society as a whole, believing that these struggles are not about narrow local environmental issues, but a central
political issue.
Against the dystopian future they reserve for us, there is the choice of resistance and struggle. Remind them of what happens when society
takes matters into its own hands and resists massively and militarily in their plans. Social and class resistances are alive and they will win!
From Acheloos, Agrafa and Skouries... to Crete, Erymanthos, Patraikos, the Ionian, Volos and Pelion and wherever else the state-capitalist
aggression is manifested...
SOLIDARITY TO THOSE WHO ARRIVE AGAINST THE WORD OF NATURE AND SOCIETY FROM THE STATE AND THE CHAPTER
STRUGGLE FOR EARTH AND FREEDOM!
anarchist group "dynian horse" - member of APO
ipposd.wordpress.com | d_ippos@hotmail.com
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2020/06/06/
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Message: 11
Once we learned that the "I can't breathe" demonstration had been called, we did not hesitate for a moment to promote it. We were pleased
with the initiative from below, which also wanted to express disagreement with racism and police brutality in Prague and to commemorate the
memory of the murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis. Demonstrations are taking place not only in the United States itself , but also in many
places in Europe, as the experience of racism and police violence and bullying is common to many people. ---- The day before the event
itself, which was convened on Saturday, June 6, in the Old Town Square, it was recalled by its organizers on Facebook for fear of
retribution due to coronavirus-related regulations. ---- It was clear that some people could not be discouraged and would come anyway,
including us, the members of the Anarchist Federation.
We arrived at Staromák at four o'clock, as originally announced. The first thing that caught our attention was the newly built "pillar of
shame" . Hopefully, he will soon find his Frant Sauer , who will organize the demolition of this disgraceful symbol of clerical domination,
as was the case in 1918 .
As soon as we were able to look around, there were about 500 people on the spot and others were coming. Still, nothing happened for a while.
Before half past four, someone lit a green smokestack, which revived the meeting, and there was a chanting of "No justuce, no peace, fuck
the police" and "Black lives matter." The Fizls tried to find out who caused the smoke, but no one cooperated with them. It was clear that
the people did not come empty-handed, much of it holding a sign, usually in English, with a clear message that corresponded to the purpose
of the demonstration. They were also interested in large banners "No more racist murders. No more police state. "And" Anti-fascism is a
necessity ", which was supplemented by several anti-fascist flags.
A quarter of an hour later, speeches began under the direction of the informal Prague initiative Black Lives Matter. It was therefore nice
that black people in particular spoke, instead of being spoken by white activists, as is often the case. There was, of course, criticism of
systemic racism in the United States, but also in the Czech Republic. The Roma could probably talk about that the best, but there was a
minimum of them.
This time it was not a classic "demo" à la long speeches and then a march. Although convened hastily and in chaos, she had many strong
moments. One of them was when all the demonstrators knelt down and answered "Black lives matter" to every name read by an African-American
extrajudicially executed by the congregation. The reading of the names seemed almost endless, and one realized the madness of the police
assassination in the United States, and that was only a small section of the victims. Symptomatically, only physics stood out from the crowd
of kneeling people. This was followed by a minute of silence, a song and the massive chanting of "Black lives matter", "All lives matter"
and "I'm George Floyd".
Another powerful moment was when hundreds of people lay on the ground with their hands behind their backs and lay motionless for almost nine
minutes, symbolizing the time a killer in a police uniform knelt on Floyd's neck with the assistance of his equally unjust colleagues. At
the same time, however, it was tragicomic to watch the television crew direct a police spokesman into a shot of "corpses" to give him room
to speak on television.
A moment later, people gather and set out to march across Charles Bridge to the US Embassy. When leaving Staromák, we try to roughly
calculate the number of participants. About 1200 of us are out, so we can safely say that a thousand people were there. The chanting doesn't
stop all the time. Not even in front of the boarded-up embassy, where the parade arrived shortly after six and where there was a chant
literally in the dance rhythm. A few people then gave examples of how they are exposed to police or security bullying here because of the
color of their skin, and in the end a space with inscriptions, flowers and candles grew up. At half past six the rain comes and people start
to leave the event slowly, others stay for some time.
Although it was not 50,000 participants as in Vienna, many Czechs who were bothered by manifestations of racism and police practice came
together for Czech conditions and despite the chaos with the announcement of the cancellation of the event. The event had a strong charge
and was indeed a dignified tribute to the victims of the police killings.
Fuck the police!
https://www.afed.cz/text/7187/nemohu-dychat
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Message: 12
A CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY TO AUTONOMOUS RESISTANCE AND FOOD NOT BOMBS INITIATIVES AROUND THE GLOBE ---- Homelessness and hunger is
prevalent in many countries. People begging for food and malnourished children are common images in many places around the world that used
to have healthy communities and ecology. While people are enduring poverty and hunger, governments particularly the first worlds are
spending hundreds of billions of dollars to develop war materials they use to control other countries through war, intimidation and
manipulations. ---- Food Not Bombs (FNB) is a solidarity and non-violent action against social injustice. Food sharing is a practical
respond to hunger caused by inequality where huge number of people deprived of access to protein while the few elite live extravagantly and
using social patrimony to state activities involving violence and oppression of people and destruction of ecology. People from
Punk/Hardcore, DIY, Art communities and anarchists who are involved in culture of sharing and inclined to horizontal processes naturally
attracted to FNB.
Many marginalized communities in so-called Philippine archipelago are enduring the lack of basic necessity such as shelter, food, water,
education and livelihood. The acute inequality and social justice rob the people of opportunities to improve their well being to secure the
future of their families and communities.
FNB came in the archipelago during the 1990s as a respond to systemic poverty. It quickly spread like a wildfire in the archipelago
particularly after the famous Battle in Seattle - a resistance against trade liberalization during World Trade Organisations Conference.
Incidentally, during this period, anarchist collectives and individuals sprouted like mushrooms which thrive in fertile underground culture
scenes and art communities.
FNB is not a monotonous activity of food provision to hungry people. It is a creative resistance designed to provide not only protein
requirements but also engaged in sharing critical information and skills through workshops, discussions, dialogue, cultural presentations
and other educational activities. It is frequently combined with really, really free market where people are encouraged to share their
unwanted things to those in need. This event is not design to recruit people to a particular group but this encourages the people to self
organize based on voluntary basis according to their own capacity. It encourages communities to practice self management under the theme of
respect, diversity, decentralize and non-hierarchical relations. FNB is a direct action against capitalism, consumerism and statism. FNB is
not an organization but rather an event or an activity can be organized by anyone without asking any permission to anyone or making
affiliation to any group. An individual or group of people could organize FNB anytime, anywhere based on their actual context as long as it
uphold the basic principles of non-hierarchical, respect, ecological and anti-authoritarian.
Prior to Anti-Terrorism Act, Duterte is already violent. His humorous extemporaneous speeches with twist of sexist acts and remarks could
not conceive his thirst for violence. In many occasions he explicitly mentioned his actual involvement in killings. Duterte is a
megalomaniac person; he desires more power and hates those who threaten his position. He is vengeful and angry. His words are not empty. He
is equitable in terms of retaliations to his "enemies"; from low life thugs, to a teacher, a laborer, overseas worker, senators, and lawyers
and as big as corporate media and international institutions they will not be spared from forms of intimidations and harassment.
Incarceration of oppositions and killings perpetrated by uniformed personnel and masked motor riding gunmen are the trademarks of his
government.
His appetite for violence killed FNB volunteers and incarcerated one. These non-non violent people perished and suffered during War on Drugs
operations that killed more than 12,000 which the great majority came from poor families and marginalized communities. Essentially, the war
on drugs program is war against the poor and intended to intimidate the people and all forms of oppositions in general.
The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 will surely exacerbate the already worst situation of our society. The Duterte administration shrewdly fast
tracked the law in the middle of pandemic crisis. A perfect timing were different oppositions rendered immobile giving no chance to react.
It has been approved at the committee level and members of the House of Representatives are expected to debate and fast-track its approval
before they go on a two-month break from June 6 of this year.
This law will categorise the activities and initiatives of FNB volunteers, autonomous activists and anarchists as terrorism. Under this
law, solidarity actions which commonly conduct by the said groups of people will be considered as crime allowing the state to detain
suspected individuals without a warrant; longer detentions without charge and give the executive branch more power against dissent. It
ruled out the Human Security Act removing government obligations to compensate wrongly accused people.
The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 is an obvious instrument of a fascist government to curtail freedom that desires to instill fear among the
populace to serve the interests of the oligarchs and foreign counterparts
Food Not Bombs volunteers, autonomous activists, independent artists and anarchists strongly condemn the fascist government. We are calling
the international resistance to send solidarity to the struggle of different people and community of the archipelago against the
authoritarian who serves the interests of few privilege elite.
If you may please organize different forms of action against the Philippines Embassy in your own country to send your support to our fight
for freedom.
FIGHT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE! FIGHT FASCISM AND STATE SPONSRED TERRORISM! END WAR, POVERTY, HUNGER AND ECOLOGICAL SLAUGHTER ?
- FOOD NOT BOMBS ARCHIPELAGO
http://organisemagazine.org.uk/2020/06/07/food-not-bombs-callout-statements/
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Message: 13
On Friday 5/6, after a call from the "Black & Red" and "Libertatia" collectives, the planned solidarity march with the US insurgents in the
center of Thessaloniki with the central slogan "the breath of the oppressed is the destruction of the state" took place. It was preceded on
Wednesday by a 3/6 meeting at the Polytechnic. During the rally in Kamara, a dance group performed a memorial service for the murdered
George Floyd. ---- About 500 people took part in the demonstration, while the anti-state character of the uprising in the heart of the
capitalist beast was emphasized through the slogans with a strong pulse. The slogan "from Greece to America war on state and repression"
prevailed, emphasizing the connection between the oppressed everywhere in the world and the common violence they face from police barbarism
and state totalitarianism. The participation of young people in the city who protested so much against the American state was so great, as
the march symbolically stopped at the US Consulate in Tsimiski, as intensely outside the Aristotle police station, where it also remained
for a few minutes and shouted slogans against the hired uniformed bosses of the bosses.
From about the middle of the demonstration, the MAT took care to make their presence more than obvious. Attempting to terrorize the world,
they approached the body of the march, demonstrating the new equipment recently received as part of the € 34 million spent amid a pandemic
on the state's current and future needs to protect it from the oppressed.
Participating in the propaganda and guarding of the demonstration was the Anarchist Student Group: Ataxia , comrades from the Anarchist
Student Assembly Quieta Movere and other comrades. It should be noted once again that the sexist provocations addressed by the police bipeds
to the women of the guard confirm to the fullest extent our slogans about the role and composition of the police force, as a culprit in
mobilized anthropomorphic bombings aimed at imposing terrorism. . All they can do is strengthen the desire of the comrades to intensify the
struggle to create a free society that will send their unnecessary, murderous existence to the bucket of history.
The banner of the march in front of the White Tower police station
As an act of internationalist solidarity with anarchist-anti-state content, the June 5 demonstration put Thessaloniki on the big map with
cities around the world, where people are protesting en masse and militarily against racism, power and barbarism. We stand in solidarity
with the arrested protesters on the march on June 3 in Athens. All over the world, from Chile and the United States to Turkey and Mexico to
Greece, the oppressed are revolting. Flesh from their flesh and we stand beside them.
Collectivity for Social Anarchism
"Black & Red", Collectivity for Liberal Communism - Libertatia | members of the Anarchist Political Organization (Federation of Collectives)
https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2020/06/07/
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