#Worldwide Information Blogger #LucSchrijvers: Update: #anarchist information from all over the #world - part1 - THURSDAY 18 JUNI 2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  anarkismo.net: The Mass Psychopathy of Shamelessness: From
      Israel to the UN by Judith Deutsch - The Bullet 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  US, WSA, ideas and action: Justice for George Floyd! By
      Sachio Ko-yin (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Britain, Class War: The SWP has got it's hooks into BLM -
      but they can still be thwarted. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, solfed: U.S. Black Lives Matter - Port Workers Stop
      Work in Protest of George Floyd Killing (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Freedom of speech in independent Bangladesh By Anarcho
      Syndicalist Federation - BASF [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
6.  Czech, AFED: Postpone poverty, not poor - Report on a
      protest action by the Pilsen team Food not Bombs [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Britain, Anarchist Communist Group (ACG): Government
      Terrorism in the Philippines (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
8.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Webdito,
      Agricultural labor: "detached" ... but stuck in misery (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Why write about sadism and shamelessness now? Because it's worse, it's complex and its causes and effects need to be better understood. Its
physical and psychological manifestations are day-to-day, uninhibited, and public: daily extra-judicial police killings like George Floyd in
Minneapolis, the police killing of 32-year-old Iyad el-Hallak in Jerusalem, Muslims in India.
Historian J. Huizinga 100 years ago wrote about the waning of the middle ages and poetically characterized "the violent tenor of life" at
that time. He found that as things fall apart, salient tendencies become more extreme. Our modern age may be an especially awful waning of
all human life, with an emergent "sadistic tenor of life" in many quarters across the world. Despite many laws against torture, cruel and
unusual punishment, incitements to violence, and abuse of civilians' and particularly children's rights, state-sanctioned violence is now
practiced with relish and impunity.

Can "genocide" be applied here descriptively or legally? Has the Holocaust and its usages contributed to reticence about the genocide
question in current brutalities? Israel is one of many culpable nations but its practices focus questions about genocide. Michel
Warschawski, director of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, wrote: "The whole society is sick, terribly sick." In addition to
the political sleeze of corruption and Israel's limitless confiscation of land and resources, Israeli Jewish dissenters themselves report
gratuitous sadism that is now manifest in many of Israel's state-sanctioned responses to Palestinians in the time of pandemic and in its
world trade in grotesque weaponry. There cannot be legitimate claims of "not knowing" about intentionally inflicted human disasters in
well-documented cases like Gaza and Yemen, as there was by Germans about the Holocaust.

Silencing Debate
Just this past May 6th, a public letter by a number of Jewish academics was needed to defend historian and philosopher Achille Mbembe's
comparative use of the Holocaust: Mbembe was scheduled to speak at an academic conference but the German federal antisemitism commissioner
banned him from delivering his paper because of his use of "holocaust" analogy. Mbembe compares South African apartheid with Israel and has
written pointedly about Israel: "since all they are willing to offer is a fight to the finish, since what they are willing to do is to go
all the way - carnage, destruction, incremental extermination - the time has come for global isolation." In response to the German
commissioner, "Some 600 leading Holocaust scholars asserted that banning analogies from the debate about the Holocaust is ‘a radical
position that is far removed from mainstream scholarship on the Holocaust and genocide. And it makes learning from the past almost impossible'."

Even more troubling is the fact that Israel has long attributed genocidal intentions to the Arab world in general, to Iran and to Hamas, and
has successfully used these allegations in its foreign policy and military assaults against Gaza. Defending Operation Protective Edge in
which Israel killed 550 Gazan children while one Israeli child was killed, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel wrote that the crisis in
Gaza and Israel is a battle between "those who celebrate life and those who champion death... Jews rejected child sacrifice 3,500 years ago.
Now it's Hamas' turn," the headline reads. In response, forty Holocaust survivors and 287 of their descendants signed a statement declaring
that Israel is genocidal.

The title of this article is an allusion to psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich's book about Nazism The Mass Psychology of Fascism. In contrast to
Reich, I am not assuming a homogeneous mass. The same behavior has different functions, meanings, and causes for each person, and an
individual person's behavior may change in groups. Also, the appearance of social homogeneity may be due to many factors including
punishment for dissent. Nor does the idea of a mass character trait indicate capacity to change individually or societally. What is
considered here is the presence of uninhibited, public malicious sadism at the present time. I am also differentiating psychopathy from
Reich's "psychology" to describe a specific pathology in which there is no working conscience, no guilt, and no shame, in which being cruel
typically evokes pleasure and pride.

Constructing the Biggest Ghetto
There has long been profound concern and moral indignation about similarities between Israeli and Nazi practices by some Jewish people. At
the inception of Israeli statehood, Albert Einstein brought attention to the parallels between future prime minister Menachem Begin's party
and Nazis. His 1948 letter to the New York Times, co-signed by Hannah Arendt among others, was written when Begin came to the United States
to gather support from American Zionists. Einstein wrote that Begin's political party is "closely akin in its organization, methods,
political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties." Einstein wrote about the terrorist massacre of the peaceful village
of Deir Yassin and how Begin's party even kept a few villagers alive "to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem."

Quoting from the Olga Document, signed by over 100 prominent Israelis in 2004: "The State of Israel was supposed to tear down the walls of
the ghetto; it is now constructing the biggest ghetto in the entire history of the Jews; ...it has set up a colonial structure, combining
unmistakable elements of apartheid with the arbitrariness of brutal military occupation - in the heart of darkness." They state that
Palestinians are depicted as "sub-human." This is "seconded and assisted by members of the cultural elite, media barons, vain functionaries
and light-scribblers, right and left."

Yitzhak Laor of Tel Aviv University asked why the "Holocaust Day drew a ridiculous comparison between those of us in the besieged Warsaw
Ghetto and those of us surrounding the besieged Jenin refugee camp?" "Gas chambers are not the only way to destroy a nation. It is enough to
destroy its social tissue, to starve dozens of villages, to induce high rates of infant mortality."[1]

Michel Warschawski describes photos of soldiers "forcing men and women to crawl on their knees, run naked or roll in the mud..." They order
"men to the right, women to the left" just like Auschwitz. He cites an article "‘From Tatooed to Tattoer', reporting that Palestinians were
having numbers tattooed on their arms." A high-ranking Israeli army officer explained that they had to "learn from others' experiences,
including the way the German troops took control of the Warsaw Ghetto."[2]

Nurit Peled-Elhanan, professor of education and recipient of Sakharov Prize, whose 13 year old daughter was killed in a suicide attack,
testified at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, said that "The Star of David is equated with rallies all over the world to the swastika...
When peace becomes negatively associated with the destruction of Israel and presented as an existential threat."

Norman Finkelstein describes the "Kristallnacht-like-assault on Islamic houses of worship in Gaza by Israel's military in 2014." Israel "...
every couple of years launches - with overwhelming popular support and without a hint of remorse - yet another high-tech blitzkrieg against
a defenseless, trapped civilian population..."[3]

Acknowledging Sadism
Sadism is seductively exciting. Noam Chomsky, in a chapter called "Exterminate all the Brutes," writes of "formidable military might
exercised with extreme savagery," passing from "merely vicious to truly sadistic."(p. 115) "Since the terms ‘aggression' and ‘terrorism' are
inadequate, some new term is needed for the sadistic and cowardly torture of people caged with no possibility of escape."(p. 90) Chomsky
quotes former Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan of the Israel Defense Forces and former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: the Palestinians are like
"drugged cockroaches scurrying around in a bottle....[They are]like grasshoppers compared to us" so their heads can be "smashed against the
boulders and walls."[4]

Journalist Amira Hass describes the "most moral army" after its raid on the offices of the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Culture in
Ramallah. "In every room of the various departments - literature, film, culture for children and youth, books, discs, pamphlets and
documents were piled up, soiled with urine and excrement.... in emptied flowerpots, even in drawers they had pulled out of the desk. Someone
even managed to defecate into a photocopier."

In an interview that took place during the fourth international session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) in New York City,
November 6-7, 2012, Nurit Peled-Elhanan analyzes school books published during leftist and right-wing education ministries. "Children are
taught that massacres confer dignity and pride on the military. From kindergarten to grade 12, the military is the idol, role model and god
of the Israel youth. Jews are depicted as superior and emblematic of universal values whereas a ‘Palestinian life does not count as life.'"
Palestinians are described as "cockroaches, non-human vermin, creatures who should be stamped out." "The mythological heroes are fearless
murderers." Israelis are "prepared to sacrifice their children on the ‘altar of their leaders' megalomania, greed and bloodthirstiness'."

Psychological Perspectives
Psychoanalysts working with delinquent adolescents have found that in some cases, parents foster and reward their child's psychopathy. Avi
Mograbi's documentary Avenge But One of My Two Eyes shows the ways Israeli children from very early childhood through late adolescence are
taught by adults in authority that disproportionate aggression is exciting and heroic. They repeatedly hear that "Samson the Hero had a
spiritual power. Every punch of his would kill 10,000 people." In one scene at Masada a group is asked to look at the remains of the cruel
"separation wall" and the watchtowers built by the Romans. They are told to empathize with the ancient victims, to listen to their feelings,
and to choose what they would do if under siege. They cheerfully said that if they were going to die they might as well kill their enemy at
the same time. Not one connects this with the Gaza siege. Mograbi's film shows the psychopathic process of how Israel intentionally provokes
a Palestinian response that is used as a pretext for Israel's overwhelming Samson reaction. Palestinians carry the guilt and Israel revels
in self-righteous power.

Victimhood can lead to empathy, or alternatively, to a sense of being an exception, to entitlement, or at worst to a psychopathic
rationalization of exploitation. In newsreels, the people of neighboring Sderot, an Israeli settlement, depicted as terrified victims of a
possible Hamas attack, did not seem fearful as they sat on lawn chairs watching the massacre of Gaza.

What is the effect on the children of Gaza who observe first-hand sadism against their parents? The late Dr. El-Sarraj, founder of the Gaza
Community Mental Health Programme, writing in 2008, in words that sill fit the military occupation today, "For many of these children the
most excruciating ordeal was to see their fathers being beaten by Israeli soldiers - and not offering any resistance. This is truly a
terrifying experience... This will have a lasting impact on any observer, but particularly on children. No wonder the Palestinian child will
see his model not in his father, but in that soldier; and no wonder his language will be the language of force and his toys and games the
toys and games of violence."

Institutions
The UN preamble is "We the people of the United Nations..." Are the global people taught about the UN, do they have personhood status, and
do they have a voice? In videotaped testimonies, Holocaust survivors speak of the crucial ability to see and feel others' humanness, and at
times they even saw soldiers refrain from killing when that human connectedness happened. On May 11, 2020, Palestinian legal, human rights,
and medical organizations sent a report to the British Medical Journal "highlighting the lack of any meaningful progress toward
accountability in these and other cases even though the UN investigation clearly recognized that Israeli snipers intentionally shot at
journalists, health workers, children and persons with disabilities."

International law expert Richard Falk remarks on the psychopathy built into the UN: "the global legalization of such rogue behavior is
embedded in the UN Charter, most openly expressed by vesting a right of veto in the five permanent members of the Security Council, the only
organ within the UN system with the authority to reach binding decisions. In effect, the UN Charter rather shockingly acknowledges the
uncontrollability of the five political actors, although these are the states that most endanger international peace and security."

To summarize: physical and psychological sadism is practiced with impunity and even with pride and now plays a deadly part along with other
forces in societies. The focus on Israel shows its historical continuity in that society, how it is rationalized in such a way to reflect an
ideal and necessary way of protecting society rather than depravity, how it is cultivated and generated in that society from early childhood
and evoked in excited and pleasurable experiences of power and sadism, how the genocide is used to claim exceptionalism and to reverse
culpability, and how the international regulatory institutions have failed and that collusion with violence is built into the very structure
of the UN Security Council. The representation and reversal of vicious practice as virtuous and legalized enactment is not untypical, and
examples include Obama's kill lists to Mao's cultural revolution, to many current leaders' (including women) machismo, to the financial
institutions imposing killer debt. In the US right now, there are massive outcries of indignation erupting over the police killing of George
Floyd. Indignation and moral revulsion about shameless psychopathy trigger these actions. Bus drivers in New York and Minneapolis refuse to
transport police to protests and protesters to jails:

"‘As a transit worker and union member I refuse to transport my class and radical youth to jail', Adam Burch, a 32-year-old bus driver for
Metro Transit in Minneapolis and a member of ATU Local 1005, posted on Facebook on Wednesday. ‘An injury to one is an injury to all. The
police murdered George Floyd and the protest against it is completely justified and should continue until their demands are met'."

Endnotes
[1]Yitzhak Lior (2002). "After Jenin" in Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin, eds., The Other Israel: voices of refusal and dissent. New York:
The New Press, pp. 118-20.
[2]Michael Warschawski (2004). Toward an Open Tomb: The crisis of Israeli society. New York: Monthly Review Press.
[3]Norman Finkelstein (2018). Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom. Oakland: University of California Press.
[4]Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé (2010). Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's war against the Palestinians. Chicago: Haymarket. p. 98-99.

Judith Deutsch is a member of Independent Jewish Voices, and president of Science for Peace. She is a psychoanalyst in Toronto. She can be
reached at judithdeutsch0@gmail.com.

Related Link: https://socialistproject.ca/2020/06/the-mass-psychopathy-of-shamelessness-from-israel-to-the-un/#more

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31932

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The death of George Floyd comes as waves of crisis are devastating communities of color. We are in the midst of two global disasters: the
unchecked climate crisis and the mismanaged COVID pandemic. And as with all disasters theytarget the working and poor of every country. ----
In the US, we have just passed 100,000 deaths from the COVID-19 virus. There are countless heroes among healthcare workers and other
life-saving providers. The flip side of this is that, broadly, we essential workers have been the low-paid canon fodder of a capitalism
seeking to survive. And Black and Brown communities are disproportionately hit the hardest. On May 26, we saw the viral video of Mr. George
Floyd murdered by the Minneapolis police. Protests and riots broke out in Minneapolis, and an uprising of conscience sparked across the
country's cities and towns.Around the world, protests of solidarity sprang up. Here in the Philadelphia region, the long history of police
violence against the Black community and the structural racism of our city, came right to the fore. There have been continuous waves of
protest, met in the worst cases with tear gas and rubber bullets against peaceful protesters with no place to run to, as armed groups of
whites in South Philadelphia patrolled the streets with impunity. But the sheer force and impact of rapidprotests, all these days later, is
inspiring beyond words. As one part of all this, the City of Philadelphia finally removed thestatue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo, always a
reminder of the city's long history of brutality against Black and the queer communities. Just the fact of the statue's removal feels like a
sign of this uprising's impact.

It has been an incredibly intense time trying to check in with comrades to be sure they're safe, while attending protests and attempting to
keep up with the news on upcoming events and police repression. In our home of Delaware County protests have sprung up, but some in more
conservative areas had to be canceled due to right-wing threats. The feeling overall is of ongoing intensity, and also of heartbreak as we
confront the structural inequalities of our Black neighboring communities in areas of health, schooling, and in how police enforce a legal
system that magnifies, exacerbates and profits from racism. Police encounters become flash-points of an entire infrastructure of inequality.
This is the unavoidable truth at this moment.

As the father of a young child, at the marches I hear directly from Black parents who have to talk to their young children about the dangers
of the police, because their children are in immediate danger only because of the color of their skin. This shakes me, it becomes impossible
to not ask, what if this was my child?

http://ideasandaction.info/2020/06/justice-george-floyd/

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Yesteday's demo in London showed the sad and often fatal embrace the SWP is going to foist on BLM. The sudden appearance of STAND UP TO
RACISM placards -handed out by long term leader WEYMANN BENNETT and GARY MCFARLANE - and the build up of SUTR as an alternative to BLM. 'NO
NO ' says Gary ' we are working al alongside them. being fraternally embraced by the SWP is like planting Japanese knotweed next to a primrose.
So here's what will happen. SUTR will organise a huge anti-racism demo in London in sept/October. Building this conference will direct
everyone's energies away from the streets. A list of speakers will be drawn up as widely as possible. After 3 ours of boredom punterswill
drift home never to return. ' Were you still up for Len McCluskey?

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Dockworkers across the USA stopped work on the 9th June in a show of support for George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. ----
Workers with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) stopped work and lay down their tools for an 8 minute and 46 second
moment of silence in honour of George Floyd and all victims of police brutality.The 8 minutes and 46 seconds is representative of the amount
of time George Floyd was pinned to the ground by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020. ---- The International Longshoremen's
Association, AFL/CIO (ILA) and United States Maritime Alliance, Ltd. (USMX), representing employers of the East and Gulf Coast longshore
industry, also stopped work for a "peaceful protest hour" at all ports from Maine to Texas.

The ILWU represents dockworkers primarily on the U.S. West Coast with approximately 40,000 members in 50 local unions in California, Oregon,
Washington, Alaska and Hawaii, as well as British Columbia, Canada.

"Our union has a long history of confronting racism on the job, in our communities and around the world," said ILWU International President
Willie Adams in a letter to ILWU Coast Longshore Division."Today we're joining millions of people who are demanding justice and fundamental
change."

http://www.solfed.org.uk/manchester/us-port-workers-stop-work-in-protest-of-george-floyd-killing

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The conventional state wants full loyalty of the people. Any shortcoming in that obedience is not acceptable to him. So he took refuge in
various art techniques and tricks. Punishment and punishment by enforcing obedience. Demonstrates fear. Free thinking, free speech is the
cause of big headaches. So he often interferes with the freedom of speech of citizens. Rudbakare human voice. ---- Freedom of speech and
thought is a fundamental human right. Freedom of thought cannot be separated from the fundamental rights of human beings. Because humans are
intelligent creatures. He has the power to consider justice. When a person loses this power of judgment or bows down to any reform, he
sacrifices his conscience on the stick of self-confidence and captures his consciousness in a motionless blind prison. If the freedom of
thought and conscience of the people in the society and the state is not protected, then the development of evil forces takes place at all
levels, visible and invisible. As a result, instead of a tolerant culture, Intolerant monstrous culture takes place which invades the state
and society and the path of creativity is naturally blocked and the question of self-development becomes conflicting. Therefore, the main
condition for building a modern democratic state is to protect the right of thought of the pros and cons. The Greek philosophers Plato and
Socrates were probably the first to speak of rights. Some of the steps taken by Emperor Ashoka in the third century brought fresh discussion
on the issue of freedom of thought and conscience.

Do we have the freedom of speech? Yes! It's all there. You can say whatever you want, no one will ever stop you. But the problem is that if
a group of overzealous people get angry, attack you or beat you to death, no one will stop them. And now social media is under full
government surveillance, along with phone calls. There is a strong possibility of arrest in accordance with the prevailing law of the
country if he says or writes anything indecent about the Father of the Nation or the Hon'ble Prime Minister. Such incidents are not uncommon.

Freedom of speech belongs to the individual or community; Freedom to express one's opinion freely, without fear or without the direction of
the authorities, without the obligation to accept approval. The term "freedom of expression" is also sometimes used in place of freedom of
speech, but in this case freedom of speech also refers to the right to seek, receive and impart information, regardless of the medium.

Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPIR) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have
identified the free expression of expression in accordance with international human rights law. It states, "Everyone has the right to
freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Or the right to communicate by any other means ". This 19th paragraph
was subsequently amended by the ICCP, quoting; The exercise of these rights contains specialized rules and responsibilities; However, if
this practice harms the dignity of anyone or disrupts national security, then in some cases its free practice is revoked. (1)

Now let's learn about 'fundamental rights'. Everyone is guaranteed certain rights as a citizen of the state. These rights are enshrined in
the constitution of the country. The rights enshrined in the constitution are the fundamental rights of a citizen. However, in some cases
conditions have been imposed. The fundamental rights are enshrined in Articles 26 to 44 of the third chapter of the Constitution of
Bangladesh and the jurisdiction to enforce fundamental rights by the High Court Division of the Supreme Court is enshrined in Article 102 of
the Fourth Constitution. However, some rights may be suspended under Articles 141 (a), (b) and (c) of the Constitution in case of emergency
due to threats to the security or economic life of the country.

Article 39 of the Constitution guarantees freedom of thought and conscience. Every citizen's right to freedom of speech and expression and
freedom of the press are guaranteed subject to reasonable restrictions imposed by law on state security, friendly relations with foreign
countries, public order, decency or morality or contempt of court, defamation or incitement to crime. As can be seen in this paragraph, it
mentions freedom of thought and conscience without any restrictions. On the other hand, in the case of freedom of speech, it is seen as
conditional. And the conditions will guarantee a citizen's right to freedom of speech and expression and freedom of the press as long as it
includes state security, friendly relations with foreign countries, public order, decency, morality, contempt of court, defamation,

By the way, one can know a little bit about what international law says about this. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
in 1948 and the freedom of expression under international human rights law have been identified. It states, "Everyone has the right to
freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Or the right to communicate by any other means ". This Article 19 was
later amended by the International Civil and Political Agreement. It states that the exercise of these rights includes specialized rules and
responsibilities; However, if this practice harms anyone's dignity or disrupts national security, in some cases its free practice is revoked.

Now let's see what the Security Act (Digital Security Act 2017; if you mean the Security Act, Digital Security Act 2018?) Says:

A) The law enforcement agencies request the telecommunications regulator BTRC to block or remove any data published or disseminated
digitally that violates the country's solidarity, economic activities, security, defense, religious values or public order or creates racial
hatred and animosity. You can. In this case, the police can search, seize and arrest without a warrant or approval. The Official Secrets Act
has been added to this Act . As a result, any government, semi-government, autonomous or statutory body holding, transmitting or storing
highly confidential or confidential information, or disclosing or assisting anyone to do so violates the law, which carries a maximum
penalty of 14 years. Money can be a fine or both.

(Ii) If the highly confidential or confidential information of any government, semi-government, autonomous or statutory body is captured,
transmitted or stored through computer, digital device, digital network or any other electronic means, it shall be deemed to be espionage.
Imprisonment for one year or a fine of Rs 10 lakh. According to the law, propaganda or propaganda in the name of the father of the nation or
the spirit of the liberation war or the liberation war through digital can be punished with imprisonment of not more than 10 years or a fine
of one crore rupees or both.

Three) There are provisions for imprisonment for disclosing offensive, false, intimidating information, defamatory information, insulting
religious sentiments, undermining law and order, hate speech, collecting, publishing or using personal information using digital media.
These cases can result in imprisonment for three to seven years, a fine or both. A second offense is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Fraud using digital media can result in imprisonment for a maximum of 5 years, a fine of Rs 5 lakh or both.

Four) There are provisions in this law regarding computer hacking. There are 15 sections, computers, computer programs. A digital terrorist
who obstructs access to a computer system or computer network or device, digital system or digital network will be guilty of the act and
shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years or with a fine not exceeding one crore or both. It is punishable by up
to five years in prison for intentionally or unintentionally taking, publishing or distorting or capturing someone's personal image for
distorted or malicious purposes. The offense of pornography and child pornography on the Internet is punishable by up to seven years in
prison or a fine of up to five lakh rupees or both.

Five) Using an electronic or digital medium from a bank, insurance or financial services institution to make online transactions without
legal authority can result in imprisonment for five years, a fine of five lakh rupees or both. If any citizen of Bangladesh violates this
law in Bangladesh or anywhere in the world, then he can be tried under this law. The Digital Security Act will be tried in a special
tribunal. The case has to be disposed of within 180 working days of the formation of the complaint. However, if it is not possible to do so,
it can be extended up to a maximum of 90 working days.

The other fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution are as follows:

One) Equality in the eyes of the law and the protection of the law: Every citizen is equal in the eyes of the law and is entitled to equal
protection of the law. Any citizen of the state has the right to legal recourse. No action shall be taken which may result in loss of life,
liberty, reputation or property of any person. No discrimination and equal opportunity: No citizen shall be discriminated against on the
grounds of religion, caste, sex, place of residence or occupation. Everyone will have equal opportunity to be recruited and promoted in the
service of the Republic and will not be discriminated against. Right to life and individual liberty: No one shall be deprived of life or
liberty except in accordance with the law.

Two) Arrest and Detention Defendant: If someone is detained for any reason, they should be given an opportunity to take appropriate legal
action stating the reason. Under no circumstances can anyone be detained for more than 24 hours. Appropriate action must be taken by
presenting the detainee to the adjoining magistrate within 24 hours of detention. Forced labor is prohibited: No one can be forced to do
anything except a convicted criminal.

Three) Judgment and Punishment: If a person commits a crime, his trial must be conducted according to the prevailing law at that time. One
offense cannot be punished more than once. Every citizen has the right to free and fair justice. No one can be forced to testify against
himself. No cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment can be inflicted. Freedom of movement: Citizens have the freedom to move freely anywhere
in the country, to live and settle anywhere and to re-enter after leaving the country. However, this freedom will be in the public interest,
freedom of assembly and organization subject to reasonable restrictions: the right to any assembly or organization has been given. However,
even in this case, the interests of public order, public health and morality will be able to enjoy the rights subject to restrictions by law.

Four) Freedom of profession and religion: Any citizen can choose any job as his profession subject to restrictions by law. Subject to law,
public order and morality, every citizen shall have the freedom to practice his or her own religion. Property rights: Every citizen can
acquire, hold and transfer property subject to the restrictions imposed by law. Right to Home and Communication: In the interest of state
security and public order, every citizen shall have the right to security in his own home, subject to restrictions imposed by law.
Correspondence and communication will have the right to privacy.

This time, the Digital Security Act 2018 has been the subject of intense criticism from all quarters. The editorial board has rejected the
law. They objected to several sections of the law (6,21,25,26,29,31,32 and 43). The journalists' union has also objected to the law.
However, the law minister said the objections were reasonable and promised to amend them. But there was virtually no change in the law
passed by voice vote in Parliament.

According to the Right to Information Act 2009, even if there is a legal right to know information about corruption and human rights
violations, the passage of the digital law will completely deprive this facility and as a result corruption and human rights violations will
be protected. Iftekharuzzaman expressed his opinion. He added that the example of recommending compliance with the Official Secrets Act,
1923 of the colonial period in the case of the controversial Section 32 Digital Spy Scholarship is very disappointing and sad. He termed the
law as unconstitutional and urged the TIB not to pass the law. Immediately after the draft law came up in the cabinet on February 1, 2016, I
protested on social media with the spy hashtag.

In her closing remarks at the 22nd session of the 10th National Assembly, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said opposition to the law was being
made only for personal gain. He said the law would not stifle the voices of journalists. Before the bill was passed on September 20,
Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Mustafa Jabbar said in Parliament that he considered himself lucky to have
passed the bill. According to him, many countries of the world will follow this law.

Constitutional expert said. Shahdin Malik called this law a law going back to the Middle Ages. According to him, this law is against freedom
of speech. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international organization of journalists, has called on President Abdul Hamid not
to sign the Digital Security Bill passed by the National Assembly of Bangladesh. The letter also called for the bill to be sent back to
parliament for reconsideration. According to the agency, once the law comes into force, the freedom of the media guaranteed in the
constitution of Bangladesh will be disrupted.

Diplomats from 10 Western countries and the European Union have expressed concern over sections 21, 25, 26 and 32 of the law. Sultana Kamal
opined that the law would adversely affect freedom of speech and the right to information. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party called the
Digital Security Act a black law. Rizvi Ahmed, the party's representative at the press conference, termed the law as anti-freedom of speech. (2)

Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPIR) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have
identified the free expression of expression in accordance with international human rights law. It states, "Everyone has the right to
freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Or the right to communicate by any other means ". This 19th paragraph
was subsequently amended by the ICCP, quoting; The exercise of these rights contains specialized rules and responsibilities; However, if
this practice harms anyone's dignity or disrupts national security, in some cases its free practice is revoked.

Freedom of speech may not be recognized as final. Freedom of speech can be restricted by the policy of harm if it interferes with or harms
the freedom of others in the case of defamation, slander, pornography, obscenity, offensive language and intellectual property, commercial
privacy, public safety, etc. The concept of this harm policy was formulated by John Stuart Mill in his On LibertyIn a text called There, he
said, "in a civilized society, power can only be exercised against the will of a person when it is done to prevent harm to be done to
another person." They are banned for creating insults. In this case the amount of speech, the time, the purpose of the speaker, how easily
it can be avoided - all these are taken into consideration. With the evolution of the digital age and the discovery of new ways of
communicating, the debate over the application of freedom of speech and its restrictions has intensified. For example, in the Golden Shield
project initiated by the Chinese government, the Ministry of Public Security prevented potentially unsatisfactory information from going out
of the country. (3)

Finally, Socrates, Dostoevsky, Bobispasternak, Andrei Shakharov, Howard Fast, Charlie Chaplin, Nazrul Islam and many others have been
severely punished for expressing their independent thoughts. No ruling class or monarchy in the world has been able to suppress the truth
for a long time by taking away the freedom of speech and thought. The more strict they are in this regard, the more they have fallen into
public anger. It has even been observed that many wise and prudent rulers have become immortal to the people by paying special homage to the
country's intellectuals, artists, writers, lawyers, doctors, philosophers and thinkers. We hope that Prometheus will emerge from the new
generation in the movement for freedom of speech and free will to lead the society, the country and the nation to the next path.

- AKM Shihab

https://bangladeshasf.org/sbaadhiin-baanlaadeshe-baak-sbaadhiintaa/

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On Tuesday, June 9, on the occasion of the Pilsen City Council meeting, about twenty-five people gathered in front of the town hall on
Svobody Square - volunteers and supporters of the Food not Bombs (FNB) initiative. They demonstrated here with great interest from
passers-by, to whom they distributed leaflets, for the rights of homeless people and against the absence of systemic solutions for people
who found themselves on the streets due to unfavorable life situations. ---- They began the silent protest by kneeling to express support
for the anti-racism and police violence demonstrations taking place in the United States, from which they have spread to many European
cities. The protest could not be overlooked, due to the number of banners with slogans such as "Postpone poverty, not poor", "Living instead
of tents", "Everyone can end up on the street", "Stop criminalizing the poor", "Solidarity instead of fences" apod.

We informed in detail about the activities of the FNB-Plzen team HERE . This was not the first public protest against the dehumanization of
the homeless by the city authorities. They first appeared with their criticism on April 5 (more HERE).

In their statement on the event, the FNB-Plzen team stated the following:

"We are protesting against the absence of system solutions for people who, as a result of life losses, cannot resort to the safety of their
home, who face hatred and contempt every day, from which we turn away as a society.

We protest against their criminalization. We still have in mind the statement of Mr Zrzavecký that one of the possibilities is to export
them outside the city. Not to the outskirts, because we would just move the problem elsewhere, but completely outside Pilsen. You will
export them several times and they may then consider whether they will return to Pilsen. '

We protest against temporary solutions in the form of tents. Anyone can lose their job and living today. Postpone poverty, not poor. "

Let us recall that the mentioned councilor Zrzavecký was the mayor of the city of Pilsen for the CSSD in the years 2014 to 2018, a party
that is called "social", but its representatives often make completely antisocial statements, as in this case.

Related articles:
FNB-Plzen with a veil
Solidarity instead of concentration camps
FNB continues to help the most vulnerable
How it works in Food not Bombs

https://www.afed.cz/text/7189/odsouvejte-chudobu-ne-chude

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Another article from the Etniko Bandido comrades in the Philippines. ---- #Flush the Terror Bill in the Toilet Bowl---- #Government is the
Real TERRORIST ---- #Abolish Fascist State ---- #In Solidarity to Black Lives Matter ---- At this moment in time, abuse of power and the
dominance by police, military, politician and State itself are became common practices in different parts of world. In the US, the police
killed George Floyd in broad daylight with witnesses standing in front of them. The urge to repress the breathing of a human being justify
how State's forces cruel intention towards its people. This kind of killing and violence made by the police, military and authority in
uniform in many parts of the world shows how savagery and dangerous in living under this system. In the Philippines alone, more than 20,000
lives lost since 2016 in the so-called War on Drugs instigated by the State. In the history of human kind, you cannot make an assurance
living peacefully while at the same time having a police or military in your community because this people are being summoned by the State
to suppress and oppress the people, being an authority gives them an entitlement to use their guns in any way possible. It is very clear for
an ordinary citizen to see how authority behave, they are not here "to protect and serve", they are just here to show their power over its
people. That's the very essence of "Authority".

While the Philippines are struggling with the Covid 19 pandemic crisis; still most of the people cannot go back to work, health services are
declining, starvation and hunger are experienced by most of the population, with no clear plan how to stop the pandemic and yet politician
in the Senate and Congress are busy passing Anti-Terrorism Bill. One of the gravest misconducts made by the politician, instead of helping
many communities affected by the health crisis they focus their power on decision-making to secure their property, position and interest and
leaving most of the people in despair and agony.

June 12,2020 As we celebrating, Independence Day. Many people showed up to protest and voice-out their grievances specifically against the
Anti-Terrorism Bill and the incompetency of the government to address the issue of the Covid 19 pandemic. The venue of the demonstration are
in University of the Philippines Diliman Quezon City, the government warns the public not to do public mass gathering as it will violates
the quarantine restriction and they deploy police in uniforms in all the entry points going to UP Diliman to intimidate and harassed the
people from participating.

What we are experiencing now is a clear manifestation of how State/Government function, it is undoubtedly that the State are not here to
serve the people but for us to be in an unlivable community threaten by fear and terror with the used of their police and military as their
private armies.

The Anti-Terrorism Bill can be interpreted in a lot of ways and with a lot of loopholes on it, there is a guarantee that this bill will be
abused by the people in power. There is no clarity to ensure the public that their rights will not be violated.

Some of the questionable provision in the bill:

"Provided, That, terrorism as defined in this Section shall not include advocacy, protest, dissent, stoppage of work, industrial or mass
action, and other similar exercises of civil and political rights, which are not intended to cause death or serious physical harm to a
person, to endanger a person's life, or to create a serious risk to public safety. "
"SEC. 13. Humanitarian Exemption. - Humanitarian activities undertaken by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the
Philippine Red Cross (PRC), and other state-recognized impartial humanitarian partners or organizations in conformity with the International
Humanitarian Law (IHL), do not fall within the scope of Section 12 of this Act."

"SEC. 29. Detention Without Judicial Warrant of Arrest. - The provisions of Article 125 of the Revised Penal Code to the contrary
notwithstanding, any law enforcement agent or military personnel, who, having been duly authorized in writing by the ATC has taken custody
of a person suspected of committing any of the acts defined and penalized under Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of this Act, shall,
without incurring any criminal liability for delay in the delivery of detained persons to the proper judicial authorities, deliver said
suspected person to the proper judicial authority within a period of fourteen (14) calendar days counted from the moment the said suspected
person has been apprehended or arrested, detained, and taken into custody by the law enforcement agent or military personnel. The period of
detention may be extended to a maximum period of ten (10) calendar days if it is established that (1) further detention of the person/s is
necessary to preserve evidence related to the terrorism or complete the investigation; (2) further detention of the person/s is necessary to
prevent the commission of another terrorism; and (3) the investigation is being conducted properly and without delay."

Original article on Etniko Bando website.

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/06/14/government-terrorism-in-the-philippines/

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Tuesday, June 16 begins in Arles, a lawsuit brought by posted workers Moroccan and Spanish against the Spanish temporary work company
Laboral Terra and seven companies employing labor in France. This trial should shed light on the issue of posted workers. ---- In 2017, the
Ministry of Agriculture counted more than 67,000 posted workers, hired either directly by farms or through temporary work companies. The law
stipulates that the hiring conditions must comply with the legislation of the host country (minimum wage, working time, paid leave, etc.).
The reality is quite different. In 2019, the General Labor Inspectorate made it a priority target in the fight against fraud. ---- As
evidenced by this Arles trial, which follows a complaint filed in 2017 by posted workers. Denouncing working conditions close to slavery,
they accuse companies of "unworthy working conditions, concealed work and moral and sexual harassment". In fact, many workers are tossed
from farm to farm, crowded into substandard housing, and have no influence on their contracts and work from morning to evening without any
real break.

A place of accommodation closed after a visit by the labor inspectorate and the gendarmes.
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Coronavirus and shortage of foreign labor
On March 24, following Macron's martial speech on the Covid 19 crisis, the Minister of Agriculture called on a "shadow army" of volunteers
ready to replace the 200,000 stranded foreign seasonal workers by the crisis, and usually hired during this period. No prerequisites
required, just "arms" for "our plates", as the Wizifarm platform, launched by the FNSEA with the support of Pôle emploi and the ministry to
recruit these "volunteers" titled . The ministry then clarified that these "volunteers" would be paid, in addition to partial unemployment
or other benefits already received.

Most of the people who answered the call were employees or small and small entrepreneurs in great economic difficulty, but a certain number
were refugees, asylum seekers or undocumented migrants. While it is undeniable that all these people absolutely need to work to get out of
poverty, these measures were a way of confirming the exploitation of cheap labor in the agricultural sector. While the rest of France was
confined, the State did not hesitate to offer the poorest to go to work in the fields, without special health protection. Cannon fodder for
a state "at war".

Lots of demand, little supply in reality
But the big operation came to an end. Up to 280,000 people applied on Wizifarm [1], but the job offer was, in return, paltry. As of June 14,
Wizifarm only offered... 408. Because the requirements of large farms are precise: it is not enough for "volunteers" to accept very harsh
working conditions (extended days, discounted seasonal contracts, repetitive physical work and low work, unsanitary accommodation ...), it
also requires know-how, knowledge of farms ... skills in short ! Many farms preferred to let their strawberries or asparagus rot rather than
change the hiring system [2].

Who benefits from this system ?
Shortage of labor, but no job offer, loss of crops ... All these aberrations are the consequence of industrialized agriculture. A whole
section of French agriculture meets the criteria of industry, with its economies of scale and its specialized productions involving
repetitive work and requiring a lot of seasonal labor. These agricultural industries save on labor to reduce their costs and offer
competitive products on the market.

Other farms, less industrial, will be equally subject to this price competition and will choose, in order to try a tedious economic
equilibrium, to have recourse to this cheap labor. An easy way to survive in a productivist economy. This mechanism is actually the
counterpart of an agricultural system subject to speculation and the goodwill of investors and shareholders.

The specialization of cultures involves the use of repetitive work, and the punctual recruitment of masses of precarious people.
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Other solutions exist
To counter this capitalist logic, ensuring decent incomes and working conditions for workers on the land, whether peasants or wage earners,
is a priority. This involves the fight for the recovery of land usurped by the agricultural industries in the world, so that peasants can
produce local and quality food, without depending on world markets. Limiting wages as much as possible and therefore the exploitation of the
labor force of others can only be done by the massive installation of peasants on small productive units, and by the guarantee of their
income through products sold at the right price. Fair prices accessible to the greatest number... in short, the abolition of capitalism !

UCL Agriculture Working Group

Illustration: painting by Cynthia Vidal

For further:

Collective for the defense of foreign workers in agriculture (Codetras), "Combating the exploitation of labor in agriculture: breaking the
silence" , Mars-infos.org, December 2019.

Validate

[1] Figure communicated by La France agricole as of April 22, 2020.

[2] "Call to work in the fields:" Everything is done to maintain a system that makes people more precarious and impoverished "" , Bastamag,
April 17, 2020.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Main-d-oeuvre-agricole-detachee-mais-rivee-a-la-misere

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