#Worldwide Information Blogger #LucSchrijvers: Update: #anarchist information from all over the #world - SATURDAY 20 JUNE 2020

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #306 - Antifascism,
      Onfray: the vane blocked on the faf side (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Leaflet, Let's
      settle the accounts, not the invoice ! (fr, it, pt)[machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Union Communiste Libertaire Bruxelles - Testimony following
      the Black Live Matter event, June 7 in Brussels (fr, it,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Greece, ipposd APO: "The ignorant" | Documentary subtitling
      from the women's initiative against patriarchy [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Britain, Class War Daily 14 JUNE 2020 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Britain, freedom news: Kent Police pay compensation after
      questioning anarchists under anti-terror laws 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
7.  Poland, ozzip: We will not be a living shield! Second trade
      union debate on 18 June [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Michel Onfray claimed the label of libertarian a few years ago. Anyone who takes the trouble to seriously analyze his positions since the
mid-2010s can see the confused drift he operated. Michel Onfray is a class enemy since he multiplies interviews in the far-right media and
openly declares himself in the camp of the sovereignists. ---- The intellectual sinking of Onfray is accentuated with its positions around
the Covid-19 epidemic, particularly in the two texts "What is a chef?"' Published on its website on 8 and 9 April 2020, where he was the
fable of a proto-fascist authoritarianism under the guise of " dissent ". These tests attack the calamitous management of the health crisis
by the State but fail to produce a relevant criticism, to fall into a simplistic thesis: if France is doing badly it is that it is not
governed by a charismatic leader and authoritarian who, having seized the national spirit by a particular connection with the fatherland,
could instinctively make good decisions.

Praise from the good chef
Onfray opposes the inconsistency of Emmanuel Macron (the bad leader) to the supposed qualities of the populist professor Didier Raoult (the
good leader). Now that the media buzz has passed, and that a rational scientific debate, serious studies in support, can resume on
hydroxychloroquine, the thinkers of "dissent" à la Onfray must find another debate to get your teeth into it. Obviously, it will only leave
a grid of confusional analysis without criticism of capitalism.

On April 12, 2020 Onfray launched its new magazine Front Populaire, the project of which is to " federate sovereignists from the right and
the left, from elsewhere and from nowhere " . From the launch, the color is given: Michel Onfray recovers what he can from the sinking of
the UPR of Asselineau, its leader being prosecuted for harassment[1], and multiplies the calls of the foot to all and all " dissidents "Of
the most nauseating sovereignist spheres: Djordje Kuzmanovic, former soldier, nationalist and former defense adviser to Mélenchon, economist
Jacques Sapir, ex-yellow vest Jacline Mouraud, and of course charismatic professor Didier Raoult[2].

On May 14, he carried out a video debate with the editor-in-chief of the review Marianne , Natacha Polony better known for her reactionary
positions than for her progressiveness. The website of the new magazine Front Populaire announces on May 12, 2020 the rallying of
Jean-Pierre Chevènement and the Islamophobic monarchist Philippe De Villiers. Onfray therefore perfectly encapsulates the neopopulist who
came from a left without a class struggle compass: criticism of the system, love of leaders, hatred of progressives, all with a varnish that
uses left codes like the title Front populaire, recalling the way in which Nicolas Sarkozy once quoted Jean Jaurès, by provoking the trade
union movement at the time of a first May 2012 of Pétainist inspiration.

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[1] " Accused of harassment, the president of the UPR François Asselineau convenes an emergency congress " , on April 26, 2020, on Sudouest.fr

[2] Today's info, infodujour.fr , May 2, 2020

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Onfray-la-girouette-s-est-bloquee-cote-faf

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At the time of deconfinement, the mobilization of caregivers in favor of a quality public service for health resumes: despite the situation,
the government will not change anything without a large-scale social movement capable of imposing on it. ---- Old political recipe of the
great concertation, the "Ségur de la santé", goes in circles as it should be expected. Health workers have nothing to hope for from this
government other than medals and blows, they are right to mobilize and we must support them. But June 16 must be the beginning of a response
from the entire world of work and the population. After having suffered the health crisis, they want to make us pay for the economic crisis,
we will not let it go. ---- No need for a health segur to find out what the hospital needs. The caregivers, who have been fighting for over
a year, keep saying this and it is neither a medal nor a bonus !

* Increase in salaries * Stop profitability logic and more budget, * Hiring to meet needs (100,000 according to Sud Santé sociales) *
Reopening of new beds in the public

These demands, the government does not want them because they are contrary to its liberal logic. They can only be imposed by the
mobilization of health personnel and the entire population !

Socialization of the health system

The interest of the population and carers requires a revolution in the health system, through integral socialization, and self-management.
This presupposes that the entire hospital system, public and private, be removed from the hands of financial groups and the State, and unified.

The health system must be declared "common good" or "social property", and enjoy funding provided entirely by Social Security, therefore by
social security contributions. It will thus come out of both the state budget and market law. Placed under the control of workers, it will
fully reconnect with the spirit of public service, and may be redeployed in the territories, with manpower and resources at the level of
needs. This logic, neither statist nor capitalist, is that of libertarian communism.

Tract in PDF: click to download
We won't pay twice

Already exhausted, the caregivers have paid dearly for the pandemic. This is also the case for the millions of smicard-es who stayed at work
on the front line to ensure essential activities. Or all those who have had to keep going to work because of the employers' and governmental
irresponsibility.

And now it would still be the same to pay the economic consequences ! Layoffs, lower wages, blackmail for jobs ... It is their economic
system that gorges shareholders who is unable to resist a virus. It is up to those who take advantage of this system to pay out of their
pockets, not to the workers who struggle to make ends meet.

So no, it is not up to us to pay the bill, but we will have to settle the accounts. Union action has been a shield for our health in the
pandemic, it is a shield against the repeated misdeeds of capitalism in the period. We must strengthen it and seek the unity of our whole
social camp.

UCL Nantes is preparing for the demonstration

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/les-invites-de-mediapart/blog/150620/avec-les-personnels-hospitaliers-tou-te-s-mobilise-e-s-le-mardi-16-juin

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Reglons-les-comptes-pas-la-facture

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"We were around 40-50 people on the sidewalk of the UGC, walking towards Louise, around 6pm. We wanted to join the demonstrators, go home,
there were people who had just come to eat or who lived there and had just gone out. At the corner, a barrier of cops blocks our path and
makes us back up with verbal threats and violence (a white police officer was particularly aggressive, "now you get out or I get you out",
"there will be consequences for your bullshit", etc ...). We all turn around. But on the other side, there was also a barrier of cops who
ordered us to back up and walk towards Louise. Two or three people tried to cross the barriers and were gassed at the lacrimo directly, one
of them seriously injured eyes, another pushed against a wall. We were suddenly completely surrounded by thirty cops next to the Quick
(UGC), in a small space, no way out. We were practically only racialized (mostly black), many of us had not even participated in the
demonstrations. The white pedestrians were allowed to pass just behind, the racialists had to move away from the scene. We stayed an hour
like that, stuck, without information or only very vague and more false information ("you will be searched and embarked only if we find
stolen objects"). Reinforcements on horseback and police dogs continued to arrive, disproportionate to the absurd. The cops looked at us
with contempt, and looking around, I knew it was our skins that were their problem, not anything else. Several empty cars arrived, and we
were all handcuffed and embarked (late I was between the first of the coup I don't know if they put everyone in it).

In the car we weren't told much, the cop with us spoke Dutch and said he didn't understand what we were asking, he kept saying it was a
security measure. At one point he took out "one of your people had a stone in his hands" to justify considering us all breakers. It was
clearly a racial aim. The cop shouted at the slightest joke. Arriving at the barracks (Etterbeek) we stayed another half an hour waiting in
the car, without water, just the front windows open, it was super hot. They were happy with what they were doing, laughing with each other
("but what a day!"), Taking us for the price of their work to compare ("it is the prisoners to whom?", In a tone of pride: we were the
inmates of "Cisco", so that the nickname of this racist keuf is known). Then they took us in, searched, brought in their arms with a lot of
violence, I saw the 19 year old guy who was beaten up being taken to the medical services, and we were fucked in a cell without light like
dogs for 20 min (every time we asked for light we were yelled at and threatened). Then we were registered, filed and fucked up in another cell.

There were about 25-30 people in this fairly small cell. We were given water (the plastic bottles were very small, not enough to have one
each), no food, there were a few who weren't given masks when they had none. We stayed there for about 7 hours, the cops came to talk from
time to time with false sympathies and empty promises ("you will be released in an hour and a half"), "we release the minors now and then
it's you "), and with intimidation if we demanded more information or demanded to be released. They verbally accused us of making the
demonstration illegitimate by violence, of being all thugs without no evidence other than our racialized traits I felt a lot of disgust and
hatred to hear them talking about our legitimacy, them white and behind the iron door, coffee in hand, paid to silence us if we dared to
speak with anger. The atmosphere in the cell was a bit tense between those who wanted to talk "quietly" with the cops to get out earlier,
and those who confronted them, but after a few hours everyone knew that there was no point in trying to negotiate our exit, and we started
talking for a while between us about police violence and our thoughts about the police. The moment when we exchanged testimonies had a
fairly united atmosphere. s to put us in silence if we dared to speak angrily. The atmosphere in the cell was a bit tense between those who
wanted to talk "quietly" with the cops to get out earlier, and those who confronted them, but after a few hours everyone knew that there was
no point in trying to negotiate our exit, and we started talking for a while between us about police violence and our thoughts about the
police. The moment when we exchanged testimonies had a fairly united atmosphere. s to put us in silence if we dared to speak angrily. The
atmosphere in the cell was a bit tense between those who wanted to talk "quietly" with the cops to get out earlier, and those who confronted
them, but after a few hours everyone knew that there was no point in trying to negotiate our exit, and we started talking for a while
between us about police violence and our thoughts about the police. The moment when we exchanged testimonies had a fairly united atmosphere.
and we started talking for a while between us about police violence and our thoughts about the police. The moment when we exchanged
testimonies had a fairly united atmosphere. and we started talking for a while between us about police violence and our thoughts about the
police. The moment when we exchanged testimonies had a fairly united atmosphere.

We were re-searched and then released around 3:30 in the morning, screwed up in a car and abandoned before the ponds of Ixelles. Many of us
lived in remote areas. It was almost 4am but the cop cars were still on the prowl, and when they passed by our group who were walking to
return, they stopped and looked at us deeply, with the same contempt as at the UGC. I had to be watched by the cops 5 or 6 times until I got
home, and I now knew in what order they were doing it. It is clear that the more than 150 arrests on Sunday evening were arbitrary racist
targets. If we slept tonight with an inmate number on our hand, it's because the skin around it isn't white. "

https://bxl.communisteslibertaires.org/2020/06/16/temoignage-suite-a-la-manifestation-black-live-matter-le-7-juin-a-bruxelles/

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Message: 4



In December 2018, the documentary "The Ignorant" was subtitled by the women's initiative against patriarchy, as part of the "Free Women in
the Spanish Revolution" event cycle.
Whatever collective, social / political space is interested in hosting it, let's contact enantiastinpatriarxia@gmail.comor the inbox of
thepageto send it.
PS: After a while, the documentary will be uploaded to Youtube in order to have free access to whoever it wants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvOz-VfEwgk

https://ipposd.wordpress.com/

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Message: 5



Today in Class War Daily ---- Toxic Racist Toffs ---- A speech by Dawn Limbu (Chiedza) ---- Police use BLM as smokescreen for silencing
organisers ---- Letter to the editor ---- Got a text for us? Email classwardaily@gmx.com ---- Class War Daily 16/06/2020
https://classwar.world/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CW-Daily-50-2006161.pdf ---- Toxic Racist Toffs ----  "I could have told you anything
about the feudal system but if you had asked me about colonialism, postcolonialism, the Empire Windrush or race relations, I would not have
been able to tell you much." - Letter to the headmaster of Latymer Upper School You might have seen the letter signed by over 250 former
students of Westminster School identifying ‘a culture of toxic racism' and wilful negligence to teaching any black or colonial history at
the top public school outfit.
It is echoed in other letters to
head teachers as the stench of
wilful neglect at the hands of
these institutions becomes
public.
We believe this long time
racism cannot be dealt with
other than by the complete
and immediate closure of all
public schools. The system of
public schools this county has
is nothing but an economic
apartheid. Take Westminister
School as an example, 28
alumni of the school were
slave traders, many Tory MPs
went there - it is a bastion of
white toff privilege.
Students say they were never
given a book by a black
author to read or discussed
black culture.
WE MUST CLOSE DOWN
ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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A speech by Dawn - Limbu (Chiedza)

Including small extract from Earl Sweatshirt - Chum.

I have a dream that my future
children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be
judged by the colour of their
skin but by the content of
their character.
I have a dream ... I have a
dream that one day, the world
with its vicious racists, with
its governors having their lips
dripping with the words of
interposition and nullification,
one day right here in the world
little black boys and black girls
will be able to join hands with
little white boys and white
girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today I have
a dream that one day every
valley shall be exalted, every
hill and mountain shall be
made loving.
The rough places will be made
plain, and the crooked places
will be made straight. And
the glory of the Lord shall be
revealed, and all flesh shall see
it together. This is one hope.
With this faith we will be able
to hew out of the mountain
of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith we will be
able to transform the jangling
discords of our nation into a
beautiful symphony of brother
and sisterhood.
With this faith we will be
able to work together, to pray
together, to struggle together,
to go to jail together, to stand up
for freedom together, knowing
that we will be fine one day.
Remember when Martin
Luther King Jr. Gave this
speech in 1963. That was 57
years ago, yet here we are still
fighting the same battle.
Black brothers and sisters are
still being brutally and unjustly
massacred by the police for
crimes they did not commit.
Black brothers and sisters are
still being arrested for crimes
they did not commit. Black
brothers and sisters are still
being judged.
We think this problem exists
only in America. Some people
still think racism still doesn't
exist. But it's still here.
"Something sinister to it
pendulum swinging slow, a
degenerate moving through the
city with criminals, stealth,
welcome to enemy turf harder
than immigrants work, Get up
off the pavement brush the dirt
up off my psyche
Psyche, psyche
Too black for the white kids,
and too white for the blacks,
I'm indecisive, I'm scatterbrained, and I'm frightened,
it's evident. And them eyes,
where he hiding all them
icicles at?
At school, people would call me
oreo/coconut. Why? Because
even though I am black on the
outside apparently, I did not act
black on the inside. I did not fit
into the stereotype that white
people expect black people to
conform to.
Perhaps it was my British
accent, or the music that I
listened to at the time (heavy
metal and punk) Perhaps it's
the lightness of being that i
showed the world, i was not an
angry black woman.
I would spend hours crying
as my mother used harsh
chemicals containing lye
(which is essentially drain
cleaner) to get my hair straight.
Just so I could fit in with the rest
of the kids at school. I would
spend further hours damaging
my hair using straighteners to
get bone straight. I minimised
my own heritage, my culture,
perhaps I was trying to erase
it I FELT UGLY. BECAUSE
THATS WHAT I HAD BEEN
TAUGHT.
We are not ugly, we are
beautiful, unique and special.
Despite this, they want to take
from our culture, black fishing
by darkening their skin with
tanning injections, braiding
their hair, getting lip fillers,
butt injections, the list goes
on. They want our rhythm but
not our blues.
You take all you want from
black culture, but will you
show up for black lives?
Haven't they taken enough
from us already?! The world is
controlled by the white man in a
state of repressive organisation.
We were exploited and stolen
from our countries. The world
as it is now would be nothing
without migrants and people
of colour. "Great" Britain
would be nothing without the
first wave of Caribbean's who
came over and rebuilt this
country after WW2. These
people were promised a new
life in the new "motherland"
and then mercilessly sent back.
My beautiful home country of
South Africa was colonised
by the Europeans in 1652 and
apartheid started in 1948.
They took everything from us
and pushed us to the side.
Africa would be striving now
if it was not for Europeans
invading and taking over.
Apartheid ended in 1994,
just a year before I was born.
But the effects are still there.
There is still injustice. People
are still angry. It has caused a
massive divide. Colonisers are
freeloaders.
All our history hidden, and no
liberty has been given. This
is only a small fraction of the
story and I know I have a lot
to learn myself. Wake up all
the teachers make them teach
a new way. We can't change
the world unless we change
ourselves. The world won't
get better if we just let it be.
No more bondage, no more
political monsters. There's
murder in the streets. No
justice no peace
The best things white people
can talk to each other and have
those difficult conversations
with their parents,
grandparents, friends, and
family.
But to all of us, regardless of
the colour of our skin, keep
showing up for one another,
keeping valuing one another,
find yourself in one another
celebrate what makes us
different and what makes us
alike.

Shared with us via the ‘zine
Lockdown Bistol
available here:-
www.tinyurl.com/Lockdownbriz
Images - Split Vision Photo

https://classwar.uk/2020/06/16/toxic-racist-toffs

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The Chief Constable of Kent Police has this year paid a cash settlement to an anarchist writer and organiser who they had stopped and
interrogated under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. ---- On 19th May 2013, Tom Anderson (a pseudonym to protect his identity) and another
person was stopped while travelling by ferry from Dunkirk to Dover. The pair had been attending an anarchist festival in the Netherlands.
---- Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2001 gives police the legal power to ask questions for the purpose of investigating terrorism. People
who are stopped under Schedule 7 do not have the right to remain silent, and those who refuse to answer questions risk prosecution and
imprisonment. The act is also widely used by police to confiscate electronic equipment such as phones and laptops. The police have the legal
power to retain confiscated equipment for up to two weeks.

The pair were questioned for several hours without a solicitor present. Police officers also copied the contents of Anderson's phone and
laptop and retained them.

The police did not ask any questions relating to terrorism. Instead, the pair were interrogated about their role in anti-capitalist protests
that were planned in London, timed to coincide with the G8 conference in Belfast in 2013.

The police also questioned Anderson about the articles he had written and about his solidarity visits to Palestine.

Tom Anderson said:

"The police are using Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act to harass radical political organisers in the UK. The majority of the time this act is
used in a racialised way against people of colour.

Right now, Schedule 7 is being used on a large scale to target Kurdish freedom movement organisers. This is because they are part of a
movement which wants to move beyond the state and capitalism.

The fact that the police settled this case out of court shows that their actions are going beyond their powers. Kent Police settled the case
just before it was finally due to be heard in the High Court. This shows that they were worried they might lose.

I would encourage comrades who have been stopped under Schedule 7 to take similar claims against the police. These kinds of claims, if
successful, might help to limit the police's use of this repressive power a little.
But we also need to remember that if our actions and ideas truly challenge the state and power, then we will always experience repression.

Repression like this is intended to divide us. To make us too timid to challenge the system because we might be hounded, detained,
interrogated and branded a ‘terrorist'. We need to stand with those who are being harassed and put under surveillance, and carry on working
to build a movement which can outgrow the current system."

The pair refused to answer the majority of questions. They were threatened with arrest for refusing to cooperate but were eventually
released without charge. Anderson subsequently decided to bring a civil action against Kent Police, but it has taken seven years to settle
his claim for unlawful detention.

This was not the first time terrorism powers have been used against anarchists from Britain and the north of Ireland. Others were stopped
while returning from an international anarchist gathering in 2012 and the G20 summit in Hamburg in 2017.

Commenting on the case, Kevin Blowe, coordinator of the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol), said:

"It is undoubtedly very helpful to the police to have terrorism powers available to stop and question activists on their political
activities when they pass through British ports, because there is no right to silence - a refusal to answer questions can lead to a criminal
conviction. The powers are also hugely intimidating - people can be detained for hours on end and have their DNA and fingerprints taken.
There is now ample evidence Schedule 7 powers are discriminatory and draconian, undermine civil rights and are used to criminalise
communities and political dissent. We want to see these powers abolished."

Schedule 7 powers are often used in a racialised way. A report by the Islamic Human Rights Commission in 2011 found that only 19% of people
stopped for over an hour under the act were white. A 2014 study by students at Cambridge University found that 88% of its sample of those
stopped under Schedule 7 at a particular airport were Muslim. A 2019 report by CAGE found that police Schedule 7 stops of Muslims amounted
to ‘racial and religious profiling'.

Earlier this year the police paid a settlement to a Muslim woman who had brought a claim against the police after she was stopped under
Schedule 7 and forced to remove her hijab. Police also took her photo and DNA.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/kent-police-pay-compensation-after-questioning-anarchists-under-anti-terror-laws/

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We invite you to the second trade union debate. We want to talk about the situation of the world of work, coming out of the crisis, which
will not be at the expense of working people and opportunities for joint mobilization. ---- Debate June 18 on Thursday at 18:00 with the
participation of trade union activists from the culture, media and NGO sector. Live coverage via FB OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza . ---- The
crisis is becoming an excuse to cut and worsen working conditions. As trade unions defending employee interests, we cannot agree to further
savings plans or reassure the crew that nothing can be done. Without the commitment and opposition of the trade unions against further
restrictions, we can expect the next years of work without respite and liquidation of the rest of workers' rights. We cannot afford any
further sacrifices. Instead of a "crisis shield" that strikes employees, we demand better working conditions, pay and social security. The
current crisis may be an opportunity to change economic priorities. We demand an employee anti-crisis shield!

13 postulates constituting the employee anti-crisis shield proposed by us.

Participation:
- Adela Gasiorowska, Environmental Committee of Working in Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
- Dorota Grobelna, Environmental Committee of Workers and Culture Workers
- Bartosz Józefiak, Factory Committee at Agora SA
- Katarzyna Kulinska, Factory Committee at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Chair:
- Pawel Nowozycki, Factory Commission at the Modern Art Museum
- Karolina Rogaska, Environmental Commission of Journalists and Journalists

http://ozzip.pl/informacje/ogolnopolskie/item/2671-nie-bedziemy-zywa-tarcza-druga-debata-zwiazkowa-18-czerwca

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