Today's Topics:
1. Greece, "dynian horse" APO:[Patras]Intervention in the new
port. Solidarity with refugees and immigrants. Against police
violence and repression [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Bangladesh Anarcho Syndicalist Federation - BASF: Tea
Workers and Tea Workers Day (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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On Tuesday, June 23, we held a solidarity intervention with the refugees and migrants living in the abandoned factories of Patras, opposite
the new port. ---- The port of Patras, as a gateway to the "capitalist paradise" of the West, has been a constant point of reference and
gathering for immigrants and refugees who have been looking for a better future for decades. ---- In recent times, several hundred people
have been trying to organize their daily lives in the area with all the means at their disposal and with the support of several solidarity
groups, while waiting for the opportunity to cross to a ship bound for Italy and Western Europe. ---- Wild repression, daily chases,
beatings and torture, humiliation and humiliation, "broom" operations, extensive or not, are the reality of the migrants and refugees living
there. A combination of repressive corps consisting of cops, security guards, port and private security guards of the OLPA. (ICTS security),
is facing them trying to repel them using murderous repressive means. Every day are examples of blows to the head and fractures to the hands
and feet.
We threw tripods in the surrounding area and wrote slogans in the mantra of the port from which dozens of people pass every day in search of
a better tomorrow. It was a minimal gesture of solidarity with the refugees, among others, and a warning against all sorts of brazen
"security forces" who terrorize, beat and torture persecuted people.
Our intervention was left in the middle as a short time after all kinds of cops surrounded us and brought us to the Security for
verification of data. After about an hour, the comrades were released.
We live in the midst of an incalculable humanitarian catastrophe and unprecedented social crisis, where the gigantic contradictions of the
political and economic organization of society and finally the criminal and murderous nature of the state-capitalist system for the vast
majority of society and especially for society are tragically highlighted. and her poor pieces.
In the face of the recent rise of pandemic and state-capitalist barbarism, refugees and migrants are experiencing an unimaginable state of
emergency, being unprotected and in inhumane conditions of impoverishment everywhere, from Ritsona to Picento, Moria and other armies. from
the state, from the center of Athens where they are abandoned after the evictions from the houses they lived in and from the evacuations of
the refugee squatters, toManolada and the old factories of Patras.
As anarchists, we stand against the illegality of people by the state and the ban on their free movement. We do not recognize in any state
the right to impose any kind of dividing line and fictitious divisions between people on the basis of gender, race, origin, religion, and so
on. Our response to the state and the bosses must be the collectivization of our resistance, the realization of our common position - locals
and immigrants - mutual aid and mutual respect, without false divisions.
Together with the immigrants and the refugees, with our weapon of class solidarity, we will fight for life with dignity and we will not
leave a piece of land to any enemy of freedom. We will stand by them in the face of the murderous attacks of the state and the police. No
repressive movement of the cops scares us!
SOLIDARITY IN REFUGEES AND TRANSPORTATION
GRAME THE MODERN APARTMENT
NO STEP BACK IN THE STATE CONSTRUCTION
anarchist group "dynian horse" / FROM & comrades
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Last season, Bangladesh set a record for the second highest production in the 175-year history of tea production. The target for tea
production in the just-concluded season was 6 crore 23 lakh kg. And 6 crore 20 lakh kg has been produced which is 96 lakh kg more than the
target. Although the tea industry has improved, the lives of tea workers have not changed. ---- After working all day, the income of a tea
worker is 102 Taka, there is no own ethnic identity, no opportunity for education, no sanitation. There is a lack of treatment. Even if you
are educated, you have to do 102 taka a day or you have to lose a place to keep your head. There is no help even if there is disability
while going to work. In order not to be vocal about their rights, the workers are kept intoxicated with the help of the owners. There are
liquor stores in each tea garden as planned.
One such unfortunate group is the tea workers. During the British rule, they were brought to different places including Bangladesh by
showing greed for a better life, but from the very beginning, only negligence and torture have been inflicted on their foreheads. They are
like today's modern slaves.
Menka Santal, a tea worker at Zulekha Tea Garden, said that even after so many years of independence, the fate of tea garden workers has not
changed. Development has not touched their lives. They are not even getting the opportunity to enjoy basic rights. This tea garden community
has yet to break the shackles of British feudalism and local babu-sahebs.
According to the Tea Workers Union, the tea population in the country is about 6 lakh. Of these, about 94,000 are registered workers and
another 40,000 are irregular workers. The weekly salary of a tea worker is 614 tk. 3 kg 280 gms of rice or flour is given per week (the
price of the product is lower than the market price).
British Ghatual, a tea worker at Deorachhara Tea Garden, said there are many families of 5-6 members where one person gets a job for tk. 102
and the rest depend on this money to make ends meet. You have to stay in a small broken house with your children and cattle. Although the
garden authorities were supposed to repair the house, it did not happen year after year. They have no place of their own. If you don't work
in the garden, you will lose your place of residence.
Sujit Baraik, general secretary of the Sylhet Tea Community Student Youth Welfare Council, said that according to the 2016 agreement, a
worker should be given a pension as an average of one and a half months' salary for the total number of years he has worked. But it's just a
pen on paper. In old age, they have to starve to death due to starvation and without treatment. Although only a few gardens provide nominal
medical care, most gardens do not.
Debashish Yadav, vice-president of the Tea Students' Union, said, "Even in the midst of so much suffering, we suffer the most when a large
section of society considers us' Indians'. When our ancestors came to Bengal, India was not divided. They just came from one place to another. "
"Everyone has their own ethnic identity, but tea workers don't," he said. "Even though we have our own language and culture, we haven't been
able to get any recognition yet."
Why can't they be protesters even after so much deprivation? - Dhana Baury, president of Manu Dhalai Valley of the Tea Workers Union, said,
"We can't end up talking about our hardships. The workers are being kept intoxicated by ensuring easy availability of liquor with the
indirect cooperation of the employers so that they cannot unite by understanding their own good and bad".
Vijay Pal, Founder President of a Social Welfare Organization, said that a tea worker is not allowed to stay in the garden if he does not
work in the garden, while almost every garden has low quality liquor shops which are being given all kinds of opportunities by the garden
owners.
president of Bangladesh Tea Union, Sylhet Valley, said work was underway to improve the living standards of tea workers. Primary schools are
being set up in every garden.
History of Tea Labor Day
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, tea was not introduced anywhere else in the world except China. In 1854, the East India Company
started tea cultivation in the Malinichhara tea garden in Sylhet on an experimental basis. At that time workers from different parts of
India including Assam, Orissa, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh were shifted to this land to make tea gardens. It did not take long for them to
understand the temptation that had been shown to them, even though they were tempted to say, "The tree will move, the rupee will move."
There is no accounting for how many workers lost their lives prematurely after falling into the clutches of wild animals while clearing huge
hills and cultivating tea. Besides, there was the oppression of the British. In protest of their continued persecution, the then tea workers
leader Pandit Gangacharan Dixit and Pandit Deosaran called for a ‘Mulluke Chal' (return to motherland) movement. On May 20, 1921, about
30,000 tea workers from the Sylhet region reached the Meghna Steamer Ghat at Chandpur on foot from Sylhet.
When they tried to return to their homeland by ship, the British Gurkha soldiers indiscriminately shot and killed the tea worker and dumped
his body in the Meghna River. Those who fled also had to be brutally tortured for the crime of protesting. They did not get the right to
land. Since then, May 20 has been observed as Tea Workers' Day every year.
Sunil Biswas, a drama personality in the tea garden, said, "We are still neglecting the recognition of the celebration of Tea Workers' Day
by the state."
For the overall liberation of all other working classes, including tea workersThere is no alternative for establishing a new society and an
independent socialist society by abolishing the existing capitalist social system to protect the health of all people, including the
working class, eliminating unemployment, poverty, social unrest. To end the plunder of capitalism, the state system, imperialism, we have to
build a society where there is no human dominance over human beings. People will not exploit people. They will manage themselves. Non-state,
non-capitalist socialist self-managed social system. All production systems will be owned by people of the society, including mills,
factories and agricultural farms. There will be no volatility of personal ownership. The word employment will disappear forever. People will
be completely free.
BASF- working with and for preparing people for changing existing society by organizing, educating and providing training. The society is
working to establish a system where no unjust working period, no hierarchy, will be able to manage the entire production system, under
mutual Aid.
https://bangladeshasf.org/bangladesh-tea-workers-and-tea-workers-day/
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