Today's Topics:
1. Czech, afed: France: The yellow vests are back [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL AL #305 - Culture,
Read: Berkman, "What is anarchism ?" (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. ait russia: Labor protests in Spain, France and Germany
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. [Italy] Pandemia rhymes with police By ANA (pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. cgt andalucia: Paper Barricade No. 27. It is time to find a
new way of living (ca) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL AL #305 - Culture,
Read: Rey-Robert, "Sexism, a man's business" (fr, it, pt)[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL press release:
"Ségur de la santé": socialization / self-management, a radical
remedy (fr, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Although French authorities banned any Yellow Vest action in most major cities, activists took to the streets again in mid-May. ---- Even in
France, quarantine is being abused by the government to prevent people from publicly expressing their views and disagreements with
neoliberal politics and its consequences for ordinary people. However, the Yellow Vests' protests are still taking place in variously
modified forms - and the Fists are assisting accordingly. ---- Ten protesters gathered in the Republic Square in Paris . They were
immediately surrounded by fifty heavily-clothed men armed with sharp ones. ---- InMontpellier , dozens of people came - as usual on
Saturdays - to Comedy Square. Here the police only checked the documents, there was no arrest.
In Lyon , a group of protesters gathered in Bellecour Square. They were watched by twenty cars of special units of the CRS state police.
In Besançon , about a hundred people gathered in Revolution Square in rainy weather. They kept the prescribed distance, they had veils, but
they spoke unequivocally: "No virus will silence us - the fight continues and we refuse to pay workers, pensioners or the unemployed to pay
for coronavirus..." Among other things, the meeting focused on paramedics, instead of drawing this money out of the rich, which is enough in
France. A police car was rolling on the spot during the event.
In Lille , demonstrations were also held in Republic Square, and several dozen people gathered in veils and yellow vests. For example, they
called for veils and respirators to be provided free of charge to all people without distinction. There was a chant against capitalism and
Macron's politics. The police did not intervene, they just supervised.
In Fleury-les-Aubrais in the Loiret department, the Yellow Vests criticized, among other things, Macron's policy in recent months, which is
to count the dead and the police to impose fines.
In northwestern France, a small group of demonstrators, "angry citizens," gathered inLaval , as one of them had slept. Two police cars
lurked behind them.
InToulouse, the Yellow Vests held nothing due to the official ban on public events. However, it is announced in the city until July 10.
Sources:
https://www.facebook.com/giletsjaunesinfos/videos/293576868329808/?__tn__=-R
https://www.midilibre.fr/2020/05/23/montpellier-les-gilets-jaunes-mobilises,8900110 .php
https://www.leprogres.fr/france-monde/2020/05/23/image-un-gilet-jaune-se-confine-place-bellecour-a-lyon-photo-du-jour
https: /
/france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/bourgogne-franche-comte/doubs/besancon/gilets-jaunes-rassemblement-besancon-respectant-mesures-distanciation-sociale-1832608.html
Address within IS https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/756418/ article / 2020-05-23 / lille-le-retour-des-gilets-jaunes-et-autres-manifestants
https://www.larep.fr/fleury-les-aubrais-45400/actualites/les-gilets-jaunes -loiretains-sont-de-retour-devant-l-abattoir-tradival_13791319 /
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https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/pays-de-la-loire/mayenne/laval/laval-gilets-jaunes-toujours-effectif-reduit-1832540.html
https://www.ladepeche.fr/2020 /05/24/en-attendant-les-soldes-les-clients-boudent-ils-le-centre-ville-de-toulouse,8900548.php
Related links:
https://www.afed.cz/text/7107/francie-63-sobota-zlutych-vest
https://www.afed.cz/text/7080/jeden-rok-zlutych-vest
https: / /www.afed.cz/text/7010/francie-39-protestni-sobota
https://www.afed.cz/text/7005/v-druzstevni-kavarne-o-zlutych-vestach
https: //www.afed .cz / text / 6913 / cerny-blok-ve-zlutych-vestach
https://www.afed.cz/text/6909/nesundavejte-zlute-vesty
https://www.afed.cz/text/7180/francie-zlute-vesty-jsou-zpet
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Message: 2
Surprising, isn't it? That in a libertarian newspaper we still wonder about the subject ... Not that much since it is the title chosen for
this translation into French of a work by Alexandre Berkman entitled What is anarchist communism? to which was added The ABC of Anarchism.
Through his pamphlet, Alexandre Berkman dealt with many subjects and of course, anarchism but not all anarchism. He touched on individualist
anarchism and mutualist anarchism, deeming these "mistaken ideas and difficult to apply". ---- Reading it, one can only think of Malatesta
as the style is simple and understandable by all and the dialogued form evokes The two peasants of Malatesta. Extension work? Not
necessarily. This "banal conversation" as Emma Goldman will write, responded to a double objective: on the one hand simply to reformulate
anarchist communism and on the other hand, to arouse the desire to know more, to go further. This book is clearly conceived as a didactic
work which makes it attractive but also full of certainties, simplifications and even simplistic shortcuts: "Anarchism teaches us that we
can live in a society free from all constraints".
A first possible approach to anarchism
Alexander Berkman wrote this book in a particular historical context: a few years after the end of the anarchist attacks, the end of the
First World War and especially after the Russian Revolution and its political deviation. Alexander Berkman devoted no less than five
chapters to this revolution. From this major event, he deduced "the bankruptcy of socialism and Bolshevism" , a real opportunity for
anarchism as he will write in his preface.
Alexandre Berkman proposed to approach social problems in a fairly simple, understandable and dialogued way: wage labor, unemployment, war,
church, school, justice, government but also socialism, Marxism and Bolshevism ... to gradually introduce anarchist communism.
The final objective of these evocations was to demonstrate that anarchism was not what the newspapers say, that "anarchism is therefore not
synonymous with disorder and chaos" but also to demonstrate its feasibility in explaining that it means "the absence of government, ie
emancipation and freedom. Disorder is the son of authority and coercion. Freedom is the mother of all orders."
Faithful to the great libertarian communist principles of Kropotkin, Alexandre Berkman also addressed consumption, exchange before
production because "men must eat before they can work and produce" . He was interested in everyday issues such as housing, local security,
house and neighborhood committees but also revolutionary defense.
This book constitutes a first possible approach to anarchism but it calls for critical developments for further reflection. It must be
considered as a theoretical testimony at a given time to the plural construction of anarchism.
Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)
Alexander Berkman, What is anarchism ? , L'Échappée (revised and enlarged), March 2020, 392 pages, 14 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Berkam-Qu-est-ce-que-l-anarchisme
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Message: 3
The economic crisis of capitalism, further exacerbated by antisocial quarantine measures under the pretext of a coronavirus epidemic, has
hit hard on the working classes of the population around the world. Decrease in earnings, worsening working conditions and the threat of
mass unemployment - these are the everyday realities of a system that supposedly has no alternative, as the authorities and ideologists of
all countries try to assure us. ---- One manifestation of the crisis was the announcement of Renault, the largest automobile concern, about
its intention to cut 15,000 jobs worldwide as part of a plan to cut costs by 2 billion euros. The company, which employs 180 thousand people
around the world, is in talks with the French government to provide assistance to it. Of the 15 thousand jobs that are planned to be put
under the knife, 4.6 thousand in France and 10 thousand in other countries. Car production will be reduced from 4 million in 2019 to 3.3
million in 2024. Renault management said the decision had been brewing for a long time, and the epidemic only made the plan "urgent."
In France, it is planned to close the plant in the Paris suburb of Choisy-le-Roi, which employs 250 people. On May 29, unions organized a
temporary suspension of work at the enterprise. Dozens of workers held protests in front of the plant, raising the banner: "No to closing!"
. Unions express concern about the future of other Renault plants and promise new protests
(https://www.looptt.com/content/french-carmaker-renault-cut-15000-jobs-worldwide)
Meanwhile, Nissan-related Renault announced plans to close factories in Spain and Indonesia. So, in Spain they are going to directly cut
3,000 jobs and another 20 thousand in supplying companies. On May 29, Spanish workers took to the streets for the second day in a row,
protesting against the closure of 3 factories in Barcelona. Hundreds of workers surrounded 4 Nissan dealerships and sealed their windows
with leaflets that read: "Nissan betrays 25,000 families" and "We will continue to fight"
(https://www.egyptindependent.com/europes-social-welfare-net-shows-signs-of-wear-from-virus/ )
On the eve of hundreds of workers "Nissan" blocked the road with barricades of burning tires, protesting against plans for closure.
Automotive is the largest economy in Catalonia, accounting for 10% of GDP. The authorities of Spain and Catalonia condemned the decision of
the company, saying that the closure will cost more than new investments, but the company is adamant. Workers intend to continue protests
(https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-05-28/hundreds-of-workers-protest-nissan-closure-in-barcelona.html)
In France, meanwhile, protests from medical professionals are mounting. On May 25, protests from nursing care homes in nursing homes swept
across the country. They require higher wages in connection with the epidemic. In Paris, Lille, and other cities, they held campaigns in
front of the Corian Dois (https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/french-nursing-homes-employees-protest-pay-conditions-70867524).
Health workers in France have been complaining for years about low wages, a lack of funds and resources, a lack of staff and destroyed
infrastructure. In Paris, doctors gathered for a protest outside Robert Debre Hospital, demanding better working conditions and the creation
of new jobs. Several dozens of doctors were joined by hundreds of people who came to support them. Many demanded the resignation of
President Macron. The authorities began a 2-month consultation with the public on health issues and promise doctors bonus payments
(https://www.wionews.com/photos/french-health-care-workers-protest-against-poor-services-301759#emmanuel-macron-should-resign-301753)
In Germany, on April 23, a 500-year-old Voith technology company started a termless strike in Bavarian Sonthofer to protest against plans to
close it (https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/377056.ig-metall-bayern-streik-bei-voith-hat-begonnen.html ) However, on May 27, the reformist IG
Metal union stopped the strike, and did not succeed in refusing to close it. Many employees are disappointed and furious with this betrayal
(https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/379186.ausstand-im-allg%C3%A4u-es-bleibt-ein-bitterer-beigeschmack.html). Unfortunately, such
disappointment today rarely leads to the creation of new, truly radical labor unions, which are so necessary for the working classes for
successful resistance.
https://aitrus.info/node/5486
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Message: 4
The small repressive experience lived in Trieste by five comrades of the Germinal Group confirms the historical evaluations and the
political intuitions of anarchism: the State is the problem and not the solution. ---- The fact is very simple. On May 1, they wanted to
remember with a flower and a sign the fourteen workers killed in the city in 1902, during the first general strike. The then Austrian state
responded with terror to the struggle of a rebellious multi-ethnic proletariat. ---- Respecting health care and not underestimating the
risks of the virus, the comrades challenged the May 1 curfew imposed on public initiatives and the muzzled freedom of communication. In
Trieste and the surrounding area, 1º de Maio is still very much felt and every year thousands of workers and citizens are involved in the
big parades and socialization meetings. The disappearance of the PCI[Italian Communist Party], which previously controlled the situation,
also allowed libertarians to be evidently present and to establish profitable contacts with many potential comrades, in addition to
spreading hundreds of copies of the Germinal newspaper.
This time it was measured with an authoritarian logic unprecedented in its size and hardness. The "war on the virus", imposed across Italy,
has justified the direct attack against all forms of social protest and the affirmation of the natural right to free expression. Home
imprisonment, imposed with unprecedented propaganda, has led to the exclusion of contact with other people presented as dangerous and
probable causes of serious illness and death.
The dominant system has shown that the institutional quest to remedy disastrous health conditions (as known victims of decades of cuts and
privatizations) has given way to an obsessive effort to intensify repressive practices and structures. The state mobilized all armed forces
and tested new technological methods: from state-of-the-art helicopters to drones still little known to the general public. The images of
the checkpoints with soldiers in camouflage suits equipped with machine guns, the close cooperation of the police, or rather the police,
with the soldiers of each weapon, the obstinacy in detaining any suspicion of disobedience to the draconian dispositions, managed to
communicate to the population a feeling of extreme fear and true generalized anguish.
In this context, the discretion of the individual police officer who could stop and fines heavily or let the individual he considered
"cunning" suspect (a category as hypocritical as ever) constituted yet another element of inferiority. Those who decided to let you pass or
did not exercise an obviously arbitrary power, interpreting and applying a series of rules that were mostly confusing and contradictory. In
short, in the microcosm of a street, one can appreciate a constitutionally extraordinary phenomenon: the fusion of legislative,
administrative and quasi-judicial power.
In terms of propaganda, fundamental support of brute force, the State and its allies wanted to imitate the state of war itself, spreading
the vision of the virus as an "enemy" to be destroyed by all means for the "salvation of the motherland". This diversion maneuver served
mainly to make us forget that the disastrous consequences of the pandemic stem directly from the insufficiency, in many cases even the
inexistence, of a health system until the evident needs.
The institutional model of emergency, which was launched not long ago under the guise of national or international terrorism, went through
statistical data on the victims offered as authentic war bulletins. As "the enemy is at the door" it was necessary to avoid any controversy
and collaborate with the militarized state. The useful tricolors and the horrible national anthem reinforced a spirit of besieged barracks
and caused devastating consequences for social cohesion: the good citizen had to become an obsessive whistleblower and, unfortunately, there
were many cases of frustrated and subordinate people who took on this role. times with perverse satisfaction.
In these difficult times, the principle of institutional reference, both theoretical and practical, was typical of any army: "Orders are not
debated, they are carried out!" The sanctions that naturally accompanied these authoritarian choices were, especially in the beginning,
really heavy: the arrest was planned, in the beginning, for "anti-social" subjects. Paradoxically, the State adopted a slogan typical of the
armed groups of the seventies: "Hit one to educate a hundred".
Only the practical impossibility for the institutions, especially the Judiciary, to bear the burden of the possible consequences of such
inflexible measures advised to divert the repression towards administrative sanctions. This has deceived government institutions in terms of
collecting substantial financial revenues, recovering subsidies, often uncertain and delayed, given to avoid the explosion of widespread
revolts by social groups reduced to hunger by the loss of work.
As citizens were considered incapable of understanding the seriousness of their health, the path chosen by the power was to impose blind
obedience and resignation to be led like a herd. Letting oneself be managed at the top must have been the most "responsible" behavior for
those at the bottom of the social and political pyramid. Those who managed to maintain a minimum capacity for analysis could see how a
tangle of legalized violence and communicative deception was applied. Thus, health professionals, often left without the slightest
protection at the mercy of contagion, were labeled "heroes" to hide the very serious inefficiencies of health services.
In these last days, the promises of incredible sums of billions that, according to the government, are ready to be donated and invested must
demonstrate the efforts of those responsible to solve the most urgent problems. The question of how the State and the regions will be able
to recover these huge amounts of resources to make ends meet remains unresolved. One can logically expect new taxes on employees and
pensioners, categories that have always, and inevitably, borne the tax burden, while the privileged classes will be further favored
according to the demands of employers and senior bureaucrats.
There will certainly be no reduction in military spending, which is a precious terrain for economic speculation and militarization. Also in
view of possible mass protests from social classes even more weakened after these weeks of substantial passivity. Recent events of arrests
and charges, again for "terrorism", indicate a method aimed at preventing insubordination linked to the next conflicts, which would put
institutional control at risk. It is no coincidence that pandemics and police are words that go hand in hand.
Claudio Venza
Source:https://www.umanitanova.org/?p=12198
Translation> Liberto
anarchist news agency-ana
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Message: 5
It is well known that people are obliged to repeat life's unlearned lessons over and over again until they are assimilated. ---- After what
happened with the Covid 19, we are faced with a great human challenge that transcends level and goes from the individual to the collective.
The dark space of confinement has revealed the deficiencies of our world. World that has been shown, without any hint of doubt,
uninhabitable . Poverty, abandonment, deaths ..., lack of essential resources such as hospital beds, masks, respirators, long lines for the
supply of basic food, homeless people.... ---- The lack of effective response of a globalized capitalist economic system has become evident
, which is capable of rapidly spreading its tentacles throughout the world, proficient in hoarding products and goods, without being able to
respond with the same speed and efficiency to needs. generated by the pandemic.
This leads us to the imminent reflection that we cannot return to the above, because, just as it was, we have reached human helplessness,
this sanitary, social and ecological crisis in which we still find ourselves and will continue during a difficult time to predict. .
Therefore, in these moments of searching for a new way of living, we must be very careful to nourish ourselves with all the ingredients that
have been lacking and have left us as a naked society.
Now that we have conclusively realized that this consumer society needs change from the roots, we must organize ourselves to promote ideas
and initiatives that move away from the destruction of people and nature, as has been happening, placing the life in the center .
Social networks have been filled with images of clean skies observed from the balconies, and it is clear that the way of producing things
plays an important role with our environment, on which we depend, although paradoxically we have behaviors of mass destruction, as a
consequence voracity to a greater or lesser extent of which we are part. There individuality returns to exercise its powerful capacity to
become aware that we are part of a world that depends on our care, that of each and every one of us present in this still habitable space
and that through its influence on the environment and with its example, can be part of that transformation that this planet needs so much.
It is time to raise your voice, to organize and oppose so many injustices and say, I will not be part of this . I am not going to promote
with my excessive consumption an expired system, which steals my life in exchange, at best, for a paltry salary that my brain has eaten, to
want to spend it on superfluous things, which appear to give me life , that the system is taking away from me .
Carolina Garrido
https://www.cgtandalucia.org/blog/7402-barricada-de-papel-n-27-es-el-momento-de-buscar-un-modo-nuevo-de-vivir.html
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Message: 6
After Une culture du rape à la Française , Valérie Rey-Robert, author and feminist activist, has just published Le Sexisme, a men's affair .
Sourced, documented, illustrated by concrete cases, this educational work provides the means to become aware of and combat the sexism that
we convey, as men, even insidiously, on a daily basis. ---- The author here overturns the famous maxim of Simone de Beauvoir ; "You are not
born a man, you become one ", she writes. The social construction of men has its roots in violence, which is the very emblem of virility,
which no biological data can justify. To not be considered " abnormal " a man must be strong, be aggressive, be violent. ---- Statistics
show that men are the overwhelming majority of attackers and rapists (whether against women, children or other men). A man, built in
patriarchal society, is supposed to be afraid of nothing, to take ever more risks, to dominate everything and everyone.
To be a man is also and above all to be built in relation to women. And even if some men struggle to hear it (and also in militant circles
supposedly more open to these questions), this book documents how, at all levels, in all classes, all men benefit from male domination. They
have higher salaries, hold positions of responsibility, do not experience street harassment, etc.
Men are the overwhelming majority of attackers
Valérie Rey-Robert develops at the end of the book the priority axes intended for men to participate in the fight against sexism. This
struggle begins with the education of men. First of all by listening to women, taking their words into consideration without being persuaded
that our opinion will make a difference. But we cannot expect women to be our "educators". It is up to us as men to train and educate
ourselves to be true allies.
Fight foot by foot, in "real life" as on social networks to dismantle the idea that men are also victims of sexism. Rethink sexuality in
general and your own sexual behavior in particular. Stop being a witness to sexism. Finally, and this is a central element in the book, it
is necessary to put into practice the devirilization of our lives (at work, in homes, on the street, in struggles, etc.).
Reading required (I wish I could say mandatory) for all men. We know that it will not be enough to put an end to patriarchy. But to be
content with facade postures without questioning one's own behavior, in one's private life as in public life, will also not advance the
fight for equality and emancipation.
As the author reminds us at the end of the book, there is an emergency. " It is time to put an end to manhood, it is time to realize,
individually and collectively, that the sexism and the violence that it generates are the business of those who create them and not of those
who undergo them. "
Jon (UCL Angers)
Valérie Rey-Robert, Sexism, a man's affair , Libertalia, March 2020, 264 pages, € 18.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Rey-Robert-Le-sexisme-une-affaire-d-hommes
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Message: 7
Far from Emmanuel Macron's call to "reinvent itself", we can say in advance that the Ségur de la santé will not invent much. Always this old
political method which consists in announcing a "great national concertation" ... while fixing in advance the results ! These will be in
line with the "world before": little investment, but the continuation of the neoliberal breakage of our health system. It is time to reclaim
it and place it outside the law of the market. ---- The Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, announced that the concertation organized at the
Ministry of Health, avenue de Ségur, will focus on four "pillars" of a future reform of the public hospital. ---- 1) Rising wages ---- The
salaries of the French public hospital are among the lowest in Western countries. The government announces that the objective is to reach a
level of remuneration equivalent to "the European average". It is expected firmly, because it has been months since the unions and the
Collective Inter-Emergencies have been calling for this , and that the government has shamelessly walked them.
2) Always revolting funding logic
The government announces that it wants to reduce the share of "activity pricing". But the problem is the contradiction between this type of
funding and a logic of public service. The Inter-hospital Collective demands its outright abandonment: "the rule must be the right care for
the patient at the lowest cost and not the search for a profitable rate for the establishment". This implies "an increase in the hospital
budget (Ondam) of at least 4%".
3) An increase in working time
Didn't the coronavirus crisis teach them anything ? Olivier Véran speaks of "questioning certain shackles that prevent those who wish to
work more". Pushing already exhausted employees to overwork by shaking the carrot "overtime" is above all a way of not recruiting. The
SUD-Santé-Social federation estimates that 100,000 people are missing from the public hospital. This understaffing will not be compensated
by the "telemedicine" that the government, always with its high-tech fantasies, presents as a solution.
4) No solution to the lack of beds
Finally, the government wants more integration and cooperation between hospital, city medicine and medico-social sector, but makes no
promise on the reopening of beds, the lack of which was sorely felt during the coronavirus crisis. It remains silent on the private hospital
sector, which monopolizes a third of the "market" of patients, and absorbs part of the public funding to the detriment of the public hospital.
One solution: socialization under the care of caregivers
The interest of the population, of the caregivers, requires a logic radically opposite to that of the "Ségur de la santé". It is a
revolution in the health system that we need, through integral socialization, and self-management. This presupposes that the entire hospital
system, public and private, be removed from the hands of the State and financial groups, 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 the law of the market. 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.
Libertarian Communist Union, May 29, 2020
Applauding is good, fighting together is better
Weekly demonstration in support of the demands of caregivers, outside the Robert-Debré hospital, in Paris 19 e . Photos Clotilde (UCL 93-Center)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Segur-de-la-sante-la-socialisation-autogestion-remede-radical
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