#WORLDWIDE - Anarchism from all over the #world - FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 2020

 

Today's Topics:

   

1.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #307 - 58:
      Pharmaceutical industries: Expropriate without redemption or
      compensation (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

2.  Belarus, pramen: Anarchists at the demonstration on October
      4 in Minsk (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

3.  France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Return of
      neonicotinoid insecticides: power at the behest 

      of multinationals
      (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

4.  avtonom: Belarus, Assembly in the yard [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

5.  cnt.es: Kurdistan Rojava Group KRG forces detain Make                 Rojava
      Green Again activist (ca) [machine translation] 

     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

6.  iwa-ait: Manchester Solfed supporting the demo against the
      hostile environment and detention of migrants,  

     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

7.  Greece, Neither prisons nor laws, fascism is crushed only in
      the streets Call on the day of the decision to her own 

      XA By APO
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



In the social-democratic project carried by rebellious France, the creation of a "public drug pole" is supposed to correct the mess caused
by a pharmaceutical industry obsessed with financial profitability alone. Problem: if it is done without expropriation of the really
existing pharmaceutical industry, this "public pole" will be powerless. ---- On June 2, taking advantage of a parliamentary niche, LFI
submitted a bill to create this "public drug center". This would "aim to ensure the supply of France in terms of medical devices" and would
be financed by a reallocation of 6 billion euros of public money which today, via the tax credit research (CIR) goes into the pockets of
shareholders in the pharmaceutical industry, with no other practical effect.

This bill, having no chance of being voted on by the Macronist majority, has above all a value of programmatic affirmation. It clearly shows
the limit of the social democratic program, since LFI avoids mentioning the necessary expropriation of the large pharmaceutical groups,
without which this "public pole" would be powerless.

In 2017, in an interview with the Le temps des lilas website , Thierry Bodin, CGT coordinator at Sanofi, explained: "The public drug pole
cannot be a public pole to be created from 'nothing' whereas today ' hui 95% of the pharmaceutical industry is of private origin. The
central hospital pharmacy on which this public drug pole in the LFI program would be based, let's be clear, it cannot respond to the
challenge .[...]Me as an employee of Sanofi, I think that this company has its place within a public pole[...]because it is clear that to
rebuild a public pole of the drug only starting from what exists of the public will not answer the fundamental stakes and will be quickly
crushed by the weight of the private pharmaceutical industry."

This therefore supposes at worst nationalization, at best its socialization. Problem: the political order is against it. "The current
Constitution would require us to indemnify shareholders." Difficult, said Thierry Bodin, "in view of the exorbitant cost of the company.

The only solution, for the UCL: an expropriation without compensation, in the name of the general interest. A revolutionary measure, which
would suppose to break the shackles of legality.

The CGT unionist did not shy away from: "It is the question of the socialization of this industry or even of expropriation, which is a
complex question ... It must be supported by the population, that it becomes a demand, to create the necessary balance of power. And there,
it would be possible ..."

Guillaume (UCL Montreuil)

The other articles in the dossier:
Editorial: Health, pharma: socializing, opening a breach
The alternative to capitalism and statism: what self-management and socialization are
Social movement: Here is the end of the crisis
Health Sector: Putting an End to Liberal and State Imperity
Women and health: What self-management would change (or not)
Failed state, self-organization: Social clinics in Greece
Serge Le Quéau (Solidaires 22) on Plaintel: "This cooperative would make any relocation impossible"
Luxfer: Social utility at the heart of the fight
Libertarian Communism: Would he have faced the epidemic better ?

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?58-Industries-pharmaceutiques-Exproprier-sans-rachat-ni-indemnites

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Message: 2


On October 4 anarchists in Minsk took active part in the March of protest. By the time of our arrival on Nemiga the riot cops were already
ravaging on the streets. Soon the broken water cannon flew by panically... ---- The pigs did not get a direct response and detained several
people. However, those who failed to break through from Nemiga to the main protesters' forces formed their own column and went on a detour.
Within a few minutes, a black flag, almost the highest among others, was flying over it. ---- One of the most optimistic moments of today is
the connection of our cut-off column with a common stream of cheering and applause. ---- The anarchist banner "Power to the neighborhoods!"
aroused lively interest among the procession participants. The more willing people took leaflets telling about self-organization and
solidarity. The slogan "Our decision is self-governance!" and other statements close to anarchists were heard and picked up by many.

The culmination of the protest was interesting and slightly curious: the approach to the Okrestin detention facility. At the first moment,
several hundred people approached the detention facility and separated from the main column. At some point, emotions reached their peak: a
drum fight, the slogan "The walls will collapse!", and now someone in the crowd is trying to bring down one of the cameras on the
"institution". People quickly demolish ribbon fences "no passage allowed" and find themselves under the very walls.

And yet after a few minutes, the crowd leaves. In about 20 minutes, having made a "walk of honor", they approach the isolator from the other
side. For a short time again. What prevented the main forces from paying attention to the prison - the main goal of today's action - remains
a mystery.

The number of those who came was encouraging. Once again, neither the beginning nor the end of the column was visible. And, it seems, today
really was more than last time. And yet the need to develop the situation is more and more acute. This need is carried in the air, a step
forward must be made.

https://pramen.io/en/2020/10/anarchists-at-the-demonstration-on-october-4-in-minsk/

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Message: 3

In June 2020, following the climate convention, the Head of State announced to reduce the use of pesticides by 50% by 2025 and reach 50% of
farms in agroecology in 2040. ---- Once again things are off to a good start: "On August 6 the government announced that it wanted to grant
an exemption from the ban on neonicotinoid insecticides for the cultivation of sugar beets as of next year." ---- These very dangerous and
persistent insecticides which contaminate the entire environment for several years after their use, seriously impacting the environment and
pollinators. They had been banned from all phytosanitary use in September 2018. ---- At the same time, the Minister of Ecology, Barbara
Pompili signs the petition "the call of the poppies" for the ban of synthetic pesticides: we think we are dreaming in the face of so much
hypocrisy.

For those who think that ecology must be apolitical since it must be everyone's business the return to reality is tough. A power acquired
for the cause of capitalism will never choose to oppose agro-business and the various pro-pesticide lobbies.

Once again, the State gives pride of place to the agro-industry and the sugar lobbies, always destroying our ecosystem a little more, by
always enslaving a little more the peasants made dependent on certain products to ensure industrial yields and lower prices and incomes. All
this to produce lower quality sugar used in the manufacture of food responsible for many health and social ills.

For the UCL, we affirm that our ecology, our agriculture and our food must be anti-capitalist since we can only change things in
environmental matters by fighting head-on capitalist interests.

The agricultural working group of the Union Communistes Libertaires

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Retour-des-insecticides-neonicotinoides-le-pouvoir-aux-ordres-des

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Message: 4



In the early twilight of Saturday night, thermoses of tea and bags of cookies appeared on the benches by the playground. This is happening
in one of the countless Minsk blocks of panel high-rise buildings. The people are slowly pulling up: someone leaves the entrances, someone
drives up in a car. Basically, middle-aged people, 30-45 years old, neatly dressed, giving the impression of representatives of the "middle
class". Many come with families. ---- After some time, about 50 people gather. Participants in the meeting stand in groups and communicate.
Some bustle about laying out treats on benches and tables. They bring a stack of opposition newspapers and several brochures: a legal
educational program and instructions on how to attack utilities with a stream of complaints. A little off to the side, several people argue
with the amateur dog lover Lukashenko. He accuses the audience not only of making too much noise, or of littering and trampling the lawn.

It gets dark. Finally, the woman, one of the most active in the yard, encourages the neighbors to gather in a circle and get down to
business ...

The thought never leaves me that stylistically it bears little resemblance to popular advice from books about the liberation movements of
the past. But in fact he inherits a lot from them.

There are many children: they make noise and play, are keenly interested in sweets and crowd around the benches. At some point, a line of
small ones with flashlights is already marching through the sandbox. Menacingly shout "Long live Belarus!" Children interfere with a
business meeting, but they make the event lively and warm, confirm by their presence: ordinary people gathered here to discuss their
interests and joint actions.

Without sound reinforcement with such a background, it is absolutely impossible. The role of the microphone is performed by a smartphone and
a bluetooth speaker. Most of the evening is devoted to discussing the legal aspects of participating in protests. Everyone listens and
speaks while standing. Everything happens rather chaotically. Yet this is a cross between a meeting and a courtyard get-together. Everyone
can speak, but the most vociferous and active are heard more.

In an undertone by word of mouth, the participants pass on the time and place of the meeting of the residents of the quarter for the Sunday
protest demonstration: they will go there together.

A separate topic: waiting for the arrival of the riot police. As a precautionary measure, the participants in the meeting were asked not to
post photos on the Internet until the end of the meeting, and also to cover up their faces if they get into the frame. Formally, a meeting
is an unauthorized mass event. Several times the residents paid attention to suspicious people of "unpleasant appearance". There were rumors
that an unmarked minibus was approaching in a nearby street. Such in Belarus are often used for arrests by security officials.

The gathering of residents made a strong positive impression. This is a real overcoming of alienation between neighbors for the sake of
fighting for common goals. At the same time, the need to develop practice is acutely felt.

The discussion should be better structured: without chaos and shouting. The tone of communication should be more correct. Some participants
consciously or not tried to show their "coolness" and authority, addressing the audience impolitely, for example: "Be quiet for 5 minutes"
and other similar words. This did not meet with a proper rebuff.

It is even more important to expand the range of issues that the meeting deals with: to pay more attention to the problems of the quarter
and district, to try to solve them by joint efforts, and to establish coordination with other similar meetings. That is, to go beyond just
joint participation in protests.

Territorial residents' assemblies often arise in situations of local or larger protests. Undoubtedly, these initiatives have the potential
to become instruments of direct democracy and democracy. But for this they must become permanent, not temporary institutions and take upon
themselves, to the best of their ability, the functions of self-government, and not just coordination on individual issues.

https://avtonom.org/freenews/assambleya-vo-dvore

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Message: 5

At the end of 2018, the CNT started a solidarity campaign with the social ecology project called "Make Rojava Green Again". Since then, we
have seen with joy how these comrades, together with the Autonomous Administration, with neighborhood groups, with farmers, with women's
peoples, keep alive and defend the third pillar of the Rojava revolution - environmentalism. The reforestation of natural reserves, the
installation of solar panels, the planting and distribution of fruits and vegetables, the cleaning of rivers, the creation of green spaces
in cities, and participation in agricultural cooperatives are some examples of the work that carried out in North and East Syria.
Now a fellow internationalist from the project has been detained in Bashur / Iraqi Kurdistan on his way to return home to Switzerland. The
KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) that rules this autonomous region of Iraq (KRG - Kurdistan Regional Government), despite exhibiting a
strongly Kurdish identity, has never shared or supported the ideals of the revolutionary Kurdish movement. In fact, it has participated in
the imposition of the aggressive economic embargo of Rojava, has imprisoned revolutionaries together with terrorists from DAESH, and has
repeatedly allowed the invasion and bombardment of Bashur by the Turkish army in aggressive maneuvers with the intention of crushing the
revolution. in that region.

It is no surprise, then, that this government has detained an activist for participating in the revolutionary structures of Rojava, even
though his project is peaceful and environmentalist.

We demand their freedom and we share the Make Rojava Green Again statement below.

MakeRojavaGreenAgain

«We demand their release and we call for solidarity!
A week ago, our campaign member Hawar Goran was detained by KDP KRG security forces in South Kurdistan, on his way back to Switzerland.
Despite the fact that his lawyer dealt directly with the situation and contacted the Swiss authorities, Hawar Goran has been detained in
Erbil / Hewlêr ever since. The arrest of a member of our campaign is not acceptable at all and we strongly oppose the attitude of the KDP
and KRG officials. There is no question about Hawar's activities in the region, and therefore there is no reason to keep him captive. If the
KDP were concerned for its people, its land and its region would liberate it. Hawar came to Kurdistan because he was strongly attracted to
the cause of the Kurdish people for self-determination, and he wanted to do the best he could to support this cause by doing what he does
best, that is, developing socio-ecological projects for the town and the region. After more than a year of hard work in the region, being
detained like this is a shame for the KDP and should not be accepted by anyone.

Since yesterday the lawyer (Olivier Peter) from Hawar issued a statement from Switzerland in the newspaper «La Cote» (
https://www.lacote.ch/articles/suisse/irak-un-ecologiste-genevois-detenu-par-les -autorites-kurdes-dans-le-nord-du-pays-986363 ) on the
situation of his client. We were happy to learn that our partner was able to speak with his family and that he appears to be in good health.
But this is not enough. There is no reason to keep you captive. We demand the immediate release of our colleague and friend, so that he can
return home. We call on everyone to show solidarity with Hawar and with the ecological revolution in Rojava and Kurdistan. And we call on
everyone to protest against the unacceptable policies of the KDP and the KRG Government.

Source:https://makerojavagreenagain.org/2020/10/04/mrga-activist-arrested-by-krg-security-forces/

cnt.es/noticias/las-fuerzas-del-krg-detienen-a-un-activista-de-make-rojava-green-again

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Message: 6



....organised by Queer Support for Migrants, outside the detention centre at Manchester Airport Yesterday. The action was part of a series
of decentralised, local actions taking place last weekend around the country, coordinated around the slogan ‘Solidarity Knows No Borders'

https://www.facebook.com/iwa.ait/posts/10157187105546883

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Message: 7


On September 18, 2013, a paramilitary battalion of the Golden Dawn carried out a murderous attack in Keratsini, from which the antifascist
Pavlos Fyssas fell dead, stabbed in the heart by the goldsmith G. Roupakias. It was another episode of the murderous actions of the ATHEX
parastatal gang against anarchist and leftist activists, trade unionists, refugees and immigrants, occupied and self-governing areas of
struggle. Because the fascists strike where the state policy itself, the interests of the bosses and the regime propaganda of the media
point them: against the wildest exploited part of society and against the movements, which are declared to be the target of state repression.
Seven years after the assassination of Pavlos Fyssas, the ATHEX trial ends on October 7 with most of the accused moving around freely and
with the main goal of laundering the Nazi gang, but also of the state itself, which is mainly main orchestrator and instigator of fascist /
parastatal attacks using them as his backup in the direction of terrorizing society and suppressing social and class resistance. The
proposal of prosecutor A. Economou, which separates the attacks of the assault battalions, both among themselves and as a whole, from the
organization itself, is moving in this direction.

During these seven years, both the "institutional antifascism" that tried to promote the state as the only guarantor of "democratic
normalcy", to consolidate the theory of the two extremes and to wash away the action of the parastatal neo-Nazis, as well as the parastatal
action on the sidewalk found in them the strong, decisive, lasting and relentless anti-fascist action. The mass and militant anti-fascist
mobilizations were the real obstacle to the rise of the fascists and the attacks they carried out, with the result that today strong
embankments have entered their operation and the retreat of the neo-Nazi groups from the public sphere has been achieved. From the
anti-fascist demonstrations of resistance and memory for P. Fyssas and S. Lukman, the militant gatherings at the ATHEX trial,

The completion of the seven years since the assassination of Fyssa comes in an environment of outbreak of the pandemic of covid19 and
intensification of state and capitalist attack on society. From the beginning of a new round of looting of the social base with the main
peaks being the further devaluation of labor, the practical abolition of social security, the continuation of privatizations, to the
restructuring of the education system and the criminalization of trade union action. From the perpetuation of the Emergency Regime through
the suppression and subjugation of social and class movements and especially the anarchist-anti-authoritarians, the evacuation of occupied
areas, the police occupation of entire areas to the prohibition of demonstrations and the general upgrading of the legal fighters.

State repression is today a dominant component of state strategy. This military operation against those who are fighting is part of the
decades-long systematic effort on the part of the Greek state to subdue social and class resistance and impose submission. An effort that
crashed into the wall of mass and militant mobilizations, uprisings, struggles of previous years.

With our weapon of solidarity to give the slogan of counterattack to state and capitalist barbarism. To rekindle the hotbeds of social and
class resistance. The only answer to the war, nationalism and fascism that the world of state and capitalism gives birth to and nurtures is
the organization of social and class counterattack. Without illusions that the system of exploitation and oppression can be embellished,
without illusions that any government can be a barrier to fascism, to fight collectively, militantly and from below, with our weapon of
international and class solidarity. To fight together, locals and immigrants, workers, students, pupils, for the construction of a society
of equality, justice, solidarity and freedom.

We do not forget the murder of Pavlos Fyssas on September 18, 2013 in Keratsini. We do not forget the murders of S. Lukman, Al.
Grigoropoulos, by Zak Costopoulos, by P. Ziffle

We do not forget the hundreds of murderous attacks on refugees and migrants. Not even the dozens of brazen attacks on squatting, on
self-governing areas and on anarchist, leftist and anti-fascist militants.

Anti-State-Anti-Fascist-Anti-Suppression Rally on Wednesday, October 7, the day of the announcement of the decision of the ATHEX trial at
the Athens Court of Appeals, at 10.00

Pre-gathering at 9.00 in the metro of Ampelokipi

http://apo.squathost.com/oite-me-filakes-oute-ke-me-nomous-o-fasismos-tsakizete-monacha-stous-dromous-kalesma-tin-imera-tis-apofasis-sti-diki-tis-xa/

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