Today's Topics:
1. ait russia: France: "yellow vests" came to the 98th "act" of
protest [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
protest [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. iwa-ait: 12th - 18th October. International Week against
Unpaid Wages (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Unpaid Wages (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. UK, anarchist communist group ACG: The Overseas Operations
Bill and Labour: yet another reason to leave Labour
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Bill and Labour: yet another reason to leave Labour
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Libertarian Assembly Chuchunco: The Capitalist Economy
Against Life: Reflections on the Pandemic and Revolt (Part 2)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Against Life: Reflections on the Pandemic and Revolt (Part 2)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Avtonom - Azerbaijan: anarchist detained for making
anti-militarist statements, News, Sep 29th
anti-militarist statements, News, Sep 29th
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. cgt catalunya: 6 years without justice after the forced
disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa in
disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa in
Mexico (ca,
pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL AL #308 - Unionism,
Between viruses and bosses: intermittent people on the
Between viruses and bosses: intermittent people on the
grill (de,
it, fr, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On September 26, activists of the movement "yellow vests" once again took to the streets, squares and roads of France. In Paris, the
demonstration began from Porte Dorée at 13:50, passed through Place de la Nation and at 17:15 reached Place de Italia. Participants of the
movement have been holding their performances since November 17, 2018. The space for his demonstrations in Paris is increasingly limited by
the authorities, and this is a clear violation of freedom. "Yellow Vests" challenge Macron with his "brutalized" gang and police violence in
front of the whole of France and the whole world; the "yellow" or other truth remains relevant, he cannot completely suppress it. And she
must reach him under his hypocritical mask with an electric and forced smile, behind which he hides, calming himself with his power, strength,
Throughout his reign, this barely elected ruler has forced thousands of protesters to take to the streets, including the yellow vests, who
will not leave him alone until 2022, and whom he himself pursues with the help of his police. But the "yellow vests" are the only ones who
continue to take to the streets of Paris and other areas of France since November 17, 2018, every Saturday.
In addition to the traditional demands of the "yellow vests" - raising living standards, wages and pensions, canceling pension reform,
increasing taxes on the rich, granting the right to organize civil referenda - there is growing resentment among activists against
authoritarian and arbitrary restrictions on freedoms under the pretext of fighting the epidemic. Prohibitions on demonstrations, fines,
repression, coercion to wear masks ... "Wearing masks is like wearing a prison on your own face. They want to wear it for the entire
population."
Paris demonstrators, chanting slogans and playing drums, marched through the city, despite the provocative actions of the police and
gendarmes around them, who tried to slow down and restrain their advance. After speeches and speeches at the gathering place, the
participants moved through General Michel Bizot Avenue to the Place de la Nation, where they crossed paths with a group of protesters from
the French overseas possessions who came to express their outrage at the plight that had developed in their territories. Then, along the
Boulevard Diderot, past the Gare de Lyon and further, the demonstrators go to the Place des Italia. A stop was made at a shopping center
where speeches were given denouncing capitalist consumption
(https://blogs.mediapart.fr/ceinna-coll/blog/270920/gj-acte-84-sem98-paris-26092020-ne-peut-pas-nous-interdire-de-respirer).
On September 26, actions were held in other cities and towns. For example, in Strasbourg, activists from several departments and even from
Germany walked through the city from Bordeaux to the quarter where the EU institutions are located, and then to the city center, along
Robertso Avenue, Brant Square, Ile Embankment, Corbeau and Kleber Square, where they set up tents and held discussions with the population.
The posters read: Layoffs Epidemic: The Only Vaccine Is Fight, The Only Salvation: Organize To Get Out Of Capitalism And Nation States.
Everything Is Possible Together! (https://www.evous.fr/Blocages-routes-France-carte-des-rassemblements-hausse-prix-carburant-1192858.html)
The Yellow Vests resumed widespread protests following the quarantine and summer lull on September 12, when demonstrations were held in
Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Nantes, Marseille, Nice, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Nancy, Montpellier, Angers, Grenoble and Douai. On October 3,
new demonstrations and road blockade actions are scheduled in dozens of locations throughout France
(https://www.evous.fr/Blocages-routes-France-carte-des-rassemblements-hausse-prix-carburant-1192858.html)
https://aitrus.info/node/5557
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Message: 2
In December 2019, the International Workers' Association (IWA) at its Congress held in Melbourne, Australia, decided to promote an
International Week against Unpaid Wages. The Sections of the IWA agreed to carry out different activities during the 3rd week of October to
call attention to the widespread phenomenon of unpaid waged and to show which tools we can use to fight it. Because we, as workers, do jobs
to be paid for them, not to voluntarily make employers richer and richer. ---- Unfortunately, we live in a society where we are forced to
work to earn a salary if we want to survive. We need money for food, housing, education, healthcare, etc. So, when we don't get paid for our
work consequences may be dramatic for us and those relying on us. ---- During this International Week we want to remind that we workers have
our own weapons to protect ourselves from employers.
Usually people only trust courts to solve labour disputes. There are different laws in different countries. And even if it is important to
know them, we cant trust them. Very often they don't give us enough protection.
Let's imagine that you are working without a contract, how would you prove that you worked for a certain employer and he must pay you? And
without a contract, if you get fired, how would you get your compensation or your unemployment benefit if there is such a right in your
country? And when you are forced to work overtime and you are not paid for it, isn't it working for free? If your contract states that you
are an unskilled labourer but you are a highly skilled machine operator, are you being paid what is fixed by the corresponding collective
bargaining agreement, if there is one at all? And if you are a woman and you get less money than your male workmates even if you do the same
work, isn't it a partially unpaid wage? If you are at the end of your degree, and you are working as a covenant for a miserable salary, even
if you do the same job as your more experienced workmates, aren't you being fooled? And when you are sick but you have no right to get paid,
is it your fault? You don't need the money when you are sick? And if you get fired every June and you are hired again on September, who's
paying for your holidays? If you find only temporary jobs for one week in a month, don't your children eat every day?
Laws simply aren't made to protect us, but to make things easier for the employers. They are the ones who actually sponsor the laws, not the
members of parliament. That's why we don't fight for what is legal, but simply for our interests. And we do so directly facing those who
attack us and treat us like humans without rights.
Even if the law is on our side, most of the time we don't stand for our rights because we feel isolated and we fear losing everything. We
feel isolated because the states, in collaboration with the trade unions under the control of political parties, managed to make us not to
believe in self-organization and solidarity to defend us. Employers just prefer to negotiate with professional representatives of the
workers to solve labour disputes. That's because they know they can buy off professional workers' representatives, but they just can't buy
off a group of workers who are deciding at their own meetings how to fight bosses.
If we really want to protect our interests, we have to socialise the fight so the whole community knows what makes us suffer. This way we
can develop a sense of solidarity when we realise that our own problems are those of our neighbours.
When they owe wages to a worker, bosses must feel that they are not facing an isolated individual, but a supportive community willing to use
their own weapons.
We can't believe in dialogue with employers to defend ourselves. We shouldn't forget that money is all employers care about, and the proper
way to fight them is making them lose profits. And so, how do we get employers to lose money? Stopping working for them, sopping buying what
they sell and destroying the infrastructure they need to manufacture and sell goods and services. In other words: strike, boycott and
sabotage. These are our weapons.
But don't get us wrong. We are not fighting for a "fair" wage, because the wage-based economy is based on exploitation and benefit.
Employers hire you because they need you in order to make money. And they will always pay you a little part of the money you make them earn
with your work.
The daily struggle against unpaid wages is just a direct response to an immediate issue. Although we judge it to be a defensive fight, it is
part of our longterm struggle for profound changes in society we need to prevent one small part of the population from living off of the
rest. And these radical changes in society we call Social Revolution.
Suffering is spread all around the world we live in. And this suffering is caused by social, economic, racial and gender inequality. On top
of that, capitalist economy is causing a climate crisis that's destroying the planet. This is the reality for thousands of millions.
However, the issue is not about a bunch of greedy and wicked individuals. On one side, the issue is about a benefit-oriented economy, not
oriented to the need of the communities: capitalism. On the other hand, the issue is about hierarchies present in every field of social life
that divide us artificially and that are source of inequality and oppression. And we shouldn't forget that the state has always been a loyal
ally of capitalism and that it will never be an instrument for social fairness, even if some socialists believe that the state will bring us
equality and freedom.
If we want a different world, we need to build a new society and a new economy focused on people's needs instead of the current one focused
on the needs of the capitalists. And in order to live happy and dignifying lives and develop our potentialities we don't need capitalism nor
the states.
That's how we see it. If you see it the same way, contact your nearest IWA group. Let's build something together. The struggle against
unpaid wages is just a struggle amongst a variety of struggles we are involved in and in which we win thanks to direct action, solidarity
and mutual aid.
The International Secretariat
https://iwa-ait.org/content/12th-18th-october-international-week-against-unpaid-wages
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Message: 3
On September 23rd the Overseas Operations Bill was passed through Parliament with a massive majority at its second reading. The Bill's main
proposals are to put a strict time limit on prosecution of war crimes committed by the British armed forces. ---- The Labour leader, Keir
Starmer, instructed his whips to tell Labour MPs to abstain on the vote. Only 18 MPs voted against the bill, including Nadia Whittome, a
junior member of the Shadow Cabinet. Starmer then promptly sacked her from the Shadow Cabinet. Two other junior members of the Shadow
Cabinet stepped down from their posts to vote against the Bill. ---- This move by Starmer is to indicate his and Labour's loyalty to the
British State and its imperialist measures. This is hardly anything new. Labour has always been loyal to British imperialist ventures. The
first two Labour governments of 1924 and then 1929-1931 administrated a ‘business as usual' approach to the British Empire and put down
anti-colonial uprisings in Burma, India, Iraq, Nigeria and Palestine. Labour insisted that the peoples the British Empire ruled over would
not be ready for self-government for "a considerable time". With the coming to power of the Labour government led by Attlee in 1945 this
pro-imperialist line continued. In Malaysia, in particular, a vicious war against a pro-independence movement was waged for three years,
using particularly brutal methods, overseen by the Labour government. It also acted harshly against uprisings in the Gold Coast, Iran and
Nigeria, and enthusiastically opted to be a junior ally of the USA in the Korean War in 1950.
The Wilson government of 1964-1970 continued its policies of allying with the USA, condoning the American invasion of Vietnam; though
stopping short of direct military support. On the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, ruled by Britain, Labour authorised the
removal of all its inhabitants so that the Americans could establish a base there. It carried out military aggression in Anguilla, Aden and
Yemen and threatened military action in Cyprus. Having made a promise not to supply arms to apartheid South Africa, it then reneged on this
and allowed the supply of 20 fighter aircraft. In Northern Ireland, the Wilson government deployed the Army to quell unrest there in 1969.
Elected again in 1974 the Wilson government continued its Irish policies, with Secretary of State Merlyn Rees depriving Republican prisoners
of political status, and designating them as criminals.
More recently, the Blair government continued acting as the USA's junior partner and took an enthusiastic role in the intervention in Iraq.
Out of office, Labour under Ed Miliband endorsed British military action in Libya in 2011.
It can be seen that Labour has always been a party that has supported British imperialism. This latest move by Starmer demonstrates this.
If the Bill is adopted, it will mean that it will be that much harder for crimes committed by the Armed Forces to come to court and for
victims to receive justice. In other words, crimes committed by the British state in foreign adventures will be effectively decriminalised.
To add to this, on the day after this vote, the Government brought in the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill, which will allow British
intelligence services to involve themselves in what otherwise is seen as criminal activity. It would give carte blanche to MI5 and protect
the border police and officials. It remains to be seen how Labour will vote in future on this Bill.
For those still inside the Labour Party who still entertain doubts about remaining within it, surely this must be the clincher for
departure? The Corbynist wave is over, there should now be no illusions that the Labour Party is a vehicle for social change. It is time to
construct a movement outside of parliament that looks towards grassroots activity in the workplaces and neighbourhoods, built on mass
decision making and the mandation of delegates, an anathema to the State and Parliament. Only such a movement can bring real social change,
the end of capitalism and the establishment of a free communism.
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/09/28/the-overseas-operations-bill-and-labour-yet-another-reason-to-leave-labour/
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Message: 4
At this time of year the situation in the country does not improve. It has been almost 6 months of quarantine and confinement in which we
have seen that the repression grows and intensifies, reaching the point that almost every day there are police and military in the street,
raping neighbors, common pots, gassing houses and requesting "circulation permits" with their weapons of war in hand. In spite of
everything, the response of the people has not been slow to appear, and it is again that through barricades, cacerolazos, mutual support and
a lot of health care we have continued in the streets keeping alive the conflict that began on October 18, 2019 These weeks, new cases of
femicides have come to light where justice is clearly shown as classist and patriarchal; We have seen how the intransigent state is
incapable of listening to the demands of the Mapuche community members, who denounced their hunger strike after more than 100 days; We have
seen how the prosecution sentenced our comrades prisoners of the revolt to long sentences; We have seen how the most disgusting right wing
continues to vomit shit on the television mornings and that every time they can laugh in our faces, placing obstacles to get 10% of the AFPs
in this complicated context of pandemic ... There are so many reasons that have accumulated ... How not to be angry? How can we not want to
go out to the streets to fight? ... It is a matter of time for everything to explode again ... If there is something about which we have no
doubt, it is that this is just beginning and that there is no turning back.We are close to turning 1 year from the day we made the powerful
tremble, we overwhelmed their police, we blew up their big companies and we met again after so long apart. The community ties that were born
in the revolt are those that have given the resistance during all this time. It was neither the municipality, nor the State, nor anyone else
but the people. And we cannot forget that! We have a lot of strength and an incredible capacity for organization ...
During the end of July and the beginning of August, the government promoted a deconfinement plan with the aim of "returning to normality",
that is, going back to schools, going back to work, consuming again in the malls and going back to buy things we do not need, despite the
fact that there is still no health solution that guarantees that the virus is controlled. Although the number of Covid-19 infections
(according to government and MINSAL figures) decreased at one point, a resurgence quickly occurred ... The desperation with which they are
striving to reactivate the capitalist economy is impressive.They are not even interested in showing that they care anymore,because for them
we are simply cannon fodder in the face of a pandemic that they have been unable to handle.
All of the above shows us that they are the ones who need us, despite the fact that they have always made us believe otherwise. They say
that wealth is generated by companies and that thanks to them the country progresses. That is completely untrue . It is the workers who move
the country, who produce value, who build things, houses, buildings, roads, everything ... they are the ones who generate wealth; the
powerful only appropriate it (they steal it, this is known as surplus value ) and if we realize it, they don't even work . The functioning
of the capitalist economy is nothing without the workers who make it go; It is not the other way around .It is thanks to the activity of the
workers that the powerful live with great privileges, such as the possibility of quarantining comfortably and safely without the uncertainty
that they will not eat, or also, the impunity with which they They transgress quarantine by getting on their big helicopters to go to the
beach to de-stress without anyone telling them anything.
On the other hand, in the great majority of the communes, also here in Central Station, the quarantine seems to have always been a lie; In
the Meiggs neighborhood, underground bars or the mall tray NEVER stopped having people working, because if they don't work they don't eat.
This makes us think of the deep contradiction that exists between the capitalist economy and our lives, a contradiction that we experience
today on a much more intense level. Why eat, dress, have shelter, health and education have to cost so much suffering? Why is meeting our
needs so dependent on money? Why is it so impossible to stop the economy without the country going into crisis?This is because capitalism is
a mode of production and a way of understanding life that has us subjected and that the more it develops, the more it takes our lives. The
capitalist economy is a contradiction in process that collapses as it advances, leaving in its wake a painful accumulation of catastrophes.
From all this, we are not exaggerating when we affirm that the only way out of this catastrophe is the social revolution against this
system of death.
We cannot forget the hunger revolt that began a few months ago in the forest commune and that quickly spread to the other territories in the
context of a pandemic. People took to the streets out of necessity and because the government did not provide the minimum conditions to stay
at home by quarantining . It is from that moment that the common pots are born, completely autonomous instances that arise with the
intention of directly solving the needs. ( That is anarchy!.)We consider that it is these instances that we must take care of and promote,
keeping away any institution, municipality, politician or company that intends to appropriate them, either to direct them or to clean their
image. We cannot fail to mention that weeks ago, in some places it was police and military who raised common pots with a false smile on
their faces and with contemptible kindness , since all these months they have shot and killed us! We believe that today, we must continue to
strengthen the autonomous and territorial organization.It is essential to think about how to get out of this total crisis, since it is
evident that the capitalist economy is opposed to our lives, and that if we do not do something now, the crises will be deeper and repeated
over time. It is necessary to create another way of eating, dressing, educating, relating, loving, moving ... of living . The scarcity of
money today invites us to think about how to live without it. Is that possible? Is it just a utopia? Can a world exist without money?
We believe that these questions are not resolved, and it is in the struggle itself that we will find answers. This small reflection, which
is born from the anarchist perspective and which clearly deserves more depth, in no way seeks to insert itself into the normality of
capitalism as we know it; Our intention is to criticize both money, the State, the police and salaried work (that is, work understood as an
activity that only seeks to produce money and that is not in tune with our true needs; we are not criticizing "work "Because we are" lazy
"). We want to break with this system in its entirety since we believe that this way we will achieve our true freedom.
The revolutionary horizon that we share is one where life is no longer subject to any kind of authority. We believe that life is possible,
and even more, it is completely necessary. It just depends on us and us.
FACING THE PANDEMIC, THE STATE AND CAPITAL
SOLIDARITY AND MUTUAL SUPPORT.
Originally published in Chuchunco City . Newsletter of the Libertarian Assembly Chuchunco # 2, September 2020.
Chuchunco, Mapocho Valley[Central Station, Santiago]
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Message: 5
Azerbaijani anarchist Giyas Ibrahimov was detained by security services for alleged anti-war statements yesterday. ---- In the now-deleted
live video he posted on his social media account,Ibrahimov broadcasted security forces entering his flat in Azerbaijan's capital Baku and
refusing to tell him why he was being detained. ---- "At first they said that they were from the police, then they said that we would take
me to the military commissariat, I asked them for a document for this, and they said they would take me to the National Security Service.
I'm not against it. Let's go," Ibragimov said to the camera. ---- In the video, Ibragimov said that he believes the reason for his arrest is
the complaints of "several people" about his anti-war posts on social networks.
A few hours before his arrest, Ibragimov posted a screenshot of a message exchange in which a man asks for his phone number and address.
On the morning of September 27, a decades-long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh flared up again, seeing dozens
killed. While the governments of both countries compete on jingoistic patriotic statements, Ibrahim has become known for his anti-war posts.
He said that many Azerbaijanis condemned him online, telling him that they were "losing respect" for him because of such statements.
"The two civilians killed in Naftlan were[...]students in grades 9 and 7."
"Pseudo-patriots say they want war now to prevent the conflict from being passed on to future generations. They do not see that they do not
allow the next generation to come. "
Bahruz Samedov, an activist for the Azerbaijani civil movement Nida, told OC Media website that Ibrahimov was perhaps the only person to
openly criticize the recent war online.
"They just came to his apartment and said that someone was complaining about his Facebook posts, his mother also wrote about it on FB, this
is really very bad because now he is completely alone and people are posting comments like: "Yes, he deserves it, he must be killed," this
is complete nonsense. "
Ibragimov previously received prison sentence for his activism.
In May 2016, he was arrested along with another activist, Bayram Mammadov, after painting graffiti on a statue of Heydar Aliyev, the late
national leader and father of the country's current president, Ilham Aliyev.
On the eve of the "Day of Flowers": a national celebration dedicated to the birthday of Heydar Aliyev, activists painted graffiti with the
inscription "Happy Day of the Slaves" in Azerbaijani. On the other side of the pedestal was another inscription: "Fuck this system!"
Misteriously, according to the official report of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 3 kg of heroin were seized during
the arrest and the search of the flats of Bayram Mammadov and Giyas Ibrahim. In a case widely criticized by international human rights
organizations, Mamedov and Ibragimov were sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of drug trafficking. In 2019, Ibragimov was released
under an amnesty for political prisoners.
Source: Avtonom
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Message: 6
In the framework of the Second Global Action against the war against the EZLN, the Peoples and Life, Samir Viu that is taking place from
September 20 to 26 in Mexico, we remember the forced disappearance of the 43 normal students of Ayotzinapa, in l 'State of Guerrero on
September 26, 2014 . ---- Because the repression by the state and its minions, the paramilitaries acting with impunity belo the umbrella of
the current president's lack of social transformation, is the same that acted 6 years ago by making the 43 students disappear. Because it
was the state. ---- But while the attacks of state guard dogs on their three levels of misgovernment and violence are continuous, the
dignified rebellion and resistance of the struggling people is more constant and tenacious. Therefore, from the Rebellion and Resistance
Networks in support of the EZLN, the CNI and the IGC, the Second Global Action was chosen to end on September 26, 2020 , because there will
be no silence, no forgiveness or forgetfulness.
We remember that already on the eve of the opening of the Olympic Games of Mexico in 1968, the student movement next to the civil population
was pronounced against the PRI policy of the then president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz in the Place of the Three Cultures, section of Tlatelolco, in
the center of Mexico City, demanding social, educational and political reforms.
Between 300 and 400 people were killed by police firing that repressed the protest and 1,345 were arrested in what we know as the Tlatelolco
Massacre. Because again, it was the state .
To commemorate this, during the week leading up to September 26, 2014, the student movement of the Ayotzinapa Rural Rural School was
organized to go to Mexico City by bus that they used to take for the mobilizations. .
Between the night of 26 to 27 September 2014, the Iguala Police and the Guerrero State Police pursued the mobilized Ayotzinapa normalist
students.
The result of this crackdown was at least 9 people killed by police in addition to the 43 missing students and 27 people injured. Because
again, it was the state.
Since then, there has been no official search because everything pointed to the then PRD mayor and his connections to organized crime, the
disappearance of the bus with the 43 students.
6 years later, the 43 students are still not appearing alive, because it is alive as their families, friends and classmates continue to
demand, because they were taken away alive. But neither has the bus, nor its bodies, nor the political leaders nor the executors of this new
massacre of the state.
From CGT we join the demand for truth and justice.
It is enough to criminalize and murder the insurrection in Mexico.
By the end of the war against the EZLN, the Peoples and life
For the 43 missing Ayotzinapa
Samir alive, the fight continues!
CGT Secretariat for International Relations
http://www.cgtcatalunya.cat/spip.php?article13434
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Message: 7
The cultural and entertainment sector being almost at a standstill due to the coronavirus, this category of workers is hit by massive
unemployment. What will happen at the end of the "white year" decided by the government ? ---- The two months of confinement will have been
two months of uncertainty concerning the fate of workers in the entertainment industry. Yet they did not stand idly by. Organized through
their unions and their collectives[1], they proposed evolving health protocols (reviewed every two months) by post, targeting the problems
and solutions of each and everyone, as well as the questions to be asked to them. health professionals. ---- In some cases, by reacting
collectively, they have succeeded in blocking employers' attempts to take advantage of the coronavirus to lay off en masse. Thus, at
Disneyland Paris, on April 11, more than 1,300 fixed-term contracts and temporary workers - musicians, actors, technicians, stuntwomen and
stuntmen, costume designers and make-up artists - received an email from the management entitled "Rupture amicable agreement of your
employment contract" . This announced to them nothing less than the early end of their contract ... without compensation of course because
"case of force majeure" !The CGT-Spectacle federation immediately called on all those concerned not to sign anything, and blocked this
maneuver à la Onc'Picsou. After hype at the social and economic committee, the ministry, the labor inspectorate, the CGT obtained that all
those concerned be reinstated in the workforce of the company, and benefit from the Partial unemployment.
In the film sector, all productions have officially been shut down even though it is well known that employees came to work illegally and in
dangerous conditions, while being declared "unemployed." partial"by companies which pocketed public money[2].
In the audiovisual sector (TV channel), where distancing is not always possible, minimum protective measures had to be taken. It is often
the first and first concerned who, in this matter, are responsible for giving the spotlight to their employers.
Today, if the shootings were able to resume, the live performance, it is still under cover, condemning a large number of small structures.
The government knows that the cultural sector can be united and reactive in the defense of its rights. And among these, the special
unemployment insurance scheme for intermittent and intermittent workers. Tens of thousands of them and they could not contribute in 2020
because of the health crisis. In May, unions and intermittent collectives obtained from the government the application of a "white year "And
the maintenance of unemployment rights, whatever happens, until August 31, 2021. A pressure relief valve that remains unsatisfactory as it
leaves people on the side of the road. Nothing is planned for those entering, prevented from reopening or opening unemployment rights ;
nothing either for women returning from maternity leave, or people returning from long-term sick leave: a scandal for equal rights and
savings made at the expense of the most vulnerable. A privileged status, really ?
In a more general way, the government wants to maintain at all costs, for the 1 stSeptember, the second part of his unemployment insurance
reform. According to Unedic, it must reduce by 30 to 75% the benefits of 650,000 unemployed. And among the people affected: intermittent and
intermittent entertainment workers, who benefit from a special regime adapted to the specificity of their activity.
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This allows them to live despite often mediocre wages and hours of preparation, research, training, writing, rehearsal which, as a rule, are
unpaid. The rule of the game is as follows: for unemployment compensation, you must have declared, in less than twelve months, 507 hours of
contract work. If the artist or technician concerned does not manage to accumulate these 507 hours within the allotted time, it is the loss
of the intermittency regime, and the return to the RSA box.
The horizon of the end of rights is twice as close
If we compare with the general regime, the precariousness is not less. Indeed, since the hardening of the rules in November 2019, employees
must, to open their rights to unemployment compensation, contribute six months (or 840 hours), but within a period twice as long:
twenty-four month. The horizon of the end of rights is therefore twice as close for intermittent and intermittent workers, and this
insecurity closes a lot of doors for them, in particular when they take out a bank loan or rent a home. Each year, the number of workers
entering the race for intermittency increases by 8 %, faster growth than the volume of jobs available. Competition is therefore fierce, the
507 hours more difficult to achieve, and we see more and more colleagues switching to self-entrepreneurship and accepting lower pay per use.
But this category of cultural workers also have a right to dignity ! The cultural sector needs them to exist. And society as a whole needs
culture, critical thinking, dreams and imagination.
For more than forty years, governments have wanted to put populations and sectors in competition, invoking ever more flexibility in the name
of "economic reason" and unraveling the Labor Code. This strategy common to Medef and the State has, however, logically always pushed the
proletariat to fight to defend its rights. Today, the cultural sector is facing a major social crisis. We must remain vigilant in the face
of the backlash prepared by employers, and of which the current reform of unemployment insurance is only the prelude.
Aurel (UCL Toulouse and surroundings)
REVOLUTIONIZING CULTURE
Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, culture workers have shown imagination, drawing as many avenues to change the work of tomorrow.
In the cultural sector, a libertarian communist society would encourage the pooling of equipment and knowledge, like the collectivization of
film production practiced during the Spanish Revolution of 1936 by unions of directors, technicians and artists. .
A flattening of the hierarchies between artistic genres, more self-management and de-jail of tasks in production would eliminate the power
relations between genres and professions. The population would have access to a greater diversity of creations, as multiple as they are
varied, far from commercial obligations.
Validate
[1] We should also point out that, during the crisis, two new unions were created in the cultural sector: the Union of United Culture and
Entertainment Workers (Stucco) and the Union of Artists-Authors Workers ( STAA), both affiliated to the CNT-SO (anarcho-syndicalist).
[2] This is the case for 31% of employees who were declared "partially unemployed" according to a CGT survey of May 2020.
In / S'informer / AL , the monthly / issues of 2020 / AL for September is on newsstands !
Edito: face uncovered
Layoffs epidemic: the right vaccine is the fight !
Antisocial back to school: the Macron-Castex agenda
Libertarian communist orientation: struggles against unemployment and layoffs
Undocumented: marches across the country
Eric Dupond-Moretti: a rapist inside, an accomplice to justice
Gisèle Halimi (1927-2020): conquering women's rights
#IwasCorsica: to finally break the omerta
Metallurgy: how the UIMM wants to do more work while paying less
Between viruses and bosses: intermittent people on the grill
Back to school: who are the fafs attacking the universities ?
1870: To wage war and revolution, with Bakounine in Lyon
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Entre-virus-et-patronat-les-intermittent-es-sur-le-grill
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Message: 1
On September 26, activists of the movement "yellow vests" once again took to the streets, squares and roads of France. In Paris, the
demonstration began from Porte Dorée at 13:50, passed through Place de la Nation and at 17:15 reached Place de Italia. Participants of the
movement have been holding their performances since November 17, 2018. The space for his demonstrations in Paris is increasingly limited by
the authorities, and this is a clear violation of freedom. "Yellow Vests" challenge Macron with his "brutalized" gang and police violence in
front of the whole of France and the whole world; the "yellow" or other truth remains relevant, he cannot completely suppress it. And she
must reach him under his hypocritical mask with an electric and forced smile, behind which he hides, calming himself with his power, strength,
Throughout his reign, this barely elected ruler has forced thousands of protesters to take to the streets, including the yellow vests, who
will not leave him alone until 2022, and whom he himself pursues with the help of his police. But the "yellow vests" are the only ones who
continue to take to the streets of Paris and other areas of France since November 17, 2018, every Saturday.
In addition to the traditional demands of the "yellow vests" - raising living standards, wages and pensions, canceling pension reform,
increasing taxes on the rich, granting the right to organize civil referenda - there is growing resentment among activists against
authoritarian and arbitrary restrictions on freedoms under the pretext of fighting the epidemic. Prohibitions on demonstrations, fines,
repression, coercion to wear masks ... "Wearing masks is like wearing a prison on your own face. They want to wear it for the entire
population."
Paris demonstrators, chanting slogans and playing drums, marched through the city, despite the provocative actions of the police and
gendarmes around them, who tried to slow down and restrain their advance. After speeches and speeches at the gathering place, the
participants moved through General Michel Bizot Avenue to the Place de la Nation, where they crossed paths with a group of protesters from
the French overseas possessions who came to express their outrage at the plight that had developed in their territories. Then, along the
Boulevard Diderot, past the Gare de Lyon and further, the demonstrators go to the Place des Italia. A stop was made at a shopping center
where speeches were given denouncing capitalist consumption
(https://blogs.mediapart.fr/ceinna-coll/blog/270920/gj-acte-84-sem98-paris-26092020-ne-peut-pas-nous-interdire-de-respirer).
On September 26, actions were held in other cities and towns. For example, in Strasbourg, activists from several departments and even from
Germany walked through the city from Bordeaux to the quarter where the EU institutions are located, and then to the city center, along
Robertso Avenue, Brant Square, Ile Embankment, Corbeau and Kleber Square, where they set up tents and held discussions with the population.
The posters read: Layoffs Epidemic: The Only Vaccine Is Fight, The Only Salvation: Organize To Get Out Of Capitalism And Nation States.
Everything Is Possible Together! (https://www.evous.fr/Blocages-routes-France-carte-des-rassemblements-hausse-prix-carburant-1192858.html)
The Yellow Vests resumed widespread protests following the quarantine and summer lull on September 12, when demonstrations were held in
Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille, Nantes, Marseille, Nice, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Nancy, Montpellier, Angers, Grenoble and Douai. On October 3,
new demonstrations and road blockade actions are scheduled in dozens of locations throughout France
(https://www.evous.fr/Blocages-routes-France-carte-des-rassemblements-hausse-prix-carburant-1192858.html)
https://aitrus.info/node/5557
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Message: 2
In December 2019, the International Workers' Association (IWA) at its Congress held in Melbourne, Australia, decided to promote an
International Week against Unpaid Wages. The Sections of the IWA agreed to carry out different activities during the 3rd week of October to
call attention to the widespread phenomenon of unpaid waged and to show which tools we can use to fight it. Because we, as workers, do jobs
to be paid for them, not to voluntarily make employers richer and richer. ---- Unfortunately, we live in a society where we are forced to
work to earn a salary if we want to survive. We need money for food, housing, education, healthcare, etc. So, when we don't get paid for our
work consequences may be dramatic for us and those relying on us. ---- During this International Week we want to remind that we workers have
our own weapons to protect ourselves from employers.
Usually people only trust courts to solve labour disputes. There are different laws in different countries. And even if it is important to
know them, we cant trust them. Very often they don't give us enough protection.
Let's imagine that you are working without a contract, how would you prove that you worked for a certain employer and he must pay you? And
without a contract, if you get fired, how would you get your compensation or your unemployment benefit if there is such a right in your
country? And when you are forced to work overtime and you are not paid for it, isn't it working for free? If your contract states that you
are an unskilled labourer but you are a highly skilled machine operator, are you being paid what is fixed by the corresponding collective
bargaining agreement, if there is one at all? And if you are a woman and you get less money than your male workmates even if you do the same
work, isn't it a partially unpaid wage? If you are at the end of your degree, and you are working as a covenant for a miserable salary, even
if you do the same job as your more experienced workmates, aren't you being fooled? And when you are sick but you have no right to get paid,
is it your fault? You don't need the money when you are sick? And if you get fired every June and you are hired again on September, who's
paying for your holidays? If you find only temporary jobs for one week in a month, don't your children eat every day?
Laws simply aren't made to protect us, but to make things easier for the employers. They are the ones who actually sponsor the laws, not the
members of parliament. That's why we don't fight for what is legal, but simply for our interests. And we do so directly facing those who
attack us and treat us like humans without rights.
Even if the law is on our side, most of the time we don't stand for our rights because we feel isolated and we fear losing everything. We
feel isolated because the states, in collaboration with the trade unions under the control of political parties, managed to make us not to
believe in self-organization and solidarity to defend us. Employers just prefer to negotiate with professional representatives of the
workers to solve labour disputes. That's because they know they can buy off professional workers' representatives, but they just can't buy
off a group of workers who are deciding at their own meetings how to fight bosses.
If we really want to protect our interests, we have to socialise the fight so the whole community knows what makes us suffer. This way we
can develop a sense of solidarity when we realise that our own problems are those of our neighbours.
When they owe wages to a worker, bosses must feel that they are not facing an isolated individual, but a supportive community willing to use
their own weapons.
We can't believe in dialogue with employers to defend ourselves. We shouldn't forget that money is all employers care about, and the proper
way to fight them is making them lose profits. And so, how do we get employers to lose money? Stopping working for them, sopping buying what
they sell and destroying the infrastructure they need to manufacture and sell goods and services. In other words: strike, boycott and
sabotage. These are our weapons.
But don't get us wrong. We are not fighting for a "fair" wage, because the wage-based economy is based on exploitation and benefit.
Employers hire you because they need you in order to make money. And they will always pay you a little part of the money you make them earn
with your work.
The daily struggle against unpaid wages is just a direct response to an immediate issue. Although we judge it to be a defensive fight, it is
part of our longterm struggle for profound changes in society we need to prevent one small part of the population from living off of the
rest. And these radical changes in society we call Social Revolution.
Suffering is spread all around the world we live in. And this suffering is caused by social, economic, racial and gender inequality. On top
of that, capitalist economy is causing a climate crisis that's destroying the planet. This is the reality for thousands of millions.
However, the issue is not about a bunch of greedy and wicked individuals. On one side, the issue is about a benefit-oriented economy, not
oriented to the need of the communities: capitalism. On the other hand, the issue is about hierarchies present in every field of social life
that divide us artificially and that are source of inequality and oppression. And we shouldn't forget that the state has always been a loyal
ally of capitalism and that it will never be an instrument for social fairness, even if some socialists believe that the state will bring us
equality and freedom.
If we want a different world, we need to build a new society and a new economy focused on people's needs instead of the current one focused
on the needs of the capitalists. And in order to live happy and dignifying lives and develop our potentialities we don't need capitalism nor
the states.
That's how we see it. If you see it the same way, contact your nearest IWA group. Let's build something together. The struggle against
unpaid wages is just a struggle amongst a variety of struggles we are involved in and in which we win thanks to direct action, solidarity
and mutual aid.
The International Secretariat
https://iwa-ait.org/content/12th-18th-october-international-week-against-unpaid-wages
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Message: 3
On September 23rd the Overseas Operations Bill was passed through Parliament with a massive majority at its second reading. The Bill's main
proposals are to put a strict time limit on prosecution of war crimes committed by the British armed forces. ---- The Labour leader, Keir
Starmer, instructed his whips to tell Labour MPs to abstain on the vote. Only 18 MPs voted against the bill, including Nadia Whittome, a
junior member of the Shadow Cabinet. Starmer then promptly sacked her from the Shadow Cabinet. Two other junior members of the Shadow
Cabinet stepped down from their posts to vote against the Bill. ---- This move by Starmer is to indicate his and Labour's loyalty to the
British State and its imperialist measures. This is hardly anything new. Labour has always been loyal to British imperialist ventures. The
first two Labour governments of 1924 and then 1929-1931 administrated a ‘business as usual' approach to the British Empire and put down
anti-colonial uprisings in Burma, India, Iraq, Nigeria and Palestine. Labour insisted that the peoples the British Empire ruled over would
not be ready for self-government for "a considerable time". With the coming to power of the Labour government led by Attlee in 1945 this
pro-imperialist line continued. In Malaysia, in particular, a vicious war against a pro-independence movement was waged for three years,
using particularly brutal methods, overseen by the Labour government. It also acted harshly against uprisings in the Gold Coast, Iran and
Nigeria, and enthusiastically opted to be a junior ally of the USA in the Korean War in 1950.
The Wilson government of 1964-1970 continued its policies of allying with the USA, condoning the American invasion of Vietnam; though
stopping short of direct military support. On the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, ruled by Britain, Labour authorised the
removal of all its inhabitants so that the Americans could establish a base there. It carried out military aggression in Anguilla, Aden and
Yemen and threatened military action in Cyprus. Having made a promise not to supply arms to apartheid South Africa, it then reneged on this
and allowed the supply of 20 fighter aircraft. In Northern Ireland, the Wilson government deployed the Army to quell unrest there in 1969.
Elected again in 1974 the Wilson government continued its Irish policies, with Secretary of State Merlyn Rees depriving Republican prisoners
of political status, and designating them as criminals.
More recently, the Blair government continued acting as the USA's junior partner and took an enthusiastic role in the intervention in Iraq.
Out of office, Labour under Ed Miliband endorsed British military action in Libya in 2011.
It can be seen that Labour has always been a party that has supported British imperialism. This latest move by Starmer demonstrates this.
If the Bill is adopted, it will mean that it will be that much harder for crimes committed by the Armed Forces to come to court and for
victims to receive justice. In other words, crimes committed by the British state in foreign adventures will be effectively decriminalised.
To add to this, on the day after this vote, the Government brought in the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill, which will allow British
intelligence services to involve themselves in what otherwise is seen as criminal activity. It would give carte blanche to MI5 and protect
the border police and officials. It remains to be seen how Labour will vote in future on this Bill.
For those still inside the Labour Party who still entertain doubts about remaining within it, surely this must be the clincher for
departure? The Corbynist wave is over, there should now be no illusions that the Labour Party is a vehicle for social change. It is time to
construct a movement outside of parliament that looks towards grassroots activity in the workplaces and neighbourhoods, built on mass
decision making and the mandation of delegates, an anathema to the State and Parliament. Only such a movement can bring real social change,
the end of capitalism and the establishment of a free communism.
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/09/28/the-overseas-operations-bill-and-labour-yet-another-reason-to-leave-labour/
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Message: 4
At this time of year the situation in the country does not improve. It has been almost 6 months of quarantine and confinement in which we
have seen that the repression grows and intensifies, reaching the point that almost every day there are police and military in the street,
raping neighbors, common pots, gassing houses and requesting "circulation permits" with their weapons of war in hand. In spite of
everything, the response of the people has not been slow to appear, and it is again that through barricades, cacerolazos, mutual support and
a lot of health care we have continued in the streets keeping alive the conflict that began on October 18, 2019 These weeks, new cases of
femicides have come to light where justice is clearly shown as classist and patriarchal; We have seen how the intransigent state is
incapable of listening to the demands of the Mapuche community members, who denounced their hunger strike after more than 100 days; We have
seen how the prosecution sentenced our comrades prisoners of the revolt to long sentences; We have seen how the most disgusting right wing
continues to vomit shit on the television mornings and that every time they can laugh in our faces, placing obstacles to get 10% of the AFPs
in this complicated context of pandemic ... There are so many reasons that have accumulated ... How not to be angry? How can we not want to
go out to the streets to fight? ... It is a matter of time for everything to explode again ... If there is something about which we have no
doubt, it is that this is just beginning and that there is no turning back.We are close to turning 1 year from the day we made the powerful
tremble, we overwhelmed their police, we blew up their big companies and we met again after so long apart. The community ties that were born
in the revolt are those that have given the resistance during all this time. It was neither the municipality, nor the State, nor anyone else
but the people. And we cannot forget that! We have a lot of strength and an incredible capacity for organization ...
During the end of July and the beginning of August, the government promoted a deconfinement plan with the aim of "returning to normality",
that is, going back to schools, going back to work, consuming again in the malls and going back to buy things we do not need, despite the
fact that there is still no health solution that guarantees that the virus is controlled. Although the number of Covid-19 infections
(according to government and MINSAL figures) decreased at one point, a resurgence quickly occurred ... The desperation with which they are
striving to reactivate the capitalist economy is impressive.They are not even interested in showing that they care anymore,because for them
we are simply cannon fodder in the face of a pandemic that they have been unable to handle.
All of the above shows us that they are the ones who need us, despite the fact that they have always made us believe otherwise. They say
that wealth is generated by companies and that thanks to them the country progresses. That is completely untrue . It is the workers who move
the country, who produce value, who build things, houses, buildings, roads, everything ... they are the ones who generate wealth; the
powerful only appropriate it (they steal it, this is known as surplus value ) and if we realize it, they don't even work . The functioning
of the capitalist economy is nothing without the workers who make it go; It is not the other way around .It is thanks to the activity of the
workers that the powerful live with great privileges, such as the possibility of quarantining comfortably and safely without the uncertainty
that they will not eat, or also, the impunity with which they They transgress quarantine by getting on their big helicopters to go to the
beach to de-stress without anyone telling them anything.
On the other hand, in the great majority of the communes, also here in Central Station, the quarantine seems to have always been a lie; In
the Meiggs neighborhood, underground bars or the mall tray NEVER stopped having people working, because if they don't work they don't eat.
This makes us think of the deep contradiction that exists between the capitalist economy and our lives, a contradiction that we experience
today on a much more intense level. Why eat, dress, have shelter, health and education have to cost so much suffering? Why is meeting our
needs so dependent on money? Why is it so impossible to stop the economy without the country going into crisis?This is because capitalism is
a mode of production and a way of understanding life that has us subjected and that the more it develops, the more it takes our lives. The
capitalist economy is a contradiction in process that collapses as it advances, leaving in its wake a painful accumulation of catastrophes.
From all this, we are not exaggerating when we affirm that the only way out of this catastrophe is the social revolution against this
system of death.
We cannot forget the hunger revolt that began a few months ago in the forest commune and that quickly spread to the other territories in the
context of a pandemic. People took to the streets out of necessity and because the government did not provide the minimum conditions to stay
at home by quarantining . It is from that moment that the common pots are born, completely autonomous instances that arise with the
intention of directly solving the needs. ( That is anarchy!.)We consider that it is these instances that we must take care of and promote,
keeping away any institution, municipality, politician or company that intends to appropriate them, either to direct them or to clean their
image. We cannot fail to mention that weeks ago, in some places it was police and military who raised common pots with a false smile on
their faces and with contemptible kindness , since all these months they have shot and killed us! We believe that today, we must continue to
strengthen the autonomous and territorial organization.It is essential to think about how to get out of this total crisis, since it is
evident that the capitalist economy is opposed to our lives, and that if we do not do something now, the crises will be deeper and repeated
over time. It is necessary to create another way of eating, dressing, educating, relating, loving, moving ... of living . The scarcity of
money today invites us to think about how to live without it. Is that possible? Is it just a utopia? Can a world exist without money?
We believe that these questions are not resolved, and it is in the struggle itself that we will find answers. This small reflection, which
is born from the anarchist perspective and which clearly deserves more depth, in no way seeks to insert itself into the normality of
capitalism as we know it; Our intention is to criticize both money, the State, the police and salaried work (that is, work understood as an
activity that only seeks to produce money and that is not in tune with our true needs; we are not criticizing "work "Because we are" lazy
"). We want to break with this system in its entirety since we believe that this way we will achieve our true freedom.
The revolutionary horizon that we share is one where life is no longer subject to any kind of authority. We believe that life is possible,
and even more, it is completely necessary. It just depends on us and us.
FACING THE PANDEMIC, THE STATE AND CAPITAL
SOLIDARITY AND MUTUAL SUPPORT.
Originally published in Chuchunco City . Newsletter of the Libertarian Assembly Chuchunco # 2, September 2020.
Chuchunco, Mapocho Valley[Central Station, Santiago]
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Message: 5
Azerbaijani anarchist Giyas Ibrahimov was detained by security services for alleged anti-war statements yesterday. ---- In the now-deleted
live video he posted on his social media account,Ibrahimov broadcasted security forces entering his flat in Azerbaijan's capital Baku and
refusing to tell him why he was being detained. ---- "At first they said that they were from the police, then they said that we would take
me to the military commissariat, I asked them for a document for this, and they said they would take me to the National Security Service.
I'm not against it. Let's go," Ibragimov said to the camera. ---- In the video, Ibragimov said that he believes the reason for his arrest is
the complaints of "several people" about his anti-war posts on social networks.
A few hours before his arrest, Ibragimov posted a screenshot of a message exchange in which a man asks for his phone number and address.
On the morning of September 27, a decades-long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh flared up again, seeing dozens
killed. While the governments of both countries compete on jingoistic patriotic statements, Ibrahim has become known for his anti-war posts.
He said that many Azerbaijanis condemned him online, telling him that they were "losing respect" for him because of such statements.
"The two civilians killed in Naftlan were[...]students in grades 9 and 7."
"Pseudo-patriots say they want war now to prevent the conflict from being passed on to future generations. They do not see that they do not
allow the next generation to come. "
Bahruz Samedov, an activist for the Azerbaijani civil movement Nida, told OC Media website that Ibrahimov was perhaps the only person to
openly criticize the recent war online.
"They just came to his apartment and said that someone was complaining about his Facebook posts, his mother also wrote about it on FB, this
is really very bad because now he is completely alone and people are posting comments like: "Yes, he deserves it, he must be killed," this
is complete nonsense. "
Ibragimov previously received prison sentence for his activism.
In May 2016, he was arrested along with another activist, Bayram Mammadov, after painting graffiti on a statue of Heydar Aliyev, the late
national leader and father of the country's current president, Ilham Aliyev.
On the eve of the "Day of Flowers": a national celebration dedicated to the birthday of Heydar Aliyev, activists painted graffiti with the
inscription "Happy Day of the Slaves" in Azerbaijani. On the other side of the pedestal was another inscription: "Fuck this system!"
Misteriously, according to the official report of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 3 kg of heroin were seized during
the arrest and the search of the flats of Bayram Mammadov and Giyas Ibrahim. In a case widely criticized by international human rights
organizations, Mamedov and Ibragimov were sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of drug trafficking. In 2019, Ibragimov was released
under an amnesty for political prisoners.
Source: Avtonom
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Message: 6
In the framework of the Second Global Action against the war against the EZLN, the Peoples and Life, Samir Viu that is taking place from
September 20 to 26 in Mexico, we remember the forced disappearance of the 43 normal students of Ayotzinapa, in l 'State of Guerrero on
September 26, 2014 . ---- Because the repression by the state and its minions, the paramilitaries acting with impunity belo the umbrella of
the current president's lack of social transformation, is the same that acted 6 years ago by making the 43 students disappear. Because it
was the state. ---- But while the attacks of state guard dogs on their three levels of misgovernment and violence are continuous, the
dignified rebellion and resistance of the struggling people is more constant and tenacious. Therefore, from the Rebellion and Resistance
Networks in support of the EZLN, the CNI and the IGC, the Second Global Action was chosen to end on September 26, 2020 , because there will
be no silence, no forgiveness or forgetfulness.
We remember that already on the eve of the opening of the Olympic Games of Mexico in 1968, the student movement next to the civil population
was pronounced against the PRI policy of the then president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz in the Place of the Three Cultures, section of Tlatelolco, in
the center of Mexico City, demanding social, educational and political reforms.
Between 300 and 400 people were killed by police firing that repressed the protest and 1,345 were arrested in what we know as the Tlatelolco
Massacre. Because again, it was the state .
To commemorate this, during the week leading up to September 26, 2014, the student movement of the Ayotzinapa Rural Rural School was
organized to go to Mexico City by bus that they used to take for the mobilizations. .
Between the night of 26 to 27 September 2014, the Iguala Police and the Guerrero State Police pursued the mobilized Ayotzinapa normalist
students.
The result of this crackdown was at least 9 people killed by police in addition to the 43 missing students and 27 people injured. Because
again, it was the state.
Since then, there has been no official search because everything pointed to the then PRD mayor and his connections to organized crime, the
disappearance of the bus with the 43 students.
6 years later, the 43 students are still not appearing alive, because it is alive as their families, friends and classmates continue to
demand, because they were taken away alive. But neither has the bus, nor its bodies, nor the political leaders nor the executors of this new
massacre of the state.
From CGT we join the demand for truth and justice.
It is enough to criminalize and murder the insurrection in Mexico.
By the end of the war against the EZLN, the Peoples and life
For the 43 missing Ayotzinapa
Samir alive, the fight continues!
CGT Secretariat for International Relations
http://www.cgtcatalunya.cat/spip.php?article13434
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Message: 7
The cultural and entertainment sector being almost at a standstill due to the coronavirus, this category of workers is hit by massive
unemployment. What will happen at the end of the "white year" decided by the government ? ---- The two months of confinement will have been
two months of uncertainty concerning the fate of workers in the entertainment industry. Yet they did not stand idly by. Organized through
their unions and their collectives[1], they proposed evolving health protocols (reviewed every two months) by post, targeting the problems
and solutions of each and everyone, as well as the questions to be asked to them. health professionals. ---- In some cases, by reacting
collectively, they have succeeded in blocking employers' attempts to take advantage of the coronavirus to lay off en masse. Thus, at
Disneyland Paris, on April 11, more than 1,300 fixed-term contracts and temporary workers - musicians, actors, technicians, stuntwomen and
stuntmen, costume designers and make-up artists - received an email from the management entitled "Rupture amicable agreement of your
employment contract" . This announced to them nothing less than the early end of their contract ... without compensation of course because
"case of force majeure" !The CGT-Spectacle federation immediately called on all those concerned not to sign anything, and blocked this
maneuver à la Onc'Picsou. After hype at the social and economic committee, the ministry, the labor inspectorate, the CGT obtained that all
those concerned be reinstated in the workforce of the company, and benefit from the Partial unemployment.
In the film sector, all productions have officially been shut down even though it is well known that employees came to work illegally and in
dangerous conditions, while being declared "unemployed." partial"by companies which pocketed public money[2].
In the audiovisual sector (TV channel), where distancing is not always possible, minimum protective measures had to be taken. It is often
the first and first concerned who, in this matter, are responsible for giving the spotlight to their employers.
Today, if the shootings were able to resume, the live performance, it is still under cover, condemning a large number of small structures.
The government knows that the cultural sector can be united and reactive in the defense of its rights. And among these, the special
unemployment insurance scheme for intermittent and intermittent workers. Tens of thousands of them and they could not contribute in 2020
because of the health crisis. In May, unions and intermittent collectives obtained from the government the application of a "white year "And
the maintenance of unemployment rights, whatever happens, until August 31, 2021. A pressure relief valve that remains unsatisfactory as it
leaves people on the side of the road. Nothing is planned for those entering, prevented from reopening or opening unemployment rights ;
nothing either for women returning from maternity leave, or people returning from long-term sick leave: a scandal for equal rights and
savings made at the expense of the most vulnerable. A privileged status, really ?
In a more general way, the government wants to maintain at all costs, for the 1 stSeptember, the second part of his unemployment insurance
reform. According to Unedic, it must reduce by 30 to 75% the benefits of 650,000 unemployed. And among the people affected: intermittent and
intermittent entertainment workers, who benefit from a special regime adapted to the specificity of their activity.
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This allows them to live despite often mediocre wages and hours of preparation, research, training, writing, rehearsal which, as a rule, are
unpaid. The rule of the game is as follows: for unemployment compensation, you must have declared, in less than twelve months, 507 hours of
contract work. If the artist or technician concerned does not manage to accumulate these 507 hours within the allotted time, it is the loss
of the intermittency regime, and the return to the RSA box.
The horizon of the end of rights is twice as close
If we compare with the general regime, the precariousness is not less. Indeed, since the hardening of the rules in November 2019, employees
must, to open their rights to unemployment compensation, contribute six months (or 840 hours), but within a period twice as long:
twenty-four month. The horizon of the end of rights is therefore twice as close for intermittent and intermittent workers, and this
insecurity closes a lot of doors for them, in particular when they take out a bank loan or rent a home. Each year, the number of workers
entering the race for intermittency increases by 8 %, faster growth than the volume of jobs available. Competition is therefore fierce, the
507 hours more difficult to achieve, and we see more and more colleagues switching to self-entrepreneurship and accepting lower pay per use.
But this category of cultural workers also have a right to dignity ! The cultural sector needs them to exist. And society as a whole needs
culture, critical thinking, dreams and imagination.
For more than forty years, governments have wanted to put populations and sectors in competition, invoking ever more flexibility in the name
of "economic reason" and unraveling the Labor Code. This strategy common to Medef and the State has, however, logically always pushed the
proletariat to fight to defend its rights. Today, the cultural sector is facing a major social crisis. We must remain vigilant in the face
of the backlash prepared by employers, and of which the current reform of unemployment insurance is only the prelude.
Aurel (UCL Toulouse and surroundings)
REVOLUTIONIZING CULTURE
Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, culture workers have shown imagination, drawing as many avenues to change the work of tomorrow.
In the cultural sector, a libertarian communist society would encourage the pooling of equipment and knowledge, like the collectivization of
film production practiced during the Spanish Revolution of 1936 by unions of directors, technicians and artists. .
A flattening of the hierarchies between artistic genres, more self-management and de-jail of tasks in production would eliminate the power
relations between genres and professions. The population would have access to a greater diversity of creations, as multiple as they are
varied, far from commercial obligations.
Validate
[1] We should also point out that, during the crisis, two new unions were created in the cultural sector: the Union of United Culture and
Entertainment Workers (Stucco) and the Union of Artists-Authors Workers ( STAA), both affiliated to the CNT-SO (anarcho-syndicalist).
[2] This is the case for 31% of employees who were declared "partially unemployed" according to a CGT survey of May 2020.
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