Today's Topics:
1. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL AL #308 - Politics,
Libertarian communist orientation: struggles against unemployment
and layoffs (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Libertarian communist orientation: struggles against unemployment
and layoffs (de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Czech, AFED: ODS in action -- A small reminder of the so far
unique summer event - a screening in a temporarily occupied empty
house. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
unique summer event - a screening in a temporarily occupied empty
house. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. belarus, pramen: Critical review of protests in Belarus in
last 2 month, (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
last 2 month, (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Poland, Rozbart: SOLIDARITY WITH THE REPRESSED AFTER THE
BLACK PROTEST - A STATEMENT [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
BLACK PROTEST - A STATEMENT [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, liberta salonica: Call for support for the general
education demonstration and the teachers' strike: Thursday 15/10,
11:00 at the statue of Venizelos. [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
education demonstration and the teachers' strike: Thursday 15/10,
11:00 at the statue of Venizelos. [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. CGT-LKN Euskal Herria: (BEFORE THE CALL FOR CGT) An action program for a General Strike in Madrid (ca)
[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. [USA] Video | Anarchist performance in the heart of New York
against the assassination of the Amazon Rainforest By
against the assassination of the Amazon Rainforest By
ANA (pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Blocking shareholder dividends, regaining robust unemployment insurance, reducing working hours with corresponding hires, requisitioning /
self-management of companies that are closing, right of veto for workers ... The fight against unemployment must be done through
redistribution of wealth. The fight against layoffs should be an opportunity to question the arbitrariness of employers. ---- Since the end
of the 1970s, the proletariat in France has learned to live under the constant threat of mass unemployment, layoffs plans, factory
relocations, and at the cost of ever increasing job insecurity. ---- Most of the layoffs and layoffs, however, are done quietly, without
triggering major collective struggles: they hit the mass of precarious workers individually (temporary workers, CDD, self-employed), or
employees of SMEs with little media coverage.
Traditionally, it is the employees of large companies subjected to restructuring who, by leading spectacular struggles - demonstrations,
occupied factories, "war treasures" put under lock and key, executives sequestered, resumption of occasional or sustainable production by
the strikers - can publicize layoffs and make it a political issue.
Act so as not to lose everything
Faced with layoff plans, the temptation still exists, among employees, to play low profile in the hope that it falls on others or that the
employers are lenient. The facts show that this is still, in the medium term, the worst solution. There are many examples of companies where
employees have agreed to cut back on their social gains in exchange for a promise to maintain activity... betrayed after a few years. Giving
in to job blackmail is rarely a good choice. Conversely, those who refused to step back generally fared better, whether the business closed
or not.
Demonstration in Paris, associations fighting against unemployment and insecurity (AC !, Apeis, MNCP, CGT-Privé.es emploi)
Whatever the demands, the employees, to face the bosses, the judicial decisions and the maneuvers of the State, must create a balance of
power. Occupying the factory, attacking the economic interests of the principal (boycott, occupation of subsidiaries, blocking the delivery
of products and machines, etc.), all of these practices allowing the re-appropriation of the work tool and have leverage. These are the
forms of direct action that must be promoted.
It is also essential to organize solidarity outside: by going to see the companies in the surrounding area, by soliciting inter-professional
trade union organizations (local unions, etc.), by going directly to meet the population, other employees, in the neighborhood...
Federate struggles to give them visibility
Federating the struggles against layoffs also contributes to the establishment of this balance of power.
This was the case in 2001-2003, with the convergence of workers from Lu-Danone, Marks & Spencer, STMicroelectronics, Daewoo, ACT
Manufacturing, Thomson... Joint national demonstrations were organized, and a collective, Resistance 2004, had produced a platform of
protest against the layoffs.
This was the case following the 2008 crisis, around Goodyear, Continental, New Fabris, Philips, SBFM, Molex, Freescale, PSA, SKF, Renault,
Ford ... with joint demonstrations and the constitution of a Collective against rogue bosses and layoffs.
This may again be the case with the looming economic crisis, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The political significance of the demands
By virtue of their collective visibility, workers in large companies therefore traditionally play a leading role in opposing layoffs.
However, each context is specific, and each work group necessarily has its own issues. For convergence to be sustainable, they need common
demands. And for this convergence of employees in large companies to play a more broadly catalytic role in the proletariat, we need demands
capable of responding to all situations of unemployment.
In any case, UCL will push towards claims aligned with one guiding idea: capital must pay. Capital is never more than the sum of the
material and immaterial wealth produced by the employees, and appropriated by the capitalists. Ensuring the subsistence of each and every
one must correspond to a legitimate redistribution of wealth in favor of the working world and to the detriment of capital. UCL will also
push for claims challenging private property and the power of capitalists over the economy.
It does not matter whether certain demands are compatible or not with capitalism at its current stage, as long as they are legitimate from a
revolutionary point of view and they meet with an echo. Some are "transitional" demands in the sense that they underline the illegitimacy of
the current regime and provide a bridge to the society of tomorrow.
Three axes of action and demand
1) Redistribution of wealth / capital must pay
The UCL supports the demands which contradict the idea that unemployment is the fault of the unemployed, that the Arlesian "growth" will
create jobs, and that we must "work more to earn more". This means support for:
- sharing of salaried working time by reducing it, without reduction in wages or flexibility, with corresponding hires ;
- lowering of the retirement age without reduction of pensions, with corresponding recruitments ;
- the defense of high-level unemployment insurance, involving the pooling of employers' responsibilities. The idea is to create an
inter-professional guarantee, in which the rights would be attached to the employee and no longer to the company for which he works. All
acquired rights (seniority, training, etc.) would be transferable from one company to another. In terms of salary, career, training, each
employee would have cumulative rights that each new employer should take into account.
2) Challenge of private property and employer power
The demand for a "law prohibiting dismissals», Often brandished in protests against layoffs, has obvious limits: it dispossesses workers,
placing their fate in the hands of the State. However, the experience of administrative dismissal authorization (1975-1986) has largely
shown that the natural tendency of the State, espousing the employers' point of view, was to endorse dismissals. The UCL will push the
demands which make the power of workers prevail over employer arbitrariness: - the blocking of dividends from shareholders of companies that
make redundancies. - the employee's right of veto over collective redundancies. We must obtain this new right which stands in the way of
employers' absolutism and which allows real guarantees of reclassification, prior to any restructuring. This transitive demand (in the sense
that it involves in itself a questioning of capitalism) could become the unifying slogan of a movement protesting dismissals. It would also
find a concrete relay in the coordinated occupations of companies and, if necessary, their requisition / self-management.
From a revolutionary perspective, we defend the expropriation of shareholders without redemption or compensation, through the socialization
of companies. But in periods when the struggles remain isolated, the employees can spontaneously demand the nationalization of their company
to maintain their jobs. In this case, UCL will support them, because it is relentlessly opposed to privatizations. But it will do so
critically because nationalization, unlike socialization, is only a default solution that changes nothing in capitalist governance.
3) Support for self-management experiences
On several occasions, during occupations of factories, the question of the possession of the working tool, as a "war chest" and a means of
pressure on the employers and the shareholders , has arisen . On these occasions, we saw the start of a debate on the reappropriation of the
work tool. In the most emblematic situations (Lip 1973, the Argentinazo in 2001, Greece in 2008), this could have led to savage
requisitions, in self-management. In other cases (Isotube / Marketube in 1975, Tower Colliery in 1995, Pilpa / Fabrique du Sud in 2013,
Fralib / Scop-TI in 2014 ...), it is the legalistic choice of a cooperative takeover that was operated, sometimes at the end of a real
standoff with the state and employers.
Of course, it would be absurd to believe that this tactic can be valid for any factory threatened with closure or relocation. This option is
only suitable for companies which are in a short circuit or which can benefit in their sector from a pre-existing network of cooperatives.
It is too easy for the employers to boycott and destroy a subcontractor factory taken over by its employees.
However, employee takeover is easier in niche economic activities where competition is less strong. Or when the company produces goods
directly accessible to individuals, allowing the organization of a popular solidarity campaign, achieving the junction of production and
consumption. It is for this reason that, for companies whose social utility is questionable, the question of reconversion must be raised.
To the workers who, to defend their jobs, will employ this tactic - of savage requisition or takeover in a cooperative - UCL will provide
its support. It will encourage the establishment of self-management and egalitarian relationships, the eventual reconversion towards a
socially useful production, and will act to strengthen the links between the cooperatives thus created and the social movement.
Always articulate the struggles of today to the society of tomorrow
The UCL does not oppose "reformist struggles" and "revolutionary struggles", considering that the important thing is social conflict in
itself, as a leaven of class consciousness, and as an essential food for any revolutionary project. . In the movements to fight against
layoffs, the UCL will therefore push towards the practices of direct action and the unifying demands developed here, both because they are
in the interests of the proletariat, and because they are of questioning of the capitalist order and / or the dominant ideology.
On their own, neither measures to protect against unemployment and to obstruct dismissals, nor the proliferation of "self-managed islands"
will allow a break with capitalism. But if they are based on the direct action of the dominated and exploited, if they resonate with a
self-management imagination and with our strategy of building lasting checks and balances, these fights will fuel a project of social
transformation that maybe libertarian communism.
Federal orientation
A process of synthesis
During their unification congress in June 2019, Alternative libertaire and the Coordination of anarchist groups decided not to make a clean
sweep of their past orientations and developments, but to synthesize and update them gradually. This text was adopted during the federal
coordination of the UCL on June 20-21, 2020.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Orientation-communiste-libertaire-les-luttes-contre-le-chomage-et-les
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Message: 2
In Prague, squating generally stagnates after the evacuation of the Clinic. However, this is trying to change the newly formed ODS team -
Really Good Squats. We bring you a report from one of the team members from the first event - called Occupy and Project!, which took place
in July. ---- It's Friday night and around 7 pm I meet other members at the tram stop near the center of Prague with other members of the
team. I have a backpack with a data projector on my back and I hold a heavy car battery in my hand. A friend who came with me holds a
folding chair and a broom for sweeping. Gradually, the others come, especially a colleague with a large folding ladder. When we are all, we
head towards the abandoned house. This is a large apartment building on the corner. The first thing we have to ensure is the actual entrance
to the building. Someone in front of us has already partially prepared it, it's a window on coal, so-called charcoal. So we lower the
expansion ladder inside and then gradually disappear everyone inside the house. The hardest thing is to take down all the backpacks and
especially the heavy car battery.
As soon as we are all inside, we have to start preparations, first we need to clean up properly. So we start collecting piles of garbage,
which were thrown in by charcoal. Others, meanwhile, go through the individual rooms of the house and choose a suitable space for
projection. Here we need to sweep, we still have the broom. In the meantime, others darken the windows so that they cannot be seen inside.
Once the rooms are tidy, we start hanging lights and lighting candles and using them to create a path through the intricate maze of the
house. When everything is ready, we all start sending the coordinates of the screening location to our friends. In the meantime, another
member arrives with a bass of beer and a small bar can be created.
We are all expecting how many people will actually arrive. It's ten o'clock, the beginning of the screening. We take out a projector and
prepare the first film - Clearing with the past . We are all shocked when the whole room fills up in a few minutes. So we start screening,
but people are still coming. In the end, about 70 people arrived for the quickly planned event. There is no place to sit, so people stand in
the hallways, walk through the rooms of the house or just crawl somewhere and talk. Candles and Christmas lights add a beautiful atmosphere
to all this. After watching the first film, a documentary about the Memories of the Future event follows. In the meantime, however, another
group is already producing banners in a large room, which they then want to hang on the windows. Banners carry the slogans "You can't live
here" and "You can live here".
After watching the document, a lot of people remained in the house. Someone came here and there for more beers, and everyone had fun until
the early hours of the morning. Banners were hung around six o'clock and the whole event was finished by pulling the ladder out of the charcoal.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7234/ods-v-akci
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Message: 3
Over the past 2 months we have gone through almost the entire book of possible tactics of non-violent resistance. Unfortunately, so far only
Sunday protests have been able to strengthen on a permanent basis. The majority of other protest forms are now under control. ---- Working
movement ---- In the first week the workers showed their political strength in the country. Images of Lukashenko's humiliation at a meeting
with workers in Minsk flew around the world. But the repression did not take long. Cops were sent to the entrances of factories and neither
the support groups nor the workers were allowed to gather. Ideological work began to be carried out at the enterprises, i.e. workers were
intimidated by layoffs and other problems. To reinforce their threats, many enterprises fired or detained the most active workers. Some of
them had to go abroad.
At present, all calls to workers have little to do with reality. Most are intimidated and there is no political force that can give them
serious support. The loud statements from politicians in telegrams and on the Internet have no impact without campaigning in the workers'
groups. It is worth noting that there is now a small stream of workers who join independent trade unions. However, with such intensity it
will take several years to form a more or less serious force in the form of workers of large enterprises.
Office workers, public transport workers and other sectors of the economy have not yet expressed any signs of self-organization within the
labor movement.
Protests in the regions
In recent months, protests outside the capital have played an important role in creating pressure on the regime. The Grodno protest briefly
secured the retreat of the local authorities from the general agenda and allowed meetings to take place in the main square, while the local
channel planned to provide a slot for the protesters. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Brest for many weeks. Thousands of
protesters gathered even in small towns.
Today, the regime managed to take almost all cities under its control. While Minsk continued to make a peaceful protest, repressions in
other cities were gaining momentum. As a result of repressions and a relative lack of solidarity, the regime managed to suppress the
movement in Brest, Grodno and other major pockets of resistance.
Drivers and the Armenian scenario
From the very beginning of the protests, drivers have been actively involved in the fight against the regime. The drivers channel97 managed
to unite large groups of protesters ready to help block the roads or take protesters out of hot spots. During talks about de-escalation of
the conflict after the first week of protests, the drivers tried to become one of the key groups to organize a peaceful revolution under
Armenia's scenario - blocking the country for economic damage. If in Armenia this form of protest quickly became the main one, then in
Belarus the intensity of road blockades never reached any critical point.
Blocking of roads by pedestrians and cars at the moment has no serious impact on the regime. Moreover, this tactic is mainly present in the
capital, while there are not even small groups ready to stop the traffic outside of it.
And although the drivers have taken on the role of organizers of the revolution in one of the last statements, there are many factors that
will prevent them from doing so. Today in the country, even blocking the roads is regarded by many as a provocation or violent resistance.
Such rhetoric is the result of rapid de-escalation of the conflict in the first days and the forcing of peaceful marches as the main form of
overthrowing the dictatorship.
Women's marches
Most of the protest women's marches created a platform for demonstrations on working days. Because of open sexism of the authorities, as
well as unwillingness to create a conflict picture, women's protests were held for a long time without unnecessary problems with the rioters.
The situation changed a few weeks ago from the OMON attack on Saturday's protests. Marches were quickly suppressed due to lack of
preparedness of many people for intensive repression and direct conflict with the regime.
Today, the marches are trying to restore, but at the moment, with increasing repression and attempts to crush the last pockets of resistance
in Minsk, it seems unlikely that women's marches will be able to rise from the ashes and become a political force in the protest movement again.
Anarchists, anti-fascists and soccer fans
In Belarusian society in recent months, thanks to the media and the regime itself, a legend has been formed about knights in black clothing
who can burn cops at one glance. Karaev himself is afraid of these legendary protesters.
However, for real overall success, we need our fellow protesters to perceive us as legitimate participants in the general protest campaign
and to hear our proposals on fighting tactics.
self-defense groups
More than a month has passed since the call to form self-defense groups on major telegram channels. During this time, a chat room and a
telegram channel have been created for people interested in this topic. Once again, however, the intensity of the process has quickly dried
up. During this month, only a few such groups were formed as part of neighborhood initiatives.
The purpose of such groups was to protect the demonstrators from the regime's infantry violence during major demonstrations. In addition,
there were calls to assemble self-defense groups to protect the neighborhoods from cop raids.
In fact, there are no self-defense groups today that are ready to fight back the regime's violence in an organized format. Inside the crowd,
there are various organized and spontaneous groups of people who fight back against cops in one situation or another, but the number of such
groups is able to fight back against repressions in a situational rather than systematic way. On Sunday marches, it is never clear how the
crowd will behave when cops appear, but mostly people have to take in account that everybody will run away even when they see small groups
of punishers.
MIA/KGB
In the first days after the election, the cops made a huge number of mistakes. All theory and abstract preparation proved to be ineffective
in a real street situation. The mistakes led to an increase in protest sentiment and strengthened the fight against the regime.
Two months later we see that strategists made their conclusions. Instead of attempt to crush all the movement in one night, step-by-step
repressions began, which gradually destroying the protest movement. For struggle against demonst
https://pramen.io/en/2020/10/critical-review-of-protests-in-belarus-in-last-2-month/
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Message: 4
A month has passed since our acquittal. Emotions died down and it's time to write a few words. First of all, we want to thank you all for
your support - emotional, physical, financial. For being with us and on our side. As usual, these were mainly private individuals, our
friends and acquaintances, our partners, partners, people supporting the idea of fighting for the rights of women and minorities, activists
and activists, people who know us and know that the charges against us were political or quite aliens who recognize and oppose the
repressive, disciplinary mechanisms behind the whole situation. However, there was no support from those who made their political capital
during the Black Protest, especially those whose name became recognizable during the organization of women's strikes across the country. We
didn't count on much on their part, but we were curious if and how they would react. We would like to make it clear at this point that we
sent letters describing our case to several dozen people from the political environment. Only two people wrote back to us. Perhaps we had
too little media coverage, perhaps Poznan was too far away. However, once again we found out that regardless of the name of the party, the
vast majority of people ruling this country are not interested in our fate. There is probably no need for a longer comment on this topic.
However, once again we found out that, regardless of the name of the party, the vast majority of people ruling this country are not
interested in our fate. There is probably no need for a longer comment on this topic. However, once again we found out that, regardless of
the name of the party, the vast majority of people ruling this country are not interested in our fate. There is probably no need for a
longer comment on this topic.
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Our victory proves that together we can win against the repression apparatus. It is also a failure and a complete disgrace of the
representatives of the police, prosecutor's office and the judge who sentenced us. In order to harm us, dozens of people and huge amounts of
public money were involved. The reasons for the acquittal presented by the District Court (saying that there was absolutely no evidence
against us) indicate that the charges against us were absurd, the police testimony was unreliable, and that the previous conviction was
purely political.
The third point worth mentioning is that from the beginning we were cared for by the Anarchist Black Cross
(ACK) and thanks to that we knew what to do, how to talk to the police or the prosecutor's office and that we would get legal aid. So we
were in a much better situation than most people who are not familiar with the activities of this grassroots structure. At this point, we
would like to encourage you to become interested in what ACK is, how to belong to it (not only in Poznan) or how to support its activities.
The financial possibilities of ACK are not unlimited and any financial aid, especially in the current situation when the persecution of
activists and activists is becoming a sad norm, is useful. All the money that was left from the donation we set up was transferred there. We
will also provide you with a refund of your defense costs there. We know that several of our friends are already struggling with similar
repression mechanisms and are in need of legal assistance.
The last thing, perhaps the most important. A month has passed since we won the black protest appeal hearing and were acquitted. Four years
have passed since we stood with umbrellas in the rain, together with our sisters and brothers fighting for women's rights, for the
possibility to decide about our body, for freedom of choice. In a few days (October 22, 2020), the Constitutional Tribunal will adjudicate
whether termination of pregnancy in the event of a fetal defect is consistent with the Constitution. This ruling could make access to
abortion even more difficult. Once again, we say a firm NO. We will not let conservative politicians and women politicians, gentlemen in
togas, sad fascists and frustrated women decide about our bodies. Already now the situation of women in Poland, the fact that they have
difficult access to contraception, abortion and sexual education, etc., that they are harassed, silenced and abused is terrifying. We do not
agree to further humiliation, to forcing to give birth in the event of fetal damage or rape, to begging doctors for help when we should
simply deserve it. We are here. Four years ago, we took to the streets despite the rain, fear and criticism from the media, politicians, the
church, conservative friends, bosses and families. Now we will protest despite the pandemic and repression. We'll find a way. We help each
other. We are not afraid of pathetic silencing attempts by the police and the prosecutor's office. You won't lock us all up. Four years ago,
we took to the streets despite the rain, fear and criticism from the media, politicians, the church, conservative friends, bosses and
families. Now we will protest despite the pandemic and repression. We'll find a way. We help each other. We are not afraid of pathetic
silencing attempts by the police and the prosecutor's office. You won't lock us all up. Four years ago, we took to the streets despite the
rain, fear and criticism from the media, politicians, the church, conservative friends, bosses and families. Now we will protest despite the
pandemic and repression. We'll find a way. We help each other. We are not afraid of pathetic silencing attempts by the police and the
prosecutor's office. You won't lock us all up.
We are strong, together stronger!
Gosia, Asia, Maciej and Jacek
PS . If you need information on where to seek help in the event of an unwanted pregnancy, difficulties in accessing gynecological care, are
victims of violence or simply need support - we are here. There are many support structures in the country (e.g. Abortion Dream Team ,
Ciocia Wienia , Ciocia Basia , Women's Rights Center, Feminoteka Foundation )
https://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/poznan/4734-solidarnie-z-represjonowanymi-po-czarnym-protescie-oswiadczenie
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Message: 5
On the way to the struggle to demand the immediate satisfaction of the demands of the class pan-educational movement! ---- On Thursday
15/10/2020 the teachers' unions call for a nationwide strike. Pupils, students, teachers, employees, the unemployed and retirees must walk
together and in a coordinated class-oriented direction, to demand the satisfaction of the urgent needs that currently exist in the fields of
health and education. We will not allow the government to play ostentatiously with our lives, to plunge us into poverty and misery, at a
time when it generously strengthens big capital and sucks in more and more shameful terms and with greater intensity the social base. ----
The demands of the class education movement are at the core of the class struggle and reflect the needs of the social majority, the poor and
the working class.
We demand, here and now:
operation of departments with a limit of 15 students per class
mass recruitment of permanent teaching staff, cleaners and support staff (nurses, psychologists)
make all substitute teachers permanent
abolition of the evaluation quota for deputies and unappointed teachers
no exclusion of teachers from the boards of deputies
reducing the time of teaching hours and increasing the time of breaks
Free meals for all students
finding suitable spaces for schools with serious building problems under the responsibility of the municipalities and the Ministry of Education
providing a free coronavirus prevention test
abolition of the theme bank
Withdrawal of the proposal for cameras in classrooms
The occupations, demonstrations and conflicts of the class student movement show us the way of the militant resistance against the existing
state and capitalist barbarism. The youth do not reconcile themselves with the prospect of being deprived of their future and of being
condemned to poverty by those in political and economic power. Unappointed and substitute teachers have been outraged by government layoffs,
unemployment and underpaid recycling. The knot has reached the scallop! We can not tolerate the mockery and class plunder launched by the
government at the request of its capitalist agents, because - quite simply - we can not continue to live and work in these conditions, under
these conditions.
The education front is another area in which social and class conflict is raging. Workers from many different industries have "reached the
amen" with the escalation of the capitalist crisis and the aftermath of government management of the Covid-19 pandemic. The rage and
indignation we feel must be expressed collectively, in order for it to take place and bear fruit. To organize in unions, class initiatives
and other formations of resistance and struggle in the workplace, in schools, in schools and in our neighborhoods. To unite with those who
have a common destiny, common problems and concerns, common material interests and "boil" together in the same cauldron. No savior can solve
our problems on our behalf.
The power, however, is in the hands of those who are at the base of the social and productive pyramid, that is, in the majority portion of
society as a whole. If we realize this, then we can take advantage of the enormous potential that all of us who move this world with our
work and toil daily have, as well as those who are destined to perform this role based on the demands of the capitalist system. But this
moment of self-awareness is enough to take the next step, to organize, that is, on a class basis, to fight collectively, relentlessly and
relentlessly, to achieve important victories that will temporarily relieve us and finally to try to " we bring the whole world, to change it
fundamentally. Because we deserve a world for all and not for a few, a society governed by freedom, equality, solidarity, co-ownership and
self-management of collective affairs in terms of direct democracy to serve the interests of the community and the free self-realization of
each individual. Our dignity is not redeemed by cheap promises or mockery of the government and its television parrots, nor is it bent by
their insults and police repression. We are right on our side and we will defend it by all means. Our dignity is not redeemed by cheap
promises or mockery of the government and its television parrots, nor is it bent by their insults and police repression. We are right on our
side and we will defend it by all means. Our dignity is not redeemed by cheap promises or mockery of the government and its television
parrots, nor is it bent by their insults and police repression. We are right on our side and we will defend it by all means.
We call in support of the teachers' strike and the class pan-educational march on Thursday 15/10/2020, 11:00 at the statue of Venizelos.
Let us all be on the streets of the race!
FIGHTING CLASS COMPETITION OF STUDENTS, STUDENTS, EMPLOYEES, UNEMPLOYED AND RETIRED AGAINST STATE AND CAPITAL
MONEY FOR PUBLIC AND FREE HEALTH AND EDUCATION, FOR THE SATISFACTION OF SOCIAL NEEDS - NOT FOR EQUIPMENT COMPETITIONS AND INTERESTS
Anarchist Federation (Thessaloniki Region)
Site: anarchist-federation.gr
email:anarchist-federation@riseup.net
Twitter: twitter.com/anarchistfedGr
Fb: facebook.com/anarxikiomospondia2015
Youtube: Anarchist Federation
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/
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Message: 6
In recent weeks, from the CRT and Izquierda Diario, we have been arguing that the need to call a general strike in Madrid has become
increasingly urgent. As the pandemic worsens in the state capital and in other cities, unemployment, precariousness and the militarization
of our neighborhoods are growing. But both the autonomous governments and the central government still do not take any of the necessary
measures to stop the infections. ---- That is why we support the call for a general strike in Madrid launched by the CGT and we will
participate in all unitary instances to ensure that it is effective. However, we consider that for a general strike to be truly effective,
it cannot be called improvised or "decreed from above".
It is necessary to organize a great agitation campaign for the general strike in all work centers, study centers and in the neighborhoods,
promoting assemblies to democratically debate how the strike is carried out, and demanding that the CCOO and UGT union bureaucracies break
with social peace and call a strike. Publicly demanding that the union bureaucracies stop acting as a transmission belt for the interests of
the CEOE and the "progressive" government is a fundamental part of the fight to win over the majority of the working class to go out to the
fight.
10 key measures to go on strike
In defense of public health: budget increase and expropriation of private health.
Public health is still overwhelmed by the pandemic and by the lack of resources, a consequence of years of cuts and privatizations. This is
the main reason for going on strike and demanding extraordinary budget increases, massive hiring of health, administrative, tracking and
cleaning personnel in hospitals and health centers, strengthening of primary care and reversal of privatizations. That all the resources of
the private sector are put at the service of social needs and not the business of a few.
Paid licenses for all workers who have to quarantine or care for other people.
Either because of having been in contact with someone infected, or because their children's classes are suspended, many workers are forced
to stay at home. But many times this means losing your income or even the risk of losing your jobs. Enough speculating on the health of the
working class!
Reinforcement of public transport under the control of its workers and neighborhood assemblies.
The crowded subways and trains every morning are a source of contagion for the working class. On the trains in Madrid there is not even
hydroalcoholic gel in the wagons, a basic cleaning measure! Unions have been demanding that staff be hired and frequencies increased, while
conditions for users improve. Putting your workers and neighbors under control will ensure that social needs are met.
Not one more eviction: rent moratorium and expropriation of empty flats in the hands of the banks.
Despite what the "progressive" government says, evictions are already raging, as denounced by tenant unions and anti-eviction platforms. We
must end this calamity, expropriating empty homes in the hands of banks and speculators. Moratorium on the payment of rents and public
services for those whose income was affected.
For safe classrooms, extraordinary investment in education. Not one euro more for the concert.
Every week, thousands of classrooms are closed due to quarantine, while teachers now have to clean and disinfect, give virtual classes and
manage the crisis. Hiring more teaching staff and non-teaching staff on a permanent basis and construction of new classrooms to guarantee
the necessary ratios for safe and quality teaching. That the entire concerted education network is intervened, integrated into the public
network. Not one euro more for concerted and religious education, budget for the public.
Emergency income due to Covid and unemployment for all people who live in Spanish territory, native or foreign.
The IMV has proven to be a totally insufficient measure, and so far tens of thousands of people who have requested it remain unpaid. It is
necessary an emergency subsidy that reaches all those who lose their income or see them drastically reduced, equivalent, at least, to the
SMI, and that is granted automatically, without cumbersome bureaucratic procedures.
Enough of precariousness. Repeal of the two labor reforms and prohibition of dismissals.
The union bureaucracies of CCOO and UGT continue in a social pact with the government and the employers, avoiding any attempt to fight for
our rights, while the social crisis is unloading on the working class with unemployment and precariousness. It is urgent to repeal
neoliberal labor laws, end temporary employment and outsourcing. In the face of massive unemployment, we are fighting for the reduction of
working hours and the distribution of working hours without a reduction in wages.
Out with the police and the army from our neighborhoods.
We need more health personnel, not more militarization of our neighborhoods as Ayuso and Sánchez did. Enough of police repression and
persecution of migrants and youth. Immediate and permanent regularization of all migrants. Total repeal of the Gag Law.
Progressive taxes on large fortunes.
There is no lack of resources to make a massive investment in health, education, and avoid unemployment and precariousness with emergency
measures. What is lacking is the political will to touch the interests of the capitalists, the big companies of the Ibex and the rich. That
is why we have to fight for taxes on large fortunes, recovery of the millions from the bank bailout and expropriation of the fortune of the
Royal Family.
Let us set up assemblies in each neighborhood, each work and study center: let us prepare the general strike from below.
Given the announcement of the general strike in Madrid that CGT has made, from the CRT we maintain that, for the measure to be effective and
serve to strengthen the organization of the working class and social movements, it must be organized through assemblies and in democratic
spaces coordination. At the same time, we must denounce the role played by the majority union bureaucracies, demanding that they break the
social pact with the central government and join in calling a major strike in Madrid.
It is not about fighting for Ayuso to fall and be replaced by a government of the PSOE (and Ciudadanos) in Madrid, which are the same ones
that for decades cut health and public education, like the PP, and that in all The months that have passed since the start of the pandemic
have not taken the necessary measures to face this second wave either. The point is to fight to impose the emergency program that we need
and to change the balance of forces so that there is a way out of this crisis in favor of the working class and not in favor of the usual.
http://www.izquierdadiario.es/Un-programa-de-accion-para-una-Huelga-General-en-Madrid
https://www.cgt-lkn.org/blog/archivos/8343
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BURNED RADAR | ANARKOARTLAB | From the streets of NYC. The collective walked from Brooklyn to Times Square and stopped at Central Park,
Columbus Circle, East Village to perform. ---- This public art performance is a direct response to the current crime against humanity that
is taking place in the Amazon Forest committed by companies and the Brazilian government. The performance presented by AnarkoArtLab involves
two artists,Adriana Varella and Amy Gillian Wilson , ritualistically dragging a burnt and glowing tree across New York City. Are we all
responsible for this? Are we looking for a parallel world? Can we even imagine what solution could be found? How we can all work this out
together will be suggested at the end of the performance.
Video production
Cameras: Sirius Toro and Joe Fionda
Drone: Sirius Toro
Editing: Camila Marchon
Production: Ana Luisa Anjos
Photos: Tais Aquino
>> Watch the video (06:51) here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=411&v=8GWMkg2U9XY&feature=emb_title
anarchist news agency-ana
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Blocking shareholder dividends, regaining robust unemployment insurance, reducing working hours with corresponding hires, requisitioning /
self-management of companies that are closing, right of veto for workers ... The fight against unemployment must be done through
redistribution of wealth. The fight against layoffs should be an opportunity to question the arbitrariness of employers. ---- Since the end
of the 1970s, the proletariat in France has learned to live under the constant threat of mass unemployment, layoffs plans, factory
relocations, and at the cost of ever increasing job insecurity. ---- Most of the layoffs and layoffs, however, are done quietly, without
triggering major collective struggles: they hit the mass of precarious workers individually (temporary workers, CDD, self-employed), or
employees of SMEs with little media coverage.
Traditionally, it is the employees of large companies subjected to restructuring who, by leading spectacular struggles - demonstrations,
occupied factories, "war treasures" put under lock and key, executives sequestered, resumption of occasional or sustainable production by
the strikers - can publicize layoffs and make it a political issue.
Act so as not to lose everything
Faced with layoff plans, the temptation still exists, among employees, to play low profile in the hope that it falls on others or that the
employers are lenient. The facts show that this is still, in the medium term, the worst solution. There are many examples of companies where
employees have agreed to cut back on their social gains in exchange for a promise to maintain activity... betrayed after a few years. Giving
in to job blackmail is rarely a good choice. Conversely, those who refused to step back generally fared better, whether the business closed
or not.
Demonstration in Paris, associations fighting against unemployment and insecurity (AC !, Apeis, MNCP, CGT-Privé.es emploi)
Whatever the demands, the employees, to face the bosses, the judicial decisions and the maneuvers of the State, must create a balance of
power. Occupying the factory, attacking the economic interests of the principal (boycott, occupation of subsidiaries, blocking the delivery
of products and machines, etc.), all of these practices allowing the re-appropriation of the work tool and have leverage. These are the
forms of direct action that must be promoted.
It is also essential to organize solidarity outside: by going to see the companies in the surrounding area, by soliciting inter-professional
trade union organizations (local unions, etc.), by going directly to meet the population, other employees, in the neighborhood...
Federate struggles to give them visibility
Federating the struggles against layoffs also contributes to the establishment of this balance of power.
This was the case in 2001-2003, with the convergence of workers from Lu-Danone, Marks & Spencer, STMicroelectronics, Daewoo, ACT
Manufacturing, Thomson... Joint national demonstrations were organized, and a collective, Resistance 2004, had produced a platform of
protest against the layoffs.
This was the case following the 2008 crisis, around Goodyear, Continental, New Fabris, Philips, SBFM, Molex, Freescale, PSA, SKF, Renault,
Ford ... with joint demonstrations and the constitution of a Collective against rogue bosses and layoffs.
This may again be the case with the looming economic crisis, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The political significance of the demands
By virtue of their collective visibility, workers in large companies therefore traditionally play a leading role in opposing layoffs.
However, each context is specific, and each work group necessarily has its own issues. For convergence to be sustainable, they need common
demands. And for this convergence of employees in large companies to play a more broadly catalytic role in the proletariat, we need demands
capable of responding to all situations of unemployment.
In any case, UCL will push towards claims aligned with one guiding idea: capital must pay. Capital is never more than the sum of the
material and immaterial wealth produced by the employees, and appropriated by the capitalists. Ensuring the subsistence of each and every
one must correspond to a legitimate redistribution of wealth in favor of the working world and to the detriment of capital. UCL will also
push for claims challenging private property and the power of capitalists over the economy.
It does not matter whether certain demands are compatible or not with capitalism at its current stage, as long as they are legitimate from a
revolutionary point of view and they meet with an echo. Some are "transitional" demands in the sense that they underline the illegitimacy of
the current regime and provide a bridge to the society of tomorrow.
Three axes of action and demand
1) Redistribution of wealth / capital must pay
The UCL supports the demands which contradict the idea that unemployment is the fault of the unemployed, that the Arlesian "growth" will
create jobs, and that we must "work more to earn more". This means support for:
- sharing of salaried working time by reducing it, without reduction in wages or flexibility, with corresponding hires ;
- lowering of the retirement age without reduction of pensions, with corresponding recruitments ;
- the defense of high-level unemployment insurance, involving the pooling of employers' responsibilities. The idea is to create an
inter-professional guarantee, in which the rights would be attached to the employee and no longer to the company for which he works. All
acquired rights (seniority, training, etc.) would be transferable from one company to another. In terms of salary, career, training, each
employee would have cumulative rights that each new employer should take into account.
2) Challenge of private property and employer power
The demand for a "law prohibiting dismissals», Often brandished in protests against layoffs, has obvious limits: it dispossesses workers,
placing their fate in the hands of the State. However, the experience of administrative dismissal authorization (1975-1986) has largely
shown that the natural tendency of the State, espousing the employers' point of view, was to endorse dismissals. The UCL will push the
demands which make the power of workers prevail over employer arbitrariness: - the blocking of dividends from shareholders of companies that
make redundancies. - the employee's right of veto over collective redundancies. We must obtain this new right which stands in the way of
employers' absolutism and which allows real guarantees of reclassification, prior to any restructuring. This transitive demand (in the sense
that it involves in itself a questioning of capitalism) could become the unifying slogan of a movement protesting dismissals. It would also
find a concrete relay in the coordinated occupations of companies and, if necessary, their requisition / self-management.
From a revolutionary perspective, we defend the expropriation of shareholders without redemption or compensation, through the socialization
of companies. But in periods when the struggles remain isolated, the employees can spontaneously demand the nationalization of their company
to maintain their jobs. In this case, UCL will support them, because it is relentlessly opposed to privatizations. But it will do so
critically because nationalization, unlike socialization, is only a default solution that changes nothing in capitalist governance.
3) Support for self-management experiences
On several occasions, during occupations of factories, the question of the possession of the working tool, as a "war chest" and a means of
pressure on the employers and the shareholders , has arisen . On these occasions, we saw the start of a debate on the reappropriation of the
work tool. In the most emblematic situations (Lip 1973, the Argentinazo in 2001, Greece in 2008), this could have led to savage
requisitions, in self-management. In other cases (Isotube / Marketube in 1975, Tower Colliery in 1995, Pilpa / Fabrique du Sud in 2013,
Fralib / Scop-TI in 2014 ...), it is the legalistic choice of a cooperative takeover that was operated, sometimes at the end of a real
standoff with the state and employers.
Of course, it would be absurd to believe that this tactic can be valid for any factory threatened with closure or relocation. This option is
only suitable for companies which are in a short circuit or which can benefit in their sector from a pre-existing network of cooperatives.
It is too easy for the employers to boycott and destroy a subcontractor factory taken over by its employees.
However, employee takeover is easier in niche economic activities where competition is less strong. Or when the company produces goods
directly accessible to individuals, allowing the organization of a popular solidarity campaign, achieving the junction of production and
consumption. It is for this reason that, for companies whose social utility is questionable, the question of reconversion must be raised.
To the workers who, to defend their jobs, will employ this tactic - of savage requisition or takeover in a cooperative - UCL will provide
its support. It will encourage the establishment of self-management and egalitarian relationships, the eventual reconversion towards a
socially useful production, and will act to strengthen the links between the cooperatives thus created and the social movement.
Always articulate the struggles of today to the society of tomorrow
The UCL does not oppose "reformist struggles" and "revolutionary struggles", considering that the important thing is social conflict in
itself, as a leaven of class consciousness, and as an essential food for any revolutionary project. . In the movements to fight against
layoffs, the UCL will therefore push towards the practices of direct action and the unifying demands developed here, both because they are
in the interests of the proletariat, and because they are of questioning of the capitalist order and / or the dominant ideology.
On their own, neither measures to protect against unemployment and to obstruct dismissals, nor the proliferation of "self-managed islands"
will allow a break with capitalism. But if they are based on the direct action of the dominated and exploited, if they resonate with a
self-management imagination and with our strategy of building lasting checks and balances, these fights will fuel a project of social
transformation that maybe libertarian communism.
Federal orientation
A process of synthesis
During their unification congress in June 2019, Alternative libertaire and the Coordination of anarchist groups decided not to make a clean
sweep of their past orientations and developments, but to synthesize and update them gradually. This text was adopted during the federal
coordination of the UCL on June 20-21, 2020.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Orientation-communiste-libertaire-les-luttes-contre-le-chomage-et-les
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In Prague, squating generally stagnates after the evacuation of the Clinic. However, this is trying to change the newly formed ODS team -
Really Good Squats. We bring you a report from one of the team members from the first event - called Occupy and Project!, which took place
in July. ---- It's Friday night and around 7 pm I meet other members at the tram stop near the center of Prague with other members of the
team. I have a backpack with a data projector on my back and I hold a heavy car battery in my hand. A friend who came with me holds a
folding chair and a broom for sweeping. Gradually, the others come, especially a colleague with a large folding ladder. When we are all, we
head towards the abandoned house. This is a large apartment building on the corner. The first thing we have to ensure is the actual entrance
to the building. Someone in front of us has already partially prepared it, it's a window on coal, so-called charcoal. So we lower the
expansion ladder inside and then gradually disappear everyone inside the house. The hardest thing is to take down all the backpacks and
especially the heavy car battery.
As soon as we are all inside, we have to start preparations, first we need to clean up properly. So we start collecting piles of garbage,
which were thrown in by charcoal. Others, meanwhile, go through the individual rooms of the house and choose a suitable space for
projection. Here we need to sweep, we still have the broom. In the meantime, others darken the windows so that they cannot be seen inside.
Once the rooms are tidy, we start hanging lights and lighting candles and using them to create a path through the intricate maze of the
house. When everything is ready, we all start sending the coordinates of the screening location to our friends. In the meantime, another
member arrives with a bass of beer and a small bar can be created.
We are all expecting how many people will actually arrive. It's ten o'clock, the beginning of the screening. We take out a projector and
prepare the first film - Clearing with the past . We are all shocked when the whole room fills up in a few minutes. So we start screening,
but people are still coming. In the end, about 70 people arrived for the quickly planned event. There is no place to sit, so people stand in
the hallways, walk through the rooms of the house or just crawl somewhere and talk. Candles and Christmas lights add a beautiful atmosphere
to all this. After watching the first film, a documentary about the Memories of the Future event follows. In the meantime, however, another
group is already producing banners in a large room, which they then want to hang on the windows. Banners carry the slogans "You can't live
here" and "You can live here".
After watching the document, a lot of people remained in the house. Someone came here and there for more beers, and everyone had fun until
the early hours of the morning. Banners were hung around six o'clock and the whole event was finished by pulling the ladder out of the charcoal.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7234/ods-v-akci
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Over the past 2 months we have gone through almost the entire book of possible tactics of non-violent resistance. Unfortunately, so far only
Sunday protests have been able to strengthen on a permanent basis. The majority of other protest forms are now under control. ---- Working
movement ---- In the first week the workers showed their political strength in the country. Images of Lukashenko's humiliation at a meeting
with workers in Minsk flew around the world. But the repression did not take long. Cops were sent to the entrances of factories and neither
the support groups nor the workers were allowed to gather. Ideological work began to be carried out at the enterprises, i.e. workers were
intimidated by layoffs and other problems. To reinforce their threats, many enterprises fired or detained the most active workers. Some of
them had to go abroad.
At present, all calls to workers have little to do with reality. Most are intimidated and there is no political force that can give them
serious support. The loud statements from politicians in telegrams and on the Internet have no impact without campaigning in the workers'
groups. It is worth noting that there is now a small stream of workers who join independent trade unions. However, with such intensity it
will take several years to form a more or less serious force in the form of workers of large enterprises.
Office workers, public transport workers and other sectors of the economy have not yet expressed any signs of self-organization within the
labor movement.
Protests in the regions
In recent months, protests outside the capital have played an important role in creating pressure on the regime. The Grodno protest briefly
secured the retreat of the local authorities from the general agenda and allowed meetings to take place in the main square, while the local
channel planned to provide a slot for the protesters. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Brest for many weeks. Thousands of
protesters gathered even in small towns.
Today, the regime managed to take almost all cities under its control. While Minsk continued to make a peaceful protest, repressions in
other cities were gaining momentum. As a result of repressions and a relative lack of solidarity, the regime managed to suppress the
movement in Brest, Grodno and other major pockets of resistance.
Drivers and the Armenian scenario
From the very beginning of the protests, drivers have been actively involved in the fight against the regime. The drivers channel97 managed
to unite large groups of protesters ready to help block the roads or take protesters out of hot spots. During talks about de-escalation of
the conflict after the first week of protests, the drivers tried to become one of the key groups to organize a peaceful revolution under
Armenia's scenario - blocking the country for economic damage. If in Armenia this form of protest quickly became the main one, then in
Belarus the intensity of road blockades never reached any critical point.
Blocking of roads by pedestrians and cars at the moment has no serious impact on the regime. Moreover, this tactic is mainly present in the
capital, while there are not even small groups ready to stop the traffic outside of it.
And although the drivers have taken on the role of organizers of the revolution in one of the last statements, there are many factors that
will prevent them from doing so. Today in the country, even blocking the roads is regarded by many as a provocation or violent resistance.
Such rhetoric is the result of rapid de-escalation of the conflict in the first days and the forcing of peaceful marches as the main form of
overthrowing the dictatorship.
Women's marches
Most of the protest women's marches created a platform for demonstrations on working days. Because of open sexism of the authorities, as
well as unwillingness to create a conflict picture, women's protests were held for a long time without unnecessary problems with the rioters.
The situation changed a few weeks ago from the OMON attack on Saturday's protests. Marches were quickly suppressed due to lack of
preparedness of many people for intensive repression and direct conflict with the regime.
Today, the marches are trying to restore, but at the moment, with increasing repression and attempts to crush the last pockets of resistance
in Minsk, it seems unlikely that women's marches will be able to rise from the ashes and become a political force in the protest movement again.
Anarchists, anti-fascists and soccer fans
In Belarusian society in recent months, thanks to the media and the regime itself, a legend has been formed about knights in black clothing
who can burn cops at one glance. Karaev himself is afraid of these legendary protesters.
However, for real overall success, we need our fellow protesters to perceive us as legitimate participants in the general protest campaign
and to hear our proposals on fighting tactics.
self-defense groups
More than a month has passed since the call to form self-defense groups on major telegram channels. During this time, a chat room and a
telegram channel have been created for people interested in this topic. Once again, however, the intensity of the process has quickly dried
up. During this month, only a few such groups were formed as part of neighborhood initiatives.
The purpose of such groups was to protect the demonstrators from the regime's infantry violence during major demonstrations. In addition,
there were calls to assemble self-defense groups to protect the neighborhoods from cop raids.
In fact, there are no self-defense groups today that are ready to fight back the regime's violence in an organized format. Inside the crowd,
there are various organized and spontaneous groups of people who fight back against cops in one situation or another, but the number of such
groups is able to fight back against repressions in a situational rather than systematic way. On Sunday marches, it is never clear how the
crowd will behave when cops appear, but mostly people have to take in account that everybody will run away even when they see small groups
of punishers.
MIA/KGB
In the first days after the election, the cops made a huge number of mistakes. All theory and abstract preparation proved to be ineffective
in a real street situation. The mistakes led to an increase in protest sentiment and strengthened the fight against the regime.
Two months later we see that strategists made their conclusions. Instead of attempt to crush all the movement in one night, step-by-step
repressions began, which gradually destroying the protest movement. For struggle against demonst
https://pramen.io/en/2020/10/critical-review-of-protests-in-belarus-in-last-2-month/
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A month has passed since our acquittal. Emotions died down and it's time to write a few words. First of all, we want to thank you all for
your support - emotional, physical, financial. For being with us and on our side. As usual, these were mainly private individuals, our
friends and acquaintances, our partners, partners, people supporting the idea of fighting for the rights of women and minorities, activists
and activists, people who know us and know that the charges against us were political or quite aliens who recognize and oppose the
repressive, disciplinary mechanisms behind the whole situation. However, there was no support from those who made their political capital
during the Black Protest, especially those whose name became recognizable during the organization of women's strikes across the country. We
didn't count on much on their part, but we were curious if and how they would react. We would like to make it clear at this point that we
sent letters describing our case to several dozen people from the political environment. Only two people wrote back to us. Perhaps we had
too little media coverage, perhaps Poznan was too far away. However, once again we found out that regardless of the name of the party, the
vast majority of people ruling this country are not interested in our fate. There is probably no need for a longer comment on this topic.
However, once again we found out that, regardless of the name of the party, the vast majority of people ruling this country are not
interested in our fate. There is probably no need for a longer comment on this topic. However, once again we found out that, regardless of
the name of the party, the vast majority of people ruling this country are not interested in our fate. There is probably no need for a
longer comment on this topic.
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Our victory proves that together we can win against the repression apparatus. It is also a failure and a complete disgrace of the
representatives of the police, prosecutor's office and the judge who sentenced us. In order to harm us, dozens of people and huge amounts of
public money were involved. The reasons for the acquittal presented by the District Court (saying that there was absolutely no evidence
against us) indicate that the charges against us were absurd, the police testimony was unreliable, and that the previous conviction was
purely political.
The third point worth mentioning is that from the beginning we were cared for by the Anarchist Black Cross
(ACK) and thanks to that we knew what to do, how to talk to the police or the prosecutor's office and that we would get legal aid. So we
were in a much better situation than most people who are not familiar with the activities of this grassroots structure. At this point, we
would like to encourage you to become interested in what ACK is, how to belong to it (not only in Poznan) or how to support its activities.
The financial possibilities of ACK are not unlimited and any financial aid, especially in the current situation when the persecution of
activists and activists is becoming a sad norm, is useful. All the money that was left from the donation we set up was transferred there. We
will also provide you with a refund of your defense costs there. We know that several of our friends are already struggling with similar
repression mechanisms and are in need of legal assistance.
The last thing, perhaps the most important. A month has passed since we won the black protest appeal hearing and were acquitted. Four years
have passed since we stood with umbrellas in the rain, together with our sisters and brothers fighting for women's rights, for the
possibility to decide about our body, for freedom of choice. In a few days (October 22, 2020), the Constitutional Tribunal will adjudicate
whether termination of pregnancy in the event of a fetal defect is consistent with the Constitution. This ruling could make access to
abortion even more difficult. Once again, we say a firm NO. We will not let conservative politicians and women politicians, gentlemen in
togas, sad fascists and frustrated women decide about our bodies. Already now the situation of women in Poland, the fact that they have
difficult access to contraception, abortion and sexual education, etc., that they are harassed, silenced and abused is terrifying. We do not
agree to further humiliation, to forcing to give birth in the event of fetal damage or rape, to begging doctors for help when we should
simply deserve it. We are here. Four years ago, we took to the streets despite the rain, fear and criticism from the media, politicians, the
church, conservative friends, bosses and families. Now we will protest despite the pandemic and repression. We'll find a way. We help each
other. We are not afraid of pathetic silencing attempts by the police and the prosecutor's office. You won't lock us all up. Four years ago,
we took to the streets despite the rain, fear and criticism from the media, politicians, the church, conservative friends, bosses and
families. Now we will protest despite the pandemic and repression. We'll find a way. We help each other. We are not afraid of pathetic
silencing attempts by the police and the prosecutor's office. You won't lock us all up. Four years ago, we took to the streets despite the
rain, fear and criticism from the media, politicians, the church, conservative friends, bosses and families. Now we will protest despite the
pandemic and repression. We'll find a way. We help each other. We are not afraid of pathetic silencing attempts by the police and the
prosecutor's office. You won't lock us all up.
We are strong, together stronger!
Gosia, Asia, Maciej and Jacek
PS . If you need information on where to seek help in the event of an unwanted pregnancy, difficulties in accessing gynecological care, are
victims of violence or simply need support - we are here. There are many support structures in the country (e.g. Abortion Dream Team ,
Ciocia Wienia , Ciocia Basia , Women's Rights Center, Feminoteka Foundation )
https://www.rozbrat.org/informacje/poznan/4734-solidarnie-z-represjonowanymi-po-czarnym-protescie-oswiadczenie
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On the way to the struggle to demand the immediate satisfaction of the demands of the class pan-educational movement! ---- On Thursday
15/10/2020 the teachers' unions call for a nationwide strike. Pupils, students, teachers, employees, the unemployed and retirees must walk
together and in a coordinated class-oriented direction, to demand the satisfaction of the urgent needs that currently exist in the fields of
health and education. We will not allow the government to play ostentatiously with our lives, to plunge us into poverty and misery, at a
time when it generously strengthens big capital and sucks in more and more shameful terms and with greater intensity the social base. ----
The demands of the class education movement are at the core of the class struggle and reflect the needs of the social majority, the poor and
the working class.
We demand, here and now:
operation of departments with a limit of 15 students per class
mass recruitment of permanent teaching staff, cleaners and support staff (nurses, psychologists)
make all substitute teachers permanent
abolition of the evaluation quota for deputies and unappointed teachers
no exclusion of teachers from the boards of deputies
reducing the time of teaching hours and increasing the time of breaks
Free meals for all students
finding suitable spaces for schools with serious building problems under the responsibility of the municipalities and the Ministry of Education
providing a free coronavirus prevention test
abolition of the theme bank
Withdrawal of the proposal for cameras in classrooms
The occupations, demonstrations and conflicts of the class student movement show us the way of the militant resistance against the existing
state and capitalist barbarism. The youth do not reconcile themselves with the prospect of being deprived of their future and of being
condemned to poverty by those in political and economic power. Unappointed and substitute teachers have been outraged by government layoffs,
unemployment and underpaid recycling. The knot has reached the scallop! We can not tolerate the mockery and class plunder launched by the
government at the request of its capitalist agents, because - quite simply - we can not continue to live and work in these conditions, under
these conditions.
The education front is another area in which social and class conflict is raging. Workers from many different industries have "reached the
amen" with the escalation of the capitalist crisis and the aftermath of government management of the Covid-19 pandemic. The rage and
indignation we feel must be expressed collectively, in order for it to take place and bear fruit. To organize in unions, class initiatives
and other formations of resistance and struggle in the workplace, in schools, in schools and in our neighborhoods. To unite with those who
have a common destiny, common problems and concerns, common material interests and "boil" together in the same cauldron. No savior can solve
our problems on our behalf.
The power, however, is in the hands of those who are at the base of the social and productive pyramid, that is, in the majority portion of
society as a whole. If we realize this, then we can take advantage of the enormous potential that all of us who move this world with our
work and toil daily have, as well as those who are destined to perform this role based on the demands of the capitalist system. But this
moment of self-awareness is enough to take the next step, to organize, that is, on a class basis, to fight collectively, relentlessly and
relentlessly, to achieve important victories that will temporarily relieve us and finally to try to " we bring the whole world, to change it
fundamentally. Because we deserve a world for all and not for a few, a society governed by freedom, equality, solidarity, co-ownership and
self-management of collective affairs in terms of direct democracy to serve the interests of the community and the free self-realization of
each individual. Our dignity is not redeemed by cheap promises or mockery of the government and its television parrots, nor is it bent by
their insults and police repression. We are right on our side and we will defend it by all means. Our dignity is not redeemed by cheap
promises or mockery of the government and its television parrots, nor is it bent by their insults and police repression. We are right on our
side and we will defend it by all means. Our dignity is not redeemed by cheap promises or mockery of the government and its television
parrots, nor is it bent by their insults and police repression. We are right on our side and we will defend it by all means.
We call in support of the teachers' strike and the class pan-educational march on Thursday 15/10/2020, 11:00 at the statue of Venizelos.
Let us all be on the streets of the race!
FIGHTING CLASS COMPETITION OF STUDENTS, STUDENTS, EMPLOYEES, UNEMPLOYED AND RETIRED AGAINST STATE AND CAPITAL
MONEY FOR PUBLIC AND FREE HEALTH AND EDUCATION, FOR THE SATISFACTION OF SOCIAL NEEDS - NOT FOR EQUIPMENT COMPETITIONS AND INTERESTS
Anarchist Federation (Thessaloniki Region)
Site: anarchist-federation.gr
email:anarchist-federation@riseup.net
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Youtube: Anarchist Federation
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/
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Message: 6
In recent weeks, from the CRT and Izquierda Diario, we have been arguing that the need to call a general strike in Madrid has become
increasingly urgent. As the pandemic worsens in the state capital and in other cities, unemployment, precariousness and the militarization
of our neighborhoods are growing. But both the autonomous governments and the central government still do not take any of the necessary
measures to stop the infections. ---- That is why we support the call for a general strike in Madrid launched by the CGT and we will
participate in all unitary instances to ensure that it is effective. However, we consider that for a general strike to be truly effective,
it cannot be called improvised or "decreed from above".
It is necessary to organize a great agitation campaign for the general strike in all work centers, study centers and in the neighborhoods,
promoting assemblies to democratically debate how the strike is carried out, and demanding that the CCOO and UGT union bureaucracies break
with social peace and call a strike. Publicly demanding that the union bureaucracies stop acting as a transmission belt for the interests of
the CEOE and the "progressive" government is a fundamental part of the fight to win over the majority of the working class to go out to the
fight.
10 key measures to go on strike
In defense of public health: budget increase and expropriation of private health.
Public health is still overwhelmed by the pandemic and by the lack of resources, a consequence of years of cuts and privatizations. This is
the main reason for going on strike and demanding extraordinary budget increases, massive hiring of health, administrative, tracking and
cleaning personnel in hospitals and health centers, strengthening of primary care and reversal of privatizations. That all the resources of
the private sector are put at the service of social needs and not the business of a few.
Paid licenses for all workers who have to quarantine or care for other people.
Either because of having been in contact with someone infected, or because their children's classes are suspended, many workers are forced
to stay at home. But many times this means losing your income or even the risk of losing your jobs. Enough speculating on the health of the
working class!
Reinforcement of public transport under the control of its workers and neighborhood assemblies.
The crowded subways and trains every morning are a source of contagion for the working class. On the trains in Madrid there is not even
hydroalcoholic gel in the wagons, a basic cleaning measure! Unions have been demanding that staff be hired and frequencies increased, while
conditions for users improve. Putting your workers and neighbors under control will ensure that social needs are met.
Not one more eviction: rent moratorium and expropriation of empty flats in the hands of the banks.
Despite what the "progressive" government says, evictions are already raging, as denounced by tenant unions and anti-eviction platforms. We
must end this calamity, expropriating empty homes in the hands of banks and speculators. Moratorium on the payment of rents and public
services for those whose income was affected.
For safe classrooms, extraordinary investment in education. Not one euro more for the concert.
Every week, thousands of classrooms are closed due to quarantine, while teachers now have to clean and disinfect, give virtual classes and
manage the crisis. Hiring more teaching staff and non-teaching staff on a permanent basis and construction of new classrooms to guarantee
the necessary ratios for safe and quality teaching. That the entire concerted education network is intervened, integrated into the public
network. Not one euro more for concerted and religious education, budget for the public.
Emergency income due to Covid and unemployment for all people who live in Spanish territory, native or foreign.
The IMV has proven to be a totally insufficient measure, and so far tens of thousands of people who have requested it remain unpaid. It is
necessary an emergency subsidy that reaches all those who lose their income or see them drastically reduced, equivalent, at least, to the
SMI, and that is granted automatically, without cumbersome bureaucratic procedures.
Enough of precariousness. Repeal of the two labor reforms and prohibition of dismissals.
The union bureaucracies of CCOO and UGT continue in a social pact with the government and the employers, avoiding any attempt to fight for
our rights, while the social crisis is unloading on the working class with unemployment and precariousness. It is urgent to repeal
neoliberal labor laws, end temporary employment and outsourcing. In the face of massive unemployment, we are fighting for the reduction of
working hours and the distribution of working hours without a reduction in wages.
Out with the police and the army from our neighborhoods.
We need more health personnel, not more militarization of our neighborhoods as Ayuso and Sánchez did. Enough of police repression and
persecution of migrants and youth. Immediate and permanent regularization of all migrants. Total repeal of the Gag Law.
Progressive taxes on large fortunes.
There is no lack of resources to make a massive investment in health, education, and avoid unemployment and precariousness with emergency
measures. What is lacking is the political will to touch the interests of the capitalists, the big companies of the Ibex and the rich. That
is why we have to fight for taxes on large fortunes, recovery of the millions from the bank bailout and expropriation of the fortune of the
Royal Family.
Let us set up assemblies in each neighborhood, each work and study center: let us prepare the general strike from below.
Given the announcement of the general strike in Madrid that CGT has made, from the CRT we maintain that, for the measure to be effective and
serve to strengthen the organization of the working class and social movements, it must be organized through assemblies and in democratic
spaces coordination. At the same time, we must denounce the role played by the majority union bureaucracies, demanding that they break the
social pact with the central government and join in calling a major strike in Madrid.
It is not about fighting for Ayuso to fall and be replaced by a government of the PSOE (and Ciudadanos) in Madrid, which are the same ones
that for decades cut health and public education, like the PP, and that in all The months that have passed since the start of the pandemic
have not taken the necessary measures to face this second wave either. The point is to fight to impose the emergency program that we need
and to change the balance of forces so that there is a way out of this crisis in favor of the working class and not in favor of the usual.
http://www.izquierdadiario.es/Un-programa-de-accion-para-una-Huelga-General-en-Madrid
https://www.cgt-lkn.org/blog/archivos/8343
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Message: 7
BURNED RADAR | ANARKOARTLAB | From the streets of NYC. The collective walked from Brooklyn to Times Square and stopped at Central Park,
Columbus Circle, East Village to perform. ---- This public art performance is a direct response to the current crime against humanity that
is taking place in the Amazon Forest committed by companies and the Brazilian government. The performance presented by AnarkoArtLab involves
two artists,Adriana Varella and Amy Gillian Wilson , ritualistically dragging a burnt and glowing tree across New York City. Are we all
responsible for this? Are we looking for a parallel world? Can we even imagine what solution could be found? How we can all work this out
together will be suggested at the end of the performance.
Video production
Cameras: Sirius Toro and Joe Fionda
Drone: Sirius Toro
Editing: Camila Marchon
Production: Ana Luisa Anjos
Photos: Tais Aquino
>> Watch the video (06:51) here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=411&v=8GWMkg2U9XY&feature=emb_title
anarchist news agency-ana
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