Today's Topics:
1. Greece, vogliamo tutto: Immediate release of the anarchist
comrade Errol - THEY HAVE DECLARED WAR ON
comrade Errol - THEY HAVE DECLARED WAR ON
US ... [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, vogliamo tutto: IOS IS NOT TREATED
WITH PROHIBITIONS
- THERE IS NO HEALTH WITHOUT FREEDOM - From
- THERE IS NO HEALTH WITHOUT FREEDOM - From
the management of
Covid 19... [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Covid 19... [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Poland, Working Congress of the Employee Initiative - report
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, Bad Horse [APO]: The Fountain Piazza and the
"accidental" death of an anarchist (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
"accidental" death of an anarchist (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. FAU, direkte aktion: IRRELEVANT OR
SYSTEMICALLY RELEVANT? --
Why you have to be against the corona policy of the Federal
Republic By: Gaspar Bartholic (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Why you have to be against the corona policy of the Federal
Republic By: Gaspar Bartholic (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL AL #311 - Against
racism, Fighting the logic of segregation (de, it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Our daily lives are now full of more and more disciplines, restrictions and
orders. It has become clear that in the name of ensuring public health, the state
is producing a field of prohibitions in the public sphere and a death policy in
prisons and places of detention of immigrants. At the same time, it is stacking
dozens of people on MMMs and labor scams. ---- In this context, a multilevel
attack on the world of struggle continues and intensifies. Those who dare to
challenge the state management of Covid-19, to break the fear and bans on the
street and to resist the prevailing narratives, are confronted with all the
manifestations of the repressive mechanism, which in the midst of a pandemic was
technologically and numerically enriched. with the aim of spreading fear in the
social grid and the increasingly strict surveillance of our lives. The state
crackdown extends to the banning of demonstrations and rallies, the beatings and
arrests of uniformed bastards who have flooded our center and neighborhoods, the
suffocating restriction and control of movement in public,
So it was on December 6, 2020, twelve years after the assassination of the
anarchist student Alexandros Grigoropoulos and the uprising that followed. The
state, wanting once again to demonstrate power and authoritarianism, announced
additional "sanitary measures", ie gatherings of more than 4 people are not
allowed (as in the 3 days of November 17), while from the morning of the same day
it had taken care to exclude the scene of the murder, placing any kind of cop in
all the narrow perimeters of the area, making a blockade and forbidding the
passage to anyone who was trying to approach the point.
Nevertheless, with the memory remaining alive and the socio-political condition
sparking new peaks, in a day full of symbolism, many people broke the bans and
challenged the imposed climate of fear. Numerous interventions and marches took
place, the same as the previous day, both in the center and in the neighborhoods
of Athens, but also in many cities in Greece. The two-legged garbage in a
demonstration of fist and zero tolerance, corresponding to that of November 17,
brought 399 people and arrested 143 in the midst of hunters and the most
well-known clumsy thrashings, with the only criterion being their possible
direction to the gathering points.
Among the arrests in the wider area of Exarcheia was Comrade Errol. He was then
informed that the administration of Petros Ralli (transfer building and detention
center where immigrants are imprisoned and abused) issued a deportation order for
7 years from the country, on the grounds that it was considered dangerous for
public order. The governor's decision was based on that of state security, which
is a threat to the country's security. Errol was originally held in the inferno
of Petros Ralli, and is now in the Amygdaleza concentration camp.
This is clearly a vindictive and politically motivated act due to the relentless
action and constant presence of our comrade in the anarchist / anti-authoritarian
space, the occupation movement and the social and class struggles. His detention
and deportation are part of a wider repressive plan to marginalize and reduce
social struggles and resistance, criminalize and intimidate protesters. This is
why we perceive the process of deportation of our partner as a political,
intimidating and vindictive persecution that attacks the whole world of the
struggle. They are even more exposed to this attack - those who do not have the
"appropriate" papers & privileges, to claim the obvious.
However, we will not allow our lives, our struggles, our solidarity and our
resistance to be defined by papers and borders. Nor are we going to stop fighting
the regime that holds Errol as another prisoner of war among the thousands
stacked in the infernal Petros Ralli, Amygdaleza, Kara Tepe and dozens of other
closed immigration detention centers, whose lives are treated as unworthy to
experience.
The suffocating present we are experiencing is nothing more than a repressive
attempt by the state to impose more poverty and death. And we are deeply
convinced that in any answer that is not given, the state will try to build the
next stronghold of the kingdom of dystopia, expanding its power and crushing our
lives.
... AND THEY ASK US TO KEEP PEACE
The only thing we will keep, however, is the promise that we will respond to
every attempt by an authoritarian world to reproduce itself through our physical
and political extermination. Let us stand side by side again, collecting our
denials and resistances, spreading solidarity, rebellion & freedom.
Immediate release of comrade Errol
To block the revengeful expulsion of the partner
Resist the emergency regime
Fire in prisons and detention centers
Assembly against state repression and for solidarity with the occupiers
December 2020
https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2020/12/13/amesi-apeleytherosi-toy-anarchikoy-syntrofoy-errol/#more-2611
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For the past eight months, we have been trying to establish a permanent state of
emergency to administer Covid 19. The state manages the health crisis in its
favorite way: by imposing bans, normalizing surveillance, repression, oppression
and repression. He bombs us every day through funded media and "objective"
scientists with "individual responsibility" passing on his own responsibility for
the methodical understaffing, underfunding and devaluation of the health system
for years. The deterioration of the health system is accompanied by the upgrading
of the repressive forces, as managers of even the pandemic.
The management of Covid 19 is another area of class policy that most emphatically
demonstrates the murderous and anti-social nature of the state's biopolitics.
While presenting the ban on rallies and crowds as protection measures by Covid
19, at the same time it denies decongestion of prisons, stacks workers in labor
schemes and MMMs and continues to build soul warehouses in modern immigrant
concentration camps. "We live at home" was not intended for drug addicts and the
homeless. The state is the greatest paradox of the modern age. While ostensibly
shouldering the protection of public health and various social groups, it is the
state itself that constructs social idiots and scapegoats: the poor,
Or in the totalitarianism of tomorrow
The state and capital seek to use Covid 19 to accelerate their plans for the new
dystopian regularity they want to establish in our societies. They seize the
opportunity to re-launch their attack from below with a series of
anti-labor-anti-social measures (teleworking - out-of-work-dismissals -
multi-bill for education - environmental law, ban on demonstrations), while with
the new Bankruptcy Law Cancel The Right To Housing.
At the same time, they target any social and class resistance to state and
capitalist plans. They target militants who oppose exploitation and oppression.
They aim at the struggle for life itself, health and freedom. They aim at all the
social class political struggles of yesterday, today, and tomorrow to impose a
permanent state of emergency.
To create today's collective struggles to overthrow the dystopia imposed by state
and capital
SELF-ORGANIZATION-RESISTANCE-SOLIDARITY-SELF-PROTECTION
anarchic collectivity Vogliamo tutto e per tutti
https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2020/12/14/o-ios-den-therapeyetai-me-apagoreyseis-den-yparchei-ygeia-choris-eleytheria/
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Sessions of the OZZ Working Congress Employee Initiative (October 24-25, 2020)
On October 24-25, the Working Congress of the Employee Initiative was held. Due
to the restrictions introduced at that time, the event was organized in the form
of a teleconference. Over 30 people participated in the Congress, representing
more than 20 company, inter-company and environmental structures of OZZ IP. In
accordance with the original assumptions, the main topic of the meeting was the
preparations for the 12th National Congress of Delegates and Delegates (KZD),
which will take place in March 2021. ---- The congress was divided into three
main blocks: "Organizational issues", "Program postulates" and topics for work in
subgroups submitted by individual committees and working groups operating in the
Union.
The proceedings began with 3 presentations devoted to organizational matters. In
this part, representatives and representatives of the National Commission
presented the financial situation of IB, the functioning of the Association's
Office and preliminary proposals for statutory changes.
In terms of finances, the most important conclusion of the discussion was the
need to reform the premium collection system and increase its amount. Although
our union has quite significant savings at the moment (compared to the situation
in previous years), due to the dynamic development and the need to finance an
increasing range of activities, next year the KZD will discuss a proposal to
increase the membership fee. In addition to the increase in the premium itself,
there will also be a discussion whether its amount should be differentiated.
Currently, the so-called The "national part of the contribution", which serves to
finance the national activities of the Employee Initiative, is collected in the
same amount per month for each member of the Union. This solution is relatively
simple (everyone pays the same) and means that treasuries and treasurers in
individual committees do not have any additional work related to e.g. the need to
calculate the exact amount of the contribution depending on earnings. On the
other hand, such a solution does not take into account differences in the amount
of wages in different industries, cities or different jobs - in some respects it
is therefore an unfair system. The National Commission presented 3 proposals to
reform the fee collection system in OZZ IB: cities or at different workplaces -
in some respects it is therefore an unfair system. The National Commission
presented 3 proposals to reform the fee collection system in OZZ IB: cities or at
different workplaces - in some respects it is therefore an unfair system. The
National Commission presented 3 proposals to reform the fee collection system in
OZZ IB:
1. Maintaining the current principle "everyone pays the same", but with a
simultaneous increase in the amount of the national part of the premium;
2. differentiation of the amount of the nationwide contribution depending on the
level of earnings of a given person (e.g. a fixed percentage of remuneration)
3. differentiation of the amount of the nationwide contribution depending on the
industry in which a given commission operates.
Before March next year, these proposals will be specified and put to the vote of
Delegates and Delegates in the form of resolutions.
The Office of the Union is a new structure, established on the basis of the
resolution of the last Congress of Delegates in March 2019. It consists of
persons elected to the National Committee, who are responsible for keeping
documentation and (together with the legal working group) legal services for the
Union. For the Employee Initiative, this is a new solution, mainly due to the
fact that the work of the people making up the Office is remunerated - so far our
union has negatively assessed the employment of national authorities, considering
it one of the elements leading to bureaucratization of the trade union movement.
However, the growing number of court cases and the need for legal advice raised
by the committee forced us to introduce changes. Since the Office is a new
structure, the principles of its operation and organization are constantly in the
process of creation and are assessed on an ongoing basis by members and members
of OZZ IP. It can be said that the final shape of the Office is still clearing
up, and the Working Congress was the moment when an assessment was made of to
what extent the solutions developed by the current National Commission were
consistent with the expectations of the entire Union.
The last element of the first block of the Congress was the presentation of the
proposed statutory changes related to the organization of the Employee
Initiative. These proposals were prepared in response to the dynamic increase in
the number of our union and the emergence of new IB structures. Such a dynamic
development of the union prompted the National Committee to propose several new
solutions, which - as will be the case in the case of contributions - will be
presented next year in the form of draft resolutions and put to the vote of the
KZD. These proposals assume: (1) extension of the term of office of the National
Committee and the National Audit Committee to 3 or 4 years, (2) enlargement of
the composition of the National Committee by persons representing individual
industries in which our committees operate, (3) separating the presidium of the
National Commission consisting of people selected to perform specific functions
(Skrabnik / Skarbniczka, Koordynator / ka ds. Finance, Coordinator / ka ds.
Trainings, Koordynator / ka ds. your union work. Apart from these changes, the
National Commission will try to initiate the formation of Coordination at the
level of voivodships with a larger number of IB committees - so that the dynamic
development of new structures is accompanied by building mutual solidarity and
contacts at the local level.
The second part of the Congress was devoted to program discussions. We focused on
4 themes: (1) the right to strike, (2) workers' crisis strategy, (3) union
responses to environmental challenges and (4) youth organization. The first three
topics were discussed primarily in the form of a summary of the activities of the
IP collective management organizations to date. When it comes to the right to
strike, on the one hand, there was the issue of educating members and members of
the applicable collective dispute procedure. On the other hand, OZZ IP has long
pointed to a whole range of restrictions contained in Polish law, which make it
very difficult to organize a legal strike action. Therefore, two-track actions
have been planned in this field: popularization of legal knowledge through
training and formulation of postulates for changes inAct on resolving collective
disputes . In terms of the "employee crisis strategy", the most important lesson
was the need to clarify how IP as a whole and individual committees were to
respond separately to attempts to shift the costs of the crisis onto the working
class. The discussion on the relationship between the labor movement and ecology
was similar - we agree that the fight for the natural environment is part of the
fight for better living conditions for workers and female workers; however, we
need a more precise definition of how activities related to defending nature
against degradation can be carried out by individual structures of the Employee
Initiative.
Saturday's session was closed with a presentation of the activities of the Youth
Circle of OZZ IP - a new structure established in Warsaw and intended to organize
young workers and female workers. The assumptions are that structures of this
type will be created in subsequent localities to give students and students the
opportunity to join a trade union without the need to sign up for company or
inter-company structures.
The deliberations on Sunday 25 October were divided into two parts: work in
subgroups and a summary at the plenary session. The discussions in the subgroups
included topics such as: the activity of the legal group, the activity of the
training group, the development of procedures for resolving conflicts and
counteracting violence, cooperation between committees operating at universities
and working out a position on the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal
restricting access to abortion.
Out of these 5 topics, in the context of the upcoming Congress of Delegates and
Delegates, the work done by the group working on anti-conflict procedures will be
of particular importance - on its basis, proposals for statutory changes will be
prepared to regulate the issue of how, as a relationship, we are to deal with
situations of conflict and inappropriate , violent behavior that may arise. In
addition, the changes to the statute will be accompanied by training and the
publication of an internal guide on the rules of conduct in such situations.
Due to the fact that just before the start of the Congress, the Constitutional
Tribunal ruled that abortion due to "serious damage to the fetus or its incurable
disease" is "inconsistent with the Constitution", thus limiting the availability
of abortion in Poland, the Congress ended with adopting a stance condemning the
judgment Of the Constitutional Tribunal and calling for protests and support for
women's solidarity in the face of increasingly repressive legal regulations.
https://ozzip.pl/informacje/ogolnopolskie/item/2725-zjazd-roboczy-ozzip-sprawozdanie
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Message: 4
Posted in: Articles-Analyzes . Tagged: strategy of tension , Ponta Fountain ,
Brush , history of anarchist movement , historical . Leave a comment ---- On the
occasion of the 51st anniversary of the bombing of the Piazza Fontana in Milan
and the state assassination of the anarchist Pinelli. ---- To this day, we keep
the truth alive against the lies of the state. ---- Pinelli was killed. Valpreda
is innocent. The slaughter belongs to the state. Anarchists are accused of
escaping the fascists. ---- The anarchist worker Giuseppe (Pino) Pinelli ---- The
text is included in the edition "PIATSA FONTANA (MILAN 1969) | SCALE (BERCELONA
1978) MARFIN (ATHENS 2010): THE POLITICAL PLOT AS A STATE STRATEGY FOR THE
REPRESSION OF THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT "published in November 2016 on the occasion
of the completion of the trial of the anarchist Mar.
In 1968, the current of controversy arrived from Paris to Milan. The Italian May,
due to the nature of Italian society, lasted longer and was more explosive:
workers went on mass strikes, young people, students, pupils, women, prisoners,
the mentally ill and all the "outcasts" of society revolted . Riots break out in
factories, prisons, on the streets. They radically and massively deny everyday
living conditions. Power, hierarchy and exploitation are openly challenged. The
situation is getting out of the control of the state, the KKI and the trade union
bureaucracy. There was a will for change. A change that posed a threat to those
in power.
As a result, a reactionary turn is attempted to stifle the most radical movement
and the revolutionary atmosphere. The Interior Ministry's Secret Service (SID),
the police, the judiciary and politicians are taking action. The state launches
the attack by methodizing the universal opposition of the struggling world. In
1969, the authorities referred to trials of 10,000 workers, which never took
place, while at the same time the period of murders and massacres began.
Bomb blasts occurred on April 25, 1969 at the Milan Trade Fair and Central
Station, on July 9 on 10 trains, and finally on December 12, multiple bombings. A
powerful bomb, planted in such a way as to cause more casualties, explodes at the
Commercial Bank of Milan, in the Piazza Fontana with 16 dead and 100 wounded,
another 2 bombs in Rome, one at the Bank of Labor and one at the Monument to the
Unknown Soldier with about 20 injured. Another bomb is planted at the Emporiki
Bank in Milan's Scala Square, which explodes in a controlled manner.
From the very next day, the authorities of the place in collaboration with the
press outline a landscape with a clear orientation. The targeting, locating and
arresting of anarchists as responsible for the attacks, under the pretext of the
state nature of the targets, and, on the other hand, the historical precedent of
the attack on the Diana Theater on March 23, 1921. The scenario of the
investigation It seems to have already been written as 10 anarchists are arrested
quickly, of whom Pietro Valpreda is immediately convicted - since a taxi driver
allegedly recognizes him, claiming that he took him to the Piazza Fontana,
members of the extra-parliamentary left and a few extreme right-wingers.
From Pinelli's funeral
In the afternoon, immediately after the horrific bomb blast at Piazza Fontana,
Calabresi (1) arrived at the Via Scalndasole Group (2) and asked the anarchist
Giuseppe Pinelli to follow him to the department. At headquarters, Pinelli met
many Milanese anarchists. Like him, they had been summoned for questioning for
their aliens. Within 48 hours, which was the maximum detention time in a ward at
the time, those arrested were released and a few were taken to prison. Pinelli
was detained at the headquarters for questioning longer than the law allowed. On
the 3rd day of his detention, at 12 instead of 3 at night, the Milan Police
Administration calls an ambulance. At 12 and 2, a passing journalist sees Pinelli
being thrown into the courtyard of the building from the 4th floor.
Evidence shows that, during the interrogation, Inspector Calabresi hit Pinelli in
the neck and killed him. It was then that a police officer called an ambulance.
However, the police quickly and not accidentally directed Pinelli's "suicide".
While throwing him dead in a vacuum, they claimed that he "jumped out of the open
window by himself" giving 2 versions as a cause of suicide. The first version
wanted him mixed up in the attempts, with his alibi having collapsed and finally
desperately shouting "It is the end of Anarchy" to commit suicide. The second
version, given a posteriori when his alibi proved to be completely valid,
admitted that the interrogation was illegal, violent and coercive, and that
Pinelli therefore approached the window to catch his breath and slipped.
The political-legal scene that followed Pinelli's assassination was intertwined
with the whole story of the Ponta Fontana massacre and especially with the
"Valpreda case", which over the years turned against those in power. Relentless
attempts to impose silence, culminating in the position of "active grief" put
forward by Judge Gerardo D'Abrozio, simply highlighted a truth that has not yet
been confirmed in the official archives.
Pietro Valpreda
From the day after the assassination, the anarchists of the Ponte della Ghisolfa
giving a press conference are placed at the base:"Pinelli was assassinated,
Valpreda is innocent, the massacre belongs to the state. "The anarchists are
being accused in order to cover up the fascists."A huge campaign was launched in
Italy and internationally for the release of Valpreda. There were thousands of
actions and an anti-information campaign that was generalized and effective.
In February 1972, Valpreda was tried and released from prison, as the secret
services killed the taxi driver who allegedly recognized him, while Calabresi
received 3 bullets as he was leaving his house. A number of officers "commit
suicide", some judges are killed, as is the fascist Nadi, who was later blamed
for the assassination of Calabresi. The state and its servants opened a new
chapter in Italian history. The goal of all these actions is achieved. The
revolutionary movement in Italy is temporarily defeated.
Today, we know that the bomber was Delfo Zorzi, a neo-Nazi of the Ordine Nuovo
group, that Giovanni Ventura, also a neo-Nazi, was the one who carried the bombs,
while the Nazi group Avanguardia Nationale planted them. Also, that the neo-Nazi
Franco Freda in collaboration with other fascists and Ventura placed the bombs on
April 25 and July 9. We know that Valpreda was unjustly accused and imprisoned,
something the anarchists said from the beginning. Endless trials took place, all
with the aim of hiding the truth.
It took 10 years for the first conviction, while the last one closed only in
1991, with the result that Freda and Ventura were convicted only for the 2 bombs.
Delfo Zorsi lived peacefully in Japan, while Pinelli, according to Judge Gerardo
D 'Ambrosio, died due to "drastic illness" that made him fall out of the window
of the room where he was being interrogated, thus acquitting all the guilty.
* For more information on the Piazza Fontana massacre and the "strategy of
tension" (with the fascist bombings organized by the Italian secret services),
there is Lucio Lanza's book "Secrets and Bombs: Piazza Fontana" (1969) , which is
also available at Christiebooks.com. In Greek you will find the brochure "the
accidental death of an anarchist" published by Autonmedia magazine in November 1999.
Notes
1: A police inspector, he belonged to the powerful parastate of the time and
maintained ties with army officers who welcomed the "solution" of the coup. He
was considered a suspect in Pinelli's murder.
2: Anarchist group in the suburb of Ticino in Milan.
The ballad of the anarchist Pinelli - Ballata del 'anarchico Pinelli
"Progressive and reformers
We spit on your words
For Valpreda, Pinelli and for all of us.
There is only one thing to do.
Workers in factories and outside,
sign your sentence.
Power is starting to creak.
Justice will be done.
Calabresi with the fascist Guida,
remember that the years are long.
Before or after something will happen to you
which will remind you of Pinelli ".
To tell the story, Calabresi was shot and killed by an armed group of the Lotta
Continua organization, three years after the events in Piazza Fontana, on May 17,
1972.
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/
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Back to the criticism of the system: ---- It is astonishing that a militant
minority (the extreme middle) in Germany has been fighting for the government's
goals with symbols of right-wing extremism for months. The "elites" that are so
often denounced at the "lateral thinkers" demonstrations ultimately want the same
thing as the demonstrators - as few restrictions as possible in order to continue
to be active - and active in their function as homo oeconomicus, by no means as
social beings. ---- From Italy to France to the USA, global workers led massive
protests in spring 2020 - in the USA the largest wave of strikes in decades - to
enforce exactly the opposite. The lockdown or shutdown does not come
authoritarian "from above", no, there were fights to protect people. Hardly any
state has considered an economic shutdown voluntarily and without coercion, and
in any case the companies themselves have not. These global strikes and labor
unrest are the sensible antithesis to the irrational protests of people who
confuse "mouthguards" with "protective custody".
In times of a second pseudo-lockdown, it would actually be appropriate to take to
the streets and barricades against a government whose pandemic policy has only
one goal: to keep the economy pooping and not to poop. Already in the spring
there were not so few voices from economics, politics and (business) science
calling for "human sacrifice for capitalism" (Thomas Assheuer in Die Zeit, April
21, 2020). The policy of the Merkel government only differs in detail from the
policy of the Trump administration - the reason of state behind it is exactly the
same: the capital machinery must keep running. Closure is only done if the
workers actively close down - i.e. if they do not come, i.e. on strike - or if it
is actually too late.
On November 17, 2020, the President of the German Teachers' Association called
for an additional school year - a very sensible requirement if one assumes that
Corona is "only" a problem of perhaps half a decade and not perhaps one of
several decades. And if you assume that it's about education. But, yes, does
anyone seriously believe that federal and state governments are leaving schools
and kindergartens open because they are concerned about the educational
opportunities of children and young people??? Total nonsense, it's all about
giving the parents the time to be able to sell this as working time! That is why
the demand for an additional school year has no chance, because then the blags
are (almost) of legal age and can take care of themselves or.
For example with a work contract in the meat industry. Because even there very
little may change, especially when it comes to the CDU / CSU. Let them die, the
Eastern European guest workers, the main thing is that the sausage is on the
table. Whereby it's not about the sausage at all, but about the value.
This complete ignorance of the physical well-being of fellow human beings would
really be a reason for more than just a few rude demonstrations. Because: What is
clear from the example of the pig system also applies in general. After the
mainstream media was told by the lying press in the last collective bargaining
round in the public service that we could not reasonably be expected to strike
during the pandemic event, the nursing staff and hospital employees are simply a
little more overloaded. What already applied in the meat factories in Germany, so
that the meat packages still fit on the Aldi shelves, now increasingly applies
there too: work quarantine. In other words: You are actually not allowed to do
anything except work. System relevance is back where it belongs: on the Frankfurt
Stock Exchange, in the DAX, at banks and corporations. Nursing staff, retail
salesmen and women, security guards: all replaceable, none of them systemically
relevant. Even the economy around the corner - it doesn't matter: When the small
pub on our street closes and a self-employed restaurateur slips off in Hartz IV,
a new self-employed person with a bubble tea or cupcake group will definitely
come around the corner. This is capitalist economy too, but not systemically
relevant. The message is as clear as seldom: work or die. And when you die,
others work. System relevance was yesterday, now system criticism is necessary
again. When the little bar on our street closes and a self-employed restaurateur
slips off in Hartz IV, a new self-employed person with a bubble tea or cupcake
group will definitely come around the corner. This is also a capitalist economy,
but not systemically relevant. The message is as clear as ever: work or die. And
when you die, others work. System relevance was yesterday, now system criticism
is necessary again. When the little bar on our street closes and a self-employed
restaurateur slips off in Hartz IV, a new self-employed person with a bubble tea
or cupcake group will definitely come around the corner. This is capitalist
economy too, but not systemically relevant. The message is as clear as ever: work
or die. And when you die, others work. System relevance was yesterday, now system
criticism is necessary again.
The left media unison, in the sense of the striking workers of the world,
supported the government measures in the spring. Not because they suddenly
conformed to the system and switched to the side of the state. But because the
state has, for once, done what Fridays For Future, for example, always demands
unheard of when it comes to the climate: it has, at least tended to, listened to
the experts. The fact that the criticized state is allowed to have acted
correctly does not yet make these media system conformists.
Many (bourgeois) readers, especially those of the libertarian socialist media,
saw things differently and were outraged by the sudden love of the state of
"their" newspapers. They saw a threat to freedom and democratic rights. Rightly,
as it now turns out, but not at all in the sense in which they meant it - namely,
again, not through too many measures, but through too few.
Corona is - again - a magnifying glass that magnifies the primacy of the economic
over the social. The state is still an agent of the ruling class. And it goes
over corpses - whether through war, economic crisis or pandemic.
https://direkteaktion.org/irrelevant-oder-systemrelevant/
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Islamophobia is defined as racism against populations of Muslim faith or
perceived as such. It is not to be confused with the criticism of Islam as a
religious doctrine, which falls within the scope of freedom of opinion. ----
However, the desire to make certain religious symbols (for example the veil,
halal, mosques) invisible in public space testifies to a discriminatory strategy.
This contributes to developing a fear of Islam, then spreading the racism
suffered by Muslims or assimilated as such: the term is consecrated, continuing
to argue over it is sterile. ---- We are currently facing a new Islamophobic
offensive on the part of French institutions, whether political or media, such as
Blanquer taking up the language elements of the RN when he claims that
"Islamo-leftism is wreaking havoc [...] in the university".
In general, it is all people who are Muslim or perceived as such who are targeted
by liberticidal measures aimed at making them second-class citizens with limited
rights, thus reactivating the colonial logic in which Islamophobia s 'registered.
The society for which we fight must guarantee freedom of conscience and freedom
of worship, with a strict separation between faiths and public affairs, but
without discrimination against a particular religious minority.
Libertarian Communist Union
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Combattre-les-logiques-de-segregation
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racism, Fighting the logic of segregation (de, it, fr,
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Our daily lives are now full of more and more disciplines, restrictions and
orders. It has become clear that in the name of ensuring public health, the state
is producing a field of prohibitions in the public sphere and a death policy in
prisons and places of detention of immigrants. At the same time, it is stacking
dozens of people on MMMs and labor scams. ---- In this context, a multilevel
attack on the world of struggle continues and intensifies. Those who dare to
challenge the state management of Covid-19, to break the fear and bans on the
street and to resist the prevailing narratives, are confronted with all the
manifestations of the repressive mechanism, which in the midst of a pandemic was
technologically and numerically enriched. with the aim of spreading fear in the
social grid and the increasingly strict surveillance of our lives. The state
crackdown extends to the banning of demonstrations and rallies, the beatings and
arrests of uniformed bastards who have flooded our center and neighborhoods, the
suffocating restriction and control of movement in public,
So it was on December 6, 2020, twelve years after the assassination of the
anarchist student Alexandros Grigoropoulos and the uprising that followed. The
state, wanting once again to demonstrate power and authoritarianism, announced
additional "sanitary measures", ie gatherings of more than 4 people are not
allowed (as in the 3 days of November 17), while from the morning of the same day
it had taken care to exclude the scene of the murder, placing any kind of cop in
all the narrow perimeters of the area, making a blockade and forbidding the
passage to anyone who was trying to approach the point.
Nevertheless, with the memory remaining alive and the socio-political condition
sparking new peaks, in a day full of symbolism, many people broke the bans and
challenged the imposed climate of fear. Numerous interventions and marches took
place, the same as the previous day, both in the center and in the neighborhoods
of Athens, but also in many cities in Greece. The two-legged garbage in a
demonstration of fist and zero tolerance, corresponding to that of November 17,
brought 399 people and arrested 143 in the midst of hunters and the most
well-known clumsy thrashings, with the only criterion being their possible
direction to the gathering points.
Among the arrests in the wider area of Exarcheia was Comrade Errol. He was then
informed that the administration of Petros Ralli (transfer building and detention
center where immigrants are imprisoned and abused) issued a deportation order for
7 years from the country, on the grounds that it was considered dangerous for
public order. The governor's decision was based on that of state security, which
is a threat to the country's security. Errol was originally held in the inferno
of Petros Ralli, and is now in the Amygdaleza concentration camp.
This is clearly a vindictive and politically motivated act due to the relentless
action and constant presence of our comrade in the anarchist / anti-authoritarian
space, the occupation movement and the social and class struggles. His detention
and deportation are part of a wider repressive plan to marginalize and reduce
social struggles and resistance, criminalize and intimidate protesters. This is
why we perceive the process of deportation of our partner as a political,
intimidating and vindictive persecution that attacks the whole world of the
struggle. They are even more exposed to this attack - those who do not have the
"appropriate" papers & privileges, to claim the obvious.
However, we will not allow our lives, our struggles, our solidarity and our
resistance to be defined by papers and borders. Nor are we going to stop fighting
the regime that holds Errol as another prisoner of war among the thousands
stacked in the infernal Petros Ralli, Amygdaleza, Kara Tepe and dozens of other
closed immigration detention centers, whose lives are treated as unworthy to
experience.
The suffocating present we are experiencing is nothing more than a repressive
attempt by the state to impose more poverty and death. And we are deeply
convinced that in any answer that is not given, the state will try to build the
next stronghold of the kingdom of dystopia, expanding its power and crushing our
lives.
... AND THEY ASK US TO KEEP PEACE
The only thing we will keep, however, is the promise that we will respond to
every attempt by an authoritarian world to reproduce itself through our physical
and political extermination. Let us stand side by side again, collecting our
denials and resistances, spreading solidarity, rebellion & freedom.
Immediate release of comrade Errol
To block the revengeful expulsion of the partner
Resist the emergency regime
Fire in prisons and detention centers
Assembly against state repression and for solidarity with the occupiers
December 2020
https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2020/12/13/amesi-apeleytherosi-toy-anarchikoy-syntrofoy-errol/#more-2611
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For the past eight months, we have been trying to establish a permanent state of
emergency to administer Covid 19. The state manages the health crisis in its
favorite way: by imposing bans, normalizing surveillance, repression, oppression
and repression. He bombs us every day through funded media and "objective"
scientists with "individual responsibility" passing on his own responsibility for
the methodical understaffing, underfunding and devaluation of the health system
for years. The deterioration of the health system is accompanied by the upgrading
of the repressive forces, as managers of even the pandemic.
The management of Covid 19 is another area of class policy that most emphatically
demonstrates the murderous and anti-social nature of the state's biopolitics.
While presenting the ban on rallies and crowds as protection measures by Covid
19, at the same time it denies decongestion of prisons, stacks workers in labor
schemes and MMMs and continues to build soul warehouses in modern immigrant
concentration camps. "We live at home" was not intended for drug addicts and the
homeless. The state is the greatest paradox of the modern age. While ostensibly
shouldering the protection of public health and various social groups, it is the
state itself that constructs social idiots and scapegoats: the poor,
Or in the totalitarianism of tomorrow
The state and capital seek to use Covid 19 to accelerate their plans for the new
dystopian regularity they want to establish in our societies. They seize the
opportunity to re-launch their attack from below with a series of
anti-labor-anti-social measures (teleworking - out-of-work-dismissals -
multi-bill for education - environmental law, ban on demonstrations), while with
the new Bankruptcy Law Cancel The Right To Housing.
At the same time, they target any social and class resistance to state and
capitalist plans. They target militants who oppose exploitation and oppression.
They aim at the struggle for life itself, health and freedom. They aim at all the
social class political struggles of yesterday, today, and tomorrow to impose a
permanent state of emergency.
To create today's collective struggles to overthrow the dystopia imposed by state
and capital
SELF-ORGANIZATION-RESISTANCE-SOLIDARITY-SELF-PROTECTION
anarchic collectivity Vogliamo tutto e per tutti
https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2020/12/14/o-ios-den-therapeyetai-me-apagoreyseis-den-yparchei-ygeia-choris-eleytheria/
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Sessions of the OZZ Working Congress Employee Initiative (October 24-25, 2020)
On October 24-25, the Working Congress of the Employee Initiative was held. Due
to the restrictions introduced at that time, the event was organized in the form
of a teleconference. Over 30 people participated in the Congress, representing
more than 20 company, inter-company and environmental structures of OZZ IP. In
accordance with the original assumptions, the main topic of the meeting was the
preparations for the 12th National Congress of Delegates and Delegates (KZD),
which will take place in March 2021. ---- The congress was divided into three
main blocks: "Organizational issues", "Program postulates" and topics for work in
subgroups submitted by individual committees and working groups operating in the
Union.
The proceedings began with 3 presentations devoted to organizational matters. In
this part, representatives and representatives of the National Commission
presented the financial situation of IB, the functioning of the Association's
Office and preliminary proposals for statutory changes.
In terms of finances, the most important conclusion of the discussion was the
need to reform the premium collection system and increase its amount. Although
our union has quite significant savings at the moment (compared to the situation
in previous years), due to the dynamic development and the need to finance an
increasing range of activities, next year the KZD will discuss a proposal to
increase the membership fee. In addition to the increase in the premium itself,
there will also be a discussion whether its amount should be differentiated.
Currently, the so-called The "national part of the contribution", which serves to
finance the national activities of the Employee Initiative, is collected in the
same amount per month for each member of the Union. This solution is relatively
simple (everyone pays the same) and means that treasuries and treasurers in
individual committees do not have any additional work related to e.g. the need to
calculate the exact amount of the contribution depending on earnings. On the
other hand, such a solution does not take into account differences in the amount
of wages in different industries, cities or different jobs - in some respects it
is therefore an unfair system. The National Commission presented 3 proposals to
reform the fee collection system in OZZ IB: cities or at different workplaces -
in some respects it is therefore an unfair system. The National Commission
presented 3 proposals to reform the fee collection system in OZZ IB: cities or at
different workplaces - in some respects it is therefore an unfair system. The
National Commission presented 3 proposals to reform the fee collection system in
OZZ IB:
1. Maintaining the current principle "everyone pays the same", but with a
simultaneous increase in the amount of the national part of the premium;
2. differentiation of the amount of the nationwide contribution depending on the
level of earnings of a given person (e.g. a fixed percentage of remuneration)
3. differentiation of the amount of the nationwide contribution depending on the
industry in which a given commission operates.
Before March next year, these proposals will be specified and put to the vote of
Delegates and Delegates in the form of resolutions.
The Office of the Union is a new structure, established on the basis of the
resolution of the last Congress of Delegates in March 2019. It consists of
persons elected to the National Committee, who are responsible for keeping
documentation and (together with the legal working group) legal services for the
Union. For the Employee Initiative, this is a new solution, mainly due to the
fact that the work of the people making up the Office is remunerated - so far our
union has negatively assessed the employment of national authorities, considering
it one of the elements leading to bureaucratization of the trade union movement.
However, the growing number of court cases and the need for legal advice raised
by the committee forced us to introduce changes. Since the Office is a new
structure, the principles of its operation and organization are constantly in the
process of creation and are assessed on an ongoing basis by members and members
of OZZ IP. It can be said that the final shape of the Office is still clearing
up, and the Working Congress was the moment when an assessment was made of to
what extent the solutions developed by the current National Commission were
consistent with the expectations of the entire Union.
The last element of the first block of the Congress was the presentation of the
proposed statutory changes related to the organization of the Employee
Initiative. These proposals were prepared in response to the dynamic increase in
the number of our union and the emergence of new IB structures. Such a dynamic
development of the union prompted the National Committee to propose several new
solutions, which - as will be the case in the case of contributions - will be
presented next year in the form of draft resolutions and put to the vote of the
KZD. These proposals assume: (1) extension of the term of office of the National
Committee and the National Audit Committee to 3 or 4 years, (2) enlargement of
the composition of the National Committee by persons representing individual
industries in which our committees operate, (3) separating the presidium of the
National Commission consisting of people selected to perform specific functions
(Skrabnik / Skarbniczka, Koordynator / ka ds. Finance, Coordinator / ka ds.
Trainings, Koordynator / ka ds. your union work. Apart from these changes, the
National Commission will try to initiate the formation of Coordination at the
level of voivodships with a larger number of IB committees - so that the dynamic
development of new structures is accompanied by building mutual solidarity and
contacts at the local level.
The second part of the Congress was devoted to program discussions. We focused on
4 themes: (1) the right to strike, (2) workers' crisis strategy, (3) union
responses to environmental challenges and (4) youth organization. The first three
topics were discussed primarily in the form of a summary of the activities of the
IP collective management organizations to date. When it comes to the right to
strike, on the one hand, there was the issue of educating members and members of
the applicable collective dispute procedure. On the other hand, OZZ IP has long
pointed to a whole range of restrictions contained in Polish law, which make it
very difficult to organize a legal strike action. Therefore, two-track actions
have been planned in this field: popularization of legal knowledge through
training and formulation of postulates for changes inAct on resolving collective
disputes . In terms of the "employee crisis strategy", the most important lesson
was the need to clarify how IP as a whole and individual committees were to
respond separately to attempts to shift the costs of the crisis onto the working
class. The discussion on the relationship between the labor movement and ecology
was similar - we agree that the fight for the natural environment is part of the
fight for better living conditions for workers and female workers; however, we
need a more precise definition of how activities related to defending nature
against degradation can be carried out by individual structures of the Employee
Initiative.
Saturday's session was closed with a presentation of the activities of the Youth
Circle of OZZ IP - a new structure established in Warsaw and intended to organize
young workers and female workers. The assumptions are that structures of this
type will be created in subsequent localities to give students and students the
opportunity to join a trade union without the need to sign up for company or
inter-company structures.
The deliberations on Sunday 25 October were divided into two parts: work in
subgroups and a summary at the plenary session. The discussions in the subgroups
included topics such as: the activity of the legal group, the activity of the
training group, the development of procedures for resolving conflicts and
counteracting violence, cooperation between committees operating at universities
and working out a position on the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal
restricting access to abortion.
Out of these 5 topics, in the context of the upcoming Congress of Delegates and
Delegates, the work done by the group working on anti-conflict procedures will be
of particular importance - on its basis, proposals for statutory changes will be
prepared to regulate the issue of how, as a relationship, we are to deal with
situations of conflict and inappropriate , violent behavior that may arise. In
addition, the changes to the statute will be accompanied by training and the
publication of an internal guide on the rules of conduct in such situations.
Due to the fact that just before the start of the Congress, the Constitutional
Tribunal ruled that abortion due to "serious damage to the fetus or its incurable
disease" is "inconsistent with the Constitution", thus limiting the availability
of abortion in Poland, the Congress ended with adopting a stance condemning the
judgment Of the Constitutional Tribunal and calling for protests and support for
women's solidarity in the face of increasingly repressive legal regulations.
https://ozzip.pl/informacje/ogolnopolskie/item/2725-zjazd-roboczy-ozzip-sprawozdanie
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Message: 4
Posted in: Articles-Analyzes . Tagged: strategy of tension , Ponta Fountain ,
Brush , history of anarchist movement , historical . Leave a comment ---- On the
occasion of the 51st anniversary of the bombing of the Piazza Fontana in Milan
and the state assassination of the anarchist Pinelli. ---- To this day, we keep
the truth alive against the lies of the state. ---- Pinelli was killed. Valpreda
is innocent. The slaughter belongs to the state. Anarchists are accused of
escaping the fascists. ---- The anarchist worker Giuseppe (Pino) Pinelli ---- The
text is included in the edition "PIATSA FONTANA (MILAN 1969) | SCALE (BERCELONA
1978) MARFIN (ATHENS 2010): THE POLITICAL PLOT AS A STATE STRATEGY FOR THE
REPRESSION OF THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT "published in November 2016 on the occasion
of the completion of the trial of the anarchist Mar.
In 1968, the current of controversy arrived from Paris to Milan. The Italian May,
due to the nature of Italian society, lasted longer and was more explosive:
workers went on mass strikes, young people, students, pupils, women, prisoners,
the mentally ill and all the "outcasts" of society revolted . Riots break out in
factories, prisons, on the streets. They radically and massively deny everyday
living conditions. Power, hierarchy and exploitation are openly challenged. The
situation is getting out of the control of the state, the KKI and the trade union
bureaucracy. There was a will for change. A change that posed a threat to those
in power.
As a result, a reactionary turn is attempted to stifle the most radical movement
and the revolutionary atmosphere. The Interior Ministry's Secret Service (SID),
the police, the judiciary and politicians are taking action. The state launches
the attack by methodizing the universal opposition of the struggling world. In
1969, the authorities referred to trials of 10,000 workers, which never took
place, while at the same time the period of murders and massacres began.
Bomb blasts occurred on April 25, 1969 at the Milan Trade Fair and Central
Station, on July 9 on 10 trains, and finally on December 12, multiple bombings. A
powerful bomb, planted in such a way as to cause more casualties, explodes at the
Commercial Bank of Milan, in the Piazza Fontana with 16 dead and 100 wounded,
another 2 bombs in Rome, one at the Bank of Labor and one at the Monument to the
Unknown Soldier with about 20 injured. Another bomb is planted at the Emporiki
Bank in Milan's Scala Square, which explodes in a controlled manner.
From the very next day, the authorities of the place in collaboration with the
press outline a landscape with a clear orientation. The targeting, locating and
arresting of anarchists as responsible for the attacks, under the pretext of the
state nature of the targets, and, on the other hand, the historical precedent of
the attack on the Diana Theater on March 23, 1921. The scenario of the
investigation It seems to have already been written as 10 anarchists are arrested
quickly, of whom Pietro Valpreda is immediately convicted - since a taxi driver
allegedly recognizes him, claiming that he took him to the Piazza Fontana,
members of the extra-parliamentary left and a few extreme right-wingers.
From Pinelli's funeral
In the afternoon, immediately after the horrific bomb blast at Piazza Fontana,
Calabresi (1) arrived at the Via Scalndasole Group (2) and asked the anarchist
Giuseppe Pinelli to follow him to the department. At headquarters, Pinelli met
many Milanese anarchists. Like him, they had been summoned for questioning for
their aliens. Within 48 hours, which was the maximum detention time in a ward at
the time, those arrested were released and a few were taken to prison. Pinelli
was detained at the headquarters for questioning longer than the law allowed. On
the 3rd day of his detention, at 12 instead of 3 at night, the Milan Police
Administration calls an ambulance. At 12 and 2, a passing journalist sees Pinelli
being thrown into the courtyard of the building from the 4th floor.
Evidence shows that, during the interrogation, Inspector Calabresi hit Pinelli in
the neck and killed him. It was then that a police officer called an ambulance.
However, the police quickly and not accidentally directed Pinelli's "suicide".
While throwing him dead in a vacuum, they claimed that he "jumped out of the open
window by himself" giving 2 versions as a cause of suicide. The first version
wanted him mixed up in the attempts, with his alibi having collapsed and finally
desperately shouting "It is the end of Anarchy" to commit suicide. The second
version, given a posteriori when his alibi proved to be completely valid,
admitted that the interrogation was illegal, violent and coercive, and that
Pinelli therefore approached the window to catch his breath and slipped.
The political-legal scene that followed Pinelli's assassination was intertwined
with the whole story of the Ponta Fontana massacre and especially with the
"Valpreda case", which over the years turned against those in power. Relentless
attempts to impose silence, culminating in the position of "active grief" put
forward by Judge Gerardo D'Abrozio, simply highlighted a truth that has not yet
been confirmed in the official archives.
Pietro Valpreda
From the day after the assassination, the anarchists of the Ponte della Ghisolfa
giving a press conference are placed at the base:"Pinelli was assassinated,
Valpreda is innocent, the massacre belongs to the state. "The anarchists are
being accused in order to cover up the fascists."A huge campaign was launched in
Italy and internationally for the release of Valpreda. There were thousands of
actions and an anti-information campaign that was generalized and effective.
In February 1972, Valpreda was tried and released from prison, as the secret
services killed the taxi driver who allegedly recognized him, while Calabresi
received 3 bullets as he was leaving his house. A number of officers "commit
suicide", some judges are killed, as is the fascist Nadi, who was later blamed
for the assassination of Calabresi. The state and its servants opened a new
chapter in Italian history. The goal of all these actions is achieved. The
revolutionary movement in Italy is temporarily defeated.
Today, we know that the bomber was Delfo Zorzi, a neo-Nazi of the Ordine Nuovo
group, that Giovanni Ventura, also a neo-Nazi, was the one who carried the bombs,
while the Nazi group Avanguardia Nationale planted them. Also, that the neo-Nazi
Franco Freda in collaboration with other fascists and Ventura placed the bombs on
April 25 and July 9. We know that Valpreda was unjustly accused and imprisoned,
something the anarchists said from the beginning. Endless trials took place, all
with the aim of hiding the truth.
It took 10 years for the first conviction, while the last one closed only in
1991, with the result that Freda and Ventura were convicted only for the 2 bombs.
Delfo Zorsi lived peacefully in Japan, while Pinelli, according to Judge Gerardo
D 'Ambrosio, died due to "drastic illness" that made him fall out of the window
of the room where he was being interrogated, thus acquitting all the guilty.
* For more information on the Piazza Fontana massacre and the "strategy of
tension" (with the fascist bombings organized by the Italian secret services),
there is Lucio Lanza's book "Secrets and Bombs: Piazza Fontana" (1969) , which is
also available at Christiebooks.com. In Greek you will find the brochure "the
accidental death of an anarchist" published by Autonmedia magazine in November 1999.
Notes
1: A police inspector, he belonged to the powerful parastate of the time and
maintained ties with army officers who welcomed the "solution" of the coup. He
was considered a suspect in Pinelli's murder.
2: Anarchist group in the suburb of Ticino in Milan.
The ballad of the anarchist Pinelli - Ballata del 'anarchico Pinelli
"Progressive and reformers
We spit on your words
For Valpreda, Pinelli and for all of us.
There is only one thing to do.
Workers in factories and outside,
sign your sentence.
Power is starting to creak.
Justice will be done.
Calabresi with the fascist Guida,
remember that the years are long.
Before or after something will happen to you
which will remind you of Pinelli ".
To tell the story, Calabresi was shot and killed by an armed group of the Lotta
Continua organization, three years after the events in Piazza Fontana, on May 17,
1972.
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/
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Back to the criticism of the system: ---- It is astonishing that a militant
minority (the extreme middle) in Germany has been fighting for the government's
goals with symbols of right-wing extremism for months. The "elites" that are so
often denounced at the "lateral thinkers" demonstrations ultimately want the same
thing as the demonstrators - as few restrictions as possible in order to continue
to be active - and active in their function as homo oeconomicus, by no means as
social beings. ---- From Italy to France to the USA, global workers led massive
protests in spring 2020 - in the USA the largest wave of strikes in decades - to
enforce exactly the opposite. The lockdown or shutdown does not come
authoritarian "from above", no, there were fights to protect people. Hardly any
state has considered an economic shutdown voluntarily and without coercion, and
in any case the companies themselves have not. These global strikes and labor
unrest are the sensible antithesis to the irrational protests of people who
confuse "mouthguards" with "protective custody".
In times of a second pseudo-lockdown, it would actually be appropriate to take to
the streets and barricades against a government whose pandemic policy has only
one goal: to keep the economy pooping and not to poop. Already in the spring
there were not so few voices from economics, politics and (business) science
calling for "human sacrifice for capitalism" (Thomas Assheuer in Die Zeit, April
21, 2020). The policy of the Merkel government only differs in detail from the
policy of the Trump administration - the reason of state behind it is exactly the
same: the capital machinery must keep running. Closure is only done if the
workers actively close down - i.e. if they do not come, i.e. on strike - or if it
is actually too late.
On November 17, 2020, the President of the German Teachers' Association called
for an additional school year - a very sensible requirement if one assumes that
Corona is "only" a problem of perhaps half a decade and not perhaps one of
several decades. And if you assume that it's about education. But, yes, does
anyone seriously believe that federal and state governments are leaving schools
and kindergartens open because they are concerned about the educational
opportunities of children and young people??? Total nonsense, it's all about
giving the parents the time to be able to sell this as working time! That is why
the demand for an additional school year has no chance, because then the blags
are (almost) of legal age and can take care of themselves or.
For example with a work contract in the meat industry. Because even there very
little may change, especially when it comes to the CDU / CSU. Let them die, the
Eastern European guest workers, the main thing is that the sausage is on the
table. Whereby it's not about the sausage at all, but about the value.
This complete ignorance of the physical well-being of fellow human beings would
really be a reason for more than just a few rude demonstrations. Because: What is
clear from the example of the pig system also applies in general. After the
mainstream media was told by the lying press in the last collective bargaining
round in the public service that we could not reasonably be expected to strike
during the pandemic event, the nursing staff and hospital employees are simply a
little more overloaded. What already applied in the meat factories in Germany, so
that the meat packages still fit on the Aldi shelves, now increasingly applies
there too: work quarantine. In other words: You are actually not allowed to do
anything except work. System relevance is back where it belongs: on the Frankfurt
Stock Exchange, in the DAX, at banks and corporations. Nursing staff, retail
salesmen and women, security guards: all replaceable, none of them systemically
relevant. Even the economy around the corner - it doesn't matter: When the small
pub on our street closes and a self-employed restaurateur slips off in Hartz IV,
a new self-employed person with a bubble tea or cupcake group will definitely
come around the corner. This is capitalist economy too, but not systemically
relevant. The message is as clear as seldom: work or die. And when you die,
others work. System relevance was yesterday, now system criticism is necessary
again. When the little bar on our street closes and a self-employed restaurateur
slips off in Hartz IV, a new self-employed person with a bubble tea or cupcake
group will definitely come around the corner. This is also a capitalist economy,
but not systemically relevant. The message is as clear as ever: work or die. And
when you die, others work. System relevance was yesterday, now system criticism
is necessary again. When the little bar on our street closes and a self-employed
restaurateur slips off in Hartz IV, a new self-employed person with a bubble tea
or cupcake group will definitely come around the corner. This is capitalist
economy too, but not systemically relevant. The message is as clear as ever: work
or die. And when you die, others work. System relevance was yesterday, now system
criticism is necessary again.
The left media unison, in the sense of the striking workers of the world,
supported the government measures in the spring. Not because they suddenly
conformed to the system and switched to the side of the state. But because the
state has, for once, done what Fridays For Future, for example, always demands
unheard of when it comes to the climate: it has, at least tended to, listened to
the experts. The fact that the criticized state is allowed to have acted
correctly does not yet make these media system conformists.
Many (bourgeois) readers, especially those of the libertarian socialist media,
saw things differently and were outraged by the sudden love of the state of
"their" newspapers. They saw a threat to freedom and democratic rights. Rightly,
as it now turns out, but not at all in the sense in which they meant it - namely,
again, not through too many measures, but through too few.
Corona is - again - a magnifying glass that magnifies the primacy of the economic
over the social. The state is still an agent of the ruling class. And it goes
over corpses - whether through war, economic crisis or pandemic.
https://direkteaktion.org/irrelevant-oder-systemrelevant/
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Islamophobia is defined as racism against populations of Muslim faith or
perceived as such. It is not to be confused with the criticism of Islam as a
religious doctrine, which falls within the scope of freedom of opinion. ----
However, the desire to make certain religious symbols (for example the veil,
halal, mosques) invisible in public space testifies to a discriminatory strategy.
This contributes to developing a fear of Islam, then spreading the racism
suffered by Muslims or assimilated as such: the term is consecrated, continuing
to argue over it is sterile. ---- We are currently facing a new Islamophobic
offensive on the part of French institutions, whether political or media, such as
Blanquer taking up the language elements of the RN when he claims that
"Islamo-leftism is wreaking havoc [...] in the university".
In general, it is all people who are Muslim or perceived as such who are targeted
by liberticidal measures aimed at making them second-class citizens with limited
rights, thus reactivating the colonial logic in which Islamophobia s 'registered.
The society for which we fight must guarantee freedom of conscience and freedom
of worship, with a strict separation between faiths and public affairs, but
without discrimination against a particular religious minority.
Libertarian Communist Union
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Combattre-les-logiques-de-segregation
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