Today's Topics:
1. globalmayday.net: #UnitedAgainstTheDragon: Workers finally
get paid! (ca, de, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
get paid! (ca, de, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Libertäre Kommunist*innen Osnabrück LiKOS: Contribution to
the rally against the PKK ban on November 21, 2020 (de) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
the rally against the PKK ban on November 21, 2020 (de) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. anarkismo.net: Inhuman and barbaric by ESE Athens - The
state budget for 2021 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
state budget for 2021 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #311 -
Antipatriarchy, Culture, Read: Xavier, Dugrin, Slowmotion "
Jujitsufragettes- The amazons of London" (ca, de, it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Antipatriarchy, Culture, Read: Xavier, Dugrin, Slowmotion "
Jujitsufragettes- The amazons of London" (ca, de, it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. CNT VALÈNCIA AGREES TO STAND FOR UNION ELECTIONS IN
COMPANIES,DECEMBER 27, 2020 ADMIN (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
International solidarity gains victory in workers struggle in Bangladesh ----
Report also available in German [auf Deutsch]. ---- After months of protests and
international solidarity actions the owners of two big garment factories finally
pay owed wages and severance payments. ---- The workers of Dragon Sweater factory
in Dhaka, Bangladesh were laid off illegally during the Pandemic (Starting March,
2020) without paying them their outstanding wages and benefits. The workers
started a movement to realize their demands and force the owners to pay their
dues. International organizations and initiatives like Global May Day also
started holding solidarity demonstrations. ---- So, the Dragon Sweater workers
protesting for their owed wages and benefits are divided into three categories:
Category 1: Monthly Income Workers (90)
Category 2: Per Piece Rate Workers {PPP} (approximately 300)
Category 3: Floor, In Charge, Quality Control Managers (65)
In October, 2020, according to a tripartite agreement signed between the owners,
the workers and the government, the workers were supposed to be paid in three
installments starting in early November. However, the owners did not pay the
first installment, thus violating the agreement.
The workers restarted their agitation and the owners were forced into discussions
once again. But this time, considering the militancy and protracted nature of the
workers' struggle along with the unyielding attitude of the owners, the Labor
Minister herself was forced to be present at the meetings.
In early December, an agreement was reached to pay 80 Category 1 workers.
However, the GWTUC submitted a more comprehensive list, showing 90 Category 1
workers who had unpaid wages. After negotiations, 90 Category 1 workers, that is
workers paid on a monthly basis, were paid their due wages and benefits.
Regarding the Category 2, PPP workers, an inquiry committee was formed to
estimate the wages owed by the workers. The committee was lopsided from the very
beginning, heavily-weighted in favor of the owners.
Eventually, the owners proposed to pay 50% of what the PPP workers were owed,
which they estimated to be Tk 1 million (10 Lakh). But, the owners proposal did
not include the basic minimum wage that the PPP workers are supposed to receive
each month according to the Bangladesh Labor Act 2006.
After protests from GWTUC and workers' representatives, the Labor Minister
proposed that the amount be increased to Tk 1.5 million (15 Lakh). But according
to calculations by the GWTUC, the workers are owed upwards of Tk 3 million (30
Lakh). Still, with the protracted nature of the struggle in mind, the parties
involved settled to pay the workers Tk 1.5 million on 22nd December, 2020.
However, the GWTUC still plans to go to court to win the Category 2 Dragon
workers their entire unpaid dues.
Negotiations about the Category 3 workers however stalled. The owners refused to
pay the Category 3 workers what they owed. According to the GWTUC's estimation,
the amount is well upwards of several millions, going back decades. GWTUC plans
to forge a legal battle in the labor courts to earn the Category 3 workers their
just dues, as according to the Labor Act no workers may be laid off without
paying all outstanding dues. However, a small success was earned where the
Category 3 workers received their Provident Fund amounts.
International Solidarity
The struggle of the Dragon workers intensified during the dog days of the
Pandemic, but this fight of the garment workers and the owners goes back several
decades. The Dragon workers have always had to fight to receive their earned
wages and benefits. They have toiled in unsafe working conditions for years,
culminating in their illegal termination by the owners using the excuse of the
Pandemic.
But the workers persevered and eventually, with the overall situation of the
garment workers struggle in Bangladesh, the movement of the Dragon workers can be
considered a victory for the working class of Bangladesh. Especially outstanding
is the unprecedented internationalism and solidarity displayed by trade unions,
workers organizations and comrades around the world to stand beside the workers
of Dragon Sweater.
In the long history of the garment workers struggle in Bangladesh, this is the
first time, where international actions were taken with such unprecedented
coordination and solidarity. The Global May Day initiative, Free Workers Union
(FAU), Industrial Workers' of the World, the ICL-CIT, CNT, FOB, FORA, FGWM, SAC
and friends from all across the world played their part in achieving the just
demands of the Dragon workers.
Likewise, holding international buyers accountable, through constant actions and
demonstrations, played a vital role in forcing the local garment owners into the
negotiating table.
Accordingly, the fundraiser held and contributed by comrades around the world
especially helped Dragon workers keep their resolve strong and provided them much
needed food, medical supplies and legal aid (against falsely filed cases) during
the struggle. The GWTUC plans to start distributing aid in early January just as
the fundraising comes to a culmination.
Overall, we must say that the international solidarity and brotherhood displayed
in the struggle will forever remain a milestone in the history of the workers
movement in Bangladesh.
News Link: tbsnews.net
Workers of the World unite!
Solidarity,
Mahmood Sadaat Ruhul
International Affairs Department
Garment Workers' Trade Union Center (GWTUC)
https://globalmayday.net/2020/12/23/unitedagainstthedragon-workers-finally-get-paid/
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Message: 2
Since the PKK was banned in 1993, this has repeatedly been the basis for the
criminalization of the Kurdish movement in Germany, with legal leeway that allows
the police to classify flags as banned as they see fit, with Turkish authorities
often providing "administrative assistance". Afford. ---- There is hardly a
Kurdish demonstration that is not attacked by the police or at least harassed
because of Kurdish symbols. Constant surveillance of Kurdish activists and
frequent searches of club premises. In 2019, Mezopotamien Verlag, an entire
publishing house, was banned and 50,000 books were confiscated. ---- This ban not
only has drastic consequences for Kurds in this country, but also for the Rojava
project and the left oppoisiton in Turkey. With Rojava, an emancipatory project
was launched in northern Syria, which for many is an alternative to the misery of
the capitalist periphery and the terror of Islamic gangs or dictators.
Contrary to what many might think, Kurdish organizations in northern Syria made
progressive politics even before ISIS emerged, which is why there were various
associations, parties and organizations before that.
As a result of the Syrian state dissolution at the beginning of 2012, the YPG and
YPJ formed a predominantly Kurdish militia, which, however, does not only consist
of Kurds. The YPJ is a unit made up entirely of women and actively participated
in the fight against IS. She was feared among the fighters of the caliphate
because, according to her reactionary beliefs, killing by a woman was considered
a shame.
The Western "anti-terror" coalition, led by the US, viewed the People's Defense
Units as allies until they withdrew. The YPG / YPJ took on the role of the ground
units that fought free the areas under IS rule, which led to high casualties
within the militia. It is thanks to the forces of the YPG and YPJ that ISIS was
defeated and that further massacres and enslavement were prevented. After the
successful fight against ISIS, the Kurds were dropped by their western allies and
Turkey waged a war of aggression on Syrian territory, causing the Kurds to move
from the "Afrin" region in Western Syria, among others, but also from other parts
of the country had to withdraw. The civilian population is still today by the
allies of Turkey,
But Rojava is more than the defense of the Islamic State. Rojava is an
alternative to the misery of capitalism in general and to Islamism or the Assad
dictatorship in particular. The Rojava project does not just try to create a mere
Kurdish nation-state, but has built up a democratic self-government with a
council structure, including religious and ethnic minorities, thereby reducing
the tension between population groups that has grown over decades. The council
structure is supposed to guarantee the participation of the different parts of
the population. An economy based on solidarity is to be created, which does not
deal with the management of misery, but rather creates a distribution mechanism
for the benefit of the socially weaker.
Above all, a women's liberation was set in motion in Rojava, which we want to
emphasize again separately. "We are currently pursuing two revolutions: the
women's revolution and that of democratic self-government. One cannot replace the
other and neither has priority. "This quote from PYD co-chair Asya Abdullah
clearly shows that Rojava's priority is not simply to maintain power, but that a
progressive social project should be created. So that these words do not remain
mere covers of a utopian thought, they are filled with life by the Kurdish
comrades. While a women's quota for state-sponsoring feminists is the height of
feelings in the current German political system, this approach is already being
implemented in the Kurdish self-government, in which all bodies must be made up
of at least 40% women. But not only that, women organize themselves in women's
councils, publish their own newspapers and also create cultural bridges in the
cooperation between Arab and Kurdish women.
Turkey is fighting this project with all force and with German weapons. Turkey
still had IS financially in 2014, with weapons, how logistically supported they
invaded parts of Rojava in 2018. But an emancipatory project is not only being
fought in northern Syria; in Turkey itself, all means are being used against the
left opposition of the HDP party.
The HDP (in German: Democratic Party of the Peoples) campaigns for the rights of
Kurds, Armenians, women and homosexuals, calls for a left-wing economic policy
and is the only party that recognizes the genocide of the Armenians. The HDP is
repeatedly covered with repression, many politicians are in custody and there
have been many attacks on meetings and party bars.
The HDP has become a collective movement of emancipatory forces who want to break
with Erdogan's dictatorship and Islamism, who want minority rights, but who also
oppose a nationalist Turkey of the Kemalists. Above all, it is also a left-wing
party that functions as the parliamentary arm of social movements and represents
socialist positions.
Why are we telling all of this here? Not only because it makes it clear that our
solidarity as a left belongs to the Rojava project and the HDP. But also because
these very forces are also being weakened and fought against by the PKK ban in
Germany.
In this country, for example, demonstrations are regularly attacked by the police
because flags of the YPG / YPJ are shown, i.e. the organization that fought IS
most effectively. Awareness campaigns about the Sitation in northern Syria are
made considerably more difficult. The collection of donations to support the
struggles against IS and now against Turkey and its Islamist allies is regularly
criminalized, as is returnees who fought in the ranks of the YPG / YPJ.
The same goes for the HDP. Election campaign events are monitored and there is
close cooperation with the Turkish secret service, which repeatedly means that
supporters of the HDP from Germany cannot enter Turkey.
So it is not "just" foreign policy, not "just" arms deliveries, economic
agreements and investments by German companies towards Turkey, but also in
domestic politics the opposition in Turkey and the Rojava project are being
fought and weakened in a very specific way by the PKK. Prohibition.
The fight against Islamism means: Put an end to the PKK ban!
Solidarity with the HDP and the opposition in Turkey means: Get rid of the PKK ban!
Supporting women's rights means: Put an end to the PKK ban!
https://likos.noblogs.org/2020/11/24/redebeitrag-auf-der-kundgebung-gegen-das-pkk-verbot-am-21-11-2020/
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Message: 3
We call on all of us to react and resist this barbaric and inhumane policy of the
government, which is reflected in the worst way, in the state budget that it
submits. To propose as an antidote to the sick reality we live in the
self-organization of those below, the participation of all of us in the class and
social struggle and the formation of freedom fighters in independence from state
and capital in the direction of rupture with the regime "unionism" of GSEE-ADEDY
and the creation of a tertiary labor confederation. ---- The state budget for
2021 equals inhumanity and barbarism ---- And yes it is a fact. In the midst of a
global pandemic and as is the natural consequence of a rapid global economic
recession, the government submitted to the Greek parliament the state budget for
the year 2021. A budget with strong class characteristics, like the previous
governments.
Any common human logic, in the midst of such a dire situation for all humanity,
would expect a state budget, which would clearly strengthen public health
structures, take care to spend funds for the protection of citizens' health,
would take care to cover the subsidy for the weaker social strata and every
vulnerable group in the country, in addition would budget for the protection of
existing jobs and would have public money to subsidize the unemployed, whose
number has increased tragically due to the existing conditions.
But not. Against all logic, the far-right, neo-liberal government of the NEW
TERRORISM, which as a "serious Golden Dawn", submits a state budget to the Greek
parliament for the year 2021, which is anything but human, health and protective
for citizens and workers / workers, it is. So this government, which has recently
exceeded all limits of state violence, unnecessary repression and inhuman
policing of the citizens, is taking care to support with big funds the capital,
the industrialists, the shipowners, the clinicians of the private clinics and all
the canals. kind of boss. To strengthen the security forces materially and
spiritually, that is, to hire other thugs who kill cops, as if those who already
exist are not enough to kill our lives, to hire other soldiers and invest in
armaments warfare, to carry out the plans of the world imperialists to shed more
than the blood of the proletarians. And in addition to all this, it cuts public
health funds, abolishes with its barbaric and anti-labor policy every labor right
earned by blood-stained struggle, deprives even the poorest benefits from the
unemployed and the suspended workers and employees every helpless man and
vulnerable group of the country.
We call on all of us to react and resist this barbaric and inhumane policy of the
government, which is reflected in the worst way, in the state budget that it
submits. To propose as an antidote to the sick reality we live in the
self-organization of those below, the participation of all of us in the class and
social struggle and the formation of freedom fighters in independence from state
and capital in the direction of rupture with the regime "unionism" of GSEE-ADEDY
and the creation of a tertiary labor confederation.
WE DEMAND:
- Increase health spending here and now to save lives, not reductions as planned
in the 2021 budget.
Immediate and effective enforcement of private health structures of primary and
secondary care, without compensation.
- Comprehensive design of primary care, with local covid-19 centers, for
evaluation and first treatment, for decongestion of hospitals.
- Immediate recruitment of staff, to fill as many vacancies as possible for
nursing and medical staff.
- Checking and testing, in all workplaces.
- Immediate recruitment of staff, purchase and launch of new trains and buses,
upgrade of MMM here and now.
- Hands off our labor rights and democratic freedoms.
- Withdrawal antisyndikalistikou / anti-labor law.
Liberal Trade Union of Athens
* Related link:
https://ese.espiv.net/2020/12/16/o-kratikos-proypologismos-gia-to-2021-isoytai-me-apanthropia-kai-varvarotita/
Related Link: https://ese.espiv.net
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/32119
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Message: 4
Clément Xavier, Lisa Dugrin and Albertine Slow Motion, Jujitsufragettes - Les
amazones de Londres , Éditions Delcourt, 2020. 136 pages, 21.90 euros. ---- In
the early 1910s, Edith Garrud, one of the few female martial arts teachers in
Europe, trained the Amazons, the bodyguards of Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of
the suffragettes, in jujitsu, facing brutal police repression. ---- Often
described in a pacified narrative, as composed of elegant corsets claiming the
right to vote, this English feminist movement is told here without make-up,
determined to defend itself and to wrest rights from those who deny them,
including by breaking showcases and responding to blows. " Jujitsu consists in
turning the physical superiority of an opponent against himself."
Edith Garrud teaches, among other things, women victims of domestic violence to
counterattack, when approached by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU),
whose slogan "Deeds not words" is also on the program. If its activists have long
believed that by dint of education, elected officials would come to consider them
as full citizens, the recent betrayal of Prime Minister Asquith convinced them to
go on the offensive. " Take two babies. The first is patient, he waits for his
mother to feed him. The second cries and cries, until he is given food. We are
all well aware of which one we will take care of first. This is the whole history
of politics. "
Elsa Dorlin, (author of Self Defense ), prefaces this comic by recalling " how
the caricatural image of suffragettes, of these ridiculed activists, which had
been transmitted to us so far, had the disastrous function of depoliticizing our
history; to discipline our bodies, our imaginations and our rage".
Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Xavier-Dugrin-Ralenti-Jujitsufragettes-Les-amazones-de-Londres
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Message: 5
The union central has agreed in its annual Assembly a change of strategy that
will allow it to form part of the Works Councils, but only to be able to choose
to be financed through subsidies, as the rest of the unions do. ---- The Assembly
has unanimously decided the possibility that the CNT València affiliation can
present lists of candidates to the electoral processes that are promoted in the
companies. You may be part of the works councils in a testimonial way, to empty
them of content, because the union sections will always decide the strategy to be
followed by the elected delegates. ---- It is a comparative offense that the rest
of the unions can receive huge amounts of public money through subsidies and that
the CNT always has to stay on the sidelines to safeguard its independence. Even
the class unions that call themselves "combative" accept the subsidies, and the
CNT cannot stay on the sidelines without its "piece of the pie."
In reality, the union center continues to recognize that works councils are not
effective or serve the real interests of the working class, but it also considers
that participating in them is the only way to apply for these economic subsidies
and to be on equal terms. with the rest of the unions.
CNT València hopes that the rest of the CNT will understand the change in
strategy and will consider whether it really is of any use to maintain
independence and be a union that refuses to be financed by subsidies. At the end
of the day, it is everyone's public money, and all unions have the right to share
our "share of the pie" that the State and the Autonomous Communities so kindly
offer without any conditions.
Provincial Federation of Valencia
National Confederation of Labor (CNT)
https://valencia.cnt.es/2020/12/cnt-valencia-acuerda-presentarse-a-las-elecciones-sindicales-en-las-empresas/#more-12611
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COMPANIES,DECEMBER 27, 2020 ADMIN (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
International solidarity gains victory in workers struggle in Bangladesh ----
Report also available in German [auf Deutsch]. ---- After months of protests and
international solidarity actions the owners of two big garment factories finally
pay owed wages and severance payments. ---- The workers of Dragon Sweater factory
in Dhaka, Bangladesh were laid off illegally during the Pandemic (Starting March,
2020) without paying them their outstanding wages and benefits. The workers
started a movement to realize their demands and force the owners to pay their
dues. International organizations and initiatives like Global May Day also
started holding solidarity demonstrations. ---- So, the Dragon Sweater workers
protesting for their owed wages and benefits are divided into three categories:
Category 1: Monthly Income Workers (90)
Category 2: Per Piece Rate Workers {PPP} (approximately 300)
Category 3: Floor, In Charge, Quality Control Managers (65)
In October, 2020, according to a tripartite agreement signed between the owners,
the workers and the government, the workers were supposed to be paid in three
installments starting in early November. However, the owners did not pay the
first installment, thus violating the agreement.
The workers restarted their agitation and the owners were forced into discussions
once again. But this time, considering the militancy and protracted nature of the
workers' struggle along with the unyielding attitude of the owners, the Labor
Minister herself was forced to be present at the meetings.
In early December, an agreement was reached to pay 80 Category 1 workers.
However, the GWTUC submitted a more comprehensive list, showing 90 Category 1
workers who had unpaid wages. After negotiations, 90 Category 1 workers, that is
workers paid on a monthly basis, were paid their due wages and benefits.
Regarding the Category 2, PPP workers, an inquiry committee was formed to
estimate the wages owed by the workers. The committee was lopsided from the very
beginning, heavily-weighted in favor of the owners.
Eventually, the owners proposed to pay 50% of what the PPP workers were owed,
which they estimated to be Tk 1 million (10 Lakh). But, the owners proposal did
not include the basic minimum wage that the PPP workers are supposed to receive
each month according to the Bangladesh Labor Act 2006.
After protests from GWTUC and workers' representatives, the Labor Minister
proposed that the amount be increased to Tk 1.5 million (15 Lakh). But according
to calculations by the GWTUC, the workers are owed upwards of Tk 3 million (30
Lakh). Still, with the protracted nature of the struggle in mind, the parties
involved settled to pay the workers Tk 1.5 million on 22nd December, 2020.
However, the GWTUC still plans to go to court to win the Category 2 Dragon
workers their entire unpaid dues.
Negotiations about the Category 3 workers however stalled. The owners refused to
pay the Category 3 workers what they owed. According to the GWTUC's estimation,
the amount is well upwards of several millions, going back decades. GWTUC plans
to forge a legal battle in the labor courts to earn the Category 3 workers their
just dues, as according to the Labor Act no workers may be laid off without
paying all outstanding dues. However, a small success was earned where the
Category 3 workers received their Provident Fund amounts.
International Solidarity
The struggle of the Dragon workers intensified during the dog days of the
Pandemic, but this fight of the garment workers and the owners goes back several
decades. The Dragon workers have always had to fight to receive their earned
wages and benefits. They have toiled in unsafe working conditions for years,
culminating in their illegal termination by the owners using the excuse of the
Pandemic.
But the workers persevered and eventually, with the overall situation of the
garment workers struggle in Bangladesh, the movement of the Dragon workers can be
considered a victory for the working class of Bangladesh. Especially outstanding
is the unprecedented internationalism and solidarity displayed by trade unions,
workers organizations and comrades around the world to stand beside the workers
of Dragon Sweater.
In the long history of the garment workers struggle in Bangladesh, this is the
first time, where international actions were taken with such unprecedented
coordination and solidarity. The Global May Day initiative, Free Workers Union
(FAU), Industrial Workers' of the World, the ICL-CIT, CNT, FOB, FORA, FGWM, SAC
and friends from all across the world played their part in achieving the just
demands of the Dragon workers.
Likewise, holding international buyers accountable, through constant actions and
demonstrations, played a vital role in forcing the local garment owners into the
negotiating table.
Accordingly, the fundraiser held and contributed by comrades around the world
especially helped Dragon workers keep their resolve strong and provided them much
needed food, medical supplies and legal aid (against falsely filed cases) during
the struggle. The GWTUC plans to start distributing aid in early January just as
the fundraising comes to a culmination.
Overall, we must say that the international solidarity and brotherhood displayed
in the struggle will forever remain a milestone in the history of the workers
movement in Bangladesh.
News Link: tbsnews.net
Workers of the World unite!
Solidarity,
Mahmood Sadaat Ruhul
International Affairs Department
Garment Workers' Trade Union Center (GWTUC)
https://globalmayday.net/2020/12/23/unitedagainstthedragon-workers-finally-get-paid/
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Message: 2
Since the PKK was banned in 1993, this has repeatedly been the basis for the
criminalization of the Kurdish movement in Germany, with legal leeway that allows
the police to classify flags as banned as they see fit, with Turkish authorities
often providing "administrative assistance". Afford. ---- There is hardly a
Kurdish demonstration that is not attacked by the police or at least harassed
because of Kurdish symbols. Constant surveillance of Kurdish activists and
frequent searches of club premises. In 2019, Mezopotamien Verlag, an entire
publishing house, was banned and 50,000 books were confiscated. ---- This ban not
only has drastic consequences for Kurds in this country, but also for the Rojava
project and the left oppoisiton in Turkey. With Rojava, an emancipatory project
was launched in northern Syria, which for many is an alternative to the misery of
the capitalist periphery and the terror of Islamic gangs or dictators.
Contrary to what many might think, Kurdish organizations in northern Syria made
progressive politics even before ISIS emerged, which is why there were various
associations, parties and organizations before that.
As a result of the Syrian state dissolution at the beginning of 2012, the YPG and
YPJ formed a predominantly Kurdish militia, which, however, does not only consist
of Kurds. The YPJ is a unit made up entirely of women and actively participated
in the fight against IS. She was feared among the fighters of the caliphate
because, according to her reactionary beliefs, killing by a woman was considered
a shame.
The Western "anti-terror" coalition, led by the US, viewed the People's Defense
Units as allies until they withdrew. The YPG / YPJ took on the role of the ground
units that fought free the areas under IS rule, which led to high casualties
within the militia. It is thanks to the forces of the YPG and YPJ that ISIS was
defeated and that further massacres and enslavement were prevented. After the
successful fight against ISIS, the Kurds were dropped by their western allies and
Turkey waged a war of aggression on Syrian territory, causing the Kurds to move
from the "Afrin" region in Western Syria, among others, but also from other parts
of the country had to withdraw. The civilian population is still today by the
allies of Turkey,
But Rojava is more than the defense of the Islamic State. Rojava is an
alternative to the misery of capitalism in general and to Islamism or the Assad
dictatorship in particular. The Rojava project does not just try to create a mere
Kurdish nation-state, but has built up a democratic self-government with a
council structure, including religious and ethnic minorities, thereby reducing
the tension between population groups that has grown over decades. The council
structure is supposed to guarantee the participation of the different parts of
the population. An economy based on solidarity is to be created, which does not
deal with the management of misery, but rather creates a distribution mechanism
for the benefit of the socially weaker.
Above all, a women's liberation was set in motion in Rojava, which we want to
emphasize again separately. "We are currently pursuing two revolutions: the
women's revolution and that of democratic self-government. One cannot replace the
other and neither has priority. "This quote from PYD co-chair Asya Abdullah
clearly shows that Rojava's priority is not simply to maintain power, but that a
progressive social project should be created. So that these words do not remain
mere covers of a utopian thought, they are filled with life by the Kurdish
comrades. While a women's quota for state-sponsoring feminists is the height of
feelings in the current German political system, this approach is already being
implemented in the Kurdish self-government, in which all bodies must be made up
of at least 40% women. But not only that, women organize themselves in women's
councils, publish their own newspapers and also create cultural bridges in the
cooperation between Arab and Kurdish women.
Turkey is fighting this project with all force and with German weapons. Turkey
still had IS financially in 2014, with weapons, how logistically supported they
invaded parts of Rojava in 2018. But an emancipatory project is not only being
fought in northern Syria; in Turkey itself, all means are being used against the
left opposition of the HDP party.
The HDP (in German: Democratic Party of the Peoples) campaigns for the rights of
Kurds, Armenians, women and homosexuals, calls for a left-wing economic policy
and is the only party that recognizes the genocide of the Armenians. The HDP is
repeatedly covered with repression, many politicians are in custody and there
have been many attacks on meetings and party bars.
The HDP has become a collective movement of emancipatory forces who want to break
with Erdogan's dictatorship and Islamism, who want minority rights, but who also
oppose a nationalist Turkey of the Kemalists. Above all, it is also a left-wing
party that functions as the parliamentary arm of social movements and represents
socialist positions.
Why are we telling all of this here? Not only because it makes it clear that our
solidarity as a left belongs to the Rojava project and the HDP. But also because
these very forces are also being weakened and fought against by the PKK ban in
Germany.
In this country, for example, demonstrations are regularly attacked by the police
because flags of the YPG / YPJ are shown, i.e. the organization that fought IS
most effectively. Awareness campaigns about the Sitation in northern Syria are
made considerably more difficult. The collection of donations to support the
struggles against IS and now against Turkey and its Islamist allies is regularly
criminalized, as is returnees who fought in the ranks of the YPG / YPJ.
The same goes for the HDP. Election campaign events are monitored and there is
close cooperation with the Turkish secret service, which repeatedly means that
supporters of the HDP from Germany cannot enter Turkey.
So it is not "just" foreign policy, not "just" arms deliveries, economic
agreements and investments by German companies towards Turkey, but also in
domestic politics the opposition in Turkey and the Rojava project are being
fought and weakened in a very specific way by the PKK. Prohibition.
The fight against Islamism means: Put an end to the PKK ban!
Solidarity with the HDP and the opposition in Turkey means: Get rid of the PKK ban!
Supporting women's rights means: Put an end to the PKK ban!
https://likos.noblogs.org/2020/11/24/redebeitrag-auf-der-kundgebung-gegen-das-pkk-verbot-am-21-11-2020/
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Message: 3
We call on all of us to react and resist this barbaric and inhumane policy of the
government, which is reflected in the worst way, in the state budget that it
submits. To propose as an antidote to the sick reality we live in the
self-organization of those below, the participation of all of us in the class and
social struggle and the formation of freedom fighters in independence from state
and capital in the direction of rupture with the regime "unionism" of GSEE-ADEDY
and the creation of a tertiary labor confederation. ---- The state budget for
2021 equals inhumanity and barbarism ---- And yes it is a fact. In the midst of a
global pandemic and as is the natural consequence of a rapid global economic
recession, the government submitted to the Greek parliament the state budget for
the year 2021. A budget with strong class characteristics, like the previous
governments.
Any common human logic, in the midst of such a dire situation for all humanity,
would expect a state budget, which would clearly strengthen public health
structures, take care to spend funds for the protection of citizens' health,
would take care to cover the subsidy for the weaker social strata and every
vulnerable group in the country, in addition would budget for the protection of
existing jobs and would have public money to subsidize the unemployed, whose
number has increased tragically due to the existing conditions.
But not. Against all logic, the far-right, neo-liberal government of the NEW
TERRORISM, which as a "serious Golden Dawn", submits a state budget to the Greek
parliament for the year 2021, which is anything but human, health and protective
for citizens and workers / workers, it is. So this government, which has recently
exceeded all limits of state violence, unnecessary repression and inhuman
policing of the citizens, is taking care to support with big funds the capital,
the industrialists, the shipowners, the clinicians of the private clinics and all
the canals. kind of boss. To strengthen the security forces materially and
spiritually, that is, to hire other thugs who kill cops, as if those who already
exist are not enough to kill our lives, to hire other soldiers and invest in
armaments warfare, to carry out the plans of the world imperialists to shed more
than the blood of the proletarians. And in addition to all this, it cuts public
health funds, abolishes with its barbaric and anti-labor policy every labor right
earned by blood-stained struggle, deprives even the poorest benefits from the
unemployed and the suspended workers and employees every helpless man and
vulnerable group of the country.
We call on all of us to react and resist this barbaric and inhumane policy of the
government, which is reflected in the worst way, in the state budget that it
submits. To propose as an antidote to the sick reality we live in the
self-organization of those below, the participation of all of us in the class and
social struggle and the formation of freedom fighters in independence from state
and capital in the direction of rupture with the regime "unionism" of GSEE-ADEDY
and the creation of a tertiary labor confederation.
WE DEMAND:
- Increase health spending here and now to save lives, not reductions as planned
in the 2021 budget.
Immediate and effective enforcement of private health structures of primary and
secondary care, without compensation.
- Comprehensive design of primary care, with local covid-19 centers, for
evaluation and first treatment, for decongestion of hospitals.
- Immediate recruitment of staff, to fill as many vacancies as possible for
nursing and medical staff.
- Checking and testing, in all workplaces.
- Immediate recruitment of staff, purchase and launch of new trains and buses,
upgrade of MMM here and now.
- Hands off our labor rights and democratic freedoms.
- Withdrawal antisyndikalistikou / anti-labor law.
Liberal Trade Union of Athens
* Related link:
https://ese.espiv.net/2020/12/16/o-kratikos-proypologismos-gia-to-2021-isoytai-me-apanthropia-kai-varvarotita/
Related Link: https://ese.espiv.net
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/32119
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Message: 4
Clément Xavier, Lisa Dugrin and Albertine Slow Motion, Jujitsufragettes - Les
amazones de Londres , Éditions Delcourt, 2020. 136 pages, 21.90 euros. ---- In
the early 1910s, Edith Garrud, one of the few female martial arts teachers in
Europe, trained the Amazons, the bodyguards of Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of
the suffragettes, in jujitsu, facing brutal police repression. ---- Often
described in a pacified narrative, as composed of elegant corsets claiming the
right to vote, this English feminist movement is told here without make-up,
determined to defend itself and to wrest rights from those who deny them,
including by breaking showcases and responding to blows. " Jujitsu consists in
turning the physical superiority of an opponent against himself."
Edith Garrud teaches, among other things, women victims of domestic violence to
counterattack, when approached by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU),
whose slogan "Deeds not words" is also on the program. If its activists have long
believed that by dint of education, elected officials would come to consider them
as full citizens, the recent betrayal of Prime Minister Asquith convinced them to
go on the offensive. " Take two babies. The first is patient, he waits for his
mother to feed him. The second cries and cries, until he is given food. We are
all well aware of which one we will take care of first. This is the whole history
of politics. "
Elsa Dorlin, (author of Self Defense ), prefaces this comic by recalling " how
the caricatural image of suffragettes, of these ridiculed activists, which had
been transmitted to us so far, had the disastrous function of depoliticizing our
history; to discipline our bodies, our imaginations and our rage".
Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Xavier-Dugrin-Ralenti-Jujitsufragettes-Les-amazones-de-Londres
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Message: 5
The union central has agreed in its annual Assembly a change of strategy that
will allow it to form part of the Works Councils, but only to be able to choose
to be financed through subsidies, as the rest of the unions do. ---- The Assembly
has unanimously decided the possibility that the CNT València affiliation can
present lists of candidates to the electoral processes that are promoted in the
companies. You may be part of the works councils in a testimonial way, to empty
them of content, because the union sections will always decide the strategy to be
followed by the elected delegates. ---- It is a comparative offense that the rest
of the unions can receive huge amounts of public money through subsidies and that
the CNT always has to stay on the sidelines to safeguard its independence. Even
the class unions that call themselves "combative" accept the subsidies, and the
CNT cannot stay on the sidelines without its "piece of the pie."
In reality, the union center continues to recognize that works councils are not
effective or serve the real interests of the working class, but it also considers
that participating in them is the only way to apply for these economic subsidies
and to be on equal terms. with the rest of the unions.
CNT València hopes that the rest of the CNT will understand the change in
strategy and will consider whether it really is of any use to maintain
independence and be a union that refuses to be financed by subsidies. At the end
of the day, it is everyone's public money, and all unions have the right to share
our "share of the pie" that the State and the Autonomous Communities so kindly
offer without any conditions.
Provincial Federation of Valencia
National Confederation of Labor (CNT)
https://valencia.cnt.es/2020/12/cnt-valencia-acuerda-presentarse-a-las-elecciones-sindicales-en-las-empresas/#more-12611
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