Today's Topics:
1. Kronstadt as Revolutionary Utopia, 1921-2021: Two day
Teleconference (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Teleconference (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, Text of solidarity with the French anarchist Eroll
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Ireland, Derry Anarchist Collective: Who We Are
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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4. Holland, vrije bond: Corona is the virus - Capitalism the
crisis! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
crisis! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, UCL AL #313 - Digital, Espionnite: The teleworking
guards (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
March 20-21, 2021: A two-day online conference to commemorate the Kronstadt
Commune of March 1921
"We invite you to "Kronstadt as Revolutionary Utopia: 1921-2021 and Beyond," an
international convergence to remember history's repressed revolutionary hopes and
explore the "living past" struggle of authoritarianism vs. humanism."
Conference
site:https://kronstadt2021.wordpress.com/?fbclid=IwAR2DFGgLIfNh6NVEGTzZhf3DM02rCXlIb5uX0RPaL-L5hFcdrYNLNeM8YnU
Kronstadt as Revolutionary Utopia, 1921-2021
March 20-21, 2021
kronstadt2021.wordpress.com
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Message: 2
On December 6, Erol, an anarchist of French descent, is arrested and charged with
spreading the virus, which leads to deportation due to the pandemic. The
deportation sentence is currently pending against him on the pretext that he is a
"public danger". ---- The December 6 demonstration was a bet for the state, a bet
it eventually lost. A total ban on the demonstration, under the guise of a
pandemic and with the ultimate goal of creating a condition in which the
movement's forces would be forced to retreat in the face of state demands,
creating an even more suffocating situation for all those who fight but also for
the oppressed in general. eventually succeeded by the state and its assassins in
uniform. The coordination, organization and stubbornness of dozens of comrades
all over Greece managed to break, even for a few hours, the universal ban imposed
once again by the Ministry of "Citizen Protection" and tried to implement the
mercenary army of occupation of the bosses , keeping the flame of the December
uprising burning, keeping intact in the collective memory the figure of the
murdered Alexandros Grigoropoulos. Among the crowd of these fighters was Eroll,
who due to his political action, his participation in the anarchist movement and
his origin is the ideal scapegoat to implement the state policies of repression
and discipline. The method of deportation of Eroll, is not just a direct threat
to all the fighters who happen to not have Greek citizenship, that a simple
arrest in a demonstration could be a reason for deportation. It also aims to
create accomplished events, events on which it can rely in the future to hit the
movement and the fighters even harder.
It is therefore clear that the state will use every possible means to suppress
whoever chooses the path of struggle. Its arsenal is large and for this every
possible means is used. State repression is sometimes expressed through brutal
repression of cops, sexist attacks, torture of comrades and squatting
evacuations, and sometimes takes more "bloodless" forms through exhaustive
financial guarantees or methods of deporting militants. From the immigrants
stacked in the infernos of Petros Ralli and Kara Tepe in miserable conditions and
the daily pushbacks to the repressive methods against the anarchist movement, the
attitude of the authorities for the complete crushing of the oppressed and the
fighters is evident. For us, the method of expelling the anarchist Eroll, fits
into this very context. The origin of a man, that is, becomes the means by which
the state will manage to "get rid" of an anarchist. Our solidarity with whoever
is hit by the state and capital is not only self-evident and imperative.
AGAINST THE METHODS OF STATE - COP - JUDGES
POWER & SOLIDARITY IN ANARCHIST EROLL
https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/2774/
------------------------------
Message: 3
We are a class struggle anarchist collective, organised by and for working class
people. As anarchists we are opposed to all states and institutions, and all
attitudes and ideologies that stand in the way of equality and the right of all
people everywhere to control their own lives and environment. The working class
has no country. ---- The class struggle is world wide and recognises no
artificial boundaries. The Armies and Police of all states do not exist to
protect the workers of those states, they exist only as the repressive arm of the
ruling class. ---- Our Aim ---- Our aim is to abolish world wide, the state
system, governments, capitalism and the wage slavery in all its forms and replace
them with a free classless society based on self-managed communities and
industries where production is for need not profit. In order to bring about an
anarchist society the working class must take over the means of production and
distribution, along with the day-to-day running of our communities.
What We Believe
As anarchists we believe that the only way for the working class to achieve this
is by independent organisation in the workplace and the community. In federation
with others in the same industry and locality, independent of and opposed to all
political parties and trade union bureaucracies. Industrial and community
federations must be controlled by the working class themselves and must unite
rather than divide the working class.
Dividing the working class by skin colour, religion, sex, nationality, sexual
preference etc. is one of the main ways that the ruling class keeps us fighting
amongst ourselves instead of against them. In creating a free society we must
combat and destroy these divisions which the ruling class fosters within the
working class.
Get Involved
Derry Anarchist Collective exists in order to further our aim for the creation of
a social system where the working class alone controls industry and the
community, free from the dictates, rules and laws of politicians, bureaucrats and
bosses. If you share the ideas contained in this statement then we urge you to
get involved with us.
Governments don't fall down by themselves, they need your help.
You can write to us at:
derryanarchists@gmail.com
Facebook link here
http://derryanarchists.blogspot.com/
------------------------------
Message: 4
The virus has been going around the world now for more than a year. Entire
sectors of public life have been put to a standstill. The capacity of the Dutch
healthcare system is pushed to its limits. While public money is being used to
bailout big corporations, the health care system is underfunded and increasingly
more privatised. Health care insurance is expensive and health care is not
accessible for those who cannot pay. People in marginalised and vulnerable groups
cannot be treated properly or are not treated at all. Hundreds of thousands of
people have lost their jobs, their homes, and their livelihoods. Many lives have
been lost because of the pandemic and the state's mismanagement of it, but it
does not and it did not have to be like this. Let's not believe their lies, we
are not "all in this together". The rich get even richer because of this crisis
from the safety of their beautiful homes, while the (frontline)workers, the poor
and the marginalised carry the biggest burden and are forced to risk their lives.
It's not just the pandemic, there are systemic problems with capitalism and the
state. Here we will try to tackle some of them:
Systemic Racism / Police Violence
Lockdown policies and the pandemic in general, does not affect all people in the
same way. The curfew only applies to the poor as the rich can afford to pay the
fine. People with gardens can still go outside. If you don't have a home you can
not self-isolate. Those of us who live in working class and historically
immigrant neighbourhoods, have to deal with more police presence and aggressive
policing then those in middle class and rich neighbourhoods. As proven, amongst
other things, by the ‘toeslagen affaire' (benefit scandal) this country is
institutionally racist. Now the state is using this crisis to further extend
police powers and crackdown on our rights to protest and exist in public. Giving
more power to cops will only increase racist police violence. Ethnic profiling,
mass surveillance, and predictive policing are posing a threat to our communities.
The police do not protect us, we protect each other. Stop institutional racism
and the Dutch Police / Surveillance state. They are not here to help us but they
are here to protect the rich.
Housing
In one of the most expensive cities in Europe, the housing situation has worsened
during the pandemic. The privatisation of the housing market has reached the
point that social houses are being sold to the private sector. Housing prices are
expected to rise again this year, big businesses are getting rent cuts while we
struggle to pay rent. Even the suburbs we have been pushed into are being
gentrified and are becoming unaffordable. At the same time houses everywhere in
the city are intentionally left empty for the rich to speculate with. People
without homes have no certainty and shelters are getting closed down. Social
places that offer spaces for people affected are facing serious financial
problems, are getting evicted and solidarity is being criminalised. Because of
the lockdown, domestic violence is increasing as well as serious mental health
concerns. We want proper housing for everyone.
Environment
We might think that because many people have stopped travelling that C02
emissions are decreasing and that at least this is a positive development for the
environment. However, individual lifestyle consumption choices are not to blame
for the climate crisis. The crisis is capitalism. Capitalism is incredibly
inefficient. For example, Airplanes continue flying empty, because it's cheaper
to do this than to leave them standing at the hangars. Sounds ridiculous? - it is!
The capitalist system will continue to drain the planet's resources, pandemic or
not. Everything must give way in order to maximise profit. Government regulation
will not stop this. Large multinationals are working together with states. In
this way, there cannot be an effective response to the climate crisis. We have to
get rid of this idea of infinite growth. We have to get rid of states and capitalism.
There can be no infinite growth on a finite planet.
European Borders
After the overcrowded Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos burned down last
year, the EU continues to intentionally ignore the fact that humans are dying at
its borders every day. Push backs by the EU coastguards of FRONTEX, inhumane
conditions in camps during a pandemic, drowning of people whilst sea rescue and
solidarity at the borders is criminalized, and the racist EU cooperates with
states such as Turkey and Libya to stop people at the borders by any means. Since
the beginning of the corona pandemic the situation has only worsened. The EU will
not change, we need to rise up to make change happen.
Conspiracies and Nazis
The far-right tries to make use of this uncertainty to mobilise people for their
gains. Conspiracy theories fail to show the real systematic issue. Capitalism is
not a conspiracy it is very real and observable and can be abolished. Nazis
mobilizing? - not with us!
Economy
We have every reason to be angry: While the upper class is able to stay home, we
still have to work under dangerous conditions for a low wage - we are the ones
that work illegally, the industrial workers, the craftspeople, the retail
workers, delivery people, the taxi drivers, the nurses. We are the ones who make
sure that we are all healthy, that there is still food to get at the supermarkets
- the social workers, the educators, the cleaning staff and the sex workers. But
we are also the people who are not native Dutch, who are not taken care of
because we do not have the same rights to work or access to social services. The
ones who do not have enough, or any money to afford a flat in this ridiculous
housing market. We are the ones without citizenship and therefore, without any
rights. We are the students that struggle to pay high tuition fees. We are the
now unemployed workers struggling to get by. We did not create the crisis, and
yet should we now bear the consequences? We should "tighten our belts" because we
are now "all in the same boat"? Yes, now we are all in the same boat - but the
capitalists, bosses, landlords, politicians, and managers are in another.
Corona Crisis? Not on our backs!
Come in action - let's make the rich pay for Covid 19!
Another World is Possible!
20.02.2021, 15.00
Mercatorplein Amsterdam
(Wear facemasks and try to keep to social distancing)
Our Conclusion:
Proper housing for everyone Squat the rich, renters keep your rent!
Change your locks, resist evictions, community resistance now
Stop the surveillance state and stop police violence. Let's defend ourselves and
protect each other.
Antisemitic conspiracy theorists and QANON-ers are dangerous and do not represent
an answer to the crisis. Racists, antisemites, cops and Nazis off our streets!
Destroy capitalism before it destroys the earth.
Make the rich pay for the Covid19
The assembly of the Anti-Capitalist Action Amsterdam.
Vrije Bond Secretariaat
https://www.vrijebond.org/demo-corona-is-het-virus-kapitalisme-is-de-crisis-solidariteit-is-de-oplossing/
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Message: 5
Spy webcams, time control, keystrokes ... With the massive spread of teleworking
in 2020, employers have sought solutions for generalized surveillance of
employees with the help of digital companies. ---- Surveillance at work is
nothing new. The working class has long been subjected to wardens, foremen and
other controllers and supervisors. ---- Far from the image of Épinal of a desire
for better management and optimization of productivity, this generalized
surveillance only aims to put pressure on workers by scrutinizing all of their
facts. and gestures and looking for the slightest loophole to threaten them. You
have to keep it up if you don't want to lose your job. But the generalization of
teleworking undermines the classic supervisory capacity of bosses.
To overcome these difficulties, digital companies, never left behind in putting
their creativity at the service of the dominant, have developed tools. This is
how we have seen the birth in recent years of software for counting time, random
screenshots, recording of keystrokes on the keyboard or even control of employee
webcams. Some tools even go so far as to rummage through couriers ...
Big boss is watching you
And if you wanted to fill in the digs by investing in digital companies, you had
to have a hollow nose in 2019, as spyware and control software sales jumped 87%
in April 2020, and again by 71% in May. , compared to the average monthly demand
before the onset of the coronavirus. And still 51% from June to September[1].
Time Doctor, the flagship monitoring software, jumped 202% last April. This
self-proclaimed best software on the market promises to "follow live tasks on
which teams are working" , in addition to providing real-time information on the
sites visited and the connection and disconnection times of teleworkers. Beyond
these specific programs, tools used on a daily basis by millions of employees
also make it possible to set up monitoring: professional messaging, intranet,
collaborative tools (Slack, Teams, etc.), videoconferencing software ( Zoom,
Skype, etc.) and many more.
Practices on the edge of legality
This monitoring is carried out within a legal framework set up by the government
and its "social partners". In order to be able to monitor employees, companies
must inform them. The tools cannot be installed at the expense of employees and
must not infringe on fundamental freedoms, especially with regard to their
privacy. All this "must be justified by the nature of the task to be accomplished
and proportionate to the goal sought"[2]. For companies that have them, the CSEs
must be "consulted". For others, "discussions" must take place. In all cases, a
charter must be drawn up by the employers.
If employees use their own computer equipment, bosses cannot impose surveillance
software or sanction those who oppose it. But using your personal equipment to
protect yourself from the coping of your boss is obviously not a solution at a
time when many are claiming decent equipment to carry out their teleworking. For
its part, the CNIL proposes to adapt the "supervision methods" instead of setting
up monitoring tools. But as usual, the opinion of the CNIL, everyone really does
not give a damn... Overall, surveillance at work is framed, on paper.
Yet we can ask ourselves: who, in fact, watches over those who watch us? When we
see the increasingly tense situation at the Labor Inspectorate, we can only doubt
that the State is putting in place the means to control this surveillance.
For employers, the challenges of teleworking do not arise in terms of
psychosocial risks, arduousness, improvement of working conditions, but rather of
monitoring and profitability. In companies, in services, at home, employees are
pressured and exploited. For many, teleworking has already constituted an
intrusion of the professional sphere into the personal sphere. If we add to this
permanent surveillance, employees are no longer even free at home. The employer's
utopia according to which a worker is always able to produce, whether in
companies, services, or telework is therefore on the verge of being realized.
The (tele) work in question
This would be forgetting that the social movement has long since engaged in the
struggle to rebalance the balance of power. In a fierce struggle, the workers
obtained the reduction of working hours, the dismissal of the most violent
supervisors and wardens, and in many companies the right to "wig"[3]continues to
endure. It is clear that the current balance of power is far removed from these
workers' victories. The techniques of monitoring and managing "human resources"
are increasingly pernicious. But we must not let ourselves be defeated.
Put your eyes out of surveillance
Despite the isolation of employees, there are ways to fight against this
surveillance. First, by ensuring that the trade unions seize on this problem, so
that a collective struggle can take place. Then there are techniques to fool and
bypass the surveillance of his bosses[4]. However, this remains individual
initiatives which can have serious consequences for employees. It is becoming
urgent to tackle this problem head-on, as teleworking is tending to impose itself
in many sectors.
Jon (UCL Angers)
Validate
[1]Study carried out by the independent site Top10Vpn.
[2]National Interprofessional Agreement (ANI) of 26 November 2020 "for a
successful implementation of teleworking: a useful tool for companies" , signed
by the so-called representative trade unions CFDT, FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC but
denounced by the CGT.
[3]Use of materials and tools by a worker, within the company, during working
time, with the aim of manufacturing or transforming an object outside of
regulatory production, for oneself.
[4]These solutions range from the installation of a virtual machine on his
computer, to the suspension of his mouse to a fan and software to feign activity.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Espionnite-Les-gardes-chiourmes-du-teletravail
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guards (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
March 20-21, 2021: A two-day online conference to commemorate the Kronstadt
Commune of March 1921
"We invite you to "Kronstadt as Revolutionary Utopia: 1921-2021 and Beyond," an
international convergence to remember history's repressed revolutionary hopes and
explore the "living past" struggle of authoritarianism vs. humanism."
Conference
site:https://kronstadt2021.wordpress.com/?fbclid=IwAR2DFGgLIfNh6NVEGTzZhf3DM02rCXlIb5uX0RPaL-L5hFcdrYNLNeM8YnU
Kronstadt as Revolutionary Utopia, 1921-2021
March 20-21, 2021
kronstadt2021.wordpress.com
------------------------------
Message: 2
On December 6, Erol, an anarchist of French descent, is arrested and charged with
spreading the virus, which leads to deportation due to the pandemic. The
deportation sentence is currently pending against him on the pretext that he is a
"public danger". ---- The December 6 demonstration was a bet for the state, a bet
it eventually lost. A total ban on the demonstration, under the guise of a
pandemic and with the ultimate goal of creating a condition in which the
movement's forces would be forced to retreat in the face of state demands,
creating an even more suffocating situation for all those who fight but also for
the oppressed in general. eventually succeeded by the state and its assassins in
uniform. The coordination, organization and stubbornness of dozens of comrades
all over Greece managed to break, even for a few hours, the universal ban imposed
once again by the Ministry of "Citizen Protection" and tried to implement the
mercenary army of occupation of the bosses , keeping the flame of the December
uprising burning, keeping intact in the collective memory the figure of the
murdered Alexandros Grigoropoulos. Among the crowd of these fighters was Eroll,
who due to his political action, his participation in the anarchist movement and
his origin is the ideal scapegoat to implement the state policies of repression
and discipline. The method of deportation of Eroll, is not just a direct threat
to all the fighters who happen to not have Greek citizenship, that a simple
arrest in a demonstration could be a reason for deportation. It also aims to
create accomplished events, events on which it can rely in the future to hit the
movement and the fighters even harder.
It is therefore clear that the state will use every possible means to suppress
whoever chooses the path of struggle. Its arsenal is large and for this every
possible means is used. State repression is sometimes expressed through brutal
repression of cops, sexist attacks, torture of comrades and squatting
evacuations, and sometimes takes more "bloodless" forms through exhaustive
financial guarantees or methods of deporting militants. From the immigrants
stacked in the infernos of Petros Ralli and Kara Tepe in miserable conditions and
the daily pushbacks to the repressive methods against the anarchist movement, the
attitude of the authorities for the complete crushing of the oppressed and the
fighters is evident. For us, the method of expelling the anarchist Eroll, fits
into this very context. The origin of a man, that is, becomes the means by which
the state will manage to "get rid" of an anarchist. Our solidarity with whoever
is hit by the state and capital is not only self-evident and imperative.
AGAINST THE METHODS OF STATE - COP - JUDGES
POWER & SOLIDARITY IN ANARCHIST EROLL
https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/2774/
------------------------------
Message: 3
We are a class struggle anarchist collective, organised by and for working class
people. As anarchists we are opposed to all states and institutions, and all
attitudes and ideologies that stand in the way of equality and the right of all
people everywhere to control their own lives and environment. The working class
has no country. ---- The class struggle is world wide and recognises no
artificial boundaries. The Armies and Police of all states do not exist to
protect the workers of those states, they exist only as the repressive arm of the
ruling class. ---- Our Aim ---- Our aim is to abolish world wide, the state
system, governments, capitalism and the wage slavery in all its forms and replace
them with a free classless society based on self-managed communities and
industries where production is for need not profit. In order to bring about an
anarchist society the working class must take over the means of production and
distribution, along with the day-to-day running of our communities.
What We Believe
As anarchists we believe that the only way for the working class to achieve this
is by independent organisation in the workplace and the community. In federation
with others in the same industry and locality, independent of and opposed to all
political parties and trade union bureaucracies. Industrial and community
federations must be controlled by the working class themselves and must unite
rather than divide the working class.
Dividing the working class by skin colour, religion, sex, nationality, sexual
preference etc. is one of the main ways that the ruling class keeps us fighting
amongst ourselves instead of against them. In creating a free society we must
combat and destroy these divisions which the ruling class fosters within the
working class.
Get Involved
Derry Anarchist Collective exists in order to further our aim for the creation of
a social system where the working class alone controls industry and the
community, free from the dictates, rules and laws of politicians, bureaucrats and
bosses. If you share the ideas contained in this statement then we urge you to
get involved with us.
Governments don't fall down by themselves, they need your help.
You can write to us at:
derryanarchists@gmail.com
Facebook link here
http://derryanarchists.blogspot.com/
------------------------------
Message: 4
The virus has been going around the world now for more than a year. Entire
sectors of public life have been put to a standstill. The capacity of the Dutch
healthcare system is pushed to its limits. While public money is being used to
bailout big corporations, the health care system is underfunded and increasingly
more privatised. Health care insurance is expensive and health care is not
accessible for those who cannot pay. People in marginalised and vulnerable groups
cannot be treated properly or are not treated at all. Hundreds of thousands of
people have lost their jobs, their homes, and their livelihoods. Many lives have
been lost because of the pandemic and the state's mismanagement of it, but it
does not and it did not have to be like this. Let's not believe their lies, we
are not "all in this together". The rich get even richer because of this crisis
from the safety of their beautiful homes, while the (frontline)workers, the poor
and the marginalised carry the biggest burden and are forced to risk their lives.
It's not just the pandemic, there are systemic problems with capitalism and the
state. Here we will try to tackle some of them:
Systemic Racism / Police Violence
Lockdown policies and the pandemic in general, does not affect all people in the
same way. The curfew only applies to the poor as the rich can afford to pay the
fine. People with gardens can still go outside. If you don't have a home you can
not self-isolate. Those of us who live in working class and historically
immigrant neighbourhoods, have to deal with more police presence and aggressive
policing then those in middle class and rich neighbourhoods. As proven, amongst
other things, by the ‘toeslagen affaire' (benefit scandal) this country is
institutionally racist. Now the state is using this crisis to further extend
police powers and crackdown on our rights to protest and exist in public. Giving
more power to cops will only increase racist police violence. Ethnic profiling,
mass surveillance, and predictive policing are posing a threat to our communities.
The police do not protect us, we protect each other. Stop institutional racism
and the Dutch Police / Surveillance state. They are not here to help us but they
are here to protect the rich.
Housing
In one of the most expensive cities in Europe, the housing situation has worsened
during the pandemic. The privatisation of the housing market has reached the
point that social houses are being sold to the private sector. Housing prices are
expected to rise again this year, big businesses are getting rent cuts while we
struggle to pay rent. Even the suburbs we have been pushed into are being
gentrified and are becoming unaffordable. At the same time houses everywhere in
the city are intentionally left empty for the rich to speculate with. People
without homes have no certainty and shelters are getting closed down. Social
places that offer spaces for people affected are facing serious financial
problems, are getting evicted and solidarity is being criminalised. Because of
the lockdown, domestic violence is increasing as well as serious mental health
concerns. We want proper housing for everyone.
Environment
We might think that because many people have stopped travelling that C02
emissions are decreasing and that at least this is a positive development for the
environment. However, individual lifestyle consumption choices are not to blame
for the climate crisis. The crisis is capitalism. Capitalism is incredibly
inefficient. For example, Airplanes continue flying empty, because it's cheaper
to do this than to leave them standing at the hangars. Sounds ridiculous? - it is!
The capitalist system will continue to drain the planet's resources, pandemic or
not. Everything must give way in order to maximise profit. Government regulation
will not stop this. Large multinationals are working together with states. In
this way, there cannot be an effective response to the climate crisis. We have to
get rid of this idea of infinite growth. We have to get rid of states and capitalism.
There can be no infinite growth on a finite planet.
European Borders
After the overcrowded Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos burned down last
year, the EU continues to intentionally ignore the fact that humans are dying at
its borders every day. Push backs by the EU coastguards of FRONTEX, inhumane
conditions in camps during a pandemic, drowning of people whilst sea rescue and
solidarity at the borders is criminalized, and the racist EU cooperates with
states such as Turkey and Libya to stop people at the borders by any means. Since
the beginning of the corona pandemic the situation has only worsened. The EU will
not change, we need to rise up to make change happen.
Conspiracies and Nazis
The far-right tries to make use of this uncertainty to mobilise people for their
gains. Conspiracy theories fail to show the real systematic issue. Capitalism is
not a conspiracy it is very real and observable and can be abolished. Nazis
mobilizing? - not with us!
Economy
We have every reason to be angry: While the upper class is able to stay home, we
still have to work under dangerous conditions for a low wage - we are the ones
that work illegally, the industrial workers, the craftspeople, the retail
workers, delivery people, the taxi drivers, the nurses. We are the ones who make
sure that we are all healthy, that there is still food to get at the supermarkets
- the social workers, the educators, the cleaning staff and the sex workers. But
we are also the people who are not native Dutch, who are not taken care of
because we do not have the same rights to work or access to social services. The
ones who do not have enough, or any money to afford a flat in this ridiculous
housing market. We are the ones without citizenship and therefore, without any
rights. We are the students that struggle to pay high tuition fees. We are the
now unemployed workers struggling to get by. We did not create the crisis, and
yet should we now bear the consequences? We should "tighten our belts" because we
are now "all in the same boat"? Yes, now we are all in the same boat - but the
capitalists, bosses, landlords, politicians, and managers are in another.
Corona Crisis? Not on our backs!
Come in action - let's make the rich pay for Covid 19!
Another World is Possible!
20.02.2021, 15.00
Mercatorplein Amsterdam
(Wear facemasks and try to keep to social distancing)
Our Conclusion:
Proper housing for everyone Squat the rich, renters keep your rent!
Change your locks, resist evictions, community resistance now
Stop the surveillance state and stop police violence. Let's defend ourselves and
protect each other.
Antisemitic conspiracy theorists and QANON-ers are dangerous and do not represent
an answer to the crisis. Racists, antisemites, cops and Nazis off our streets!
Destroy capitalism before it destroys the earth.
Make the rich pay for the Covid19
The assembly of the Anti-Capitalist Action Amsterdam.
Vrije Bond Secretariaat
https://www.vrijebond.org/demo-corona-is-het-virus-kapitalisme-is-de-crisis-solidariteit-is-de-oplossing/
------------------------------
Message: 5
Spy webcams, time control, keystrokes ... With the massive spread of teleworking
in 2020, employers have sought solutions for generalized surveillance of
employees with the help of digital companies. ---- Surveillance at work is
nothing new. The working class has long been subjected to wardens, foremen and
other controllers and supervisors. ---- Far from the image of Épinal of a desire
for better management and optimization of productivity, this generalized
surveillance only aims to put pressure on workers by scrutinizing all of their
facts. and gestures and looking for the slightest loophole to threaten them. You
have to keep it up if you don't want to lose your job. But the generalization of
teleworking undermines the classic supervisory capacity of bosses.
To overcome these difficulties, digital companies, never left behind in putting
their creativity at the service of the dominant, have developed tools. This is
how we have seen the birth in recent years of software for counting time, random
screenshots, recording of keystrokes on the keyboard or even control of employee
webcams. Some tools even go so far as to rummage through couriers ...
Big boss is watching you
And if you wanted to fill in the digs by investing in digital companies, you had
to have a hollow nose in 2019, as spyware and control software sales jumped 87%
in April 2020, and again by 71% in May. , compared to the average monthly demand
before the onset of the coronavirus. And still 51% from June to September[1].
Time Doctor, the flagship monitoring software, jumped 202% last April. This
self-proclaimed best software on the market promises to "follow live tasks on
which teams are working" , in addition to providing real-time information on the
sites visited and the connection and disconnection times of teleworkers. Beyond
these specific programs, tools used on a daily basis by millions of employees
also make it possible to set up monitoring: professional messaging, intranet,
collaborative tools (Slack, Teams, etc.), videoconferencing software ( Zoom,
Skype, etc.) and many more.
Practices on the edge of legality
This monitoring is carried out within a legal framework set up by the government
and its "social partners". In order to be able to monitor employees, companies
must inform them. The tools cannot be installed at the expense of employees and
must not infringe on fundamental freedoms, especially with regard to their
privacy. All this "must be justified by the nature of the task to be accomplished
and proportionate to the goal sought"[2]. For companies that have them, the CSEs
must be "consulted". For others, "discussions" must take place. In all cases, a
charter must be drawn up by the employers.
If employees use their own computer equipment, bosses cannot impose surveillance
software or sanction those who oppose it. But using your personal equipment to
protect yourself from the coping of your boss is obviously not a solution at a
time when many are claiming decent equipment to carry out their teleworking. For
its part, the CNIL proposes to adapt the "supervision methods" instead of setting
up monitoring tools. But as usual, the opinion of the CNIL, everyone really does
not give a damn... Overall, surveillance at work is framed, on paper.
Yet we can ask ourselves: who, in fact, watches over those who watch us? When we
see the increasingly tense situation at the Labor Inspectorate, we can only doubt
that the State is putting in place the means to control this surveillance.
For employers, the challenges of teleworking do not arise in terms of
psychosocial risks, arduousness, improvement of working conditions, but rather of
monitoring and profitability. In companies, in services, at home, employees are
pressured and exploited. For many, teleworking has already constituted an
intrusion of the professional sphere into the personal sphere. If we add to this
permanent surveillance, employees are no longer even free at home. The employer's
utopia according to which a worker is always able to produce, whether in
companies, services, or telework is therefore on the verge of being realized.
The (tele) work in question
This would be forgetting that the social movement has long since engaged in the
struggle to rebalance the balance of power. In a fierce struggle, the workers
obtained the reduction of working hours, the dismissal of the most violent
supervisors and wardens, and in many companies the right to "wig"[3]continues to
endure. It is clear that the current balance of power is far removed from these
workers' victories. The techniques of monitoring and managing "human resources"
are increasingly pernicious. But we must not let ourselves be defeated.
Put your eyes out of surveillance
Despite the isolation of employees, there are ways to fight against this
surveillance. First, by ensuring that the trade unions seize on this problem, so
that a collective struggle can take place. Then there are techniques to fool and
bypass the surveillance of his bosses[4]. However, this remains individual
initiatives which can have serious consequences for employees. It is becoming
urgent to tackle this problem head-on, as teleworking is tending to impose itself
in many sectors.
Jon (UCL Angers)
Validate
[1]Study carried out by the independent site Top10Vpn.
[2]National Interprofessional Agreement (ANI) of 26 November 2020 "for a
successful implementation of teleworking: a useful tool for companies" , signed
by the so-called representative trade unions CFDT, FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC but
denounced by the CGT.
[3]Use of materials and tools by a worker, within the company, during working
time, with the aim of manufacturing or transforming an object outside of
regulatory production, for oneself.
[4]These solutions range from the installation of a virtual machine on his
computer, to the suspension of his mouse to a fan and software to feign activity.
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