Today's Topics:
1. cnt-ait: Another Future for health ! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, AL #312 - Culture, Thesis: The political uses of the
Municipality (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Municipality (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. UK, AFED: On the evicted of ROG located in Ljubljana,
capital city of Slovenia.[machine translation]
capital city of Slovenia.[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Czech, AFED: The ODS pointed to empty houses! [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. UK, Anarchist Communist Group ACG: The fight for abortion
rights in Argentina (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Digest of international information from health and care workers, from an
anarchosyndicalist perspective #2 – second semester 2020 ---- Download PDF :
http://cnt-ait.info/2021/01/26/another-future-of-public-health/ ---- When we
produced the first issue of this digest, in Summer 2020, we were only at the
start of the Covid 19 pandemic, after the end of the first lockdown. We were
already presenting that we were living historic times, with dramatic consequences
for millions of people on earth, but we did not imagine that the situation would
continue and even worsen 6 months later. ---- Workers in the health and care
sector are on the front lines in fighting the disease. The State has asked them
to make superhuman efforts, and it continues. A new world is emerging on the
horizon, which we fear will be more authoritarian than ever, and that in the name
of health. More than ever, it seems important to us that health workers in
different countries can inform each other about their respective situation,
because in a globalized world we are all interdependent. Beyond analyzes of the
situation, examples of resistance implemented in a self-organized way by the
workers themselves can also inspire us and encourage us in our struggles
This digest is made by health workers from CNT-AIT France. We are the section in
France of the AIT (International Workers’ Association, IWA). The CNT-AIT brings
together workers who identify with the principles, tactics and goals of
anarchosyndicalism. With this bulletin we want to contribute to a work of
collective critical reflection, beyond borders. We have chosen and collected
texts produced by different groups around the world, which are active in the
health and care sector. Some of these groups are, for the most part, members or
friends of AIT, others do not belong to our international, but with all of them
we maintain fraternal and reciprocal contacts.
It emerges from these articles that overall the situation is the same everywhere:
lack of resources, lack of training, personnel sacrificed by the lack of
preparation of the health services which have been destroyed for several years in
the name of managerial efficiency and financial profitability. . We can see today
the effectiveness of these restructurings … This disorganization and this chaos
itself are not the fruits of chance, they are not due to anarchists, they are the
result of the combined action of the State and of Capitalism.
To save humanity, we have no choice but to organize ourselves collectively to end
the state and capitalism.
If you wish to continue receiving this newsletter, contact us at contact@cnt-ait.info
« Anarchy is the highest expression of Order. »
(E RECLUS)
Let’s finish with the Chaos of State and Capitalism!
=====================
CONTENT
[France] “LET’S GO” TOWARD TOTAL PRIVATISATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
[France] PARIS, HEALTH WORKERS DEMONSTRATION, June 16, 2020.
Claude Bernard, Bachelard and Feyerabend: three scientists against scientism
[France] In health services as everywhere: work and die.
HISTORY: HOW DID SPANISH ANARCHOSYNDICALISTS MANAGED THE PUBLIC HEALTH DURING THE
36’s REVOLUTION? (An example of libertarian communism applied in accute health
crisis time).
NURSING HOMES, HOSPITALS: TO EXHAUST AT WORK FOR A WAGE OF MISERY? [Sticker]
FREE MASKS FOR ALL ! [Sticker]
[Spain] Public health privatization, the Spanish health nightmare …
[Spain] Against wage insecurity in retirement homes and nursing HOMES!
[Spain] AT THE « L’ARBOC » NURSING HOME, THE MANAGEMENT REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE THE
CNT-AIT SECTION
[Ukraine] Worthy salary for the nurses!
[Bulgaria] The pandemic as a class war against workers.
[Bulgaria] Crackdown on striking health workers.
[Bulgaria/Austria] Solidarity with the struggle of Bulgarian nurses.
[Bulgaria/Austria] SARS-CoV-2 Aid delivery has arrived in Bulgaria!
[Austria] POLITICAL DISCRIMINATION AT THE RED CROSS.
[Germany] Protest march against health care crisis in Cologne.
[Iran] Demonstration of the medical students of Tabriz.
[Bangladesh] Distribution of washable masks to tea workers.
[UK] Reduced Life = Reduced Work (The Work/Life Balance).
[UK] The Alarming Rise of Branson’s Virgin Care and the Threat to the NHS.
[UK] World Suicide Prevention Day- Breaking the taboo is everyone’s responsibility.
[Serbia] DRAMATIC SITUATION IN HOSPITALS.
[Poland] WOMEN’S HELL.
[Poland] A LOOK BACK AT A SUCCESSFUL STRIKE OF HOUSEKEEPERS AND KITCHEN STAFF AT
THE BELCHATOW HOSPITAL
http://cnt-ait.info/2021/01/26/another-future-of-public-health/
==================
Facebook : @chats.noirs.turbulents
Twitter : @CNTAIT
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Message: 2
Here are already the 150 years of this old lady, so young in our hearts, the
Paris Commune. On this occasion, you should read Eric Fournier's book ! ---- It
is a reference work, not because it reveals the unfolding of events, but because
it deciphers the readings which were made of it, and the underlying motivations
which animated these interpretations. Are we talking about March or May, the
"federated wall" or the one dedicated to "victims of revolutions" ... It also
tells about the altercations between the SFIO and the PCF for the preeminence in
the processions, and the various attempts at recovery, including by the extreme
right ! ---- The Commune is part of all ideological clashes, like a permanent
memorial time. Even today, memorial sites are at the crossroads of many issues,
which some are trying to erase in the name of republican harmony.
I would borrow his conclusion from Éric Fournier: "This is how the history of the
memories of the Commune is alive today in the political field ..." The Commune is
not dead. And we do not intend to bury him in a false Commune, written by the
thurifarians of power.
Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)
Éric Fournier,La Commune n'est pas morte: political uses of the past from 1871 to
the present day , Libertalia editions, 2013, 196 pages, 13 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Memoire-Les-usages-politiques-de-la-Commune
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Message: 3
On Tuesday 19th January, on the orders of the Municipality of Ljubljana (MOL) led
by Mayor Jankovic, riot police and a local security company Valina violently
entered and evicted ROG, which for the past 15 years has been a vibrant
autonomous space in Ljubljana, capital city of Slovenia. ---- People inside were
dragged out and (temporarily) detained. Some were beaten or injured. Demolition
equipment was immediately taken on to the site. Belonging of occupants were
seized, destroyed or left behind. Bags were searched and phones were seized to
try and prevent pictures being taken. Personal savings, documents, computers,
cameras, phones, artwork, college notes and bikes were taken. Clothes were strewn
on the muddy grounds of the yard mixed with debris such as broken glass created
by the invasion. Books were damaged, many left soaked and dirty. Confiscations
included arts, musical and professional equipment worth 1000s of Euros. From
today people are supposed to be able to turn up and claim some of what was taken,
but only if they sign away getting further compensation from MOL for the
eviction. Since the eviction no public documenting of the site or inside
buildings is being allowed.
Robocops
The squatted factory (in fact, a large long-time disused bicycle factory of
manufacturing company Rog which still produces bikes in Slovenia) advocated
solidarity, mutual aid and self-organisation, values that anarchists support and
defend. Rog was a space against gentrification and capitalist repression and a
hub for cultural activities including artist studios and gallery spaces. It had
two skate parks, plus various gig and club venues. And a bicycle repair shop...
Rog was an important space for migrants and refugees, providing vital a day
centre and also accommodation for those in need. Migrants and refugees in
Slovenia include those who suffered from ethnic cleansing and/or loss of legal
status (AKA the Erased) after the break up of Yugoslavia and declaration of
Slovenian independence, people originally from the Middle East, Africa and Asia
who fled persecution from wars via the ‘Balkans route', and others who survive
and fight as ‘invisible workers‘.
Destruction of ROG
For many years autonomous spaces in the city have been tolerated as semi-legal
‘consensual' entities. Another nearby space Metelkova, which has a number of
nightclubs and a B&B/hostel on the site, is listed as one of the top tourist
sites in the city! Whilst under threat in recent years, the 2021 eviction of
autonomous Rog for demolition and ‘redevelopment‘ has still come as a shock and
so is a very worrying precedent for further repression, especially as there have
been attacks on both Metelkova 6 and Radio Student, a radical independent
community voice, in the right-wing press.
Art space at ROG
For the ‘robocops', as they have been named, to toss people out (separating them
from their belongings, and leaving pets behind) and to destroy community
resources during the coronavirus pandemic is particularly vindictive. But the
local MOL government has come under pressure and criticism during Covid with
Friday demonstrations having taken place through much of 2020, defying lockdowns
with creative physical distancing, which started off as mass bike rides. All this
from a city that recently bid for European Capital of Culture under the banner of
"Solidarity". That failed - and as our comrades have identified, grimly, "All
masks have clearly, finally fallen". More recently a curfew has been put in place
in the country as part of the pandemic measures. It is against this backdrop that
the State has apparently decided to show the people a lesson. This is no doubt
aided by an increasingly right-wing rhetoric from the national government with
its attacks on the media and migrants.
Demo in the centre of Ljubljana
There has been a large and quick response from anarchist comrades and others
saddened and angry about the eviction. Despite intimidation, with unprecedented
police occupation of the city (who during the curfew and at other times are now
all over the place) and with continued repression against protests, plus neo-nazi
provocations, activists were still able to hold one of the strongest
demonstrations in solidarity with Rog on Friday 22nd January. Around 1000 people
attended a demo in Ljubljana city centre, which police were unable to repress in
a major way (one arrest and and some fines). Campaigners for Rog have also
received a huge amount of support and solidarity from all around the world. After
the eviction, member federations of the International of Anarchist Federations,
including the Anarchist Federation here in Britain, are likewise calling for
solidarity actions everywhere.
As our FAO (Federation for Anarchist Organising) comrades in Slovenia are saying,
"We understand this fight - that will continue over the coming days - as a fight
against gentrification, capitalist colonization of our lives and cities, against
police state repression and we aim to build a wide-spread anti-capitalist and
anti-fascist front around the issue."[listen to an excellent podcast of an
interview about the current social situation in Slovenia and anarchist response
from August 2020].
Article written by the Anarchist Federation, Britain, 25th January 2021
There is a fund-raising effort to support those who were affected by the
eviction, and to continue the fight. Please spread the word and support it.
Use PayPal or make contact about other means of supporting Rog financially at
solirog@riseup.net
Follow updates here:
FB (mainly in Slovenian but with auto-translate that works quite well):
https://facebook.com/a.infoshop/
IG (requires Facebook account): https://www.instagram.com/a.infoshop/
Web (in Slovenian): http://komunal.org/ -see video of a protest against social
cleansing of the city: http://komunal.org/video/protesti/624-to-je-sele-zacetek
Twitter (mainly in German): https://twitter.com/altepunks/
Other solidarity (various languages):
Italian https://www.umanitanova.org/?p=13395
Greek
https://landandfreedom.gr/el/diethni/196-enimerosi-apo-tis-prosfates-kinitopoiiseis-stin-lioumpliana
http://afed.org.uk/solidarity-with-rog-in-ljubljana-more-help-needed/
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Message: 4
A report from the Prague event pointing to the number of empty houses that could
serve people. ---- It has been two years since the Klinika autonomous social
center was evacuated. Activists from the ODS (Really Good Squats) team therefore
decided to recall the Clinic and the topic of squating. In the week from January
10 (the date when the executor started clearing the Clinic two years ago) until
January 17, they announced the event "Let's look at empty houses!". ---- A few
days before the planned billing event, we meet with members of the ODS team to
try our gluing method and create the first photo for our challenge .
We chose a long abandoned house in Pohorelec as the first building. Its owner,
Radovan Vítek, let it decay after he had evicted all the tenants who had lived in
the house for several decades. The house was pointed out in 2013 during the
Memories of the Future event . At that time, the house was occupied for several
days, squatters cleaned the house and organized several events and neighborhood
meetings. The house was then brutally vacated by the police with the owner's
representative.
In the end, about six of us meet, we divide the roles. Some are guarding, while
others are preparing and arranging the letters we have printed on an ordinary
printer. For their location, we choose a large wooden door in the arcade, which
is visible to everyone. Then all you have to do is mix the wallpaper glue and
glue it quickly. The event is ready in five minutes, we will take a picture of
everything and leave satisfied and ready for other events.
After a few days we meet in one apartment. Some are already preparing and drawing
the outlines of the letters on a large banner. The others are still having fun or
arranging hundreds of printed letters. We're all in time and we go to the first
barracks in the evening, where we will hang a banner.
The first house is Villa Milada in Holešovice. A legendary squat that was cast in
the late 1990s. It then served as a cultural center for ten years, with many
lectures, concerts and screenings. In 2009, however, it was evacuated. At that
time, private security guards took part in the evacuation, mostly composed of
neo-Nazis, who could get enough of them. The roof was later removed and holes
were drilled in the ceilings to allow water to flow in as much as possible so
that the house could fall into disrepair.
We come to Milada, it can be seen from a distance that the house is a total ruin
after all these years. We go around it and see what graffiti has been left on it,
and we curse what a pity it is. At the back of the entrance, we then take out a
banner and fill in the letters with a spray. I'm filming everything for now.
After a while, the sound of sprays stops and the banner is ready. Now begins
another task, where to go with him. In the end, we chose a place above the former
garage, where the infoshop used to be. After mutual help, the three of us finally
climb up and fasten the banner. We originally wanted to talk inside, but the
window, which until recently could be entered, is lit by an OSB board. We will
hang a banner while the others take pictures and shoot us. Then comes the fun
scene where we try to get down from the garage.
From Milada, we head back to the stop, the others are still spraying along the
way. We are going to Žižkov, to other houses.
Another house we want to draw attention to is the former town spa on Husinecká
street. Prague 3 has been dilapidated here for a long time. Once again, we divide
our tasks. I'm watching at the beginning of the street to see if the police are
approaching, it's also after the curfew. Meanwhile, the others stick the
inscription "Let's not leave empty houses to empty people" on the house of the
four forties. The gluing is over in five minutes and we set out to glue another
house with the inscription "Occupy and live".
The next day we meet in front of Vyšehrad railway station. A UNESCO monument,
which the developer intentionally decays and waits for it to fall. He himself
helps by removing parts of the roof so that it flows into the house as much as
possible. Therefore, a protective fence is already built around the building so
that something does not fall on someone. We have to climb over this fence and the
gluing is already starting. The building then has a short motto "Expropriate!".
However, we encounter a problem. We ran out of wallpaper glue. So we walk through
the shops for a while and try to get something. When we failed, we returned to
the tried-and-tested classic, flour-water. We then glued the rest of the house
with this glue without any problems.
Not far from the Vyšehrad railway station is another monument, and that is the
Albertov spa. An Italian company of speculators lets them fall into disrepair
here. A squatter action has already taken place in the house , where several
people later climbed to the roof and were subsequently taken down by the police,
who did not forget to beat the protesters on the street for safety. A large OSB
board in the former shop window will be used for the inscription. We place
"Flavio Serughetti takes great care of me" on the house.
After another quick action, we set off for other houses. We have one stop in
Újezd. The beautiful corner apartment has been dilapidated here for a few years.
It is again owned by an Italian company, which has roughly evicted all tenants
here. We leave the inscription "Leonardo lets it decay here". However, we
encountered the first problem at another house in Letná. During the gluing, the
police patrol stops with us. However, after a momentary exchange of views, he
lets us stick on. Unfortunately, another patrol appears and it lets the whole
sign pull us down.
But we don't give up so easily and we go to another house in Kamenická street.
Again, this is a dilapidated apartment building. We mix the last remnants of
flour and use the broom to sweep "Houses for people!" This completes our last
house for the night and we all head home gradually.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7289/ods-ukazaly-na-prazdne-domy
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Message: 5
We republish the following from Argentinian comrades: ---- Abortion has finally
been legalised in Argentina, after years of fierce struggles that have made the
Argentine feminist movement one of the engines of the struggle against patriarchy
at the global level. ---- The green tide which has not stopped growing for years
in Argentina and Latin America was able to celebrate yesterday (24th January) the
approval of the law on the voluntary termination of pregnancy. This is an
essential demand for all women and those likely to give birth in our class,
because it is the poorest among us who abort in the worst conditions of
clandestinity, and thus risk serious health problems. prison and death. This
historic struggle gave the green light to the force of women from below across
the continent to advance the right to live, a fundamental right if there is one,
and not just the right to survive as imposed by the machinery of capitalism and
its destructive voracity.
At dawn on December 30, the Argentine Senate finally had to give its final
approval to the law on voluntary termination of pregnancy after years of social
pressure from the feminist movement, political parties, unions, organizations.
social and student. As well as by the social group of women and people likely to
give birth, in street demonstrations, in the now historic National Meetings of
Women, renamed since Plurinational Meetings of Women, Lesbians, Trans,
Transvestites and Non-Binary, as in all workplaces, places of study,
neighbourhoods, through constant investment in debate and the fight for the
autonomy of our bodies and for our right to decide.
Since the end of the XIXth century in this region, our anarchist comrades
gathered and organized the foundation of society, with their sisters of the
working class, to build a history of resistance against patriarchy and
capitalism. From Virginia Bolten with La Voz de la Mujer, María Collazo, Juana
Rouco Buela, Luisa Lallana, Julia García among many other comrades; to those who
faced brutal repression in the 60s and 70s: Elsa Martínez, María Esther Tello,
Hilda Forti, Pirucha Ramos among others. All are part of the great history of
feminist struggles in this country which today manages to wrest the legalisation
of abortion from the political class thanks to the immense organization and
mobilization that the Campaign for legal, safe and free abortion, created in
2003, encouraged.
There is no doubt that the government of Alberto Fernandez, and much of Peronism,
will attempt to gain political profit from this fact, as can already be seen in
speeches which present this law as a gift of the "political will" of officials
who administer the patriarchal state. Even more cynical is the progressives'
attempt to constantly come to terms with the more reactionary, conservative and
sexist sectors such as the Catholic and Evangelical churches, by having
negotiated a project that includes a conscience clause and the attempt to
negotiate grounds for legal abortion. While it is a great joy to know that the
health care system will now be required to consider the decision of pregnant
women when they terminate or continue a pregnancy.
There is still a long way to go to ensure that legal, safe and free abortion is
actually implemented on every street corner. It remains to fight against the
conscience clause, the legal traps that may arise and the obstacles that these
reactionary anti-choice sectors will want to put in place. And of course, there
is a long way to go to end all forms of patriarchal violence.
We therefore understand this necessary step as part of a process of struggle
which is not exhausted and will not be exhausted in the near future. Seeing the
results of our constant organisation, for decades, reaffirms the path of
collective, sustained, united and class action. We know that nothing truly
transformative will come from the State and its structures, but this necessary
step forward allows us to see the realisation of new demands on the horizon.
As politically organized anarchists, we understand that the only possible path in
this period is to organise and fight for increasingly important demands for the
oppressed until this capitalist and patriarchal system can be changed at the root.
Thus, the legalisation of abortion is a victory that is the fruit of historic
mobilisations, assemblies in neighbourhoods, organized teachers who implement
comprehensive sexuality education in schools, thus transforming classrooms into
places of learning, information, empowerment and discovery; of the union and
student organization, of the thirty or so meetings which are today multinationals
of women, lesbians, trans, transvestites and non-binary people.
It is a conquest for women and gender minorities of the working classes thanks to
popular struggle and committed and constant activism allowing them to resist the
harshest blows of governments and capital. We deserve to celebrate all this
immense fight against going underground, to strengthen and consolidate ourselves
for the battles to come. We claim this path of building the power of the people,
with the strength of our ancestors and our history of struggle. With the power we
have from below, the marginalized, the exploited, the oppressed, to build our own
destiny and end patriarchal, colonial and capitalist oppression. For socialism
and freedom.
IT'S THE STRUGGLE OF THE OPPRESSED THAT PERMITTED THE LAW!
LET'S CONTINUE TO ORGANISE OURSELVES IN THE STREET TO FIGHT AGAINST PATRIARCHAL
AND CAPITALIST OPPRESSION!
STRENGTH TO THOSE WHO FIGHT!
¡ARRIBA LAS QUE LUCHAN!
? Organización Anarquista de Córdoba
? Federación Anarquista de Rosario
? Organización Anarquista de Tucumán
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2021/01/27/the-fight-for-abortion-rights-in-argentina/
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rights in Argentina (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Digest of international information from health and care workers, from an
anarchosyndicalist perspective #2 – second semester 2020 ---- Download PDF :
http://cnt-ait.info/2021/01/26/another-future-of-public-health/ ---- When we
produced the first issue of this digest, in Summer 2020, we were only at the
start of the Covid 19 pandemic, after the end of the first lockdown. We were
already presenting that we were living historic times, with dramatic consequences
for millions of people on earth, but we did not imagine that the situation would
continue and even worsen 6 months later. ---- Workers in the health and care
sector are on the front lines in fighting the disease. The State has asked them
to make superhuman efforts, and it continues. A new world is emerging on the
horizon, which we fear will be more authoritarian than ever, and that in the name
of health. More than ever, it seems important to us that health workers in
different countries can inform each other about their respective situation,
because in a globalized world we are all interdependent. Beyond analyzes of the
situation, examples of resistance implemented in a self-organized way by the
workers themselves can also inspire us and encourage us in our struggles
This digest is made by health workers from CNT-AIT France. We are the section in
France of the AIT (International Workers’ Association, IWA). The CNT-AIT brings
together workers who identify with the principles, tactics and goals of
anarchosyndicalism. With this bulletin we want to contribute to a work of
collective critical reflection, beyond borders. We have chosen and collected
texts produced by different groups around the world, which are active in the
health and care sector. Some of these groups are, for the most part, members or
friends of AIT, others do not belong to our international, but with all of them
we maintain fraternal and reciprocal contacts.
It emerges from these articles that overall the situation is the same everywhere:
lack of resources, lack of training, personnel sacrificed by the lack of
preparation of the health services which have been destroyed for several years in
the name of managerial efficiency and financial profitability. . We can see today
the effectiveness of these restructurings … This disorganization and this chaos
itself are not the fruits of chance, they are not due to anarchists, they are the
result of the combined action of the State and of Capitalism.
To save humanity, we have no choice but to organize ourselves collectively to end
the state and capitalism.
If you wish to continue receiving this newsletter, contact us at contact@cnt-ait.info
« Anarchy is the highest expression of Order. »
(E RECLUS)
Let’s finish with the Chaos of State and Capitalism!
=====================
CONTENT
[France] “LET’S GO” TOWARD TOTAL PRIVATISATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
[France] PARIS, HEALTH WORKERS DEMONSTRATION, June 16, 2020.
Claude Bernard, Bachelard and Feyerabend: three scientists against scientism
[France] In health services as everywhere: work and die.
HISTORY: HOW DID SPANISH ANARCHOSYNDICALISTS MANAGED THE PUBLIC HEALTH DURING THE
36’s REVOLUTION? (An example of libertarian communism applied in accute health
crisis time).
NURSING HOMES, HOSPITALS: TO EXHAUST AT WORK FOR A WAGE OF MISERY? [Sticker]
FREE MASKS FOR ALL ! [Sticker]
[Spain] Public health privatization, the Spanish health nightmare …
[Spain] Against wage insecurity in retirement homes and nursing HOMES!
[Spain] AT THE « L’ARBOC » NURSING HOME, THE MANAGEMENT REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE THE
CNT-AIT SECTION
[Ukraine] Worthy salary for the nurses!
[Bulgaria] The pandemic as a class war against workers.
[Bulgaria] Crackdown on striking health workers.
[Bulgaria/Austria] Solidarity with the struggle of Bulgarian nurses.
[Bulgaria/Austria] SARS-CoV-2 Aid delivery has arrived in Bulgaria!
[Austria] POLITICAL DISCRIMINATION AT THE RED CROSS.
[Germany] Protest march against health care crisis in Cologne.
[Iran] Demonstration of the medical students of Tabriz.
[Bangladesh] Distribution of washable masks to tea workers.
[UK] Reduced Life = Reduced Work (The Work/Life Balance).
[UK] The Alarming Rise of Branson’s Virgin Care and the Threat to the NHS.
[UK] World Suicide Prevention Day- Breaking the taboo is everyone’s responsibility.
[Serbia] DRAMATIC SITUATION IN HOSPITALS.
[Poland] WOMEN’S HELL.
[Poland] A LOOK BACK AT A SUCCESSFUL STRIKE OF HOUSEKEEPERS AND KITCHEN STAFF AT
THE BELCHATOW HOSPITAL
http://cnt-ait.info/2021/01/26/another-future-of-public-health/
==================
Facebook : @chats.noirs.turbulents
Twitter : @CNTAIT
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Message: 2
Here are already the 150 years of this old lady, so young in our hearts, the
Paris Commune. On this occasion, you should read Eric Fournier's book ! ---- It
is a reference work, not because it reveals the unfolding of events, but because
it deciphers the readings which were made of it, and the underlying motivations
which animated these interpretations. Are we talking about March or May, the
"federated wall" or the one dedicated to "victims of revolutions" ... It also
tells about the altercations between the SFIO and the PCF for the preeminence in
the processions, and the various attempts at recovery, including by the extreme
right ! ---- The Commune is part of all ideological clashes, like a permanent
memorial time. Even today, memorial sites are at the crossroads of many issues,
which some are trying to erase in the name of republican harmony.
I would borrow his conclusion from Éric Fournier: "This is how the history of the
memories of the Commune is alive today in the political field ..." The Commune is
not dead. And we do not intend to bury him in a false Commune, written by the
thurifarians of power.
Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)
Éric Fournier,La Commune n'est pas morte: political uses of the past from 1871 to
the present day , Libertalia editions, 2013, 196 pages, 13 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Memoire-Les-usages-politiques-de-la-Commune
------------------------------
Message: 3
On Tuesday 19th January, on the orders of the Municipality of Ljubljana (MOL) led
by Mayor Jankovic, riot police and a local security company Valina violently
entered and evicted ROG, which for the past 15 years has been a vibrant
autonomous space in Ljubljana, capital city of Slovenia. ---- People inside were
dragged out and (temporarily) detained. Some were beaten or injured. Demolition
equipment was immediately taken on to the site. Belonging of occupants were
seized, destroyed or left behind. Bags were searched and phones were seized to
try and prevent pictures being taken. Personal savings, documents, computers,
cameras, phones, artwork, college notes and bikes were taken. Clothes were strewn
on the muddy grounds of the yard mixed with debris such as broken glass created
by the invasion. Books were damaged, many left soaked and dirty. Confiscations
included arts, musical and professional equipment worth 1000s of Euros. From
today people are supposed to be able to turn up and claim some of what was taken,
but only if they sign away getting further compensation from MOL for the
eviction. Since the eviction no public documenting of the site or inside
buildings is being allowed.
Robocops
The squatted factory (in fact, a large long-time disused bicycle factory of
manufacturing company Rog which still produces bikes in Slovenia) advocated
solidarity, mutual aid and self-organisation, values that anarchists support and
defend. Rog was a space against gentrification and capitalist repression and a
hub for cultural activities including artist studios and gallery spaces. It had
two skate parks, plus various gig and club venues. And a bicycle repair shop...
Rog was an important space for migrants and refugees, providing vital a day
centre and also accommodation for those in need. Migrants and refugees in
Slovenia include those who suffered from ethnic cleansing and/or loss of legal
status (AKA the Erased) after the break up of Yugoslavia and declaration of
Slovenian independence, people originally from the Middle East, Africa and Asia
who fled persecution from wars via the ‘Balkans route', and others who survive
and fight as ‘invisible workers‘.
Destruction of ROG
For many years autonomous spaces in the city have been tolerated as semi-legal
‘consensual' entities. Another nearby space Metelkova, which has a number of
nightclubs and a B&B/hostel on the site, is listed as one of the top tourist
sites in the city! Whilst under threat in recent years, the 2021 eviction of
autonomous Rog for demolition and ‘redevelopment‘ has still come as a shock and
so is a very worrying precedent for further repression, especially as there have
been attacks on both Metelkova 6 and Radio Student, a radical independent
community voice, in the right-wing press.
Art space at ROG
For the ‘robocops', as they have been named, to toss people out (separating them
from their belongings, and leaving pets behind) and to destroy community
resources during the coronavirus pandemic is particularly vindictive. But the
local MOL government has come under pressure and criticism during Covid with
Friday demonstrations having taken place through much of 2020, defying lockdowns
with creative physical distancing, which started off as mass bike rides. All this
from a city that recently bid for European Capital of Culture under the banner of
"Solidarity". That failed - and as our comrades have identified, grimly, "All
masks have clearly, finally fallen". More recently a curfew has been put in place
in the country as part of the pandemic measures. It is against this backdrop that
the State has apparently decided to show the people a lesson. This is no doubt
aided by an increasingly right-wing rhetoric from the national government with
its attacks on the media and migrants.
Demo in the centre of Ljubljana
There has been a large and quick response from anarchist comrades and others
saddened and angry about the eviction. Despite intimidation, with unprecedented
police occupation of the city (who during the curfew and at other times are now
all over the place) and with continued repression against protests, plus neo-nazi
provocations, activists were still able to hold one of the strongest
demonstrations in solidarity with Rog on Friday 22nd January. Around 1000 people
attended a demo in Ljubljana city centre, which police were unable to repress in
a major way (one arrest and and some fines). Campaigners for Rog have also
received a huge amount of support and solidarity from all around the world. After
the eviction, member federations of the International of Anarchist Federations,
including the Anarchist Federation here in Britain, are likewise calling for
solidarity actions everywhere.
As our FAO (Federation for Anarchist Organising) comrades in Slovenia are saying,
"We understand this fight - that will continue over the coming days - as a fight
against gentrification, capitalist colonization of our lives and cities, against
police state repression and we aim to build a wide-spread anti-capitalist and
anti-fascist front around the issue."[listen to an excellent podcast of an
interview about the current social situation in Slovenia and anarchist response
from August 2020].
Article written by the Anarchist Federation, Britain, 25th January 2021
There is a fund-raising effort to support those who were affected by the
eviction, and to continue the fight. Please spread the word and support it.
Use PayPal or make contact about other means of supporting Rog financially at
solirog@riseup.net
Follow updates here:
FB (mainly in Slovenian but with auto-translate that works quite well):
https://facebook.com/a.infoshop/
IG (requires Facebook account): https://www.instagram.com/a.infoshop/
Web (in Slovenian): http://komunal.org/ -see video of a protest against social
cleansing of the city: http://komunal.org/video/protesti/624-to-je-sele-zacetek
Twitter (mainly in German): https://twitter.com/altepunks/
Other solidarity (various languages):
Italian https://www.umanitanova.org/?p=13395
Greek
https://landandfreedom.gr/el/diethni/196-enimerosi-apo-tis-prosfates-kinitopoiiseis-stin-lioumpliana
http://afed.org.uk/solidarity-with-rog-in-ljubljana-more-help-needed/
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Message: 4
A report from the Prague event pointing to the number of empty houses that could
serve people. ---- It has been two years since the Klinika autonomous social
center was evacuated. Activists from the ODS (Really Good Squats) team therefore
decided to recall the Clinic and the topic of squating. In the week from January
10 (the date when the executor started clearing the Clinic two years ago) until
January 17, they announced the event "Let's look at empty houses!". ---- A few
days before the planned billing event, we meet with members of the ODS team to
try our gluing method and create the first photo for our challenge .
We chose a long abandoned house in Pohorelec as the first building. Its owner,
Radovan Vítek, let it decay after he had evicted all the tenants who had lived in
the house for several decades. The house was pointed out in 2013 during the
Memories of the Future event . At that time, the house was occupied for several
days, squatters cleaned the house and organized several events and neighborhood
meetings. The house was then brutally vacated by the police with the owner's
representative.
In the end, about six of us meet, we divide the roles. Some are guarding, while
others are preparing and arranging the letters we have printed on an ordinary
printer. For their location, we choose a large wooden door in the arcade, which
is visible to everyone. Then all you have to do is mix the wallpaper glue and
glue it quickly. The event is ready in five minutes, we will take a picture of
everything and leave satisfied and ready for other events.
After a few days we meet in one apartment. Some are already preparing and drawing
the outlines of the letters on a large banner. The others are still having fun or
arranging hundreds of printed letters. We're all in time and we go to the first
barracks in the evening, where we will hang a banner.
The first house is Villa Milada in Holešovice. A legendary squat that was cast in
the late 1990s. It then served as a cultural center for ten years, with many
lectures, concerts and screenings. In 2009, however, it was evacuated. At that
time, private security guards took part in the evacuation, mostly composed of
neo-Nazis, who could get enough of them. The roof was later removed and holes
were drilled in the ceilings to allow water to flow in as much as possible so
that the house could fall into disrepair.
We come to Milada, it can be seen from a distance that the house is a total ruin
after all these years. We go around it and see what graffiti has been left on it,
and we curse what a pity it is. At the back of the entrance, we then take out a
banner and fill in the letters with a spray. I'm filming everything for now.
After a while, the sound of sprays stops and the banner is ready. Now begins
another task, where to go with him. In the end, we chose a place above the former
garage, where the infoshop used to be. After mutual help, the three of us finally
climb up and fasten the banner. We originally wanted to talk inside, but the
window, which until recently could be entered, is lit by an OSB board. We will
hang a banner while the others take pictures and shoot us. Then comes the fun
scene where we try to get down from the garage.
From Milada, we head back to the stop, the others are still spraying along the
way. We are going to Žižkov, to other houses.
Another house we want to draw attention to is the former town spa on Husinecká
street. Prague 3 has been dilapidated here for a long time. Once again, we divide
our tasks. I'm watching at the beginning of the street to see if the police are
approaching, it's also after the curfew. Meanwhile, the others stick the
inscription "Let's not leave empty houses to empty people" on the house of the
four forties. The gluing is over in five minutes and we set out to glue another
house with the inscription "Occupy and live".
The next day we meet in front of Vyšehrad railway station. A UNESCO monument,
which the developer intentionally decays and waits for it to fall. He himself
helps by removing parts of the roof so that it flows into the house as much as
possible. Therefore, a protective fence is already built around the building so
that something does not fall on someone. We have to climb over this fence and the
gluing is already starting. The building then has a short motto "Expropriate!".
However, we encounter a problem. We ran out of wallpaper glue. So we walk through
the shops for a while and try to get something. When we failed, we returned to
the tried-and-tested classic, flour-water. We then glued the rest of the house
with this glue without any problems.
Not far from the Vyšehrad railway station is another monument, and that is the
Albertov spa. An Italian company of speculators lets them fall into disrepair
here. A squatter action has already taken place in the house , where several
people later climbed to the roof and were subsequently taken down by the police,
who did not forget to beat the protesters on the street for safety. A large OSB
board in the former shop window will be used for the inscription. We place
"Flavio Serughetti takes great care of me" on the house.
After another quick action, we set off for other houses. We have one stop in
Újezd. The beautiful corner apartment has been dilapidated here for a few years.
It is again owned by an Italian company, which has roughly evicted all tenants
here. We leave the inscription "Leonardo lets it decay here". However, we
encountered the first problem at another house in Letná. During the gluing, the
police patrol stops with us. However, after a momentary exchange of views, he
lets us stick on. Unfortunately, another patrol appears and it lets the whole
sign pull us down.
But we don't give up so easily and we go to another house in Kamenická street.
Again, this is a dilapidated apartment building. We mix the last remnants of
flour and use the broom to sweep "Houses for people!" This completes our last
house for the night and we all head home gradually.
https://www.afed.cz/text/7289/ods-ukazaly-na-prazdne-domy
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Message: 5
We republish the following from Argentinian comrades: ---- Abortion has finally
been legalised in Argentina, after years of fierce struggles that have made the
Argentine feminist movement one of the engines of the struggle against patriarchy
at the global level. ---- The green tide which has not stopped growing for years
in Argentina and Latin America was able to celebrate yesterday (24th January) the
approval of the law on the voluntary termination of pregnancy. This is an
essential demand for all women and those likely to give birth in our class,
because it is the poorest among us who abort in the worst conditions of
clandestinity, and thus risk serious health problems. prison and death. This
historic struggle gave the green light to the force of women from below across
the continent to advance the right to live, a fundamental right if there is one,
and not just the right to survive as imposed by the machinery of capitalism and
its destructive voracity.
At dawn on December 30, the Argentine Senate finally had to give its final
approval to the law on voluntary termination of pregnancy after years of social
pressure from the feminist movement, political parties, unions, organizations.
social and student. As well as by the social group of women and people likely to
give birth, in street demonstrations, in the now historic National Meetings of
Women, renamed since Plurinational Meetings of Women, Lesbians, Trans,
Transvestites and Non-Binary, as in all workplaces, places of study,
neighbourhoods, through constant investment in debate and the fight for the
autonomy of our bodies and for our right to decide.
Since the end of the XIXth century in this region, our anarchist comrades
gathered and organized the foundation of society, with their sisters of the
working class, to build a history of resistance against patriarchy and
capitalism. From Virginia Bolten with La Voz de la Mujer, María Collazo, Juana
Rouco Buela, Luisa Lallana, Julia García among many other comrades; to those who
faced brutal repression in the 60s and 70s: Elsa Martínez, María Esther Tello,
Hilda Forti, Pirucha Ramos among others. All are part of the great history of
feminist struggles in this country which today manages to wrest the legalisation
of abortion from the political class thanks to the immense organization and
mobilization that the Campaign for legal, safe and free abortion, created in
2003, encouraged.
There is no doubt that the government of Alberto Fernandez, and much of Peronism,
will attempt to gain political profit from this fact, as can already be seen in
speeches which present this law as a gift of the "political will" of officials
who administer the patriarchal state. Even more cynical is the progressives'
attempt to constantly come to terms with the more reactionary, conservative and
sexist sectors such as the Catholic and Evangelical churches, by having
negotiated a project that includes a conscience clause and the attempt to
negotiate grounds for legal abortion. While it is a great joy to know that the
health care system will now be required to consider the decision of pregnant
women when they terminate or continue a pregnancy.
There is still a long way to go to ensure that legal, safe and free abortion is
actually implemented on every street corner. It remains to fight against the
conscience clause, the legal traps that may arise and the obstacles that these
reactionary anti-choice sectors will want to put in place. And of course, there
is a long way to go to end all forms of patriarchal violence.
We therefore understand this necessary step as part of a process of struggle
which is not exhausted and will not be exhausted in the near future. Seeing the
results of our constant organisation, for decades, reaffirms the path of
collective, sustained, united and class action. We know that nothing truly
transformative will come from the State and its structures, but this necessary
step forward allows us to see the realisation of new demands on the horizon.
As politically organized anarchists, we understand that the only possible path in
this period is to organise and fight for increasingly important demands for the
oppressed until this capitalist and patriarchal system can be changed at the root.
Thus, the legalisation of abortion is a victory that is the fruit of historic
mobilisations, assemblies in neighbourhoods, organized teachers who implement
comprehensive sexuality education in schools, thus transforming classrooms into
places of learning, information, empowerment and discovery; of the union and
student organization, of the thirty or so meetings which are today multinationals
of women, lesbians, trans, transvestites and non-binary people.
It is a conquest for women and gender minorities of the working classes thanks to
popular struggle and committed and constant activism allowing them to resist the
harshest blows of governments and capital. We deserve to celebrate all this
immense fight against going underground, to strengthen and consolidate ourselves
for the battles to come. We claim this path of building the power of the people,
with the strength of our ancestors and our history of struggle. With the power we
have from below, the marginalized, the exploited, the oppressed, to build our own
destiny and end patriarchal, colonial and capitalist oppression. For socialism
and freedom.
IT'S THE STRUGGLE OF THE OPPRESSED THAT PERMITTED THE LAW!
LET'S CONTINUE TO ORGANISE OURSELVES IN THE STREET TO FIGHT AGAINST PATRIARCHAL
AND CAPITALIST OPPRESSION!
STRENGTH TO THOSE WHO FIGHT!
¡ARRIBA LAS QUE LUCHAN!
? Organización Anarquista de Córdoba
? Federación Anarquista de Rosario
? Organización Anarquista de Tucumán
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2021/01/27/the-fight-for-abortion-rights-in-argentina/
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