Today's Topics:
1. Greece, Anarchist Federation: Gathering of solidarity with
the 31 arrested of the occupied AUTh rectory | Tuesday 23/2,
11:00 outside the Court House of Thessaloniki.[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
the 31 arrested of the occupied AUTh rectory | Tuesday 23/2,
11:00 outside the Court House of Thessaloniki.[machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, UCL AL #313 - Culture, 101. Trial: Breaking the Bank
(ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
(ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Holland, vrije bond: Freedom for Pablo Hasél! Against all
lese-majesty laws! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
lese-majesty laws! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, Announcement for the strike in the field of health
by 'Bad Horse'[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, UCL - Right of reply, How UCL deals with accusations
of sexual assault within it (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine
translation (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
of sexual assault within it (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine
translation (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Poland, ozzip: Amazon: reprimanded, note? Refer back!
Organize yourself! [machine translation]
Organize yourself! [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On the morning of Monday 22/2, the Associations of Physics, Electrical-Mechanical
and Political Science Students, with decisions of their general assemblies,
proceeded to occupy the rector's office of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki against the recently passed anti-educational law of Kerameos.
Students continue to fight against the sharpening of class barriers, policing and
the curtailment of class trade union activity in academic institutions. ---- By
order of the Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Nikos
Papaioannou, strong police forces invaded the university campus, in order to
suppress the occupation of the Rector's Office and to arrest the struggling
students. The students called for support and solidarity and people quickly
rushed to the spot, but found a strong police barricade in front of them. With
the complicity of the government and the rector of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, the cops who flooded the university campus, surrounded the occupied
rectory and cut off all road crossings to the area, used uncontrollable violence,
throwing chemicals and flashing bullets at protesters. in solidarity, even with
reporters whose work was deliberately harassed. The uniformed bastards did not
even hesitate to torture a protester, throwing tear gas in front of him while he
was motionless and dragging his head on the road. Police eventually made 31
arrests. The detainees were taken to GADTH, where the ruined rector of AUTh
pointed out to the cops those he considered "responsible" for the occupation. The
arrested and the arrested will go through a prosecutor tomorrow.
On the same day, a first reflexive response was given against the state
repression and as a sign of solidarity with the 31 arrested. More than 500 people
marched in the city center, at the same time as more than 250 supporters gathered
outside GADTH. The students continue the occupation in the rectory of the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and call for support those who consider it
their duty to defend the social and class struggles.
We will not sit idly by. Our answers against the anti-social and anti-labor
measures of the government that intensify state and capitalist totalitarianism
must be given collectively and en masse on the streets of the struggle.
We call for a rally of solidarity with the 31 arrested in the occupied AUTh
rectory on Tuesday 23/2, 11:00 outside the Court House of Thessaloniki (observing
the necessary health protection measures).
NO PROSECUTION OF THE 31 ARRESTED / ARRESTED
DOWN THE ANTI-EDUCATIONAL LAW OF KERAMEOS
NO STEP BACK AGAINST STATE SUPPRESSION
VICTORY IN THE FAIR STRUGGLE OF THE CLASS STUDENT MOVEMENT
Anarchist Federation (Thessaloniki Region)
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2021/02/22
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Message: 2
Through an autobiographical account, Jérémy Désir-Weber draws up a series of
chilling analyzes and asserts that the only way for banks to influence their
ecological policy would be through their self-dismantling. ---- After ten years
spent between grandes écoles and high-frequency trading, Jérémy Désir-Weber
resigned with a crash from his managerial position in the market risks department
at the global headquarters of HSBC bank. He delivers his testimony to tell the "
genesis of a revolt ", its course, its gradual awareness, especially ecological,
in our time " where to abstain from choosing is still choosing ". He now refuses
to contribute to " what Riesel and Semprun called the administration of disaster
and lasting submission ." Radically.
Animated by " this paradigmatic criticism " which is so lacking in his fellow
students, " future scientific elites of the country whose outlines of political
consciousness seem severely atrophied ", Jérémy Désir-Weber plans to infiltrate
finance to effect a change in the inside. He joined the École des Mines de
Saint-Etienne, then the Imperial College in London, followed by a first
internship in the risk management of Crédit Mutuel, then a second in the European
subsidiary of Tudor Investment Corporation, then a master's degree in probability
and finance and a quantitative analyst position overseeing algorithmic trading
models at HSBC's London headquarters.
The story of his career is the occasion for a series of technical analyzes, but
perfectly accessible, of the Greek crisis, the subprime scandal, the Kerviel
affair, that of the SwissLeaks which sheds light on the financing of terrorism.
by the Saudi customers of HSBC, that of the Panama Papers ... His explanations
are often chilling.
From the Greek crisis to the Panama Papers
It explains the limits of the controls put in place on high frequency trading. It
takes twenty pages of descriptions for an investigator from the Autorité des
marchés financiers (AMF), " the policeman of the stock market ", to describe 20
milliseconds of exchanges and his Excel spreadsheet is limited to a million lines
while he has to handle a billion and a half orders. Another example, Swiss law
limits fines for money laundering to five million Swiss francs. " The authorities
delegate to the banks the power to control themselves." When joining HSBC, he is
especially invited " to watch for any suspicious attitude of a potential
whistleblower !".
The discovery of its uselessness in the face of inertia and impunity, its
ecological awareness took place when the yellow vests movement began at the end
of 2018 (initially mobilized against a carbon tax that would prove to have been
designed to compensate for the reduction in employer contributions), the campaign
of Greta Thunberg, then the actions of the Extinction Rebellion movement in April
2019. Participating, with his companion, in the blockade of Parliament Square, he
heard for the first time about the Group of intergovernmental experts on climate
change (IPCC) and discover the gravity of the climate situation.
He then dissects all the documentation available at HSBC relating to its
commitments in terms of sustainable finance, in order to write a report of about
fifty pages for his superiors, of which he gives a long summary here.
He first of all recalls the multiple destructive effects of our industrial
civilization based on growth, the immense responsibility of fossil fuels in
climate change and their inevitable correlation with growth, even when it is
(allegedly) green. Based on the objectives of the COP21 Paris Agreement, he warns
that " the financial industry is sailing blindly regarding the climate crisis,
all of its products and instruments having been structured without taking into
account their influence. on a factor, however, conditioning their own viability
and, more broadly, that of economic and social organizations."
Direct action and civil disobedience
Faced with the lack of reaction from his hierarchy, he resigned and, hoping to
amplify the echo, made it public in an open letter which began with these words:
" Capitalism is dead." In conclusion, he stated that direct action and civil
disobedience are the only solutions to alert public opinion and that the only way
for banks to positively influence their environmental policy would be "
self-dismantling . "
It invites to " reappropriate the conditions of its own subsistence by bringing
together the know-how allowing one to emancipate oneself from this system ", " to
intensify and link together the citizens' alternatives and mutual aid networks ",
"to adopt, develop , enrich, in addition, an offensive approach, by attacking the
heart of the system "," identify the weaknesses of institutions and
infrastructures - energy, industrial, petrochemical, financial, etc. -
responsible for the ongoing ecological and human disaster, impossible to reform,
then encourage, or even participate in their dismantling ".
Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)
Jérémy Désir-Weber, Breaking the bank - The role of finance in the ecological
disaster , Divergences, 2020, 250 pages, 15 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?101-Essai-faire-sauter-la-banque
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Message: 3
On the 28th of January the Spanish ‘Audiencia Nacional' confirmed the prison
penalty of 9 months for rapper Pablo Hasél, which had been levered against him in
May of last year. In order to silence him for his refusal to respect the worship
the monarchy demands of the people, they threw against him accusations of
glorification of terrorism and insults against the Spanish crown and state. As a
result, they demanded that Hasel voluntarily present himself in jail - but in
truth he has no choice, this is the state's concept of volunteering. ---- Comrade
Hasél - someone who has had earlier issues with the law, for refusing to give any
respect to the violence leftovers of the Francoist state - responds in a manner
we should all learn and repeat: "They are going to jail me for telling objective
facts, but they will never bend me".
The Vrije Bond stands in solidarity with comrade Hasél and all antifascist
comrades currently on the streets, facing the violent repression of the State and
its hounds, the police. This repression has escalated to more and more Spanish
cities over the last days. The images which come to us from de Porta del Sol,
Barcelona, and other cities are not falling on deaf ears. We demand freedom for
all prisioners, the right of every person to be able to maintain their dignity
and to have their voice heard - and to criticize the oligarchs and fascists which
continue to rule Spain uninterrupted since 1939.
We must not forget that even in the Lowlands and Belgium, similar laws are used
to silence oposition to the monarchy and to deny us the freedom to protest and
make our voices heard. Even here, protestors get abused or removed from public
spaces for the most basic of expressions - Fuck the King! -.
The Dutch monarchy is no better than any other monarchy. It accumulates wealth,
protects private interests, and goes vacationing and confraternizing with
murderers and dictators while the homeless swell in numbers, while food banks
grow all over the country, and while the COVID crisis pushes mental health and
social rights to the limit.
Pablo Hasél is not the first, nor will he be the last to stand up to them. And
the resistence the anti-fascist front gives against the spanish police is
something we should all watch and learn from, for in these lands too there is a
King which deserves to be shoved off his throne forever, together with all the
parasites that surround him.
Freedom to all prisoners!
Solidarity with Hasél and all spanish anti-fascists!
Down with all kings!
Down with all lese-majesty laws!
Vrije Bond Secretariaat
https://www.vrijebond.org/freedom-for-pablo-hasel/
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Message: 4
SOLIDARITY TO THE HEALTHCARE - NOT A STEP BACK TO OUR NEEDS! ---- AGAINST
CRIMINAL MANAGEMENT OF THE PANDEMIC BY THE STATE... ---- ALL FOR EVERYONE:
HEALTH, EDUCATION, FOOD, FOOD, HOUSING ---- In the midst of a pandemic and the
spread of the virus, the criminal, parasitic and anti-social nature of the state
emerges in every way, which is indifferent to human life and the vast majority of
the society and is only interested in maximizing the profits of the bosses. The
only thing the rulers want is to save the economy and "return to capitalist
normalcy." The murderous policy of the state does not include any substantial
measures to support the NSS and to stop the spread of the pandemic, except for
poor communication tricks and poor ideologies of individual responsibility.
After not receiving any substantial plan to prevent and protect society from the
deadly effects of the pandemic for 11 months, the government imposed a new
lockdown, throwing the blame and the price that accompanies it on the "individual
responsibility" of the citizens, to justify its own inaction and to prepare for
another round of looting to save the economy and "return to capitalist normalcy."
The murderous policy of the state does not include any substantial measures to
support the NSS and to stop the spread of the pandemic as all the previous period
no medical staff was recruited, no new hospitals and new Intensive Care Units
were created, the demands of the employees were not met in the field of health to
provide all the necessary means of protection. Today, when the situation reaches
the point of no return with more than 100 dead every day, the government
continues to narrow in the face of the urgent need to order all private health
units, haggling with the clinicians the fortunes and lives of hundreds of our
fellow human beings every day.
At the same time, the vast majority of society is exposed to the transmission of
the virus, forced to be stacked in the workplace without any measures, trampled
on public transport and left without basic medical care, while those who were
forced to lose their jobs due to lockdown, live with promises of paying meager
allowances in one month, allowances which will be called back double and triple
in the next phase of the "recovery".
At the same time, thousands of cops are being hired to enforce state policies,
billions of military equipment is being bought to reaffirm NATO and EU chariot
submission, hundreds of millions are being subsidized by government spokespersons
for the media and private companies such as Aegean. , the "big walks" are
inaugurated with fiestas of millions. At the same time, rallies, demonstrations
and any kind of mobilization are being targeted as health bombs, culminating in
the repressive orgy that the government delivered to the marches for November 17
nationwide.
The only "right" that the state and the bosses recognize for the social base, in
the midst of the health crisis, is that of production and consumption, while at
the same time they use this crisis as an opportunity to advance their anti-social
plans.
They passed the bill against labor rights, which includes, among other things,
the legislation on 10-hour work, with unpaid overtime that is supposed to be
"equalized" later with some reduction of hours or some break, large increase of
legal overtime, extension of work on Sunday. by adding companies and works to the
relevant list, measures and regulations that hit the trade union organization and
action, essentially criminalizing the trade union, bring new obstacles to the
strike, mine the collective processes and the General Assemblies of the trade
unions and impose "electronic voting".
They passed the anti-education bill established by the university police, secures
the student limit, intensifies studies even more and intensifies class barriers.
It was preceded by the new bankruptcy code that paved the way for auctions and
foreclosures of a first home, setting at the same time the maximum income for a
person of independent obligations, cost of living, marital status at 15,000 per
year, while finally paving the way for non-payment of severance pay companies
that make use of the provisions of the bill.
In the previous period, they passed the bill that prohibits demonstrations in
order to "put in the corner" the social and class resistances at the time when
they will unfold their sweeping attack. Today, they are further crushing any
rights that have provided a relative dignity to the working class and given
opportunities to claim.
In the face of all these criminal plans, the social and class movement must be
reorganized, overcoming the objective difficulties that exist due to the danger
of the virus, but also the subjective ones that the state methodically cultivates
and introduces with the aim of suppressing resistance and controlling the
population. Respecting all the measures of self-protection of the society as a
whole and with the main concern of defending the life of all of us against the
death policy of the state and the bosses, to try to take to the streets again.
Let us meet again where justice, life and freedom are judged. We have nothing to
expect from the sold-out working fathers who bow to the demands of the state and
the bosses and sell out the interests of the workers.
Today, in the midst of an unprecedented situation where the state is preparing
another ruthless attack on the social acquis under the pretext of the coronavirus
crisis, let us continue to fight for the needs of society as a whole, with the
main concern being the prosperity and service of society and not a caste
powerful, leading humanity to the dystopia of death, misery and control.
Hands off jobs and employee gains. No layoffs, no cuts in salaries and pensions.
No thought of banning strikes and trade unionism. The coronavirus crisis to be
paid by the bosses.
Solidarity with health workers. Immediate and unconditional mass recruitment of
medical and nursing staff, ordering of private hospitals and provision of all
required resources and means, in order to meet the needs of the population in
care. Heavy and unhealthy stamps on all personal health as well as provision so
as not to lead to utter exhaustion and serious risks to their own health.
Organization at the base - Social self-defense - Class counterattack!
Strikes - Demonstrations - Conflicts
anarchist group "bad horse"
Patras, February 2021
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2021/02/22
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Message: 5
A response from the Libertarian Communist Union to the Autrefutur.net website,
which challenged the exclusion of a UCL member accused of rape. Autrefutur.net
refused to publish this right of reply. ---- On November 9, 2020, the
Autrefutur.net website published an article entitled "De la plague identitaire...
en milieu libertaire" which seriously questions the Libertarian Communist Union,
and in particular its decision to exclude a member accused of rape. ---- We will
pass over the many comments on the subject of the "genrist and racialist drifts"
that you attribute to UCL, and we will content ourselves with saying that in this
matter, not only are you wrong in your analysis and in the fight, but that all
these considerations are unrelated to the exclusion of the one you call "Nestor".
We will answer it, on the one hand by explaining the meaning of the internal
procedure of the UCL concerning the accusations of sexual assault, and on the
other hand by giving you an image of "Nestor" rather distant from the character
you portray.
How UCL deals with accusations of sexual assault within it
When the rape charge against Nestor was brought, he was suspended from UCL, in
accordance with our statutes, while a hearing committee put together a file,
consisting of oral testimony and written depositions.
Why an internal procedure at UCL ? Because a feminist and revolutionary
organization cannot hide behind the police decision in the matter: in 2016, 73%
of men targeted by a complaint for rape benefited from a classification without
follow-up, while the rape is notoriously under -declared[1]. There is therefore a
need for a procedure independent of the police and the judiciary.
Why is the hearing committee made up of women ? This is an essential condition
for receiving the word of the victim, or even of witnesses whom the presence of
men could intimidate. Single sex helps to free speech.
On what criteria does the non-mixed commission judge the facts ? The UCL being a
militant organization - deprived of extensive investigative means - it cannot
establish the exact truth of the facts. It is impossible for him, as it is also
impossible for the police, who prefers to classify without follow-up when there
are no traces of beatings and coercion... Our criterion for judging is therefore
not the truth, too often unattainable, but veracity.We start from the principle
that we have to believe the victim - for us, there is a presumption of sincerity.
The reason is this: a woman who has no personal dispute with a man has no
interest in inventing that he raped or sexually assaulted her. The hearing
committee hears the accused man, who must have the opportunity to exonerate
himself or, at the very least, to give his version of the facts.
Why is it a federal coordination which decides, in fine ? Because the fight
against sexual violence, which is a structural evil of patriarchal society, must
concern everyone, men and women. The moral responsibility for exclusion cannot
rest on the shoulders of women alone, or of the single-sex commission. It is the
organization which assumes the choice of exclusion.
What philosophical principle guides UCL in this procedure ? In matters of sexual
violence, a feminist organization must go beyond bourgeois justice in terms of
believing the victims and making their word prevail ; but it cannot fall short of
bourgeois justice in terms of guaranteeing the right to defense. Being a militant
organization, where all the activity is voluntary, clumsiness or hesitation may
exist. But the final decision is always in the hands of a federal coordination -
which judges in full transparency, on the basis of the elements at its disposal -
and not of a discretionary committee.
In this case, you stress in your article that the file collected by the hearing
committee was considered insufficient by several activists of the federation.
After additional information, the federal coordination judged that the elements
collected were sufficient and pronounced the exclusion, to more than two thirds
of the mandates.
Four additional testimonials
Your disparaging article on Autrefutur.net shocked, and provoked the
communication of four additional testimonies, which go in the direction of the
decision of the CF of the UCL. It emerges that "Nestor" was quite capable of
presenting the face of a chic type, profeminist, when he was in his region, and
of transforming into a predator when he made a trip to Paris ...
Two testimonies shed light on the atmosphere of the evening when the rape was
committed.
The first evokes a Nestor who used to "let go" during his trips to the Paris
region, and this evening was no exception: "he was as often in this type of
hyperspeed event, overexcited".
The second attests that there was no game of seduction, at any time, between
"Nestor" and "Capucine", who did not know each other before the fateful evening.
She was only supposed to house him. She was surprised in her sleep.
The two witnesses attest that, since that evening, the life of "Capucine" has
been turned upside down, and that she has begun a difficult reconstruction.
Two other testimonies shed light on "Nestor's" attitude towards young women.
The first attests that they are numerous to have found him "really very heavy,
very insistent ... He was convinced that he would achieve his ends. I know at
least five girls who don't want to hear about it anymore, not least because he
texts them every time he comes back to Paris, hoping to sleep at their place one
evening. When we (friends and I) learned about the rape complaint[...], no one
was surprised ... We have been around him so much and seen him do it for years
...[...]And I 've seen having daughters "to wear". He sometimes told us that it
was out of the question for him to end the evening "alone"."
The second reports that the "process" used with "Capucine", "Nestor" had already
boasted of having used it: "according to his statements, he had been lodged by a
young woman, and had left the living room sofa for join her in her bed in the
dead of night, naked". He had woken her up by performing a sexual act.
To conclude, we will add that before this affair, Nestor was a well-known and
appreciated activist at UCL. There was no "political settling of accounts" behind
it all. But our federation refuses the omerta on sexual violence which too often
prevails, in all circles - political, union, associative, sporting, artistic...
The UCL, as it explains it here , resolutely wants to be "welcoming for women. ,
and closed to violent men".
UCL, External Relations, February 11, 2021
Validate
[1] Infostat justice n° 160 (March 2018).
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Comment-l-UCL-traite-les-accusations-d-agression-sexuelle-en-son-sein
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Message: 6
Amazon Employee Initiative launched on February 24 leaflet campaigns on
reprimands and notes for the so-called offtaski. If you want to distribute
leaflets in your warehouse, please contact us, we will send you ready-made
materials or download a PDF ready to print / photocopy (below)! ---- As a trade
union, the Employee Initiative, we are protesting against giving Amazon employees
order penalties and official notes, in which it is alleged that "The employee was
outside the bag (he did not perform work tasks) for[x]minutes during work".
Penalties of this type and notes have been given more and more recently. They
should be repealed, deleted from the personal files and their use should be
discontinued! We express our opposition to the growing and constant pressure put
by the management to work as fast as possible.
1. Notes do not reflect the actual course of meetings between superiors and
employees. Employees often provide numerous explanations pointing to the
groundlessness of the allegations, which is not reflected in the notes. The note
is handed out during the meeting and it contains a preconceived objection.
TIP: Demand that the note contains the content of your statement or add yourself
what happened during the shift!
2. Employees are not always provided with a copy of the document or information
where I can obtain such a copy.
TIP: Always request a copy of the document for yourself!
3. Amazon cannot appeal against the charges.
TIP: When you disagree with the allegation, appeal, necessarily in writing:
prepare two copies, in HR ask for an acknowledgment of receipt. If you don't know
how to do it, contact us!
4. The notes do not meet the requirement of specificity: they only indicate the
sum of minutes during the working time in which he allegedly accuses the employee
of not performing official tasks.
TIP: Insist on the exact (printout) minutes of the alleged 'out of the box'.
5. Lack of substantive grounds for penalties and notes for "being out of the
box". Failure to scan is not the same as failing to perform my duties! It's just
the sum of the intervals between scans. This method of assessment is not
reliable. It does not take into account the time when the employee is at the
employer's disposal, but cannot scan packages for various reasons (scanner /
computer / system failures, lack of goods, trolleys, remote locations, damaged
codes, cleaning, toilet, water intake, use of spontaneous rest areas which Amazon
placed after the union's intervention, a conversation with the supervisor,
auditor, HR - all this is related to the performance of work or the
implementation of health and safety rules. The listing of the amount of alleged
downtime generated cannot therefore be used as evidence that the employee did not
perform official duties.
TIP: Organize! Join us!
We urge everyone to appeal against penalties, and we will support members and
members, including through the courts! Our relationship has already led to a
victory in the Labor Court, where the reprimand was deemed unfounded.
The Employee Initiative (IP) brings together employees from all FC. Currently,
750 people belong to the union. We defend members in labor courts (termination of
contracts, order penalties). The dismissal of a permanent employee must be
consulted with us. We also invite agency employees! Join us! Contact:
ipamazon@wp.pl and tel. 736-850-536
https://ozzip.pl/informacje/ogolnopolskie/item/2745-amazon-nagana-notatka-odwoluj-sie-organizuj-sie
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Message: 1
On the morning of Monday 22/2, the Associations of Physics, Electrical-Mechanical
and Political Science Students, with decisions of their general assemblies,
proceeded to occupy the rector's office of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki against the recently passed anti-educational law of Kerameos.
Students continue to fight against the sharpening of class barriers, policing and
the curtailment of class trade union activity in academic institutions. ---- By
order of the Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Nikos
Papaioannou, strong police forces invaded the university campus, in order to
suppress the occupation of the Rector's Office and to arrest the struggling
students. The students called for support and solidarity and people quickly
rushed to the spot, but found a strong police barricade in front of them. With
the complicity of the government and the rector of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, the cops who flooded the university campus, surrounded the occupied
rectory and cut off all road crossings to the area, used uncontrollable violence,
throwing chemicals and flashing bullets at protesters. in solidarity, even with
reporters whose work was deliberately harassed. The uniformed bastards did not
even hesitate to torture a protester, throwing tear gas in front of him while he
was motionless and dragging his head on the road. Police eventually made 31
arrests. The detainees were taken to GADTH, where the ruined rector of AUTh
pointed out to the cops those he considered "responsible" for the occupation. The
arrested and the arrested will go through a prosecutor tomorrow.
On the same day, a first reflexive response was given against the state
repression and as a sign of solidarity with the 31 arrested. More than 500 people
marched in the city center, at the same time as more than 250 supporters gathered
outside GADTH. The students continue the occupation in the rectory of the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and call for support those who consider it
their duty to defend the social and class struggles.
We will not sit idly by. Our answers against the anti-social and anti-labor
measures of the government that intensify state and capitalist totalitarianism
must be given collectively and en masse on the streets of the struggle.
We call for a rally of solidarity with the 31 arrested in the occupied AUTh
rectory on Tuesday 23/2, 11:00 outside the Court House of Thessaloniki (observing
the necessary health protection measures).
NO PROSECUTION OF THE 31 ARRESTED / ARRESTED
DOWN THE ANTI-EDUCATIONAL LAW OF KERAMEOS
NO STEP BACK AGAINST STATE SUPPRESSION
VICTORY IN THE FAIR STRUGGLE OF THE CLASS STUDENT MOVEMENT
Anarchist Federation (Thessaloniki Region)
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2021/02/22
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Message: 2
Through an autobiographical account, Jérémy Désir-Weber draws up a series of
chilling analyzes and asserts that the only way for banks to influence their
ecological policy would be through their self-dismantling. ---- After ten years
spent between grandes écoles and high-frequency trading, Jérémy Désir-Weber
resigned with a crash from his managerial position in the market risks department
at the global headquarters of HSBC bank. He delivers his testimony to tell the "
genesis of a revolt ", its course, its gradual awareness, especially ecological,
in our time " where to abstain from choosing is still choosing ". He now refuses
to contribute to " what Riesel and Semprun called the administration of disaster
and lasting submission ." Radically.
Animated by " this paradigmatic criticism " which is so lacking in his fellow
students, " future scientific elites of the country whose outlines of political
consciousness seem severely atrophied ", Jérémy Désir-Weber plans to infiltrate
finance to effect a change in the inside. He joined the École des Mines de
Saint-Etienne, then the Imperial College in London, followed by a first
internship in the risk management of Crédit Mutuel, then a second in the European
subsidiary of Tudor Investment Corporation, then a master's degree in probability
and finance and a quantitative analyst position overseeing algorithmic trading
models at HSBC's London headquarters.
The story of his career is the occasion for a series of technical analyzes, but
perfectly accessible, of the Greek crisis, the subprime scandal, the Kerviel
affair, that of the SwissLeaks which sheds light on the financing of terrorism.
by the Saudi customers of HSBC, that of the Panama Papers ... His explanations
are often chilling.
From the Greek crisis to the Panama Papers
It explains the limits of the controls put in place on high frequency trading. It
takes twenty pages of descriptions for an investigator from the Autorité des
marchés financiers (AMF), " the policeman of the stock market ", to describe 20
milliseconds of exchanges and his Excel spreadsheet is limited to a million lines
while he has to handle a billion and a half orders. Another example, Swiss law
limits fines for money laundering to five million Swiss francs. " The authorities
delegate to the banks the power to control themselves." When joining HSBC, he is
especially invited " to watch for any suspicious attitude of a potential
whistleblower !".
The discovery of its uselessness in the face of inertia and impunity, its
ecological awareness took place when the yellow vests movement began at the end
of 2018 (initially mobilized against a carbon tax that would prove to have been
designed to compensate for the reduction in employer contributions), the campaign
of Greta Thunberg, then the actions of the Extinction Rebellion movement in April
2019. Participating, with his companion, in the blockade of Parliament Square, he
heard for the first time about the Group of intergovernmental experts on climate
change (IPCC) and discover the gravity of the climate situation.
He then dissects all the documentation available at HSBC relating to its
commitments in terms of sustainable finance, in order to write a report of about
fifty pages for his superiors, of which he gives a long summary here.
He first of all recalls the multiple destructive effects of our industrial
civilization based on growth, the immense responsibility of fossil fuels in
climate change and their inevitable correlation with growth, even when it is
(allegedly) green. Based on the objectives of the COP21 Paris Agreement, he warns
that " the financial industry is sailing blindly regarding the climate crisis,
all of its products and instruments having been structured without taking into
account their influence. on a factor, however, conditioning their own viability
and, more broadly, that of economic and social organizations."
Direct action and civil disobedience
Faced with the lack of reaction from his hierarchy, he resigned and, hoping to
amplify the echo, made it public in an open letter which began with these words:
" Capitalism is dead." In conclusion, he stated that direct action and civil
disobedience are the only solutions to alert public opinion and that the only way
for banks to positively influence their environmental policy would be "
self-dismantling . "
It invites to " reappropriate the conditions of its own subsistence by bringing
together the know-how allowing one to emancipate oneself from this system ", " to
intensify and link together the citizens' alternatives and mutual aid networks ",
"to adopt, develop , enrich, in addition, an offensive approach, by attacking the
heart of the system "," identify the weaknesses of institutions and
infrastructures - energy, industrial, petrochemical, financial, etc. -
responsible for the ongoing ecological and human disaster, impossible to reform,
then encourage, or even participate in their dismantling ".
Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)
Jérémy Désir-Weber, Breaking the bank - The role of finance in the ecological
disaster , Divergences, 2020, 250 pages, 15 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?101-Essai-faire-sauter-la-banque
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Message: 3
On the 28th of January the Spanish ‘Audiencia Nacional' confirmed the prison
penalty of 9 months for rapper Pablo Hasél, which had been levered against him in
May of last year. In order to silence him for his refusal to respect the worship
the monarchy demands of the people, they threw against him accusations of
glorification of terrorism and insults against the Spanish crown and state. As a
result, they demanded that Hasel voluntarily present himself in jail - but in
truth he has no choice, this is the state's concept of volunteering. ---- Comrade
Hasél - someone who has had earlier issues with the law, for refusing to give any
respect to the violence leftovers of the Francoist state - responds in a manner
we should all learn and repeat: "They are going to jail me for telling objective
facts, but they will never bend me".
The Vrije Bond stands in solidarity with comrade Hasél and all antifascist
comrades currently on the streets, facing the violent repression of the State and
its hounds, the police. This repression has escalated to more and more Spanish
cities over the last days. The images which come to us from de Porta del Sol,
Barcelona, and other cities are not falling on deaf ears. We demand freedom for
all prisioners, the right of every person to be able to maintain their dignity
and to have their voice heard - and to criticize the oligarchs and fascists which
continue to rule Spain uninterrupted since 1939.
We must not forget that even in the Lowlands and Belgium, similar laws are used
to silence oposition to the monarchy and to deny us the freedom to protest and
make our voices heard. Even here, protestors get abused or removed from public
spaces for the most basic of expressions - Fuck the King! -.
The Dutch monarchy is no better than any other monarchy. It accumulates wealth,
protects private interests, and goes vacationing and confraternizing with
murderers and dictators while the homeless swell in numbers, while food banks
grow all over the country, and while the COVID crisis pushes mental health and
social rights to the limit.
Pablo Hasél is not the first, nor will he be the last to stand up to them. And
the resistence the anti-fascist front gives against the spanish police is
something we should all watch and learn from, for in these lands too there is a
King which deserves to be shoved off his throne forever, together with all the
parasites that surround him.
Freedom to all prisoners!
Solidarity with Hasél and all spanish anti-fascists!
Down with all kings!
Down with all lese-majesty laws!
Vrije Bond Secretariaat
https://www.vrijebond.org/freedom-for-pablo-hasel/
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Message: 4
SOLIDARITY TO THE HEALTHCARE - NOT A STEP BACK TO OUR NEEDS! ---- AGAINST
CRIMINAL MANAGEMENT OF THE PANDEMIC BY THE STATE... ---- ALL FOR EVERYONE:
HEALTH, EDUCATION, FOOD, FOOD, HOUSING ---- In the midst of a pandemic and the
spread of the virus, the criminal, parasitic and anti-social nature of the state
emerges in every way, which is indifferent to human life and the vast majority of
the society and is only interested in maximizing the profits of the bosses. The
only thing the rulers want is to save the economy and "return to capitalist
normalcy." The murderous policy of the state does not include any substantial
measures to support the NSS and to stop the spread of the pandemic, except for
poor communication tricks and poor ideologies of individual responsibility.
After not receiving any substantial plan to prevent and protect society from the
deadly effects of the pandemic for 11 months, the government imposed a new
lockdown, throwing the blame and the price that accompanies it on the "individual
responsibility" of the citizens, to justify its own inaction and to prepare for
another round of looting to save the economy and "return to capitalist normalcy."
The murderous policy of the state does not include any substantial measures to
support the NSS and to stop the spread of the pandemic as all the previous period
no medical staff was recruited, no new hospitals and new Intensive Care Units
were created, the demands of the employees were not met in the field of health to
provide all the necessary means of protection. Today, when the situation reaches
the point of no return with more than 100 dead every day, the government
continues to narrow in the face of the urgent need to order all private health
units, haggling with the clinicians the fortunes and lives of hundreds of our
fellow human beings every day.
At the same time, the vast majority of society is exposed to the transmission of
the virus, forced to be stacked in the workplace without any measures, trampled
on public transport and left without basic medical care, while those who were
forced to lose their jobs due to lockdown, live with promises of paying meager
allowances in one month, allowances which will be called back double and triple
in the next phase of the "recovery".
At the same time, thousands of cops are being hired to enforce state policies,
billions of military equipment is being bought to reaffirm NATO and EU chariot
submission, hundreds of millions are being subsidized by government spokespersons
for the media and private companies such as Aegean. , the "big walks" are
inaugurated with fiestas of millions. At the same time, rallies, demonstrations
and any kind of mobilization are being targeted as health bombs, culminating in
the repressive orgy that the government delivered to the marches for November 17
nationwide.
The only "right" that the state and the bosses recognize for the social base, in
the midst of the health crisis, is that of production and consumption, while at
the same time they use this crisis as an opportunity to advance their anti-social
plans.
They passed the bill against labor rights, which includes, among other things,
the legislation on 10-hour work, with unpaid overtime that is supposed to be
"equalized" later with some reduction of hours or some break, large increase of
legal overtime, extension of work on Sunday. by adding companies and works to the
relevant list, measures and regulations that hit the trade union organization and
action, essentially criminalizing the trade union, bring new obstacles to the
strike, mine the collective processes and the General Assemblies of the trade
unions and impose "electronic voting".
They passed the anti-education bill established by the university police, secures
the student limit, intensifies studies even more and intensifies class barriers.
It was preceded by the new bankruptcy code that paved the way for auctions and
foreclosures of a first home, setting at the same time the maximum income for a
person of independent obligations, cost of living, marital status at 15,000 per
year, while finally paving the way for non-payment of severance pay companies
that make use of the provisions of the bill.
In the previous period, they passed the bill that prohibits demonstrations in
order to "put in the corner" the social and class resistances at the time when
they will unfold their sweeping attack. Today, they are further crushing any
rights that have provided a relative dignity to the working class and given
opportunities to claim.
In the face of all these criminal plans, the social and class movement must be
reorganized, overcoming the objective difficulties that exist due to the danger
of the virus, but also the subjective ones that the state methodically cultivates
and introduces with the aim of suppressing resistance and controlling the
population. Respecting all the measures of self-protection of the society as a
whole and with the main concern of defending the life of all of us against the
death policy of the state and the bosses, to try to take to the streets again.
Let us meet again where justice, life and freedom are judged. We have nothing to
expect from the sold-out working fathers who bow to the demands of the state and
the bosses and sell out the interests of the workers.
Today, in the midst of an unprecedented situation where the state is preparing
another ruthless attack on the social acquis under the pretext of the coronavirus
crisis, let us continue to fight for the needs of society as a whole, with the
main concern being the prosperity and service of society and not a caste
powerful, leading humanity to the dystopia of death, misery and control.
Hands off jobs and employee gains. No layoffs, no cuts in salaries and pensions.
No thought of banning strikes and trade unionism. The coronavirus crisis to be
paid by the bosses.
Solidarity with health workers. Immediate and unconditional mass recruitment of
medical and nursing staff, ordering of private hospitals and provision of all
required resources and means, in order to meet the needs of the population in
care. Heavy and unhealthy stamps on all personal health as well as provision so
as not to lead to utter exhaustion and serious risks to their own health.
Organization at the base - Social self-defense - Class counterattack!
Strikes - Demonstrations - Conflicts
anarchist group "bad horse"
Patras, February 2021
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2021/02/22
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Message: 5
A response from the Libertarian Communist Union to the Autrefutur.net website,
which challenged the exclusion of a UCL member accused of rape. Autrefutur.net
refused to publish this right of reply. ---- On November 9, 2020, the
Autrefutur.net website published an article entitled "De la plague identitaire...
en milieu libertaire" which seriously questions the Libertarian Communist Union,
and in particular its decision to exclude a member accused of rape. ---- We will
pass over the many comments on the subject of the "genrist and racialist drifts"
that you attribute to UCL, and we will content ourselves with saying that in this
matter, not only are you wrong in your analysis and in the fight, but that all
these considerations are unrelated to the exclusion of the one you call "Nestor".
We will answer it, on the one hand by explaining the meaning of the internal
procedure of the UCL concerning the accusations of sexual assault, and on the
other hand by giving you an image of "Nestor" rather distant from the character
you portray.
How UCL deals with accusations of sexual assault within it
When the rape charge against Nestor was brought, he was suspended from UCL, in
accordance with our statutes, while a hearing committee put together a file,
consisting of oral testimony and written depositions.
Why an internal procedure at UCL ? Because a feminist and revolutionary
organization cannot hide behind the police decision in the matter: in 2016, 73%
of men targeted by a complaint for rape benefited from a classification without
follow-up, while the rape is notoriously under -declared[1]. There is therefore a
need for a procedure independent of the police and the judiciary.
Why is the hearing committee made up of women ? This is an essential condition
for receiving the word of the victim, or even of witnesses whom the presence of
men could intimidate. Single sex helps to free speech.
On what criteria does the non-mixed commission judge the facts ? The UCL being a
militant organization - deprived of extensive investigative means - it cannot
establish the exact truth of the facts. It is impossible for him, as it is also
impossible for the police, who prefers to classify without follow-up when there
are no traces of beatings and coercion... Our criterion for judging is therefore
not the truth, too often unattainable, but veracity.We start from the principle
that we have to believe the victim - for us, there is a presumption of sincerity.
The reason is this: a woman who has no personal dispute with a man has no
interest in inventing that he raped or sexually assaulted her. The hearing
committee hears the accused man, who must have the opportunity to exonerate
himself or, at the very least, to give his version of the facts.
Why is it a federal coordination which decides, in fine ? Because the fight
against sexual violence, which is a structural evil of patriarchal society, must
concern everyone, men and women. The moral responsibility for exclusion cannot
rest on the shoulders of women alone, or of the single-sex commission. It is the
organization which assumes the choice of exclusion.
What philosophical principle guides UCL in this procedure ? In matters of sexual
violence, a feminist organization must go beyond bourgeois justice in terms of
believing the victims and making their word prevail ; but it cannot fall short of
bourgeois justice in terms of guaranteeing the right to defense. Being a militant
organization, where all the activity is voluntary, clumsiness or hesitation may
exist. But the final decision is always in the hands of a federal coordination -
which judges in full transparency, on the basis of the elements at its disposal -
and not of a discretionary committee.
In this case, you stress in your article that the file collected by the hearing
committee was considered insufficient by several activists of the federation.
After additional information, the federal coordination judged that the elements
collected were sufficient and pronounced the exclusion, to more than two thirds
of the mandates.
Four additional testimonials
Your disparaging article on Autrefutur.net shocked, and provoked the
communication of four additional testimonies, which go in the direction of the
decision of the CF of the UCL. It emerges that "Nestor" was quite capable of
presenting the face of a chic type, profeminist, when he was in his region, and
of transforming into a predator when he made a trip to Paris ...
Two testimonies shed light on the atmosphere of the evening when the rape was
committed.
The first evokes a Nestor who used to "let go" during his trips to the Paris
region, and this evening was no exception: "he was as often in this type of
hyperspeed event, overexcited".
The second attests that there was no game of seduction, at any time, between
"Nestor" and "Capucine", who did not know each other before the fateful evening.
She was only supposed to house him. She was surprised in her sleep.
The two witnesses attest that, since that evening, the life of "Capucine" has
been turned upside down, and that she has begun a difficult reconstruction.
Two other testimonies shed light on "Nestor's" attitude towards young women.
The first attests that they are numerous to have found him "really very heavy,
very insistent ... He was convinced that he would achieve his ends. I know at
least five girls who don't want to hear about it anymore, not least because he
texts them every time he comes back to Paris, hoping to sleep at their place one
evening. When we (friends and I) learned about the rape complaint[...], no one
was surprised ... We have been around him so much and seen him do it for years
...[...]And I 've seen having daughters "to wear". He sometimes told us that it
was out of the question for him to end the evening "alone"."
The second reports that the "process" used with "Capucine", "Nestor" had already
boasted of having used it: "according to his statements, he had been lodged by a
young woman, and had left the living room sofa for join her in her bed in the
dead of night, naked". He had woken her up by performing a sexual act.
To conclude, we will add that before this affair, Nestor was a well-known and
appreciated activist at UCL. There was no "political settling of accounts" behind
it all. But our federation refuses the omerta on sexual violence which too often
prevails, in all circles - political, union, associative, sporting, artistic...
The UCL, as it explains it here , resolutely wants to be "welcoming for women. ,
and closed to violent men".
UCL, External Relations, February 11, 2021
Validate
[1] Infostat justice n° 160 (March 2018).
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Comment-l-UCL-traite-les-accusations-d-agression-sexuelle-en-son-sein
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Message: 6
Amazon Employee Initiative launched on February 24 leaflet campaigns on
reprimands and notes for the so-called offtaski. If you want to distribute
leaflets in your warehouse, please contact us, we will send you ready-made
materials or download a PDF ready to print / photocopy (below)! ---- As a trade
union, the Employee Initiative, we are protesting against giving Amazon employees
order penalties and official notes, in which it is alleged that "The employee was
outside the bag (he did not perform work tasks) for[x]minutes during work".
Penalties of this type and notes have been given more and more recently. They
should be repealed, deleted from the personal files and their use should be
discontinued! We express our opposition to the growing and constant pressure put
by the management to work as fast as possible.
1. Notes do not reflect the actual course of meetings between superiors and
employees. Employees often provide numerous explanations pointing to the
groundlessness of the allegations, which is not reflected in the notes. The note
is handed out during the meeting and it contains a preconceived objection.
TIP: Demand that the note contains the content of your statement or add yourself
what happened during the shift!
2. Employees are not always provided with a copy of the document or information
where I can obtain such a copy.
TIP: Always request a copy of the document for yourself!
3. Amazon cannot appeal against the charges.
TIP: When you disagree with the allegation, appeal, necessarily in writing:
prepare two copies, in HR ask for an acknowledgment of receipt. If you don't know
how to do it, contact us!
4. The notes do not meet the requirement of specificity: they only indicate the
sum of minutes during the working time in which he allegedly accuses the employee
of not performing official tasks.
TIP: Insist on the exact (printout) minutes of the alleged 'out of the box'.
5. Lack of substantive grounds for penalties and notes for "being out of the
box". Failure to scan is not the same as failing to perform my duties! It's just
the sum of the intervals between scans. This method of assessment is not
reliable. It does not take into account the time when the employee is at the
employer's disposal, but cannot scan packages for various reasons (scanner /
computer / system failures, lack of goods, trolleys, remote locations, damaged
codes, cleaning, toilet, water intake, use of spontaneous rest areas which Amazon
placed after the union's intervention, a conversation with the supervisor,
auditor, HR - all this is related to the performance of work or the
implementation of health and safety rules. The listing of the amount of alleged
downtime generated cannot therefore be used as evidence that the employee did not
perform official duties.
TIP: Organize! Join us!
We urge everyone to appeal against penalties, and we will support members and
members, including through the courts! Our relationship has already led to a
victory in the Labor Court, where the reprimand was deemed unfounded.
The Employee Initiative (IP) brings together employees from all FC. Currently,
750 people belong to the union. We defend members in labor courts (termination of
contracts, order penalties). The dismissal of a permanent employee must be
consulted with us. We also invite agency employees! Join us! Contact:
ipamazon@wp.pl and tel. 736-850-536
https://ozzip.pl/informacje/ogolnopolskie/item/2745-amazon-nagana-notatka-odwoluj-sie-organizuj-sie
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