Today's Topics:
1. Czech, oafed: Ostrava: Solidarity direct action against
patriarchy [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
patriarchy [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, vogliamo tutto: There is no health without freedom -
Cops out of neighborhoods | Gathering and march in
Cops out of neighborhoods | Gathering and march in
the central
square of N. Smyrni Tuesday 9/3 18:00 [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
square of N. Smyrni Tuesday 9/3 18:00 [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Today's Topics:
1. UK, Leeds SolFed: Eat the rich: My experience in hospitality
work during the pandemic (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
work during the pandemic (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Poland, Worers initiative ozzip: March 8 - women are still
fighting. They think, feel, decide! [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
fighting. They think, feel, decide! [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Catalunia, EMBAT: Once again, Anarchism in the spotlight of
repression: Let's build solidarity, let's build the alternative!
(ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
repression: Let's build solidarity, let's build the alternative!
(ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, UCL AL #312 - Special file Paris 1871, The first
fruits of the Commune (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
fruits of the Commune (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki: Demonstration of
solidarity with the hunger striker Dimitris
solidarity with the hunger striker Dimitris
Koufontinas Tuesday
9/3, 17:30 at the statue of Venizelos [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9/3, 17:30 at the statue of Venizelos [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. UK, AFED, organise magazine: Kronstadt diary - March 4 -
March 7, by Alexander Berkman (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
March 7, by Alexander Berkman (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On the occasion of International Women's Day, members of the Food not Bombs
Ostrava , Ostrava Anarchist Federation , Extinction Rebellion Ostrava and Cioca
Czesia gathered in front of Ostrava's New Town Hall on March 8 to express their
support for fighting women around the world as part of a joint happening in
Poland. Consideration was given in the form of spacing and respirators. ----
Dozens of people brought banners to the spontaneous event (" That's the war! ", "
Their body, their choice " or " let's make noise, they want choice "), and after
reading the joint speech of all groups, they gave away Food not Bombs tea. The
spaces in front of the town hall were then decorated with feminist slogans ("
Equality begins at the sink ") with the help of chalk .
The activists also recalled the new Together Against Covid initiative, whose cell
is being formed in Ostrava, as well as the collection, which aims to help Poles
who get into trouble in their country . There was also a petition against the
expansion of the hazardous waste incinerator.
We publish the text of the speech below, after a short photo report.
Speech text:
We welcome everyone who has come to commemorate
International Women's Day with us . The day that the Bolsheviks first desecrated,
and then patriarchal capitalism began to perceive it as useless. However, we want
to restore its importance to this day, because, despite all the proclamations on
gender equality, the issue of women's rights is of the utmost importance today.
Women - our mothers, sisters, daughters, mistresses, wives or comrades - are
currently currently actively resisting patriarchal oppression and fighting for a
better world for all of us. Whether as a fighter of the Women's Defense Forces in
Syrian Rojava, as a demonstrator against the clerical-fascist darkness in Poland,
as an activist who started a revolution against the dictatorship in Belarus.
The Czech Republic seems calm. But only seemingly. Women in the Czech Republic
face similar oppression as in other countries. Last year, sexologist Radim Uzel
convinced us that the culture of sexism and gender injustice persists, who quite
publicly defended the right to touch a woman's ass. It is shocking that we hear
such words from a person who, from the position of his professional authority,
should actively oppose such things. Women experience the consequences of such a
culture on a daily basis - the trivialization of sexual violence, from the
fetishization of the female body to the end. The hatred of Czech men towards the
activist Greta Thunbergová is completely symptomatic. A woman and even younger
will not advise them how to behave towards the environment!
In the end, the coronavirus pandemic widened the gap in gender inequality, which
significantly affected those who are among our most vulnerable in our society -
single mothers, housewives or nurses.
The fight against capitalism and patriarchy continues!
This event is an act of solidarity with the Polish Straik Kobiet movement.
We are with you, do not give up.
https://oafed.noblogs.org/post/2021/03/09/ostrava-solidarni-prima-akce-proti-patriarchatu/#more-850
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Message: 2
At noon on Sunday 7/3, police officers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with
the well-known style and tactics of the occupation army began to expel people
from the square of N. Smyrni with horns, threats of fines, prompts sit down and
go home ". Eight of the cops surrounded a family with children and began imposing
fines on them, although it should be noted that they had valid papers from those
invented by the state to turn daily life, a Sunday walk in the square, into a
police checkpoint. discipline and harsh repression. ---- The incident was noticed
by members of the Open Assembly of residents of N. Smyrni, P. Faliro, Ag.
Dimitriou, Neos Kosmos, who started a mild verbal protest asking why this is a
family in front of its young children. The DI.AS responded by opening folding
gloves and brutally hitting people of the assembly and whoever else tried to
approach, arrested a total of 11 people and chased people into the grove. The
square of N. Smyrni was flooded by forces of the Ministry of Interior, patrols,
even OPKE who entered the square holding a machine gun in their hands. In
response, an immediate march was organized with the participation of about 1000
people and received a warm response from a crowd of people applauding from the
balconies. The procession headed dynamically to the local giafka of the thugs and
returned to the square of N. Smyrna where he was attacked by MAT and DRASI with
chemicals, click and new adductions. At the same time, the regime media, in full
alignment with the police narrative, in another crescendo of an emetic parrot,
reproduce obscene lies about an alleged "attack" and "ambush" of strangers on
innocent DIAS.
The above incident is one of the many asymmetric violence against any voice
against the barbarity unleashed by the state on the occasion of the management of
COVID-19. The state manages the health crisis in its most beloved way: by
imposing bans, normalizing surveillance, repression, oppression and exploitation.
He bombs us every day through funded media and "objective" scientists with
"individual responsibility" passing on his own responsibility for the methodical
understaffing, underfunding and devaluation of the health system for years. The
deterioration of the health system is accompanied by the upgrading of the
repressive forces, as managers of even the pandemic. While introducing travel
bans, crowds and crowds as protection measures against COVID-19, at the same time
denying decongestion of prisons, stacking workers in labor schemes and MMMs and
continuing to build soul warehouses in modern refugee and refugee camps. home
"was not intended for drug addicts and the homeless. It targets free public
spaces as outbreaks of the virus to deprive areas of resistance and
collectivization of resistance.
The images of armed policemen beating unarmed residents, one day at noon, because
they verbally protested in the face of a blatant injustice are indicative of the
dystopian treaty that they want to impose in every neighborhood even after the
removal of the lock. A condition in which all social life will be limited to
submission to the whims of power, going to and from work and visiting a bank.
The COVID-19 virus has been a prime opportunity for the state to implement its
repressive plans. The ostensible need for surveillance and control of public
spaces is introduced as a basic political principle, consolidating the doctrine
of zero tolerance. Law and order policies state in the most emphatic way that the
state is here and showing us its teeth. They triumph over their determination and
efficiency, but ignore the fact that "those who sow winds reap storms."
If we do not resist in every neighborhood, we will leave our house only for work
Solidarity to those arrested in the events of N. Smyrna
PROHIBITIONS ARE BREAKING IN THE STREETS
Self-organization-resistance-solidarity-self-protection
All / all in the gathering and march in N. Smyrni Tuesday 9/3 18:00
anarchic collectivity Vogliamo tutto e per tutti.
https://vogliamotutto.espivblogs.net/2021/03/09/den-yparchei-ygeia-choris-eleytheria-exo-oi-mpatsoi-apo-tis-geitonies-sygkentrosi-kai-poreia-sti-kentriki-plateia-n-smyrnis-triti-9-3-18-00/#more-2637
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Today's Topics:
1. UK, Leeds SolFed: Eat the rich: My experience in hospitality
work during the pandemic (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
work during the pandemic (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Poland, Worers initiative ozzip: March 8 - women are still
fighting. They think, feel, decide! [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
fighting. They think, feel, decide! [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Catalunia, EMBAT: Once again, Anarchism in the spotlight of
repression: Let's build solidarity, let's build the alternative!
(ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
repression: Let's build solidarity, let's build the alternative!
(ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, UCL AL #312 - Special file Paris 1871, The first
fruits of the Commune (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
fruits of the Commune (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki: Demonstration of
solidarity with the hunger striker Dimitris
solidarity with the hunger striker Dimitris
Koufontinas Tuesday
9/3, 17:30 at the statue of Venizelos [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9/3, 17:30 at the statue of Venizelos [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. UK, AFED, organise magazine: Kronstadt diary - March 4 -
March 7, by Alexander Berkman (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
With a provisional date set for the gradual reopening of the hospitality sector
in UK, now seems a prescient moment to reflect upon the experiences of
hospitality staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. ---- While many staff will feel
grateful to have a return date set in their diaries (albeit provisionally), we
should reject the much posited idea of a ‘return to normal'. Accepting such a
move lets both government and employers - many of whom have behaved disgracefully
in the last twelve months - off the hook. While the government's furlough scheme
has ensured hospitality staff have had a source of income and have jobs to return
to in May, we should not accept the bare minimum as anywhere close to enough.
For starters, there seems little reason why staff couldn't have been paid at 100%
of their normal monthly pay, as opposed to the 80% the scheme currently offers.
Given the base rate for hospitality is often minimum wage (and even less for
those under twenty-one or on apprenticeship wages), arbitrarily cutting 20% of
earnings only heaps financial pressure on those already struggling. While work
may have stopped temporarily, food, clothes and other basic necessites cost no
less, while mortgages and rent to landlords (not known for their compassion in
times of crisis) still need to be paid.
Another pitfall of the furlough scheme, which some of my colleagues experienced
first hand, is its reliance upon the competence and honesty of employers.
Management teams fiddling with staff hours to make meagre savings is not a new
phenomenon, but in the context of furlough - where staff pay is already reduced -
the practice is even more reprehensible. For example, a staff member with two
children will work around child care, so they may do two 10 shifts and one
shorter 5 hour shift a week, totalling 25 hours. However, there have been
instances of employers underreporting staff hours, so the person working 25 hours
in normal times is only paid (again at 80%) for 20. Such discrepancies are not
only grossly irresponsible, they hurt workers in an industry already both
low-paid and precarious.
Rumours of a second installment of the Chancellor's ‘Eat out to help out' scheme
will also fill those working in the hospitality sector with a sense of
foreboding. While much may have been made of the scheme in August - the press and
goverment blustered plenty of platitudes about how it would ‘restart' the economy
- the reality for those working it was hellish. While the big chains made plenty
of lip-service about staff health and safety being a priority during the
pandemic, this sits in stark contrast to what myself and many colleagues
experienced: management teams cannot claim to value the wellbeing of staff while
they continue to cut corners, solely to maximise profiits for unacountable CEOs
and board members. While the UK's first lockdown was undoubtedly lifted too soon,
it is not within the remit of this article to offer analysis of every (of the
many) government failures from during the last 12 months.
Hospitality businesses reopened last July under the assurance they would
implement measures to ensure safe social distancing - this included things like
reduced capacity and introducing track and trace forms for customers. While the
nature of work in the industry does make social distancing nigh on impossible at
times (especially for those of us working in already cramped kitchens), it was
telling just how quickly senior management teams abondoned all pretense of safety
once ‘Eat out to help out' was launched. Cramming in table upon table of guests
would be negligent behaviour at any juncture, but during a pandemic there is no
justification.
Another trend prevelant throughout the scheme was staff sickness, owing to
overwork and understaffing. While anyone who has ever worked a bar or restaurant
job knows there will be certain periods in a week (often a Friday and Saturday)
where you will be busy, staff being worked at an unrelenting pace - there were a
couple of days were staff were forced to go without breaks - for a month is not
healthy.
Management machinations did not stop at understaffing and overworking during ‘Eat
out to help out'. As the months progressed (and Covid cases rose), more and more
staff had to take time off to self-isolate. While frustrating, the bosses did at
least attempt to maintain a semblance of transparency at first by keeping staff
informed about self isolations. Such transparency soon vanished however, when the
head chef tested positive for Covid. Despite displaying symptoms (a dry cough and
fatigue), the person in question filled in the daily Covid check (for which
normal staff were routinely badgered) online declaring himself fit for work and
attended work on at least two separate occasions. Once the postive test had been
shared with kitchen staff, people were both upset and angry. A number of staff
had been in close contact with the head chef - who had insisted he was fine - so
were justifiably concerned they could have contracted Covid themselves. Rather
than condemning the head chef's behaviour and allowing other staff to self
isolate, which would have been the correct procedure, management instead decided
to close ranks and add further deceit to the situtation: at a gathering of the
kitchen team, we were informed not to seek Covid tests and to carry on as normal,
as well as being told the head chef had followed the ‘correct protocols'. Such
blatant gaslighting would have been deceitful enough, but kitchen staff were also
told not to share the news of the head chef's positive test, as this could
cause ‘disruption to the business'. While the above is just one example in one
industry, it is indicative of a wider issue present throughout the pandemic:
namely the interests of Capital and its lackeys taking precedent over the safety
and wellbeing of the working class. Data on Covid deaths in the UK from last year
evidences this point, showing those working in precarious industries - including
chefs - far more likely to die from Covid than the general population.
What can be done? In short: educate, agitate, and (most importantly) organise. We
have to remember we only have each other, and only by fighting against bosses'
dirty tricks will we be successful in improving our lives. Platitudes about ‘a
return to normal' also delibrately miscontrue the fact life was miserable for
those working in precarious industries well before Covid. Shorter working weeks
with no loss of earnings, better wages for all and vastly improved sick and
holiday pay should be our minimum demands. It will not come through pandering to
politicans, of social democratic stripes or otherwise. Indeed, the Labour Party
seems more interested echoing far-right talking points about ‘British interests'
and cosying up to Capital, than it does in fighting for reduced working hours and
better workplace protections.
Direct action and revolutionary trade unions will deliver far more change than
pinning our hopes on electoralism. Even doing small things like chatting to
coworkers about their frustrations/concerns is a good starting point. Our own
list of pandemic demands, including free PPE and 25 hour working weeks with no
reduction in pay, gives a snapshot of the things we should be fighting for.
Hospitality staff, like workers in so many industries, have been treated as
disposable by both bosses and the State during the pandemic of the last year (and
beforehand). No more. We should use our rage to built a better world.
https://leedssolfed.wordpress.com/2021/03/04/176/
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Message: 2
The article by Maria Swietlik, a member of the National Committee of OZZ
Inicjatywa Pracownicza, comes from the occasional newspaper on the occasion of
Women's Day, prepared by our union and sister organizations. If you want to get
the newspaper, I distribute them in your workplace / school / environment ID,
please contact us: ip@ozzip.pl .We invite you to participate in demonstrations,
incl. in Poznan on March 7 at 14 . ---- No matter what the woman wants to end the
pregnancy for. Is it because of your own needs, family situation, concerns about
the health condition during pregnancy or after the birth of a child. Due to the
desire to spare yourself or the future child suffering, when it is known that
only pain awaits in this world.
As long as it is a free, unforced decision of the pregnant person, then each and
every reason is equally important. Women think, feel, and make the best decisions
themselves. That is why we demand the right to termination of pregnancy up to 12
weeks 'on demand'. Therefore, forcing to give birth - especially when there are
medical or legal reasons for aborting it - is torture. Lack of access to abortion
is cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment that violates human rights.
Whoever equates the rights of an embryo - who does not yet have a brain developed
enough to feel pain, not to mention consciousness - and a woman - who thinks,
feels and wants to decide about herself - no longer conceals that the meaning of
anti-abortion politics is simply humiliation and the subordination of women.
What is war against women for?
Women, deprived of control over their own bodies, are to live in fear. Fear of
unwanted parenting is supposed to discourage them from fulfilling their needs -
and not only the sexual ones. They have one duty: to give birth - even if forced.
It is also supposed to deepen the fear of rape and keep women in their homes -
only there they are supposed to be safe. Without the care of a man, they are to
be afraid to go out into the street, into the forest, after dark, for a walk,
even with a friend. The terrorized will be fully dependent on their "defenders."
This is the real purpose of the war against women.
Even 100-200 years ago, this goal could be achieved without difficulty. Law,
"morality" and social control ensured the subordination of women. Those who broke
away ended up in the streets, in shelters, outside society, so that they would
not have an influence on other women, that they could not organize themselves
against the patriarchy. But women tirelessly gain new spaces, previously reserved
for men - they learn, work, create, act politically. And they still manage
households.
It is a dangerous situation for environments built on women's free labor. You
have to take them into account, strive for their recognition and support. What if
they cancel the service? Will they stop handing over to the widow a penny, giving
birth and bringing up generations of the faithful? We are talking about the
Catholic Church, but it is not the only institution that has built its position
and wealth on free work. Do you know the saying: "Behind every great man (= man)
there is a woman who supports him"? Behind every great capital, there is also the
work of thousands of women. Those on the factory line, those on plantations,
patients' beds and school boards. But also those working at home: giving birth,
breastfeeding, raising generations of female employees and employees. It is their
work - free and almost free in feminized professions - that business owners
profit from. It is women's work that builds private fortunes, fuels GDP and
brings revenues to the state budget. Therefore, patriarchy and capitalism support
each other. Therefore, fighting for women's rights is a fight against the
injustice and exploitation that both systems feed on.
Risk feminization
Only in one situation should others be interested in the reason for termination
of pregnancy: when a woman would like to become a mother, but against this dream,
she gives up because she knows that she will not be able to cope with parenthood
financially. She should be offered help. Provide an apartment, help pay the rent,
give money for food, offer a free place in a nursery and real access to health
care. Provide opportunities to combine work and parenting without heart-breaking
compromises. Strengthen trade unions so that they can effectively enforce what
cannot be achieved "with goodness."
Meanwhile, the Polish state has been refusing us for 30 years under the so-called
"Abortion compromise" of the right to control one's own life. And recently, by
introducing new regulations or "only" encouraging the conscience clause for
pharmacists, it also limits our access to contraception. Little? Sex education is
the best method of preventing an unwanted pregnancy. Guess why, the same
government that is supposedly fighting for every embryo is trying to curb it.
It is a policy of privatizing and feminizing the risks of human sexuality and
fertility - it is passed on entirely to women, rather than being covered by
public health, education and social welfare systems. The state capitulated.
Citizen: take care of yourself.
Abortion as a social problem
Lack of access to free safe abortion hits everyone who can become pregnant - but
not to the same extent. A simple medical procedure grows into a complicated,
costly and stressful undertaking that not all of us can afford.
Do you have the support of loved ones, and if not, do you know how to use the
Internet without their supervision and get information? Do you have money to buy
miscarriage or surgery? Do you have an apartment to undergo a pharmacological
abortion? If you have to go abroad, do you have the money and time for it? Can
you quit your job? Do you have anyone to leave your children with? You haven't
been abroad and are you afraid of traveling into the unknown? Are your loved ones
willing to risk jail for the help you need? If so, who will look after other
people who will need their support?
When the state fails, freedom can usually be bought, for example on the black
market. Therefore, abortion is a social problem. Class and economic privileges
put women in a better or worse position. This is indicated by the jump in the
number of abortions in 1996 and 1997, when the right to abortion was restored for
less than a year due to "difficult living conditions". The number of treatments
increased six times then!
Although there are initiatives in Poland that help to acquire knowledge, medical
resources or organize a trip, their scope is still limited. It is estimated that
Polish women perform about 100-200 thousand jobs annually. abortion, of which
10-15% abroad. Most of them have to pay for the pills (about PLN 350) or the
procedure (from PLN 1.6 thousand to PLN 9 thousand). Nobody knows how many
thousands of women do not terminate an unwanted pregnancy every year because they
cannot afford it. It is them de facto that the abortion ban applies to.
Therefore, only free abortion, as part of public health, is a socially just
solution. It will give every woman an equal right to decide about her life.
There is another kind of privilege that only a few women can enjoy. It is a
privilege to be heard in public debate. The voice of the less privileged is
quieter - but not less important. Therefore, let's strengthen their voice in the
discussion about abortion. We take part in the protests and in the work of the
Women's Strike consultative council. We demand free and safe abortion on demand,
but also recognition of the value of caring work (domestic and wage) and the
right to strike in defense of our rights (not only working conditions). We want
better support for parents, shorter working hours, more days to look after. We
want control over our bodies, over our future, we want all life!
Maria Swietlik
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Is abortion legal in Poland?
Polish law allows a woman to perform an abortion on herself. He punishes for help
in this procedure - a doctor who cares about the patient's safety, a mother who
helps her teenage daughter, or a partner who does not leave the woman alone.
Pharmacological abortion, which consists in taking pills that cause a
miscarriage, is therefore legal. But the doctor cannot prescribe these drugs to
the patient. Therefore, it is imperative to order them from abroad through
organizations such as Women on the Web.
This type of abortion is the most effective and safe in the first trimester of
pregnancy. Therefore, it is not helpful in the case of serious fetal defects,
because they are detected much later. Here, it is necessary to undergo a hospital
treatment under the supervision of an anesthesiologist. Officially, such
abortions were carried out in Poland about 1 thousand. annually. The so-called
the judgment of October 22, the so-called The Constitutional Court banned them
completely. He even forbade the termination of pregnancy when it is known that
the fetus will be stillborn - PiS may still make concessions on this matter.
What about this sentence?
Normally, judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal become law when they are
published in the Journal of Laws, which was the case here in January this year.
But this is not a "normal" situation.
First, the current Constitutional Tribunal (CT) operates on the basis of laws
that break the constitution themselves. How is this possible? Right after taking
power, PiS decided to fill the Tribunal with its own people. In this way, it can
de facto change the constitution without the required 2/3 majority in the Sejm,
which PiS never managed to win.
The first move was that in 2015 President Duda did not swear in the judges
elected to the Constitutional Tribunal just before the elections by the previous
Sejm. In their place, he took an oath from the so-called doubles (and after the
death of two of them, subsequent doubles-doubles), elected by the new parliament
at the request of PiS.
Secondly, the president of this so-called Of the Constitutional Tribunal, Julia
Przylebska was inconsistent with the Constitution. Her election was based on a
new act, which was declared unconstitutional by the Tribunal itself (2016), even
before it was fully subordinated to PiS. The ruling in this case was finally
printed (in 2019) under pressure from the European Commission - so it is
important and Julia Przylebska is not - from the legal point of view - the
president of the Constitutional Tribunal.
Third, the bench was composed of a person who had previously been involved in a
similar case, which constitutes a conflict of interest.
Fourthly, the abortion judgment was issued by a group of judges, including both
Przylebska and doubles - that is, people who - from the legal point of view -
cannot issue judgments on behalf of the Tribunal. That is why we are writing
about the so-called judgment of the so-called The Constitutional Tribunal.
But regardless of the legal considerations of the so-called the verdict changes
the situation of pregnant women. Many doctors, especially those working in public
hospitals, will be afraid to carry out the procedure because of a serious
malformation of the fetus, as they risk being imprisoned for it. PiS has already
managed to subdue judges to a large extent, so the conviction of doctors is very
likely. Therefore, women will have to seek help abroad - in the Czech Republic,
Germany or the Netherlands. Not all of them will be able to organize such a trip
and cover its costs. The least favored will suffer the most from this inhuman almost.
What's next?
If in the future in the Sejm, United Right and Confederation (people from these
parties signed the motion to ban abortion due to fetal defects) lose the
majority, it will be possible to adopt laws that will liberalize access to
abortion. In the future, the Constitutional Tribunal may also issue a new ruling
on the situations in which the Constitution allows for termination of pregnancy.
It may take into account, among others the prohibition of torture (Art. 40) and
the right to dignity (Art. 30) enshrined therein, and recognize that they
guarantee women the right to dispose of their body.
Before this happens, women and doctors are likely to try to fight this law
through international courts, such as the European Court of Human Rights.
This, however, will take several years. For now, street protests show that there
is no public consent to such regulations. They are not only symbolic. They
support people who are determined to terminate their pregnancies and
organizations that help them. They can encourage doctors to carry out the
treatments. They show the European institutions that they should act on this
issue as soon as possible.
We also need to continue talking about abortion and breaking down myths about it.
Thanks to this, support for the liberalization of the abortion law is constantly
growing. And this increases the chance of changing the law in just a few years.
https://ozzip.pl/publicystyka/spoleczenstwo/item/2746-8-marca-kobiety-wciaz-walcza-mysle-czuje-decyduje
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Message: 3
On Saturday, February 27, they arrested 8 anarchists as a result of the riots in
the evening and the small 'burning' of the GUB van. On the morning of Tuesday 2
March, the Mossos d'Esquadra searched the occupied buildings in Mataró and Canet
de Mar by court order. Just the day after the operation, the Barcelona court of
instruction sent them to pre-trial detention. Their propaganda machinery put
police operations as if it were a matter of dismantling an armed group, but
instead of finding firearms, as when neo-Nazis are arrested, they have found
clothing, motorcycle helmets, computers and notebooks. They have repeated the
same discourse of the Pandora and Piñata operations: violent anarchists with
books and duct tape.
Once again we anarchists are the scapegoat of this criminal system. Once again
his media ignores the presumption of innocence and reproduces the interior press
releases and the Mossos. They have used the headlines about "Italian anarchists"
to hide the causes of discomfort and anger of the young and not so young
population. The violence denounced by politicians, the media and the police every
day in the demonstrations has its origins in the daily violence that they
themselves cause: evictions, precarious work, accidents at work, sexist violence,
homophobia, racism, cuts in public services, police brutality and lack of freedom
of expression.
Recently a young man mutilated, once again, an eye on a protester . They say they
don't know who he has been and that is why he will remain at large. In addition,
during the first week of protests, and as happens in these waves of rage, the
BRIMO,inspired by Sherwood, has run wildly through Catalonia. The same has
happened in the rest of Spain: indiscriminate charges with complete impunity , as
in all previous cases. No research, no responsibility. No one has cared about the
wounds caused by police violence. No one cares about the girl whose eye was
mutilated and who will not be able to recover. While headlines are being opened
and summits are being held over a small fire next to a police van, the Mossos
have not yet arrested anyone for the Nazi and fascist graffiti fire that
destroyed the Ateneu three years ago. Popular of Sarrià.
As anarchists, we fight for a model of a society free of violence , based on
mutual support, solidarity, freedom and equality. These weeks we have taken to
the streets for freedom of expression and imprisonment, for decent work and
opportunities for young people, for the end of evictions, against sexist, racist,
homophobic and transphobic violence, against police brutality, for the
improvement and deprivatization of public services, for the environment and
month. Anarchists defend a freer and fairer world .
As anarchists, we do not want to live in the chaos generated by the law of the
jungle , like the one we live in today with the capitalist system. We want a
better world and that is why we are building unions, athenaeums, organizations
and cooperatives. That is why we create fighting communities in neighborhoods and
towns, in companies and schools.
We want a better world, and that is why we fight:
For a fair economy by putting life at the center and in the division of labor,
wealth and reproductive tasks.
For a direct democracy that emanates from the neighborhoods and villages and is
built from the bottom up.
To preserve the Earth , taking care of the territory feeling part of it.
For an intercultural and transfeminist society , where we can live together in
diversity.
We demand the free release of detained / imprisoned anarchists and all activists
and militants, fighting for a better world is not a crime, it is totally
legitimate and absolutely necessary!
Solidarity is our best weapon!
Freedom detained for fighting!
Dissolution of the BRIMO!
Enough repression of those who fight!
Embat, Libertarian Organization of Catalonia
Batzac, Libertarian Youth
General Confederation of Labor of Catalonia
Libertarian Student Federation Libertarian
Women
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Message: 4
When the Paris Commune stood up to the government in March 1871, it was the
culmination of a process. For six months now, against a backdrop of German
invasion, the country has been in the grip of a pre-revolutionary crisis, marked
by several insurrectionary attempts. Each time, the taking up of arms was based
on the idea that the communes could be the recourse of the popular classes, and
the relief of a failed state. ---- When France declared war on Prussia on July
19, 1870, the Second Empire believed itself to be unbeatable. After a successful
plebiscite in May 1870, the regime thinks of further consolidating its base
thanks to a patriotic war which will silence internal protest. Indeed, Napoleon
III has been forced to make many concessions in recent years: he had to grant the
right to strike in 1864, the end of the prior censorship of the press in 1868,
the right of public assembly in June 1868.
Weakened by the massacre of June 1848[1], the working class found in the early
1860s, a new combativeness. The creation in 1864 of the International Association
of Workers (AIT) and the rise in social conflict gave rise to fantasies of
workers' plots within the employers[2].
Tear down the decaying empire
But the war of "Badinguet" will mark its fall. And the first defeats of the
summer of 1870 opened a pre-revolutionary period: republican riots, in which the
AIT took part, broke out on August 7 and 8 in Marseille ; Ditto in Lyon and Paris
on August 13 and 14.
After the surrender of Napoleon III in Sedan on September 2, the revolution broke
out in Lyon, Paris, Marseille and elsewhere. The Palais-Bourbon is invaded by the
crowd and the President of the Assembly, Eugène Schneider, big boss of
metallurgy, fled under the cries of "Death to the assassin of Creusot !" Death to
the exploiter of the workers !The Republic was proclaimed on September 4, first
in Lyon, then in Paris, by the Republican deputy Léon Gambetta.
The extreme left - from Blanqui to Bakunin via Vaillant and Jules Vallès - then
called for a "people'swar" to push back the Prussian army. From their
perspective, September 4 changed the nature of the conflict from dynastic to
political. Blanqui launches the newspaper La Patrie en danger on this theme, by
multiplying the references to the imagination of 1792-1793, when the armed people
saved the revolution against the monarchist armies of united Europe.
The provisional government, known as "national defense", which takes over from
the fallen Empire, however, shows itself incapable of such energy. Composed of
moderate republicans like Jules Favre or Jules Ferry, it was above all concerned
with maintaining social order and was in a hurry to negotiate peace with Prussia.
The Prussians will not pass
This government - and the bourgeoisie that supports it - feels all the more
insecure because after the destruction of the imperial army in Sedan, it can
hardly rely on anything but the national guard, a "citizen army". deemed
unreliable (see page 18). From September 19, when the Prussian army surrounded
Paris, Jules Favre therefore began talks with Bismarck. Anger of Parisians
against this "defeatism". The next day, the journalist Félix Pyat launched, in Le
Combat, the idea of a competing and revolutionary power: a Commune, elected by
the people of Paris on the model of that of 1792[3].
The idea, which will be copiously taken up, resonates with that of Bakunin and
his friends who, from Lyon, called a few days later for a "Revolutionary
Federation of Communes" to wage a popular war against Prussia which could be the
cause of the conflict. epicenter of a new People's Spring against the old thrones
of all Europe. On September 28, the Lyon section of the AIT, with Bakounine, thus
fomented a popular uprising in the Rhône prefecture. Alas, the affair comes to an
end, and the bourgeois battalions of the National Guard restore order[4].
The following weeks, however, the unrest spread to Paris where they demanded
better rifles for the National Guards, a mass sortie against the Prussian
besieger and, sometimes, "the Commune".
A month after Lyon, on October 31, Paris is the scene of a new insurrectionary
attempt, with an old legendary revolutionary: Auguste Blanqui. Besieged Paris
then just learned with dismay of the surrender of Marshal Bazaine in Metz who,
unwilling to defend the republic, handed over his army to the Germans.
On October 31, 1870, the provisional government (we recognize Trochu, Favre,
Pelletan, Ferry, Garnier-Pagès) is sequestered by supporters of the Commune.
Standing on the table, Flourens, a red officer of the National Guard, announces
his forfeiture. But the coup will fail.
cc The Illustrated World, November 12, 1870.
A demonstration then invaded the town hall of Paris with the cry of "Vive la
Commune !" »And sequesters several members of the provisional government to
prevent the signing of an armistice. But while the revolutionary leaders discuss
setting up a Committee of Public Safety, bourgeois battalions of the National
Guard regain control of the situation. Blanqui and Flourens find themselves
behind bars. This is only a postponement.
"Place à la Commune"
On January 6, in a Paris still besieged, shivering and starving, a red poster
signed by 140 delegates from the Republican Central Committee of the twenty
arrondissements, initiated by the internationals, calls for "the general
requisition, free rationing, mass attack" and ends with "Place à la Commune !"The
idea comes up again and again.
However, the only initiative of the provisional government to break the siege is
the ridiculous exit of Buzenval on January 19, the real objective of which is to
send the National Guard to the break-pipe, to break its morale. The operation, on
the contrary, increases the anger tenfold. On January 22, 1871, in front of the
town hall, a demonstration against the armistice was accompanied by the National
Guards of the People's East.
It is dispersed in blood, by Breton and Vendée soldiers who shoot in the crowd.
General Clement Thomas, appointed chief of the National Guard arrested 83 "me
neurs," while political clubs and some newspapers are banned.
While the people heal their wounds, the armistice was signed on January 28.
Final humiliations
In the process, legislative elections are called. They give birth to a monarchist
majority and a new government, led by Adolphe Thiers, in Bordeaux. Paris, then,
emptied of its bourgeois population who, fearing disturbances, packed their bags.
Unable to be obeyed by the National Guard, General Clément-Thomas resigned on
February 14. The next day, a large assembly of 2,000 battalion delegates met in
the Tivoli-Vauxhall hall and founded the "Republican Federation of the National
Guard". Its central committee requires the maintenance of the pay of 30 cents,
essential to many families. These "federates" will be, a month later, the armed
wing of the Paris Commune.
Before breaking camp on March 3, German soldiers marched on the Champs-Élysées.
Deserted sidewalks, barricaded streets along the route, black mourning flags at
the windows: Paris has ostensibly turned its back on them. As for the guns of the
National Guard, paid for by popular subscription, they were sheltered on the
Butte Montmartre. The government of Thiers is walking on eggshells. How, without
causing an explosion, to disarm this national guard which has taken its autonomy
? On March 18, he awkwardly tried to seize the cannons stored in Montmartre. It
will be the spark in the powder keg.
On March 18, 1871, Place Pigalle, the National Guard confronted, for the first
time, the Versailles soldiers who were trying to steal the cannons from the Butte
Montmartre. The same day, Generals Lecomte and Clément-Thomas were arrested and shot.
cc The Illustrated World, March 25, 1871
Renaud (UCL Alsace)
THE POLITICAL TRENDS THAT WILL ANIMATE THE REVOLUTION Different trends animate
the left opposition in the Second Empire, without forming established parties.
Historians will qualify a posteriori as "neojacobins" these left-wing
republicans, sometimes ex-forty-eight, who found themselves in numbers on the
Council of the Municipality, and whose leading figures were the journalist
Charles Delescluze (61 years old in 1871) and dismissed academic Gustave Flourens
(32). Inhabited by the memory of 1793, venerating Robespierre, their conceptions
will prove to be centralist and socially vague.
Further to the left were the Blanquists, supporters of the most famous
revolutionary of his time: Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881). Fierce anti-clerics,
socialists, supporters of a temporary dictatorship that would collectivize the
means of production, they were the most homogeneous political fraction. In the
absence of their imprisoned leader, the most prominent were the journalists Émile
Eudes (28 years old) and Raoul Rigault (25 years old), and the founder Émile
Duval (31 years old).
The Proudhonists were the best integrated into the working class, where they had
disseminated mutualist and cooperative ideas. Since 1867, the old guard - which
in part was to condemn the Commune - had been relegated to the background by more
"class struggle " activistsand strike leaders, such as the bookbinder Nathalie
Lemel (45), the chiseller. Albert Theisz (32 years old), the dyer Benoît Malon
(30 years old) or the bookbinder Eugène Varlin (31 years old) who had become
closer to Bakunin and collectivism.
The internationals, that is to say the members of the International Association
of Workers (AIT) included activists of all the nuances mentioned above (see
opposite). The Parisian section was run by left-wing Proudhonians, but there were
also two close to Marx: the silversmith Léo Frankel (27) and the shoemaker
Auguste Serraillier (30).
We must also mention certain feminists who, within the opposition to the Empire,
formed an active and united movement, with for example the novelist André Léo (47
years old), the journalist Paule Mink (32 years old) or the teachers Victoire.
Tinayre (40 years old) and Louise Michel (40 years old).
Guillaume (UCL Montreuil)
Illustration: "The Avengers of Flourens", taken from Bertall, Les Communeux.
Types, characters, costumes, Plon, 1880.
Validate
[1] Read "June 1848: The autonomy of the working class is imposed on the
barricades" , Alternative libertaire , June 2008.
[2] Read "1864: The First Workers' International is born in London" , Alternative
libertaire , September 2014.
[3] Read "1792: The first insurrectionary Commune of Paris" , Alternative
libertaire , December 2008.
[4] Read "1870: Waging war and revolution, with Bakounine in Lyon" , Alternative
libertaire , September 2020.
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Message: 5
THE STATE WANTS THE HUNGER STRIKE D. KOUFONTINA DEAD ---- In December, the
government passed a law entitled "Regulations of penitentiary legislation", which
stipulates that "transfer to rural prisons and to CAYF to those prisoners who
have been convicted of terrorist crimes is prohibited." The law is photographic
in order to pave the way for the transfer of D. Koufontinas from the rural
prisons of Kassavetia, Volos, where he was being held. A few days later, D.
Koufontinas is transferred not to the Korydallos prison, as provided by law, but
to Domokos, by decision -of course- of the Secretary General of Anti-Crime
Policy, Sofia Nikolaou. The parrots of the media rush to justify the
circumvention of the law, but they do not do it successfully, as a result of
which every ridiculous excuse for other purely political decision is written in
every news outlet.
From the first days of the hunger strike, the political prisoner D. Koufontinas
is kept in solitary confinement, in a cell, which has been christened a ward,
with 24-hour surveillance through a camera. Surveillance inside the cell, of
course, is a blatant violation of the detainee's human rights.
Opposite him stands the blackest face of Power: the PRO.PO. and the ruthless
Nikolaou, of course, do not want to admit that they are punishing Koufontina for
his uncompromising attitude during the 18 years he has remained in the cells of
the Republic, that they want him dead. So in their announcements they do not
hesitate to spread very outrageous lies. The PRO.PO. issued a statement asking
(!) which law is being violated and showing in every tone that the attitude of
the government is uncompromising.
At the same time, even the Greek Ombudsman in a letter on 23/1 wonders why the
current legislation was violated and an investigation is launched. In his letter,
the Defender requests information on whether the transfer of D. Koufontina is
legal, in terms of the reason, the procedure and the specific documentation of
the reasons for the bypassing of the legal procedures, while he clearly speaks
about the bypassing of the Central Transfer Committee and of its decisions to
suspend transfers due to the pandemic. Finally he calls the -supposedly
incompetent! - Mrs. Nikolaou to give the detainee copies of the documents for his
transfer, something she herself refused to do, without of course any excuse or
legally acceptable reason. The answer from the government to the questions...
never came! Let us say here that in an interview about the plan of EL. LET. for
the implementation of the law on demonstrations, only a short time ago, M.
Chrysochoidis praised the role of the "Ombudsman" as this body that controls
state impunity and (supposedly) conducts independent investigations. To this same
"Ombudsman", then, he did not even bother to give an answer...
Dimitris Koufontinas' lawyer has been trying all this time to curb the
government's intransigence by any legal means. He submitted to the Court of First
Instance of Lamia a request for the suspension of the sentence of Dimitris
Koufontinas, until his health is restored during his hospitalization. This
request was denied. The Secretary General of Anti-Crime Policy has been harassing
all the channels, lying and making fun of the detainee and his lawyer, claiming
that he never received a request for the transfer of the detainee, who, according
to Sofia Nikolaou, allegedly did not follow the law. through the hunger strike.
In a letter of the same, however, on 3/3, Sofia Nikolaou publicly admitted that a
request has been submitted by his lawyer Dimitris Koufontinas on 28/12/2020, the
examination of which is still pending. The Central Transfer Committee is a
three-member committee chaired by Sofia Nikolaou and its best man is the best
member! This is, therefore, the "independent" committee from which the
examination of the transfer request of Dimitris Koufontinas is expected! While
the mockery, slander and unilateral misinformation by the government propaganda
of the regime media continue unabated on a daily basis, the health of Dimitris
Koufontinas is collapsing. He had removed the hydration serum he had been given,
to exacerbate political pressure on the government. Reaching the brink of kidney
failure, with his consent the doctors added the hydrating serum again. the
"independent" committee from which the examination of the transfer request of
Dimitris Koufontinas is expected! While the mockery, slander and unilateral
misinformation by the government propaganda of the regime media continue unabated
on a daily basis, the health of Dimitris Koufontinas is collapsing. He had
removed the hydration serum he had been given, to exacerbate political pressure
on the government. Reaching the brink of kidney failure, with his consent, the
doctors added the hydrating serum again. the "independent" committee from which
the examination of the transfer request of Dimitris Koufontinas is expected!
While the mockery, slander and unilateral misinformation by the government
propaganda of the regime media continue unabated on a daily basis, the health of
Dimitris Koufontinas is collapsing. He had removed the hydration serum he had
been given, to exacerbate political pressure on the government. Reaching the
brink of kidney failure, with his consent the doctors added the hydrating serum
again. He had removed the hydration serum he had been given, to exacerbate
political pressure on the government. Reaching the brink of kidney failure, with
his consent the doctors added the hydrating serum again. He had removed the
hydration serum he had been given, to exacerbate political pressure on the
government. Reaching the brink of kidney failure, with his consent, the doctors
added the hydrating serum again.
In this struggle, the communist political prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas is not
alone. Both for his personal attitude for so many years in the cells of their
democracy, which makes the word "dignity" seem small, and because his demands
concern us all. As he had written in an earlier announcement, his own struggle in
the cells does not only concern himself, it concerns "the attack on the right to
speech and expression, the rights of the detainee, the rights of the people." It
is the responsibility of all of us to stand by the political prisoners, in the
face of any attempt to circumvent their rights, aimed at both exterminating them
and establishing an exemption regime for all and all militants who may be in
their place.
A government that, by exploiting the pandemic, passes anti-democratic laws, that
has filled the country with cops, that attacks anyone who dares to protest, that
even violates its own Constitution, that barks on rooftops without a warrant and
beats their owners, beats the elderly in the backyard of their homes, torturing
students inside the university, disguisedly disguising rapists and pedophiles,now
murdering.
KATHIKIA, DOWN YOUR HANDS FROM D. KOUFONTINA
The hunger striker has already explicitly stated his opposition to any attempt to
feed him. Let us emphasize here that apart from the fact that every person has
the right not to consent to any medical act, a refusal which doctors are obliged
to respect, EINAP (Association of Athens Hospital Doctors - Piraeus) has at other
times taken a unanimous negative decision on with the possibility of compulsory
feeding of hunger strikers, respecting the basic code of ethics that doctors must
follow. After all, there is a relevant declaration of the World Medical Congress,
which takes an explicit position against any attempt to force-feed hunger
strikers, which it characterizes as unjustified and unethical (Malta 1991, and
revisions Spain 1992 and South Africa 2006 WMV).
"On the occasion of the deterioration of the health of the detained hunger
striker D. Koufontina, OENGE declares once again that the firm and stable
position of the hospital doctors in all cases of hunger strike is:
1. According to the current legislation on medical ethics, it does not mean a
medical act without the voluntary consent of the patient who has the capacity to
be imputed and against his will.
2. In particular, forced feeding is considered torture in accordance with the
decisions of international medical conferences on medical ethics and human
rights, but also of the UN and Amnesty International. "
But of course the Government did not take long to find a willing candidate for
torture. According to the lawyer of the hunger striker, Ioanna Kurtovic, the
Director of M.E.TH. of the Lamia hospital "has, at an earlier stage, stated that
if it deems it necessary it will carry out forced feeding, even with immobilization".
The response of the solidarity movement to this vulgar threat, but also to those
doctors who may be thinking of implementing it, ridiculing every notion of ethics
and ethics, is the same one that Koufontinas himself has repeatedly given:DO NOT
THINK ABOUT IT.
We stand in solidarity with the fighter Dimitris Koufontinas.
We stand in solidarity with anyone who smiles, staring at the state beast.
SOLIDARITY TO (FROM 8/1) HUNGER STRIKE D. KOUFONTINA
IMMEDIATE TRANSFER OF D. KOUFONTINA TO KORYDALLOS PRISONS
NO FIGHTER ONLY IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
DEMITRIS KOUFONTINA SOLIDARITY SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION:
TUESDAY 9/3, 17:30, VENIZELOS STATUE
NO THOUGHT OF MANDATORY FEEDING HUNGER STRIKE
Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative (member of the Anarchist Federation)
lib_thess@hotmail.com
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Message: 6
March 4th Late At Night ---- PETROGRAD, 1921 ---- March 4-Late at night. The
extraordinary session of the Petro-Soviet in the Tauride Palace was packed with
Communists, mostly youngsters, fanatical and intolerant. Admission by special
ticket; a propusk (permit) also had to be secured to return home after
interdicted hours. Representatives of shops and labour committees were in the
galleries, the seats in the main body having been occupied by Communists. Some
factory delegates were given the floor. but the moment they attempted to state
their case, they were shouted down. Zinoviev repeatedly urged the meeting to give
the opposition an opportunity to be heard, but his appeal lacked energy and
conviction.
Not a voice was raised in favour of the Constituent Assembly. A millworker
pleaded with the Government to consider the complaints of the workers who are
cold and hungry. Zinoviev replied that the strikers are enemies of the Soviet
regime. Kalinin declared Kronstadt the headquarters of General Kozlovsky's plot.
A sailor reminded Zinoviev of the time when he and Lenin were hunted as
counter-revolutionists by Kerensky and were saved by the very sailors whom they
now denounce as traitors. Kronstadt demands only honest elections, he declared.
He was not allowed to proceed. The stentorian voice and impassioned appeal of
Yevdakimov, Zinoviev's lieutenant, wrought the Communists up to a high pitch of
excitement. His resolution was passed amid a tumult of protest from the
non-partisan delegates and labour men. The resolution declared Kronstadt guilty
of a counterrevolutionaiy attempt against the Soviet regime and demands its
immediate surrender. It is a declaration of war.
March 5th
March 5-Many Bolsheviki refuse to believe that the Soviet resolution will be
carried out. lt were too monstrous a thing to attack by force of arms the "pride
and glory of the Russian Revolution", as Trotsky christened the Kronstadt
sailors. In the circle of their friends many Communists threaten to resign from
the Party should such a bloody deed come to pass.
Trotsky was to address the Petro-Soviet last evening. His failure to appear was
interpreted as indicating that the seriousness of the situation has been
exaggerated. But during the night he arrived, and today he issued an ultimatum to
Kronstadt:
The Workers' and Peasants' Government has decreed that Kronstadt and the
rebellious ships must immediately submit to the authority of the Soviet Republic.
Therefore, I command all who have raised their hand against the socialist
fatherland to lay down their arms at once. The obdurate are to be disarined and
turned over to the Soviet authorities. The arrested commissars and other
representatives of the Govemment are to be liberated at once. Only those
surrendering unconditionally may count on the mercy of the Soviet Republic.
Simultaneously I am issuing orders to prepare to quell the mutiny and subdue the
mutineers by force of arms. Responsibility for the harm that may be suffered by
the peaceful population will fall entirely upon the heads of the
counter-revolutionary mutineers. This warning is final.
TROTSKY, . . . .
Chairman Revolutionary Military
Soviet of the Republic.
KAMENEV,
Commander-in-C/lief.
The city is on the verge of panic. The factories are closed, and there are
rumours of demonstrations and riots. Threats against Jews are becoming audible.
Military forces continue to flow into Petrograd and environs. Trotsky has sent
another demand to Kronstadt to surrender, the order containing the threat: "l'll
shoot you like pheasants." Even some Communists are indignant at the tone assumed
by the Government. It is a fatal error, they say, to interpret the workers' plea
for bread as opposition. Kronstadt's sympathy with the strikers and their demand
for honest elections have been turned by Zinoviev into a counter-revolutionary
plot. I have talked the situation over with several friends, among them a number
of Communists. We feel there is yet time to save the situation. A commission in
which the sailors and workers would have confidence, could allay the roused
passions and find a satisfactory solution of the pressing problems. It is
incredible that a comparatively unimportant incident, as the original strike in
the Trubotchny mill, should be deliberately provoked into civil war with all the
bloodshed it entails.
The Communists with whom I have discussed the suggestion all favour it, but dare
not take the initiative. No one believes in the Kozlovsky story. All agree that
the sailors are the staunchest supporters of the Soviets; their object is to
compel the authorities to grant needed reforms. To a certain degree they have
already succeeded. The zagraditelniye otryadi, notoriously brutal and arbitrary,
have been abolished in the Petrograd province, and certain labour organizations
have been given permission to send representatives to the villages for the
purchase of food. During the last two days special rations and clothing have also
been issued to several factories. The Government fears a general uprising.
Petrograd is now in an "extraordinary state of siege"; being out of doors is
permitted only till nine in the evening. But the city is quiet. I expect no
serious upheaval if the authorities can be prevailed upon to take a more
reasonable and just course. In the hope of opening the road to a peaceful
solution, I have submitted to Zinoviev a plan of arbitration signed by persons
friendly to the Bolsheviki:
To the Petrograd Soviet of Labour and Defence,
CHAIRMAN ZINOVIEV:
To remain silent now is impossible, even criminal. Recent events impel us
anarchists to speak out and to declare our attitude in the present situation.
The spirit of ferment manifest among the workers and sailors is the result of
causes that demand our serious attention. Cold and hunger had produced
discontent, and the absence of any opportunity for discussion and criticism is
forcing the workers and sailors to air their grievances in the open.
White-Guardist bands wish and may try to exploit this dissatisfaction in their
own class interests. Hiding behind the workers and sailors they throw out slogans
of the Constituent Assembly, of free trade, and similar demands.
We anarchists have long exposed the fiction of these slogans, and we declare to
the whole world that we will fight with arms against any counter-revolutionary
attempt, in co-operation with all friends of the Social Revolution and hand in
hand with the Bolsheviki.
Concerning the conflict between the Soviet Government and the workers and
sailors, we hold that it must be settled not by force of arms, but by means of
comradely agreement. Resorting to bloodshed, on the part of the Soviet
Government, will not- in the given situation-intimidate or quieten the workers.
On the contrary, it will serve only to aggravate matters and will strengthen the
hands of the Entente and of internal counter revolution.
More important still, the use of force by the Workers' and Peasants' Government
against workers and sailors will have a demoralizing effect upon the
international revolutionary movement and will result in incalculable harm to the
Social Revolution.
Comrades Bolsheviki, bethink yourselves before it is too late! Do not play with
fire: you are about to take a most serious and decisive step.
We hereby submit to you the following proposition: Let a commission be selected
to consist of five persons, inclusive of two anarchists. The commission is to go
to Kronstadt to settle the dispute by peaceful means. In the given situation this
is the most radical method. It will be of international revolutionary significance.
ALEXANDER BERKMAN
EMMA GOLDMAN
PERKUS
PETROVSKY
Petrograd, March 5, 1921
March 6
Mar 6th | Historical
PETROGRAD, 1921
March 6-Today Kronstadt sent out by radio a statement of its position. It reads:
Our cause is just, we stand for the power of Soviets, not parties. We stand for
freely elected representatives of the labouring masses. The substitute Soviets
manipulated by the Communist Party have always been deaf to our needs and
demands; the only reply we have ever received was shooting. . . . Comrades! They
deliberately pervert the truth and resort to most despicable defamation. . . . ln
Kronstadt the whole power is exclusively in the hands of the revolutionary
sailors, soldiers, and workers-not with counterrevolutionists led by some
Kozlovsky, as the lying Moscow radio tries to make you believe. . . . Do not
delay, Comrades! Join us, get in touch with us: demand admission to Kronstadt for
your delegates. Only they will tell you the whole truth and will expose the
fiendish calumny about Finnish bread and Entente offers.
Long live the revolutionary proletariat and the peasantry!
Long live the power of freely elected Soviets.
March 7th
March 7-Distant rumbling reaches my ears as I cross the Nevsky. It sounds again,
stronger and nearer, as if rolling toward me. All at once I realize that
artillery is being fired. It is 6 P.M. Kronstadt has been attacked!
Days of anguish and cannonading. My heart is numb with despair; something has
died within me. The people on the streets look bowed with grief, bewildered. No
one trusts himself to speak. The thunder of heavy guns rends the air.
Alexander Berkman
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March 7, by Alexander Berkman (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
With a provisional date set for the gradual reopening of the hospitality sector
in UK, now seems a prescient moment to reflect upon the experiences of
hospitality staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. ---- While many staff will feel
grateful to have a return date set in their diaries (albeit provisionally), we
should reject the much posited idea of a ‘return to normal'. Accepting such a
move lets both government and employers - many of whom have behaved disgracefully
in the last twelve months - off the hook. While the government's furlough scheme
has ensured hospitality staff have had a source of income and have jobs to return
to in May, we should not accept the bare minimum as anywhere close to enough.
For starters, there seems little reason why staff couldn't have been paid at 100%
of their normal monthly pay, as opposed to the 80% the scheme currently offers.
Given the base rate for hospitality is often minimum wage (and even less for
those under twenty-one or on apprenticeship wages), arbitrarily cutting 20% of
earnings only heaps financial pressure on those already struggling. While work
may have stopped temporarily, food, clothes and other basic necessites cost no
less, while mortgages and rent to landlords (not known for their compassion in
times of crisis) still need to be paid.
Another pitfall of the furlough scheme, which some of my colleagues experienced
first hand, is its reliance upon the competence and honesty of employers.
Management teams fiddling with staff hours to make meagre savings is not a new
phenomenon, but in the context of furlough - where staff pay is already reduced -
the practice is even more reprehensible. For example, a staff member with two
children will work around child care, so they may do two 10 shifts and one
shorter 5 hour shift a week, totalling 25 hours. However, there have been
instances of employers underreporting staff hours, so the person working 25 hours
in normal times is only paid (again at 80%) for 20. Such discrepancies are not
only grossly irresponsible, they hurt workers in an industry already both
low-paid and precarious.
Rumours of a second installment of the Chancellor's ‘Eat out to help out' scheme
will also fill those working in the hospitality sector with a sense of
foreboding. While much may have been made of the scheme in August - the press and
goverment blustered plenty of platitudes about how it would ‘restart' the economy
- the reality for those working it was hellish. While the big chains made plenty
of lip-service about staff health and safety being a priority during the
pandemic, this sits in stark contrast to what myself and many colleagues
experienced: management teams cannot claim to value the wellbeing of staff while
they continue to cut corners, solely to maximise profiits for unacountable CEOs
and board members. While the UK's first lockdown was undoubtedly lifted too soon,
it is not within the remit of this article to offer analysis of every (of the
many) government failures from during the last 12 months.
Hospitality businesses reopened last July under the assurance they would
implement measures to ensure safe social distancing - this included things like
reduced capacity and introducing track and trace forms for customers. While the
nature of work in the industry does make social distancing nigh on impossible at
times (especially for those of us working in already cramped kitchens), it was
telling just how quickly senior management teams abondoned all pretense of safety
once ‘Eat out to help out' was launched. Cramming in table upon table of guests
would be negligent behaviour at any juncture, but during a pandemic there is no
justification.
Another trend prevelant throughout the scheme was staff sickness, owing to
overwork and understaffing. While anyone who has ever worked a bar or restaurant
job knows there will be certain periods in a week (often a Friday and Saturday)
where you will be busy, staff being worked at an unrelenting pace - there were a
couple of days were staff were forced to go without breaks - for a month is not
healthy.
Management machinations did not stop at understaffing and overworking during ‘Eat
out to help out'. As the months progressed (and Covid cases rose), more and more
staff had to take time off to self-isolate. While frustrating, the bosses did at
least attempt to maintain a semblance of transparency at first by keeping staff
informed about self isolations. Such transparency soon vanished however, when the
head chef tested positive for Covid. Despite displaying symptoms (a dry cough and
fatigue), the person in question filled in the daily Covid check (for which
normal staff were routinely badgered) online declaring himself fit for work and
attended work on at least two separate occasions. Once the postive test had been
shared with kitchen staff, people were both upset and angry. A number of staff
had been in close contact with the head chef - who had insisted he was fine - so
were justifiably concerned they could have contracted Covid themselves. Rather
than condemning the head chef's behaviour and allowing other staff to self
isolate, which would have been the correct procedure, management instead decided
to close ranks and add further deceit to the situtation: at a gathering of the
kitchen team, we were informed not to seek Covid tests and to carry on as normal,
as well as being told the head chef had followed the ‘correct protocols'. Such
blatant gaslighting would have been deceitful enough, but kitchen staff were also
told not to share the news of the head chef's positive test, as this could
cause ‘disruption to the business'. While the above is just one example in one
industry, it is indicative of a wider issue present throughout the pandemic:
namely the interests of Capital and its lackeys taking precedent over the safety
and wellbeing of the working class. Data on Covid deaths in the UK from last year
evidences this point, showing those working in precarious industries - including
chefs - far more likely to die from Covid than the general population.
What can be done? In short: educate, agitate, and (most importantly) organise. We
have to remember we only have each other, and only by fighting against bosses'
dirty tricks will we be successful in improving our lives. Platitudes about ‘a
return to normal' also delibrately miscontrue the fact life was miserable for
those working in precarious industries well before Covid. Shorter working weeks
with no loss of earnings, better wages for all and vastly improved sick and
holiday pay should be our minimum demands. It will not come through pandering to
politicans, of social democratic stripes or otherwise. Indeed, the Labour Party
seems more interested echoing far-right talking points about ‘British interests'
and cosying up to Capital, than it does in fighting for reduced working hours and
better workplace protections.
Direct action and revolutionary trade unions will deliver far more change than
pinning our hopes on electoralism. Even doing small things like chatting to
coworkers about their frustrations/concerns is a good starting point. Our own
list of pandemic demands, including free PPE and 25 hour working weeks with no
reduction in pay, gives a snapshot of the things we should be fighting for.
Hospitality staff, like workers in so many industries, have been treated as
disposable by both bosses and the State during the pandemic of the last year (and
beforehand). No more. We should use our rage to built a better world.
https://leedssolfed.wordpress.com/2021/03/04/176/
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Message: 2
The article by Maria Swietlik, a member of the National Committee of OZZ
Inicjatywa Pracownicza, comes from the occasional newspaper on the occasion of
Women's Day, prepared by our union and sister organizations. If you want to get
the newspaper, I distribute them in your workplace / school / environment ID,
please contact us: ip@ozzip.pl .We invite you to participate in demonstrations,
incl. in Poznan on March 7 at 14 . ---- No matter what the woman wants to end the
pregnancy for. Is it because of your own needs, family situation, concerns about
the health condition during pregnancy or after the birth of a child. Due to the
desire to spare yourself or the future child suffering, when it is known that
only pain awaits in this world.
As long as it is a free, unforced decision of the pregnant person, then each and
every reason is equally important. Women think, feel, and make the best decisions
themselves. That is why we demand the right to termination of pregnancy up to 12
weeks 'on demand'. Therefore, forcing to give birth - especially when there are
medical or legal reasons for aborting it - is torture. Lack of access to abortion
is cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment that violates human rights.
Whoever equates the rights of an embryo - who does not yet have a brain developed
enough to feel pain, not to mention consciousness - and a woman - who thinks,
feels and wants to decide about herself - no longer conceals that the meaning of
anti-abortion politics is simply humiliation and the subordination of women.
What is war against women for?
Women, deprived of control over their own bodies, are to live in fear. Fear of
unwanted parenting is supposed to discourage them from fulfilling their needs -
and not only the sexual ones. They have one duty: to give birth - even if forced.
It is also supposed to deepen the fear of rape and keep women in their homes -
only there they are supposed to be safe. Without the care of a man, they are to
be afraid to go out into the street, into the forest, after dark, for a walk,
even with a friend. The terrorized will be fully dependent on their "defenders."
This is the real purpose of the war against women.
Even 100-200 years ago, this goal could be achieved without difficulty. Law,
"morality" and social control ensured the subordination of women. Those who broke
away ended up in the streets, in shelters, outside society, so that they would
not have an influence on other women, that they could not organize themselves
against the patriarchy. But women tirelessly gain new spaces, previously reserved
for men - they learn, work, create, act politically. And they still manage
households.
It is a dangerous situation for environments built on women's free labor. You
have to take them into account, strive for their recognition and support. What if
they cancel the service? Will they stop handing over to the widow a penny, giving
birth and bringing up generations of the faithful? We are talking about the
Catholic Church, but it is not the only institution that has built its position
and wealth on free work. Do you know the saying: "Behind every great man (= man)
there is a woman who supports him"? Behind every great capital, there is also the
work of thousands of women. Those on the factory line, those on plantations,
patients' beds and school boards. But also those working at home: giving birth,
breastfeeding, raising generations of female employees and employees. It is their
work - free and almost free in feminized professions - that business owners
profit from. It is women's work that builds private fortunes, fuels GDP and
brings revenues to the state budget. Therefore, patriarchy and capitalism support
each other. Therefore, fighting for women's rights is a fight against the
injustice and exploitation that both systems feed on.
Risk feminization
Only in one situation should others be interested in the reason for termination
of pregnancy: when a woman would like to become a mother, but against this dream,
she gives up because she knows that she will not be able to cope with parenthood
financially. She should be offered help. Provide an apartment, help pay the rent,
give money for food, offer a free place in a nursery and real access to health
care. Provide opportunities to combine work and parenting without heart-breaking
compromises. Strengthen trade unions so that they can effectively enforce what
cannot be achieved "with goodness."
Meanwhile, the Polish state has been refusing us for 30 years under the so-called
"Abortion compromise" of the right to control one's own life. And recently, by
introducing new regulations or "only" encouraging the conscience clause for
pharmacists, it also limits our access to contraception. Little? Sex education is
the best method of preventing an unwanted pregnancy. Guess why, the same
government that is supposedly fighting for every embryo is trying to curb it.
It is a policy of privatizing and feminizing the risks of human sexuality and
fertility - it is passed on entirely to women, rather than being covered by
public health, education and social welfare systems. The state capitulated.
Citizen: take care of yourself.
Abortion as a social problem
Lack of access to free safe abortion hits everyone who can become pregnant - but
not to the same extent. A simple medical procedure grows into a complicated,
costly and stressful undertaking that not all of us can afford.
Do you have the support of loved ones, and if not, do you know how to use the
Internet without their supervision and get information? Do you have money to buy
miscarriage or surgery? Do you have an apartment to undergo a pharmacological
abortion? If you have to go abroad, do you have the money and time for it? Can
you quit your job? Do you have anyone to leave your children with? You haven't
been abroad and are you afraid of traveling into the unknown? Are your loved ones
willing to risk jail for the help you need? If so, who will look after other
people who will need their support?
When the state fails, freedom can usually be bought, for example on the black
market. Therefore, abortion is a social problem. Class and economic privileges
put women in a better or worse position. This is indicated by the jump in the
number of abortions in 1996 and 1997, when the right to abortion was restored for
less than a year due to "difficult living conditions". The number of treatments
increased six times then!
Although there are initiatives in Poland that help to acquire knowledge, medical
resources or organize a trip, their scope is still limited. It is estimated that
Polish women perform about 100-200 thousand jobs annually. abortion, of which
10-15% abroad. Most of them have to pay for the pills (about PLN 350) or the
procedure (from PLN 1.6 thousand to PLN 9 thousand). Nobody knows how many
thousands of women do not terminate an unwanted pregnancy every year because they
cannot afford it. It is them de facto that the abortion ban applies to.
Therefore, only free abortion, as part of public health, is a socially just
solution. It will give every woman an equal right to decide about her life.
There is another kind of privilege that only a few women can enjoy. It is a
privilege to be heard in public debate. The voice of the less privileged is
quieter - but not less important. Therefore, let's strengthen their voice in the
discussion about abortion. We take part in the protests and in the work of the
Women's Strike consultative council. We demand free and safe abortion on demand,
but also recognition of the value of caring work (domestic and wage) and the
right to strike in defense of our rights (not only working conditions). We want
better support for parents, shorter working hours, more days to look after. We
want control over our bodies, over our future, we want all life!
Maria Swietlik
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Is abortion legal in Poland?
Polish law allows a woman to perform an abortion on herself. He punishes for help
in this procedure - a doctor who cares about the patient's safety, a mother who
helps her teenage daughter, or a partner who does not leave the woman alone.
Pharmacological abortion, which consists in taking pills that cause a
miscarriage, is therefore legal. But the doctor cannot prescribe these drugs to
the patient. Therefore, it is imperative to order them from abroad through
organizations such as Women on the Web.
This type of abortion is the most effective and safe in the first trimester of
pregnancy. Therefore, it is not helpful in the case of serious fetal defects,
because they are detected much later. Here, it is necessary to undergo a hospital
treatment under the supervision of an anesthesiologist. Officially, such
abortions were carried out in Poland about 1 thousand. annually. The so-called
the judgment of October 22, the so-called The Constitutional Court banned them
completely. He even forbade the termination of pregnancy when it is known that
the fetus will be stillborn - PiS may still make concessions on this matter.
What about this sentence?
Normally, judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal become law when they are
published in the Journal of Laws, which was the case here in January this year.
But this is not a "normal" situation.
First, the current Constitutional Tribunal (CT) operates on the basis of laws
that break the constitution themselves. How is this possible? Right after taking
power, PiS decided to fill the Tribunal with its own people. In this way, it can
de facto change the constitution without the required 2/3 majority in the Sejm,
which PiS never managed to win.
The first move was that in 2015 President Duda did not swear in the judges
elected to the Constitutional Tribunal just before the elections by the previous
Sejm. In their place, he took an oath from the so-called doubles (and after the
death of two of them, subsequent doubles-doubles), elected by the new parliament
at the request of PiS.
Secondly, the president of this so-called Of the Constitutional Tribunal, Julia
Przylebska was inconsistent with the Constitution. Her election was based on a
new act, which was declared unconstitutional by the Tribunal itself (2016), even
before it was fully subordinated to PiS. The ruling in this case was finally
printed (in 2019) under pressure from the European Commission - so it is
important and Julia Przylebska is not - from the legal point of view - the
president of the Constitutional Tribunal.
Third, the bench was composed of a person who had previously been involved in a
similar case, which constitutes a conflict of interest.
Fourthly, the abortion judgment was issued by a group of judges, including both
Przylebska and doubles - that is, people who - from the legal point of view -
cannot issue judgments on behalf of the Tribunal. That is why we are writing
about the so-called judgment of the so-called The Constitutional Tribunal.
But regardless of the legal considerations of the so-called the verdict changes
the situation of pregnant women. Many doctors, especially those working in public
hospitals, will be afraid to carry out the procedure because of a serious
malformation of the fetus, as they risk being imprisoned for it. PiS has already
managed to subdue judges to a large extent, so the conviction of doctors is very
likely. Therefore, women will have to seek help abroad - in the Czech Republic,
Germany or the Netherlands. Not all of them will be able to organize such a trip
and cover its costs. The least favored will suffer the most from this inhuman almost.
What's next?
If in the future in the Sejm, United Right and Confederation (people from these
parties signed the motion to ban abortion due to fetal defects) lose the
majority, it will be possible to adopt laws that will liberalize access to
abortion. In the future, the Constitutional Tribunal may also issue a new ruling
on the situations in which the Constitution allows for termination of pregnancy.
It may take into account, among others the prohibition of torture (Art. 40) and
the right to dignity (Art. 30) enshrined therein, and recognize that they
guarantee women the right to dispose of their body.
Before this happens, women and doctors are likely to try to fight this law
through international courts, such as the European Court of Human Rights.
This, however, will take several years. For now, street protests show that there
is no public consent to such regulations. They are not only symbolic. They
support people who are determined to terminate their pregnancies and
organizations that help them. They can encourage doctors to carry out the
treatments. They show the European institutions that they should act on this
issue as soon as possible.
We also need to continue talking about abortion and breaking down myths about it.
Thanks to this, support for the liberalization of the abortion law is constantly
growing. And this increases the chance of changing the law in just a few years.
https://ozzip.pl/publicystyka/spoleczenstwo/item/2746-8-marca-kobiety-wciaz-walcza-mysle-czuje-decyduje
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Message: 3
On Saturday, February 27, they arrested 8 anarchists as a result of the riots in
the evening and the small 'burning' of the GUB van. On the morning of Tuesday 2
March, the Mossos d'Esquadra searched the occupied buildings in Mataró and Canet
de Mar by court order. Just the day after the operation, the Barcelona court of
instruction sent them to pre-trial detention. Their propaganda machinery put
police operations as if it were a matter of dismantling an armed group, but
instead of finding firearms, as when neo-Nazis are arrested, they have found
clothing, motorcycle helmets, computers and notebooks. They have repeated the
same discourse of the Pandora and Piñata operations: violent anarchists with
books and duct tape.
Once again we anarchists are the scapegoat of this criminal system. Once again
his media ignores the presumption of innocence and reproduces the interior press
releases and the Mossos. They have used the headlines about "Italian anarchists"
to hide the causes of discomfort and anger of the young and not so young
population. The violence denounced by politicians, the media and the police every
day in the demonstrations has its origins in the daily violence that they
themselves cause: evictions, precarious work, accidents at work, sexist violence,
homophobia, racism, cuts in public services, police brutality and lack of freedom
of expression.
Recently a young man mutilated, once again, an eye on a protester . They say they
don't know who he has been and that is why he will remain at large. In addition,
during the first week of protests, and as happens in these waves of rage, the
BRIMO,inspired by Sherwood, has run wildly through Catalonia. The same has
happened in the rest of Spain: indiscriminate charges with complete impunity , as
in all previous cases. No research, no responsibility. No one has cared about the
wounds caused by police violence. No one cares about the girl whose eye was
mutilated and who will not be able to recover. While headlines are being opened
and summits are being held over a small fire next to a police van, the Mossos
have not yet arrested anyone for the Nazi and fascist graffiti fire that
destroyed the Ateneu three years ago. Popular of Sarrià.
As anarchists, we fight for a model of a society free of violence , based on
mutual support, solidarity, freedom and equality. These weeks we have taken to
the streets for freedom of expression and imprisonment, for decent work and
opportunities for young people, for the end of evictions, against sexist, racist,
homophobic and transphobic violence, against police brutality, for the
improvement and deprivatization of public services, for the environment and
month. Anarchists defend a freer and fairer world .
As anarchists, we do not want to live in the chaos generated by the law of the
jungle , like the one we live in today with the capitalist system. We want a
better world and that is why we are building unions, athenaeums, organizations
and cooperatives. That is why we create fighting communities in neighborhoods and
towns, in companies and schools.
We want a better world, and that is why we fight:
For a fair economy by putting life at the center and in the division of labor,
wealth and reproductive tasks.
For a direct democracy that emanates from the neighborhoods and villages and is
built from the bottom up.
To preserve the Earth , taking care of the territory feeling part of it.
For an intercultural and transfeminist society , where we can live together in
diversity.
We demand the free release of detained / imprisoned anarchists and all activists
and militants, fighting for a better world is not a crime, it is totally
legitimate and absolutely necessary!
Solidarity is our best weapon!
Freedom detained for fighting!
Dissolution of the BRIMO!
Enough repression of those who fight!
Embat, Libertarian Organization of Catalonia
Batzac, Libertarian Youth
General Confederation of Labor of Catalonia
Libertarian Student Federation Libertarian
Women
https://embat.info/un-cop-mes-lanarquisme-al-punt-de-mira-de-la-repressio-construim-la-solidaritat-construim-lalternativa/
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Message: 4
When the Paris Commune stood up to the government in March 1871, it was the
culmination of a process. For six months now, against a backdrop of German
invasion, the country has been in the grip of a pre-revolutionary crisis, marked
by several insurrectionary attempts. Each time, the taking up of arms was based
on the idea that the communes could be the recourse of the popular classes, and
the relief of a failed state. ---- When France declared war on Prussia on July
19, 1870, the Second Empire believed itself to be unbeatable. After a successful
plebiscite in May 1870, the regime thinks of further consolidating its base
thanks to a patriotic war which will silence internal protest. Indeed, Napoleon
III has been forced to make many concessions in recent years: he had to grant the
right to strike in 1864, the end of the prior censorship of the press in 1868,
the right of public assembly in June 1868.
Weakened by the massacre of June 1848[1], the working class found in the early
1860s, a new combativeness. The creation in 1864 of the International Association
of Workers (AIT) and the rise in social conflict gave rise to fantasies of
workers' plots within the employers[2].
Tear down the decaying empire
But the war of "Badinguet" will mark its fall. And the first defeats of the
summer of 1870 opened a pre-revolutionary period: republican riots, in which the
AIT took part, broke out on August 7 and 8 in Marseille ; Ditto in Lyon and Paris
on August 13 and 14.
After the surrender of Napoleon III in Sedan on September 2, the revolution broke
out in Lyon, Paris, Marseille and elsewhere. The Palais-Bourbon is invaded by the
crowd and the President of the Assembly, Eugène Schneider, big boss of
metallurgy, fled under the cries of "Death to the assassin of Creusot !" Death to
the exploiter of the workers !The Republic was proclaimed on September 4, first
in Lyon, then in Paris, by the Republican deputy Léon Gambetta.
The extreme left - from Blanqui to Bakunin via Vaillant and Jules Vallès - then
called for a "people'swar" to push back the Prussian army. From their
perspective, September 4 changed the nature of the conflict from dynastic to
political. Blanqui launches the newspaper La Patrie en danger on this theme, by
multiplying the references to the imagination of 1792-1793, when the armed people
saved the revolution against the monarchist armies of united Europe.
The provisional government, known as "national defense", which takes over from
the fallen Empire, however, shows itself incapable of such energy. Composed of
moderate republicans like Jules Favre or Jules Ferry, it was above all concerned
with maintaining social order and was in a hurry to negotiate peace with Prussia.
The Prussians will not pass
This government - and the bourgeoisie that supports it - feels all the more
insecure because after the destruction of the imperial army in Sedan, it can
hardly rely on anything but the national guard, a "citizen army". deemed
unreliable (see page 18). From September 19, when the Prussian army surrounded
Paris, Jules Favre therefore began talks with Bismarck. Anger of Parisians
against this "defeatism". The next day, the journalist Félix Pyat launched, in Le
Combat, the idea of a competing and revolutionary power: a Commune, elected by
the people of Paris on the model of that of 1792[3].
The idea, which will be copiously taken up, resonates with that of Bakunin and
his friends who, from Lyon, called a few days later for a "Revolutionary
Federation of Communes" to wage a popular war against Prussia which could be the
cause of the conflict. epicenter of a new People's Spring against the old thrones
of all Europe. On September 28, the Lyon section of the AIT, with Bakounine, thus
fomented a popular uprising in the Rhône prefecture. Alas, the affair comes to an
end, and the bourgeois battalions of the National Guard restore order[4].
The following weeks, however, the unrest spread to Paris where they demanded
better rifles for the National Guards, a mass sortie against the Prussian
besieger and, sometimes, "the Commune".
A month after Lyon, on October 31, Paris is the scene of a new insurrectionary
attempt, with an old legendary revolutionary: Auguste Blanqui. Besieged Paris
then just learned with dismay of the surrender of Marshal Bazaine in Metz who,
unwilling to defend the republic, handed over his army to the Germans.
On October 31, 1870, the provisional government (we recognize Trochu, Favre,
Pelletan, Ferry, Garnier-Pagès) is sequestered by supporters of the Commune.
Standing on the table, Flourens, a red officer of the National Guard, announces
his forfeiture. But the coup will fail.
cc The Illustrated World, November 12, 1870.
A demonstration then invaded the town hall of Paris with the cry of "Vive la
Commune !" »And sequesters several members of the provisional government to
prevent the signing of an armistice. But while the revolutionary leaders discuss
setting up a Committee of Public Safety, bourgeois battalions of the National
Guard regain control of the situation. Blanqui and Flourens find themselves
behind bars. This is only a postponement.
"Place à la Commune"
On January 6, in a Paris still besieged, shivering and starving, a red poster
signed by 140 delegates from the Republican Central Committee of the twenty
arrondissements, initiated by the internationals, calls for "the general
requisition, free rationing, mass attack" and ends with "Place à la Commune !"The
idea comes up again and again.
However, the only initiative of the provisional government to break the siege is
the ridiculous exit of Buzenval on January 19, the real objective of which is to
send the National Guard to the break-pipe, to break its morale. The operation, on
the contrary, increases the anger tenfold. On January 22, 1871, in front of the
town hall, a demonstration against the armistice was accompanied by the National
Guards of the People's East.
It is dispersed in blood, by Breton and Vendée soldiers who shoot in the crowd.
General Clement Thomas, appointed chief of the National Guard arrested 83 "me
neurs," while political clubs and some newspapers are banned.
While the people heal their wounds, the armistice was signed on January 28.
Final humiliations
In the process, legislative elections are called. They give birth to a monarchist
majority and a new government, led by Adolphe Thiers, in Bordeaux. Paris, then,
emptied of its bourgeois population who, fearing disturbances, packed their bags.
Unable to be obeyed by the National Guard, General Clément-Thomas resigned on
February 14. The next day, a large assembly of 2,000 battalion delegates met in
the Tivoli-Vauxhall hall and founded the "Republican Federation of the National
Guard". Its central committee requires the maintenance of the pay of 30 cents,
essential to many families. These "federates" will be, a month later, the armed
wing of the Paris Commune.
Before breaking camp on March 3, German soldiers marched on the Champs-Élysées.
Deserted sidewalks, barricaded streets along the route, black mourning flags at
the windows: Paris has ostensibly turned its back on them. As for the guns of the
National Guard, paid for by popular subscription, they were sheltered on the
Butte Montmartre. The government of Thiers is walking on eggshells. How, without
causing an explosion, to disarm this national guard which has taken its autonomy
? On March 18, he awkwardly tried to seize the cannons stored in Montmartre. It
will be the spark in the powder keg.
On March 18, 1871, Place Pigalle, the National Guard confronted, for the first
time, the Versailles soldiers who were trying to steal the cannons from the Butte
Montmartre. The same day, Generals Lecomte and Clément-Thomas were arrested and shot.
cc The Illustrated World, March 25, 1871
Renaud (UCL Alsace)
THE POLITICAL TRENDS THAT WILL ANIMATE THE REVOLUTION Different trends animate
the left opposition in the Second Empire, without forming established parties.
Historians will qualify a posteriori as "neojacobins" these left-wing
republicans, sometimes ex-forty-eight, who found themselves in numbers on the
Council of the Municipality, and whose leading figures were the journalist
Charles Delescluze (61 years old in 1871) and dismissed academic Gustave Flourens
(32). Inhabited by the memory of 1793, venerating Robespierre, their conceptions
will prove to be centralist and socially vague.
Further to the left were the Blanquists, supporters of the most famous
revolutionary of his time: Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881). Fierce anti-clerics,
socialists, supporters of a temporary dictatorship that would collectivize the
means of production, they were the most homogeneous political fraction. In the
absence of their imprisoned leader, the most prominent were the journalists Émile
Eudes (28 years old) and Raoul Rigault (25 years old), and the founder Émile
Duval (31 years old).
The Proudhonists were the best integrated into the working class, where they had
disseminated mutualist and cooperative ideas. Since 1867, the old guard - which
in part was to condemn the Commune - had been relegated to the background by more
"class struggle " activistsand strike leaders, such as the bookbinder Nathalie
Lemel (45), the chiseller. Albert Theisz (32 years old), the dyer Benoît Malon
(30 years old) or the bookbinder Eugène Varlin (31 years old) who had become
closer to Bakunin and collectivism.
The internationals, that is to say the members of the International Association
of Workers (AIT) included activists of all the nuances mentioned above (see
opposite). The Parisian section was run by left-wing Proudhonians, but there were
also two close to Marx: the silversmith Léo Frankel (27) and the shoemaker
Auguste Serraillier (30).
We must also mention certain feminists who, within the opposition to the Empire,
formed an active and united movement, with for example the novelist André Léo (47
years old), the journalist Paule Mink (32 years old) or the teachers Victoire.
Tinayre (40 years old) and Louise Michel (40 years old).
Guillaume (UCL Montreuil)
Illustration: "The Avengers of Flourens", taken from Bertall, Les Communeux.
Types, characters, costumes, Plon, 1880.
Validate
[1] Read "June 1848: The autonomy of the working class is imposed on the
barricades" , Alternative libertaire , June 2008.
[2] Read "1864: The First Workers' International is born in London" , Alternative
libertaire , September 2014.
[3] Read "1792: The first insurrectionary Commune of Paris" , Alternative
libertaire , December 2008.
[4] Read "1870: Waging war and revolution, with Bakounine in Lyon" , Alternative
libertaire , September 2020.
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THE STATE WANTS THE HUNGER STRIKE D. KOUFONTINA DEAD ---- In December, the
government passed a law entitled "Regulations of penitentiary legislation", which
stipulates that "transfer to rural prisons and to CAYF to those prisoners who
have been convicted of terrorist crimes is prohibited." The law is photographic
in order to pave the way for the transfer of D. Koufontinas from the rural
prisons of Kassavetia, Volos, where he was being held. A few days later, D.
Koufontinas is transferred not to the Korydallos prison, as provided by law, but
to Domokos, by decision -of course- of the Secretary General of Anti-Crime
Policy, Sofia Nikolaou. The parrots of the media rush to justify the
circumvention of the law, but they do not do it successfully, as a result of
which every ridiculous excuse for other purely political decision is written in
every news outlet.
From the first days of the hunger strike, the political prisoner D. Koufontinas
is kept in solitary confinement, in a cell, which has been christened a ward,
with 24-hour surveillance through a camera. Surveillance inside the cell, of
course, is a blatant violation of the detainee's human rights.
Opposite him stands the blackest face of Power: the PRO.PO. and the ruthless
Nikolaou, of course, do not want to admit that they are punishing Koufontina for
his uncompromising attitude during the 18 years he has remained in the cells of
the Republic, that they want him dead. So in their announcements they do not
hesitate to spread very outrageous lies. The PRO.PO. issued a statement asking
(!) which law is being violated and showing in every tone that the attitude of
the government is uncompromising.
At the same time, even the Greek Ombudsman in a letter on 23/1 wonders why the
current legislation was violated and an investigation is launched. In his letter,
the Defender requests information on whether the transfer of D. Koufontina is
legal, in terms of the reason, the procedure and the specific documentation of
the reasons for the bypassing of the legal procedures, while he clearly speaks
about the bypassing of the Central Transfer Committee and of its decisions to
suspend transfers due to the pandemic. Finally he calls the -supposedly
incompetent! - Mrs. Nikolaou to give the detainee copies of the documents for his
transfer, something she herself refused to do, without of course any excuse or
legally acceptable reason. The answer from the government to the questions...
never came! Let us say here that in an interview about the plan of EL. LET. for
the implementation of the law on demonstrations, only a short time ago, M.
Chrysochoidis praised the role of the "Ombudsman" as this body that controls
state impunity and (supposedly) conducts independent investigations. To this same
"Ombudsman", then, he did not even bother to give an answer...
Dimitris Koufontinas' lawyer has been trying all this time to curb the
government's intransigence by any legal means. He submitted to the Court of First
Instance of Lamia a request for the suspension of the sentence of Dimitris
Koufontinas, until his health is restored during his hospitalization. This
request was denied. The Secretary General of Anti-Crime Policy has been harassing
all the channels, lying and making fun of the detainee and his lawyer, claiming
that he never received a request for the transfer of the detainee, who, according
to Sofia Nikolaou, allegedly did not follow the law. through the hunger strike.
In a letter of the same, however, on 3/3, Sofia Nikolaou publicly admitted that a
request has been submitted by his lawyer Dimitris Koufontinas on 28/12/2020, the
examination of which is still pending. The Central Transfer Committee is a
three-member committee chaired by Sofia Nikolaou and its best man is the best
member! This is, therefore, the "independent" committee from which the
examination of the transfer request of Dimitris Koufontinas is expected! While
the mockery, slander and unilateral misinformation by the government propaganda
of the regime media continue unabated on a daily basis, the health of Dimitris
Koufontinas is collapsing. He had removed the hydration serum he had been given,
to exacerbate political pressure on the government. Reaching the brink of kidney
failure, with his consent the doctors added the hydrating serum again. the
"independent" committee from which the examination of the transfer request of
Dimitris Koufontinas is expected! While the mockery, slander and unilateral
misinformation by the government propaganda of the regime media continue unabated
on a daily basis, the health of Dimitris Koufontinas is collapsing. He had
removed the hydration serum he had been given, to exacerbate political pressure
on the government. Reaching the brink of kidney failure, with his consent, the
doctors added the hydrating serum again. the "independent" committee from which
the examination of the transfer request of Dimitris Koufontinas is expected!
While the mockery, slander and unilateral misinformation by the government
propaganda of the regime media continue unabated on a daily basis, the health of
Dimitris Koufontinas is collapsing. He had removed the hydration serum he had
been given, to exacerbate political pressure on the government. Reaching the
brink of kidney failure, with his consent the doctors added the hydrating serum
again. He had removed the hydration serum he had been given, to exacerbate
political pressure on the government. Reaching the brink of kidney failure, with
his consent the doctors added the hydrating serum again. He had removed the
hydration serum he had been given, to exacerbate political pressure on the
government. Reaching the brink of kidney failure, with his consent, the doctors
added the hydrating serum again.
In this struggle, the communist political prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas is not
alone. Both for his personal attitude for so many years in the cells of their
democracy, which makes the word "dignity" seem small, and because his demands
concern us all. As he had written in an earlier announcement, his own struggle in
the cells does not only concern himself, it concerns "the attack on the right to
speech and expression, the rights of the detainee, the rights of the people." It
is the responsibility of all of us to stand by the political prisoners, in the
face of any attempt to circumvent their rights, aimed at both exterminating them
and establishing an exemption regime for all and all militants who may be in
their place.
A government that, by exploiting the pandemic, passes anti-democratic laws, that
has filled the country with cops, that attacks anyone who dares to protest, that
even violates its own Constitution, that barks on rooftops without a warrant and
beats their owners, beats the elderly in the backyard of their homes, torturing
students inside the university, disguisedly disguising rapists and pedophiles,now
murdering.
KATHIKIA, DOWN YOUR HANDS FROM D. KOUFONTINA
The hunger striker has already explicitly stated his opposition to any attempt to
feed him. Let us emphasize here that apart from the fact that every person has
the right not to consent to any medical act, a refusal which doctors are obliged
to respect, EINAP (Association of Athens Hospital Doctors - Piraeus) has at other
times taken a unanimous negative decision on with the possibility of compulsory
feeding of hunger strikers, respecting the basic code of ethics that doctors must
follow. After all, there is a relevant declaration of the World Medical Congress,
which takes an explicit position against any attempt to force-feed hunger
strikers, which it characterizes as unjustified and unethical (Malta 1991, and
revisions Spain 1992 and South Africa 2006 WMV).
"On the occasion of the deterioration of the health of the detained hunger
striker D. Koufontina, OENGE declares once again that the firm and stable
position of the hospital doctors in all cases of hunger strike is:
1. According to the current legislation on medical ethics, it does not mean a
medical act without the voluntary consent of the patient who has the capacity to
be imputed and against his will.
2. In particular, forced feeding is considered torture in accordance with the
decisions of international medical conferences on medical ethics and human
rights, but also of the UN and Amnesty International. "
But of course the Government did not take long to find a willing candidate for
torture. According to the lawyer of the hunger striker, Ioanna Kurtovic, the
Director of M.E.TH. of the Lamia hospital "has, at an earlier stage, stated that
if it deems it necessary it will carry out forced feeding, even with immobilization".
The response of the solidarity movement to this vulgar threat, but also to those
doctors who may be thinking of implementing it, ridiculing every notion of ethics
and ethics, is the same one that Koufontinas himself has repeatedly given:DO NOT
THINK ABOUT IT.
We stand in solidarity with the fighter Dimitris Koufontinas.
We stand in solidarity with anyone who smiles, staring at the state beast.
SOLIDARITY TO (FROM 8/1) HUNGER STRIKE D. KOUFONTINA
IMMEDIATE TRANSFER OF D. KOUFONTINA TO KORYDALLOS PRISONS
NO FIGHTER ONLY IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
DEMITRIS KOUFONTINA SOLIDARITY SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION:
TUESDAY 9/3, 17:30, VENIZELOS STATUE
NO THOUGHT OF MANDATORY FEEDING HUNGER STRIKE
Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative (member of the Anarchist Federation)
lib_thess@hotmail.com
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March 4th Late At Night ---- PETROGRAD, 1921 ---- March 4-Late at night. The
extraordinary session of the Petro-Soviet in the Tauride Palace was packed with
Communists, mostly youngsters, fanatical and intolerant. Admission by special
ticket; a propusk (permit) also had to be secured to return home after
interdicted hours. Representatives of shops and labour committees were in the
galleries, the seats in the main body having been occupied by Communists. Some
factory delegates were given the floor. but the moment they attempted to state
their case, they were shouted down. Zinoviev repeatedly urged the meeting to give
the opposition an opportunity to be heard, but his appeal lacked energy and
conviction.
Not a voice was raised in favour of the Constituent Assembly. A millworker
pleaded with the Government to consider the complaints of the workers who are
cold and hungry. Zinoviev replied that the strikers are enemies of the Soviet
regime. Kalinin declared Kronstadt the headquarters of General Kozlovsky's plot.
A sailor reminded Zinoviev of the time when he and Lenin were hunted as
counter-revolutionists by Kerensky and were saved by the very sailors whom they
now denounce as traitors. Kronstadt demands only honest elections, he declared.
He was not allowed to proceed. The stentorian voice and impassioned appeal of
Yevdakimov, Zinoviev's lieutenant, wrought the Communists up to a high pitch of
excitement. His resolution was passed amid a tumult of protest from the
non-partisan delegates and labour men. The resolution declared Kronstadt guilty
of a counterrevolutionaiy attempt against the Soviet regime and demands its
immediate surrender. It is a declaration of war.
March 5th
March 5-Many Bolsheviki refuse to believe that the Soviet resolution will be
carried out. lt were too monstrous a thing to attack by force of arms the "pride
and glory of the Russian Revolution", as Trotsky christened the Kronstadt
sailors. In the circle of their friends many Communists threaten to resign from
the Party should such a bloody deed come to pass.
Trotsky was to address the Petro-Soviet last evening. His failure to appear was
interpreted as indicating that the seriousness of the situation has been
exaggerated. But during the night he arrived, and today he issued an ultimatum to
Kronstadt:
The Workers' and Peasants' Government has decreed that Kronstadt and the
rebellious ships must immediately submit to the authority of the Soviet Republic.
Therefore, I command all who have raised their hand against the socialist
fatherland to lay down their arms at once. The obdurate are to be disarined and
turned over to the Soviet authorities. The arrested commissars and other
representatives of the Govemment are to be liberated at once. Only those
surrendering unconditionally may count on the mercy of the Soviet Republic.
Simultaneously I am issuing orders to prepare to quell the mutiny and subdue the
mutineers by force of arms. Responsibility for the harm that may be suffered by
the peaceful population will fall entirely upon the heads of the
counter-revolutionary mutineers. This warning is final.
TROTSKY, . . . .
Chairman Revolutionary Military
Soviet of the Republic.
KAMENEV,
Commander-in-C/lief.
The city is on the verge of panic. The factories are closed, and there are
rumours of demonstrations and riots. Threats against Jews are becoming audible.
Military forces continue to flow into Petrograd and environs. Trotsky has sent
another demand to Kronstadt to surrender, the order containing the threat: "l'll
shoot you like pheasants." Even some Communists are indignant at the tone assumed
by the Government. It is a fatal error, they say, to interpret the workers' plea
for bread as opposition. Kronstadt's sympathy with the strikers and their demand
for honest elections have been turned by Zinoviev into a counter-revolutionary
plot. I have talked the situation over with several friends, among them a number
of Communists. We feel there is yet time to save the situation. A commission in
which the sailors and workers would have confidence, could allay the roused
passions and find a satisfactory solution of the pressing problems. It is
incredible that a comparatively unimportant incident, as the original strike in
the Trubotchny mill, should be deliberately provoked into civil war with all the
bloodshed it entails.
The Communists with whom I have discussed the suggestion all favour it, but dare
not take the initiative. No one believes in the Kozlovsky story. All agree that
the sailors are the staunchest supporters of the Soviets; their object is to
compel the authorities to grant needed reforms. To a certain degree they have
already succeeded. The zagraditelniye otryadi, notoriously brutal and arbitrary,
have been abolished in the Petrograd province, and certain labour organizations
have been given permission to send representatives to the villages for the
purchase of food. During the last two days special rations and clothing have also
been issued to several factories. The Government fears a general uprising.
Petrograd is now in an "extraordinary state of siege"; being out of doors is
permitted only till nine in the evening. But the city is quiet. I expect no
serious upheaval if the authorities can be prevailed upon to take a more
reasonable and just course. In the hope of opening the road to a peaceful
solution, I have submitted to Zinoviev a plan of arbitration signed by persons
friendly to the Bolsheviki:
To the Petrograd Soviet of Labour and Defence,
CHAIRMAN ZINOVIEV:
To remain silent now is impossible, even criminal. Recent events impel us
anarchists to speak out and to declare our attitude in the present situation.
The spirit of ferment manifest among the workers and sailors is the result of
causes that demand our serious attention. Cold and hunger had produced
discontent, and the absence of any opportunity for discussion and criticism is
forcing the workers and sailors to air their grievances in the open.
White-Guardist bands wish and may try to exploit this dissatisfaction in their
own class interests. Hiding behind the workers and sailors they throw out slogans
of the Constituent Assembly, of free trade, and similar demands.
We anarchists have long exposed the fiction of these slogans, and we declare to
the whole world that we will fight with arms against any counter-revolutionary
attempt, in co-operation with all friends of the Social Revolution and hand in
hand with the Bolsheviki.
Concerning the conflict between the Soviet Government and the workers and
sailors, we hold that it must be settled not by force of arms, but by means of
comradely agreement. Resorting to bloodshed, on the part of the Soviet
Government, will not- in the given situation-intimidate or quieten the workers.
On the contrary, it will serve only to aggravate matters and will strengthen the
hands of the Entente and of internal counter revolution.
More important still, the use of force by the Workers' and Peasants' Government
against workers and sailors will have a demoralizing effect upon the
international revolutionary movement and will result in incalculable harm to the
Social Revolution.
Comrades Bolsheviki, bethink yourselves before it is too late! Do not play with
fire: you are about to take a most serious and decisive step.
We hereby submit to you the following proposition: Let a commission be selected
to consist of five persons, inclusive of two anarchists. The commission is to go
to Kronstadt to settle the dispute by peaceful means. In the given situation this
is the most radical method. It will be of international revolutionary significance.
ALEXANDER BERKMAN
EMMA GOLDMAN
PERKUS
PETROVSKY
Petrograd, March 5, 1921
March 6
Mar 6th | Historical
PETROGRAD, 1921
March 6-Today Kronstadt sent out by radio a statement of its position. It reads:
Our cause is just, we stand for the power of Soviets, not parties. We stand for
freely elected representatives of the labouring masses. The substitute Soviets
manipulated by the Communist Party have always been deaf to our needs and
demands; the only reply we have ever received was shooting. . . . Comrades! They
deliberately pervert the truth and resort to most despicable defamation. . . . ln
Kronstadt the whole power is exclusively in the hands of the revolutionary
sailors, soldiers, and workers-not with counterrevolutionists led by some
Kozlovsky, as the lying Moscow radio tries to make you believe. . . . Do not
delay, Comrades! Join us, get in touch with us: demand admission to Kronstadt for
your delegates. Only they will tell you the whole truth and will expose the
fiendish calumny about Finnish bread and Entente offers.
Long live the revolutionary proletariat and the peasantry!
Long live the power of freely elected Soviets.
March 7th
March 7-Distant rumbling reaches my ears as I cross the Nevsky. It sounds again,
stronger and nearer, as if rolling toward me. All at once I realize that
artillery is being fired. It is 6 P.M. Kronstadt has been attacked!
Days of anguish and cannonading. My heart is numb with despair; something has
died within me. The people on the streets look bowed with grief, bewildered. No
one trusts himself to speak. The thunder of heavy guns rends the air.
Alexander Berkman
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