#WORLDWIDE #WORLD #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - #Anarchism from all over the #world - FRIDAY 14 MAY 2021

 

Today's Topics:

   

1.  UK, ACG: Free Hidme Markam! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

2.  Federación Anarquista Santiago: IN FRONT OF GENOCIDAL
      POLICY, RESISTANCE IS LIFE - Opinion Letter, May 2021 

     (ca, de,
      it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

3.  anarkismo.net: The Broken Promises of Vietnam - 

     A Vietnamese
      anarchist critique of the so-called "socialism" of Vietnam (ca,
      de, it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

4.  Poland, ozzip: The reality of remote work - not all that
      glitters is gold - Klara Wysocka [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

5.  Mexico [EZLN]: land and freedom - Yesterday: Theory and
      practice - From the Cat Dog Notebook (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

6.  Greece, APO, Land & Freedom: Images from a 

      rebellious world
      - Leonora Carrington: "Alice Through the Key Hole (1971)"
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

7.  France, UCL AL #315 = Social, Political: Statistics: the
      class struggle is breaking the counters (ca, de, it, fr,
      pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

Today's Topics:

   

1.  ULET-AIT: LET THE DUKE RESIGN! - Colombian region (ca)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

2.  Patras: Issue #02 of the Germinal newspaper was released
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

3.  Anarquista Socialismo Libertário OASL - Breach of vaccine
      patents: scientific knowledge cannot be privately owned! 

      (ca, de,
      it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

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Message: 1



On 9 March 2021, woman human rights defender, Hidme Markam, was arrested by
Chhattisgarh police on several charges, including charges under the Unlawful
Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) anti-terrorism law in relation to her alleged
involvement in Maoist activities. She was arrested during an event in Dantewada
in the State of Chhattisharh to mark International Working Women's Day, and to
protest the custodial torture and sexual violence by police against Adivasi women
in the State. Later that day, following her arrest, Hidme Markam appeared before
a Magistrate and was remanded for 14 days in Jagadalapur prison.
Hidme Markam is an Adivasi human rights defender, advocating for indigenous
rights against police and state violence, and the impact of mining in the State
of Chhattisgarh. She is also the convenor of the Jail Bandi Rihai Committee, a
platform which advocates for the release of thousands of Adivasi persons,
particularly youths, criminalized and branded as Naxals (Maoists) and held in
pre-trial detention. Hidme Markam is an anti-mining campaigner, focusing on
projects led by large corporations such as Adani Pvt Ltd., which threaten to
destroy a sacred Adivasi hill, considered a local deity by the community. She
also campaigns against the detrimental ecological impact of mining for the local
area, resulting in the degradation of land and large bodies of water, and the
destruction of forests in the region.

Last month, a solidarity meeting for Hidme Markam with the topic of Women, Mining
and Human Rights in India was organised by IndiaMatters UK, a UK based solidarity
group standing for human rights, justice and equality for all in India.In this
meeting we met Soni Sori, herself a former Amnesty US prisoner of conscience, a
survivor of police brutality and imprisonment under false charges and now a
prominent community organiser. It was an eye-opening event and whilst it was
harrowing to hear the violence these communities are experiencing; it is so
important to raise awareness of what is going on. Here I will relay some of the
information learnt about Hidme's life and struggles.

Hidme comes from a village that is deep inside the forest and though she is not
literate, she is very wise. It is her wisdom that is her strength. Her people
have been fighting against Adani's capture of Nandaraj hill. When they started
their peaceful resistance to mining here, Adani had already illegally cut down
around 20,000 trees. 5 young boys who stood against this mobilised along with
Hidme about 200-300 people who stood vigil around the Nandaraj hills for about a
week and did not allow further cutting down of trees. They are opposed to mining
because they are dependent on the land for their livelihoods, including food
sovereignty and security, and understand that non-renewable resource extraction
"leaves barren toxic void spaces destroying the prior places and lived
environments, causes extreme inequalities and is non-developmental".

Hidme was also in the forefront of resisting the setting up of a border security
force paramilitary camp in Potali village. She has criticised the expanding
presence of military, police and paramilitary in the State. In 2019, she
participated in a public campaign against the establishment of a police camp in
Potali by the Special Task Force and District Reserve Guards. She led a huge
group of 10,000 Adivasi who rallied with the government and were beaten and
assaulted as a result. They said we are secure; we do not want your camp to feel
secure. The State and the police work to uphold the ruling class ideology through
violence and fear. Indigenous people continually have their working rights, land
rights, and welfare rights undermined and attacked. Recent reports* describe
further India's deeply disturbing descent into authoritarianism. Soni relays how
Hidme cried to her on the phone every time they cut down trees that bear their
fruit (their sources of food), to set up this camp. It was our elders, our
ancestors who planted these trees for us. She asks, how are we supposed to live
without these trees (used for food and small income)?

Advocating for the promotion of women's rights and against physical and sexual
violence against women by police and military officers is also central to Hidme
Markam's work. Women in the State, especially from Adivasi communities, have been
disproportionately affected by violence and discrimination by officials. She has
fought on every matter. The system of patriarchy and capitalism go hand in hand,
with the oppression and abuse of women being perpetuated throughout every faction
of society, especially by those in positions of power.

Soni once asked Hidme what makes her take up this fight. Hidme told her "From
childhood I have grown up here - amongst the rivers, mountains, lands and
forests. I love these so how can I allow its destruction. I will give my life in
resistance to its destruction". Hidme knew that one day because of her fighting
or resistance she would be either jailed or killed. Soni says today it pains her
to see how brutally the police kidnapped Hidme. We stand in solidarity with those
who have experienced violence at the hands of the State. The police exist to
protect the ruling class and enforce a system that is inherently racist,
authoritarian and exploitative. A tool used to oppress working class people and
minorities. The continuing brutality is painful to see, although not unexpected.
She never fought for herself, but for her people and for this country. Soni, like
many others are unable to move freely. They are being tailed and hounded by
police. Adivasis are even being pitted against each other and incited into
violence against their own people.

Destroying the mountains, forests and building big buildings is not "development"
for the Adivasi people and when we raise our voices together against this we are
being jailed and killed in dozens and thousands. This cannot continue. Soni
requests we must all put our strength together to fight for freeing Hidme. She
says it is important to have these meetings and keep raising our voices for
front-line defenders who are being hounded, arrested and being killed by police.
They are facing a silent but very violent genocide. She says they will not give
up their forests, they will continue to fight. Standing by an oath to fight till
the end.

Please let IndiaMatters UK know (at indiamattersuk@protonmail.com) if you would
like be part of further solidarity activity. So far there has been a Twitter
storm on April 1st organised by the Free Hidme campaign in India. India Matters
UK request people write to the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh requesting Hidme
Markam's immediate release and an end to the persecution of Adivasi women and
their communities. This is the Chief Minister's email address - Chief Minister of
Chhattisgarhcgpccryp.2013@gmail.com.

Information used in this article is from:

https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/sites/default/files/ua_india_hidme_markam_10032021_eng_intl.pdf
India matters UK
Dr Markus Kroeger, author - Iron Will: Global Extractivism and Mining Resistance
in Brazil and India

* a. The annual report by the United States Commission on International Religious
Freedom (USCIRF) places India alongside Pakistan, China and North Korea
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-52467564

b. Earlier this month, in its annual report on global political rights and
liberties, US-based non-profit Freedom House downgraded India from a free
democracy to a "partially free democracy".

c. Last week, Sweden-based V-Dem Institute was harsher in its latest report on
democracy. It said India India had become an "electoral autocracy".

d. And last month, India, described as a "flawed democracy", slipped two places
to 53rd position in the latest Democracy Index published by The Economist
Intelligence Unit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56393944

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2021/05/08/free-hidme-markham

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Message: 2



The genocidal policy that the State has developed around the pandemic has
manifested itself in the mortality figures, which are much higher in poor
communes than in communes where the oligarchy lives. Studies show that covid-19
is four times more deadly in Cerro Navia (poor commune) than in Vitacura (rich
commune), which is why the pandemic and its implications are a matter of class.
On the other hand, quarantines have proven ineffective in controlling the
situation, since every day thousands of people have to leave their homes to look
for bread, in crowded buses and subway cars. This situation has put our class in
an extremely complex situation, we have had to choose between hunger or the virus.
In this context, it is that the withdrawals of 10% of the AFPs have been the
"only real solution" to hunger and unemployment, a measure that clearly places
the responsibility of the crisis on the workers, who have had to pay with our
pension savings economic depression, even so, the government fearing that these
withdrawals mean the collapse of the individually funded system have been a stop
stone for these to materialize, thus generating a significant popular response.
The protest continues to demonstrate its political capacity, running the fence of
what is possible. Within the framework of the discussion of the third withdrawal,
the territories have once again been activated around extensive and massive days
of struggle, which come to show us that the process of social revolt started on
October 18, 2019 is still open. We want to make it clear that it was the popular
struggle that hit Piñera's criminal government a hard blow, it was not the
Constitutional Court, nor Congress, nor Yasna Provoste, nor Pamela Jiles,
therefore we must repudiate those who seek to win votes and legitimize their
electoral claims through the needs and hunger of our peoples.
A nice opportunity to strengthen popular protest and finish ending the criminal
government of Piñera was the call for a general strike on April 30. However, the
CUT, led by the PC, preferred to pay attention to the DC, the Senate, the
government, in full strike, preferred to legitimize the kitchen to save the
government and while active sectors were on the street, Bárbara Figueroa met with
the President of the Senate, becoming part of this new betrayal of the mobilized
people. In a separate case, the sectors that did not mobilize that day because it
was the CUT with the CP at the head that convened, specifically, both parties did
not bet on discontent with the costs of this crisis on the streets.
Pretending that the days of protest are as intense as at the end of 2019 and the
beginning of 2020 in the middle of a pandemic is ridiculous. However, the
mobilization, although it has declined in its continuity, continues to show an
important strength despite the virus, the State of Permanent Exception, and those
who, intoxicated by the songs of the constituent siren, have left the street,
seeking to demonstrate good civic behavior. privileging their electoral claims,
they have been withdrawn from calls and have even criminalized the communities
that continue to fight. For our part, this shows the need to continue building
programmatic efforts and territorial articulation from the autonomy and
independence of class, which move away from the restitution process, that it
comes only to oxygenate the bourgeois democracy that today has us with
overwhelming social control, with our populations and the Wallmapu completely
militarized, and with thousands of political prisoners in company prisons. We
must advance in the construction of struggle campaigns and unite programmatic and
vindictive criteria at the level of organizations, assemblies and movements,
which position community management and self-management as an alternative, as a
way out of the crisis, in the face of positions of strengthening privatizations
and / or the State. They gain importance as from the experiences of struggle of
each community and territory, let us position axes and proposals for struggle
that are related to social rights, water and nature, anti-patriarchal struggles,
anti-repression struggles, among others.
Although we are already a year and a half away from the beginning of the social
revolt, thousands of political prisoners are still kidnapped in the various
prisons of the State, and it is that in this time the persecutions and arrests
have continued, that is why the political prison does not It is a question that
begins or stops in that furious October, but rather is a historical repressive
force of the system of domination. For this reason, active solidarity with
political prisoners must be a constant in our political action. Today, hunger
strikes and various mobilizations within the dungeons of capital continue. It is
imperative to continue the fight for the liberation of the anarchist, subversive,
Mapuche political prisoners and of the social revolt, adding at the same time the
urgent repeal of Decree Law 321, which prevents access to parole. Political
prison in the context of the popular struggle against the system of domination is
a reality that no one is unaware of, therefore strengthening solidarity networks
and developing mobilizations within the framework of the struggle against the
prison system is crucial in our struggle for emancipation. It is essential that
social organizations can take forcefully against the demands against political
prison, developing different gestures of solidarity and struggle, in order to
socialize the anti-prison struggle in our populations and territories. For this
reason, strengthening solidarity networks and developing mobilizations within the
framework of the fight against the prison system is crucial in our fight for
emancipation. It is essential that social organizations can take forcefully
against the demands against political prison, developing different gestures of
solidarity and struggle, in order to socialize the anti-prison struggle in our
populations and territories. For this reason, strengthening solidarity networks
and developing mobilizations within the framework of the fight against the prison
system is crucial in our fight for emancipation. It is key that social
organizations can take forcefully against the demands against political prison,
developing different gestures of solidarity and struggle, in order to socialize
the anti-prison struggle in our populations and territories.
Finally, while the precariousness of life advances: the cost of living increases,
the mental health of the oppressed class deteriorates, the devastation of our
territories is justified by the economic reactivation, and repressive measures
are sustained and strengthened, there are those who they will use this situation
to win votes in the upcoming electoral circus, a process that seeks to restore
state power in the face of a deep crisis of its institutional framework and
legitimacy. Our commitment is to continue rebuilding the social fabric, where
from the coordination in an anti-capitalist and anti-patriarchal key we can
create a programmatic effort from class autonomy and independence, in order to
take a qualitative and quantitative leap in view of the destruction of the
system. of domination.
WITH DIRECT ACTION AND ORGANIZATION, STRENGTHEN THE POPULAR PROTAGONISM
ADVANCING COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT FOR A DIGNIFIED LIFE
FREEDOM TO LXS PRESXS POLITICXS
TO ROOT THE ANARCHISM
#anarchismorganized#anarchy#anarchist#protagonismopopular#direct
action#organization#ComunidadOrganizada#acab#chiledesperto

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Message: 3



... to exist is in itself a victory, thus a role manifests itself, a role to
represent the voices of Vietnamese radicals. We aim at the future working class,
the youth, who are both perpetuating and oppressed by capitalism and the state so
that they can break through its oppressive chains. ---- Vietnam 2021, the mood in
the air seems to be that of optimism. The government's relentless pursuit of a
Zero-COVID strategy has won them widespread approval both domestically and
internationally. The economy managed to squeeze out positive growth whereas many
of its neighbours suffered a decline from the pandemic. Yet underneath all this
bravado, one could sense that something is amiss. There's this nagging feeling
that no one seems to be able to put a finger on. Almost as if, there is a spectre
haunting Vietnam, the spectre of communism - the true kind without any bells and
whistles.

As Emma Goldman astutely observed, there was no communism in the USSR. The same
can be said of present-day Vietnam. The party in power - the Communist Party of
Vietnam (CPV) - has long strayed from the path to communism.

Before the current party leader assumes his third term (2020-2025), he formulated
an ambitious road map, in which by 2045 Vietnam would become a "developed"
country, on par with Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. To us radicals, this is a
betrayal to the working class, indigenous people, and marginalised groups who
sacrificed so much for Vietnam's revolution. But as Marxist-Leninists with bright
eyes and adamant conviction would tell you, that's all part of the plan™ and 2045
will be the long-awaited year when Vietnam finally advances to a classless,
moneyless, and stateless, country.

However, a closer look at Vietnam's society today would show that the plan is but
an illusion, and the promises are mere justification for the ruling class and
capitalist class to continue sucking the life out of Vietnam for a while longer.
The difference between what the party elites preach and what they allow to happen
in reality is that between day and night.

As Vietnam's economy grows by leaps and bounds, so does the chasm between the
rich and the poor. And no amount of welfare and regulation can stop the
accumulation of capital or reverse the flow of wealth from the hands of the many
into those of a few. Nowhere does this accumulation manifest itself more
pervasively than in the system of land ownership. This system allows control of
the land to be wrested from the peasants and the common people for little
compensation and given to capitalists who often make many times more profit. All
across the country, luxurious residential buildings sprung up but few of those
displaced by them can afford to move in. The billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong, whose
family own as much wealth as 800,000 Vietnamese, couldn't have built his empire
without public properties being handed into to his pocket in this manner.

Vietnam's already precarious ecosystem and indigenous communities also pay a
heavy price for this rapid economic development. The plan for the electricity
sector until 2045 gave some concession to renewable energies whilst supporting
the construction of many new coal power plants, ignoring their huge CO2 footprint
and many warnings about the link between coal power and the PM2.5 fog that covers
major cities, threatening the well-being of millions. In the mid-2010s, hundreds
of small hydroelectric power plants sprung up in the mountainous area around the
country to sate the power-hungry cities and factories. These plants not only
disrupted the river network and deprived the downstream agricultural land of
essential sediment, they also caused untold damages to indigenous communities
during construction and operation. Solar energy plants in Ninh Thuan robbed the
indigenous Cham of their ranching land. The Mekong Delta, Vietnam's primary rice
cultivating area, is facing an existential threat from the many dams being
constructed upstream in Thailand and China. And at the same time as a national
project to plant one billion trees is ratified, numerous approvals went to
capitalists so they can transform thousands of hectares of farm and forest land
into resorts and golf courses.

Behind all this is a strong sense of nationalism - an effective tool to silence
any meaningful criticism against the state, a value which can be utilised to
undermine other people's struggle in the name of an abstract greater good.
Nationalism has become the value that determines a Vietnamese citizen's worth.

It was nationalism that catapulted the Viet Minh into power during the 1940s. It
was nationalism that motivated millions of young Vietnamese to put the nation's
interest above their own as they throw themselves against foreign imperialism.
Since the early days of the Party, there has been a consistent effort to
cultivate a strong sense of nationalism everywhere. Nationalism is in the
Vietnamese children's curriculum, in our songs, poems, art, and all over the
media. One of the greatest successes of the Party has been the conflation of
national identity and party loyalty. Modern Vietnamese capitalists like VinGroup
or BKAV can be seen taking a cue from the state propaganda machine and
incorporated nationalistic elements into the marketing of their products.

Ironically, it is the nationalists that claim to inherit Vietnam's "communist"
revolution, yet they are the most vocal group against any and all radical ideals
such as animal liberation, gender and sexuality liberation, indigenous autonomy,
decriminalisation of sex work, and solidarity with international struggles, such
as those in Hong Kong or Myanmar. The nationalist persuasion predictably morphed
into a counter-revolutionary, reactionary force draping themselves in red.

Vulnerable victims of Vietnamese nationalism include, but are not limited to:

Queer people, who continue to face a high degree of discrimination in Vietnam.
Recent progress in gender and sexuality liberation has largely come from liberal
elements, such as the Pride movement, which is nothing more than a marketing ploy
for foreign and local companies. Substantial changes, such as the recognition of
same-sex families and transgender individuals' medical needs as rights have been
delayed time and time again to prioritise "more pressing matters."

Sex workers, who are stigmatised and targeted by the police. In the eyes of
Vietnam's patriarchal society, sex work isn't recognised as labour, but a mere
immoral ailment to be eliminated. Consequently, sex work is blamed for the spread
of STIs like HIV, and sex workers, especially queer sex workers, are cast to the
fringe of society.

Indigenous communities, who have been at the brunt of Kinh's (or Viet's)
expansionist policies since the time of feudalism, find no assurance under the
"anti-imperialist" rule of the current state. Worse off, the oppression they face
has escalated, as the state obtains novel and more effective tools to neutralise
any resistance, as well as to proactively patrol the indigenous population.

Abroad, many defenders of Vietnam's "socialism" have witnessed and ignored these
obvious red flags, for all are justified in the name of their favourite
"socialist" state's development. This demonstrates an apathy and ignorance toward
Vietnamese people's continuous struggle for a just society, not to mention the
embracing of capitalism, as long as it is draped in a red flag and claims to be
against the imperialistic ambitions of "the West," especially the US, even when
all signs show that communism is and was never on the agenda.

In the end, to exist is in itself a victory, thus a role manifests itself, a role
to represent the voices of Vietnamese radicals. We aim at the future working
class, the youth, who are both perpetuating and oppressed by capitalism and the
state so that they can break through its oppressive chains.

Related Link: https://libcom.org/blog/broken-promises-vietnam-20042021

https://www.anarkismo.net/article/32297

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Message: 4



According to the data of the Central Statistical Office, at the end of last year,
over 1.5 million employees worked from home[1]. Most of the people working in
this way did so on the basis of the "remote work" mode introduced in the
government's anti-crisis shields. Although the first social research on this
topic shows that "only every tenth employee would like to return to the office
permanently"[2], remote work - like other forms of working from home - is
associated with a number of problems that are difficult to see at first glance.
The available research and reports clearly show that working from home is
becoming more and more common. According to At the end of 2019, the Central
Statistical Office (GUS) employed just over 700,000 people. people - mostly in
the form of the so-called "Telework", which was introduced to the Labor Code in
2007. The sharp increase in the number of employees and workers working from home
occurred with the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic: in the fall of 2020,
already 1,100,000 people worked in this way. people. At the end of December last
year this number increased to 1,609,000, ie 9.7% of all employed persons.

The increase in the number of people working from home was related to legal
changes: over a million people who at the end of December last year worked
remotely, it did it under the provisions on remote work, which introduced the
so-called "Covid laws" ("anti-crisis shields"). These regulations give employers
much more freedom in organizing work from home compared to teleworking - the
decision to transfer work from the office to the home is faster and does not
require union consultations or employee consent, and the scope of the employer's
obligations is much smaller compared to the regulations of the Code work.

There are also many indications that this form of work will stay with us for
longer. According to a report by ManpowerGroup and HRLink, more than half of
employers currently using remote working plan to continue using it after the
outbreak ends[3]. Most of them want to use the "hybrid model": part of the
working time employees will spend in the office, and part at home.

The reality of working remotely - survey OZZ Employee Initiative

To get to know the realities of remote work, in February and March this year. We
conducted a survey in the Employee Initiative committees that operate in
workplaces where this mode of work was applied. A total of 13 committees from the
following sectors participated in the survey: education (3), culture (3), trade
and services (4), media (1), public administration (1) and logistics (1). The
results of this preliminary study show that, as the saying goes, "all that
glitters is not gold" and that remote work creates a whole host of new problems
for the world of work.

Lawlessness of employers

In almost all of the workplaces covered by the study, employers introduced remote
work without consulting trade unions, most often in the form of separate
regulations or orders relating only to remote work. The exception was the
University of Wroclaw and Avon Distribution Polska: in these plants, employers
consulted and took into account the proposals of the unions.

The lack of employee control over establishing the rules for performing remote
work results directly from the regulations of "covid acts", which - unlike
teleworking - did not impose on employers an explicit obligation to consult with
trade unions. Despite this, the committees of the Employee Initiative at
Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) and Agora asked employers to start talks on the
principles of remote work, based on the arguments that trade unions have a
statutory influence on the corporate rules of organization of the work process
and the ability to control compliance with health and safety rules.

Additional costs or savings?

Seemingly, remote work allows for significant savings related to commuting. In
practice, however, it also generates additional costs, which are often
unnoticeable: from additional expenses for electricity, through the need to
purchase an additional Internet service package, to workplace equipment
(computer, telephone, furniture adapted to long office work). Covid laws do not
refer to these costs at all, and additionally allow the provision of remote work
with the use of employees' private equipment.

More than half of the representatives of the IP committees, when asked whether
remote work rather generates savings or additional costs, decided that it rather
generates additional costs. Moreover, apart from three workplaces, these costs
are in no way reimbursed by employers. The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and
Primary School No. 8 in Torun paid employees and employees a one-time allowance
in the amount of approx. PLN 500 for remote work in 2020. Avon, on the other
hand, offered its employees an additional internet package. In the remaining
plants, the requests of the IP commission for reimbursement of additional costs
related to remote work remained unanswered or the employers refused to grant
allowances.

The following regularity is also clearly visible in the responses to the survey:
in the private sector, employers most often provide work equipment, while in the
public sector, employees and workers use their own equipment. The latter solution
generates additional costs for employees and employees related to the wear and
tear of the equipment (and the need to purchase / replace the old one when the
old one is worn out), which would normally be borne by the workplace.

Working time - longer and more intense

In theory, remote work does not change anything in terms of working time. In
practice, almost all of the committees that participated in the survey indicated
that remote work significantly changed their working hours.

The representative of the commission from the University of Wroclaw notes that
"The time devoted to correspondence with students, preparing lectures with
multimedia presentations, recording and posting them on the web, checking and
commenting on written statements of hundreds of students on forums, etc.,
significantly exceeds the daily norms of computer work." Most committees indicate
that the working time of people working remotely has increased, and there is also
a feeling across all industries that working remotely has led to an increase in
the number of responsibilities.

People working in business services also indicate that the working time begins to
"spread" around the clock: "The employee becomes easily available, i.e. you can
force him to answer the phone or log in to the employee mail, because it is" only
for a while "." People working in culture, education, administration and
logistics have a similar impression.

What changes do we need?

For a long time, we have heard announcements that remote work will be regulated
"permanently" in the form of new provisions of the Labor Code. Consultations on
this subject are currently underway at the Social Dialogue Council. What specific
regulations will be their effect is not known at the moment.

On the basis of the surveys conducted, it is known what changes are necessary
from the employee perspective. First of all, it is necessary to guarantee the
influence of trade unions on the organization and rules of remote work. In the
second, employers must be required to cover all costs generated by remote work.
In the third, strict regulations regarding the settlement of working time are
necessary and prohibiting the performance of work outside specific working hours.
These three postulates appear in all survey responses, regardless of the
industry. However, it is unlikely that they will be included in this form in the
upcoming amendment to the Labor Code - primarily because they will entail costs
for employers and will reduce the hitherto arbitrariness in organizing remote
work. Ultimately,

Jakub Grzegorczyk / Warsaw Environmental Commission

Notes:
[1]Central Statistical Office, Information on the labor market in the fourth
quarter of 2020, source: www.stat.gov.pl
[2]"Poles do not want to return to work in offices", Business Insider, 4/09/2020.
URL:
https://businessinsider.com.pl/twoje-pieniadze/praca/praca-zdalna-w-polsce/rz9n2n8
[3]"Poles do not want to return to work in offices" ...

https://ozzip.pl/publicystyka/walki-pracownicze/item/2779-realia-pracy-zdalnej-nie-wszystko-zloto

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Message: 5


A community assembly in the mountains of southeastern Mexico. We have to go
through the months of July to August of a recent year, with the coronavirus
pandemic having taken over the planet. This is not just any assembly. Not only
because of the madness that calls her, but also because of the apparent distance
between the chairs, and because the colors of the masks blur behind the painted
transparent masks. ---- The political-organizational and some military commanders
of the EZLN are there, but they remain silent unless they are asked to intervene
for something specific. ---- They are much more than we could have guessed. There
are at least 6 indigenous languages, all of them with their roots in magic, and
they use Spanish or "Castilian" as a bridge to communicate with each other.

Many of those present are "veterans", they were in the uprising that started on
January 1, 1994, and, with guns in their hands, they had descended on the cities
along with thousands of other comrades and comrades, as one, as one. There are
also "young people", men and women who gradually joined the Zapatista
administration after many courses. The majority of "young" are "young", women of
all ages and different languages.

The assembly itself, its evolution, its times and ways, reproduces the assemblies
that take place in the communities. There is someone who coordinates, and someone
else who gives the floor and points out the discussion topics that have been
agreed from the beginning. There is no time limit for each intervention, so time
here acquires different rhythms.

Someone, now, is telling a story or a fairy tale or a myth. No one cares if what
is being told is true or fiction. The important thing is what is said through it.

The story is as follows:

A Zapatista man passes by a village. He is wearing his best clothes and his new
hat because, as he says, he is looking for a girl. The narrator imitates the step
and movements he had seen in some of the films released on the occasion of the
Puy Ta Cuxlejaltic I Film Festival. played by Joaquín Cosío in Luis Estrada's "El
Infierno" (2010), and takes off his hat to greet a fancy woman passing by with a
fancy mule carrying wood. The narrator mixes Spanish with some of the Mayan
languages, so that, in the assembly, they translate into each other, without,
however, being interrupted.

The one who tells the story reminds that it is the corn season and the assembly
nods confirming it. Continues the narration:

The man in the hat falls on an acquaintance. They are greeted. "Come on, let me
meet you so handsome that you are with this hat too", his acquaintance tells him.
The respondent answers: "I'm like this because I'm looking for a girl". The other
continues: "And what is your girlfriend's name and where does she live?". The one
with the hat answers: "I do not know". The other asks him again: "How do you not
know?". He with the hat responds: "But that's why I told you that I was looking,
if I had already found her I would have known her name and where she lives". The
other examines this persuasive logic for a moment and sits silent.

It's his turn with the hat: "And what do you do?". The other responds: "I plant
maize because I want corn." The one with the hat stays silent for a while,
looking at the other, who was digging holes, with a broomstick, in the middle of
the gravel road. So he says to the other: "Listen, buddy, with all due respect,
but you are a very asshole." And the other: "But why? "Since I work with so much
appetite and I am determined to eat corn."

The one with the hat sits down, lights a cigarette, gives it to the other and
then lights another one for himself. They do not seem to be in a hurry: neither
the one with the hat to find a girl nor the other to eat corn. In the afternoon
it grows longer and the little light cuts with its teeth at night. It is not
raining yet, but the sky begins to spread clouds to find shelter. The moon lurks
behind the trees. After a long silence, he with the hat explains:

"Listen, buddy. To see if you will understand me: first there is the ground. In
this stony place he is not going to catch the corn. There the seed will die from
trampling and will have nowhere to take root. The only sure thing is that the
seed will die. Then there is your broom, which you use as coa[i], but the broom
is a broom and the coa is coa, so the poor broom is completely broken and full of
patches. "

The man in the hat takes the broom, examines the patches that the other has made
with adhesive tape and loops, and goes on to say: Mountain".

And it continues:

"So, maize, maize, we do not plant it anywhere, nor with anything, but it has its
where and with what. Moreover, now is not the time to sow but to reap. And to
reap you must have worked hard in the field. In other words, the earth is not for
you to treat her like: "come old woman, I came, give me the pozol and my
tortillas" as you shouted at the best man, - until he went to the assemblies of
"as women we are" and now to see you, finally the voices. This is her job, buddy.
What I am saying is that we do not order the earth, we explain to it, we talk to
it, we honor it, we tell it stories to encourage it. And she can not listen at
any time, but as one would say, she has her own diary. You have to calculate the
days and nights correctly,

"That, then, is the problem, as some say. You made a mistake in everything, and
you think that because you want it, and because you work with appetite and you
are determined, your wish will come true. What you need is knowledge. Things do
not work out because you worked hard and you are determined. You need to choose a
good ground, after the right tools, and then the times for each task. That is, as
they say, he wants theory and practice with knowledge, and not the nonsense you
do, for which you should be ashamed because everyone looks at you and laughs ".

"And they are idiots who laugh, because they do not understand that they will be
harmed by the stupid things you do, because where you dig now, first it will be
filled with mud, and then, when the water runs, it will become something like
your grandmother's wrinkles , buddy - because mine is already in heaven. And he
will not be able to pass the car of the Good Governance Council, because he will
get stuck, and the materials or the products he will carry, they will have to
carry them on their backs, and with the mud their boots and pants will be
destroyed, especially if they are nicely dressed like me now, and they will never
find a girlfriend. And the comrades, even worse, best man, because they are wild.
They will pass by you with the donkey loaded with things, and they will say:
"Look, there is someone who is more stubborn and stupid than my donkey, ".
Speaking to you clearly: "Listen, sir, when I say 'forward assed donkey', do not
misunderstand, I am talking to my pet" ".

"What happened, buddy, will we continue to say fat?" Says the other indignantly.

The man in his hat replies: "No, I'm just telling you. Take it as advice or
recommendation, it is not an order. But, as the blessed Sup used to say: "Better
to do what I tell you, because if not, when it goes wrong, I will tell you" I do
not like to say that I told you, but I told you ". "That's why you better listen
to me, buddy."

So another asks him: "So this earth does not? Not even my coa? Nor is it the
right time? "

He with his hat answers: "no, no and no".

"So when is the right time?"

"Oh, it's over now. Now you have to wait for the next sowing. There, around
April, May, and in order not to miss the water, on May 3 you have to offer the
earth sweet bread, a refreshment for the heat, maybe a cigarette from tobacco
leaves, candles, and who knows, and, fruit, vegetables, even a little chicken
soup. The blessed Sup said, he does not make only a pumpkin, if you give the
earth a pumpkin, then it will grow wild and will only produce snakes. I think,
however, that this was a lie of the deceased, he said it because he did not like
the pumpkin ".

"So when exactly?"

"Hmm, so look: we are almost already, in October, as they say, therefore 6
months. So in April-May. But it depends. "

"Shit, and what do I do if I want corn right now?" The other thinks about it, and
suddenly, adds: "I know what I will do! I will ask the autonomous authorities to
lend me some corn ".

The man in the hat asks him: "And then how do you get them back to the beginning?"

"I will apply for loans from the Council of Good Governance and so I will return
them. And to repay the Council, I will borrow from the Tercios. "And to give the
money back to the Tercios I will borrow again from the authorities, after all,
they will finally understand that I will actually repay them."

He with the hat, scratching his head, tells him: "Where to get, buddy, in the end
indeed, as in this Vargas movie, you turn out to be an asshole rather than nice.
"If you think like bad governments, you should become an MP, a senator or a
governor or one of these idiots."

"What happened, buddy?" I only know from resistance and rebellion. So, I'll see
what I do. "

The man in the hat responds: "Okay, I'm leaving now because if I don't leave, I'm
not going to find a girl. See you, buddy. "

And the other: "God be with you and if you find a girl, ask her if her family has
some corn to lend me, and I will return it to them later."

The narrator of the story addresses the assembly: "So, what is better: to lend
corn to the best man or to apply the" theory and practice with knowledge "?"

- * -

It's time for pozol. The assembly disbands, SupGaleano stubbornly says leaving to
Deputy Commander Moisés: "So, I'm just popcorn corn," and heads to his hut.
Deputy Commander Moisés turns to him: "And what about the spicy sauce?"
SupGaleano does not answer, but changes direction. "So where are you going?"
SubMoy asks him. Sup walks away and almost shouts, "I'm going to borrow the sauce
from the rebel shop."

I confirm.

Miao-Gav.

The Cat Dog, already a smuggler on the Mountain.

(Eee, but the money did not arrive, and besides, there is a sign at the entrance
of La Montaña that says: "Cats, dogs are not allowed; nor schizophrenic beetles").

Mexico, still. April 2021.

[i]A shovel-like tool used by the indigenous peoples of Central America and
Mexico to drill holes in the earth. It consists of a long pole whose tip is
pointed or ends in a metal tip in the shape of a shovel or spatula.

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/diethni/388-xthes-i-theoria-kai-i-praksi

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Message: 6



"Beware of hungry eyes. And there are kinds of things, look around you, notice,
Those who need bread, milk for their little ones. Those who are immersed in
loneliness and helplessness and are looking for companionship and how much more.
The world we live in deprives us of much. "But the most cunning, the most vicious
are those who long to dominate others," said her grandmother. ---- Nearly a
century ago and a few more years ago, the great-great-grandmother and
great-great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother and great-grandmother and
great-grandmother had lived their own lives. Against the finite of human nature,
they in turn had reproduced the magic elixir of immortality. The memory. With
their tool the narration over the cots, in the courtyards and the windows of the
houses, in the market, in the fields that the sun was burning and then in the
city, in dark holes and among alienated people, provoking questions and
generously giving the answers to those who wanted to learn, managed to be firmly
anchored in the cells of all their female - and not only - offspring. These
accumulated identities - from pre-pre-pre-pre,

The birth

The first pain came between burning torches, shovels, pickaxes and shovels that
shook a furious crowd over his head, heading towards the tower.

The second, around flames that burned Christian flesh and ropes that wrapped
around the necks of caretakers and thugs of the landlord.

The third, while they were hastily loading wheat, eggs, chickens and vegetables -
which they sowed, watered, harvested, fed - into the carts and sent back to the
village.

The fourth pain, the moment he was inside the tower and they were throwing out of
his big windows, clothes, curtains and fabrics, which they had spun, woven,
embroidered and sewn.

It was then that the torch fell from her hand and the pre-great-great-grandmother
of the girl's grandmother bent in two and tried to find her wounds, believing
that she had been hurt somewhere, considering as the most probable possibility
that this had happened when she was squeezing her arms around the neck of one of
the watchers of the tower, who passed her two heads on the boy, but did not have
her own momentum and rage.

As soon as she remembered that a baby was growing inside her womb and her
great-great-great-grandmother (the girl's grandmother) was eagerly born on a
four-poster bed and silk sheets (both of which she would never use again) . He
came out into the world with his hands clasped in fists and a long and majestic
scream that definitely meant freedom.

The point is that all this condition under which she came into the world made her
believe that she was born into a rebellious world that had to remain so (year 1476).

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Message: 7



Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, inequalities have exploded between the
rich and the poor. Macron's "whatever it costs" ... costs especially to workers.
---- Since March 2020 ---- 250,000 temporary jobs cut (according to the
unemployed workers) ; ---- 650,000 jobs lost in the private sector (Insee) ; ----
80% of the positions most exposed to the virus are occupied by the female
proletariat (personal assistance, nursing assistant, saleswoman, cleaning worker,
nurse, etc.) (CGT) ; ---- Three quarters of restructuring and layoff plans are
unrelated to Covid-19, the employers use the windfall effect (CGT). ----
Inequalities in health ---- Zero intensive care beds created since March 2020 ;
100,000 positions cut at the hospital over the past eight years (CGT-Study
companies) ;
69,000 beds eliminated in fifteen years ;
Obvious excess mortality in the poorest areas, particularly among those under 65
(Seine-Saint-Denis), excess mortality also among racialized minorities
(observations in 93, England, the United States) ;
50% of young people are worried about their mental health, 30% have given up
access to healthcare during the virus for lack of means (parliamentary inquiry).
Pauperization
10% more RSA beneficiaries ;
30% of households are in a poor financial situation (Insee) ;
1 million people fallen below the poverty line (Attac) ;
in total, 5.3 million poor people in France if the poverty line is set at 50% of
the median standard of living (very imperfect calculation method according to the
Observatory of Inequalities). One in two poor people is under 30 years old.
Housing crisis
300,000 people are homeless (Abbé Pierre Foundation) ;
3.5 million households in a situation of fuel poverty, with more than 8% of
expenditure on heating (Observatory of fuel poverty) ;
667,000 experienced an energy cut in 2019 for unpaid bills (2019 report from the
National Energy Mediator) ;
The reform personalized housing aid (APL), the 1 stJanuary 2021, led to a general
decline up to 90% for certain beneficiaries families (France 3) ;
35,000 homes are at risk of being evicted from this summer (DAL) ;
Regulated electricity prices have climbed more than 11% since 2019 ( Le Monde ).
Assistantship for the rich
29 of the 37 CAC 40 groups with their headquarters in France, most of them
subsidized by the State because of the Covid, have at least 166 tax avoidance
subsidiaries in Luxembourg (Attac France) ;
The richest come out of the crisis stronger, while it will take more than ten
years for the poor to recover (Oxfam) ;
64 billion is the fortune of Bernard Arnaud (3 th richest man in the world), LVMH
boss ;
Since the suppression of the ISF, the fortune of the richest climbed by 25% (Attac) ;
The Tax Credit for Competitiveness and Employment (CICE) represents 100 billion
euros of tax gift to companies over 2013-2019, for 100,000 jobs created (1
million euros of subsidy per job, etc.) (Committee CICE monitoring).
Louise (UCL Saint-Denis)

Logo: cc Rini Templeton Memorial Fund

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Statistique-la-lutte-des-classes-fait-peter-les-compteurs

Today's Topics:

   

1.  ULET-AIT: LET THE DUKE RESIGN! - Colombian region (ca)
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

2.  Patras: Issue #02 of the Germinal newspaper was released
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   

3.  Anarquista Socialismo Libertário OASL - Breach of vaccine
      patents: scientific knowledge cannot be privately owned! 

      (ca, de,
      it, pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1



 From the ULET-AIT, we inform the international organizations of the AIT / IWA,
how of other unions, social and anarchist organizations, human rights
organizations, feminist collectives, related organizations and individuals; an
update on the events in development in the Colombian region and its different
cities: ---- That so far around 37 deaths have been reported in different parts
of the territory, the majority in the city of Cali, a city that was militarized,
placed under the military command of General Zapateiro and cut off the internet
service. In addition, more than 90 disappeared people are registered,
highlighting that 1 of them already appeared dead in the Cauca River.
831 illegal arrests, 222 violent physical assaults by the security forces, 22
victims of eye injuries caused by low-lethality weapons, 10 victims of sexual
violence including 1 rape, all counted until noon yesterday, May 5, registered by
the NGO Tremors, which observes the actions of the security forces.
We also denounce the response strategy to the popular mobilization, which has
been strictly based on the actions of the security forces, both the police and
the army, who have exercised violence against groups of trade unionists,
teachers, students and even human rights observers. We hold the government headed
by Iván Duque, his ministers, generals and the entire body of state officials who
govern in the different territories responsible, for joining this strategy, which
we must clarify is managed and defined by former president and former senator
Álvaro Uribe Velez, who is being investigated for the purchase of witnesses,
confirmation of ultra-right paramilitary groups and drug trafficking, a man who
suggested the thesis of "Dissipated Molecular Revolution" or in other words,
 From ULET-AIT we report that although the reason that mobilized the people was
the tax reform - supposedly reversed - the Duque government continues to insist
on a reform that covers the deficit (6450 million USD), that its The same
government caused, due to the elimination of taxes to the great fortunes,
economic groups and multinationals, as well as the attempt to purchase 14
airplanes from the US for a value of 4000 million USD; However, this is not all,
as it consists of a reform package, which includes health reform (increase in
privileges to private companies, Yankee health model), labor reform (change to a
model of hourly work, surely social responsibility in charge of the workers,
reduced pension and without the right to family inheritance,
With regard to international pressure, popular mobilization and the evidenced
cases of violations of IHL, Duque and the military and police leadership have
been forging a plan to victimize the security forces, particularly the police;
infiltrating peaceful marches since April 28, to cause destruction, violence,
disorder, controlling the main media, putting the cameras in a favorable
situation for the State, to indicate to the international community that your
government is fighting an armed and terrorist insurrection , and not as it really
is: an indefinite general strike mobilized by a wide and diverse variety of
sectors, which has summoned the people who are outraged, tired and desperate.
At this time, Iván Duque considers three alternatives to overcome the crisis, to
which is added a fourth that is gaining voices in the mobilization, which are:
Declare a state of internal commotion that is endorsed by article 213 of the CNC,
granting him for 90 days and up to a maximum of 270 days, special powers to the
president, as his decrees have the force of law and the entire chain of command
of the Police It is under their orders (the army is already at their orders),
being able to suspend the laws if you are against the commotion. This path is
very much in line with what his fascist Democratic Center party has planned,
since it could pass laws without consulting congress, even trying to pass the
reforms or dismantle the little and nothing of the peace process, while the
security forces quell the outbreak. social by force of arms.
* Dialogue with the partisan opposition: reach basic agreements on the fiscal
deficit, with certain political sectors within the state. Something that is
already happening, but which, unfortunately and against the interests of the
people, gives representat

https://iwa-ait.org/node/943

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Message: 2



Contents ---- Ediotrial... p.2 ---- Do not allow the dismantling (and) of public
mental health structures!... P.2 ---- Driver Exercise: The clouds of war are
thickening in our area... p.3 ---- For the student issue... p.3 ---- The pandemic
as an opportunity and the golden jobs of investors... p.4 ---- Cops in
Universities... "so much dystopia"... p.4 ---- Subversive labor struggles: the
answer to the new anti-labor bill... p.5 ---- The state targets and revengefully
fires the doctors who are fighting... p.6 ---- Censorship and Art... p.6 ---- The
historical Niala in the crosshairs of "green growth"... p.7 ---- TRIBUTE ----
Labor Day... p.8 ---- May 1968... p. 7
Read it in pdf format DOWNLOAD
https://ipposd.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/tefxos2-2.pdf

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A few words about Germinal

Germinal is the month of spring according to the French revolutionary calendar.
It started on March 21 and ended on April 19.

Germen in Latin means seed. This seed of freedom and the hope for a better and
fairer world was also described by Emile Zola in his novel of the same name in
1885. We also carry this hope in our hearts.

A name is just a name, but we do not forget that the same name was used by
comrades in the city of Patras, two decades ago, to express their own political
positions and concerns through an anarchist magazine. The same name to express
the same unquenchable desire for freedom has been used a few times by comrades
internationally, over the years. From the first attempt by Rudolf Rocker in 1900
to recent examples of anarchist inspections, collectives, libraries, groups and
possibly others we are unaware of.

In this -many times inaccessible and undefined- historical continuum we refer and
we serve the same struggle today. The struggle for social revolution, anarchy and
libertarian communism!

You will find it on the streets of the race, in self-managed spaces, squats and
hand-to-hand distributions.

For additional material, updates and analysis www.ipposd.org
For communication every Tuesday and Friday in the self-managed space On the Face
(Patreos 87)

https://ipposd.org/2021/05/03

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Message: 3



With the increase in the number of deaths and contamination by Covid-19 in the
country, there is a dangerous tendency, due to the urgency of the pandemic, to
put aside several important questions about the dismantling of public health and
the advancement of the international pharmaceutical industry. In the effort to
formulate our policies, it is essential to keep alive the debate on the private
property of scientific knowledge for the production of vaccines. We need to speak
more emphatically about breaking patents. ---- In a context marked by the
predatory competition between laboratories, for social apartheid in supply and
with the vaccination campaign walking at an ant's pace, it is important that we
think about this situation in a structural way, pointing to the construction of
alternatives that break with this way of thinking medicine and health research.
The starting point is to make it clear that any more rational and egalitarian
proposal to conceive knowledge will be constantly attacked by capitalists,
considering that the public interest clashes with the interest of the
pharmaceutical industry's profits.

If, on the one hand, the Covid-19 pandemic crisis can put us in a situation of
myopia caused by a sense of urgency, on the other hand it leaves the
contradictions of the pharmaceutical industry naked and raw. It is a market in
which huge profits are produced from disease and human suffering. The industry is
a financial machine driven by the predatory logic of shareholders' greed and to
the detriment of public health interest. The pandemic crisis, due to this logic,
becomes a great business opportunity for laboratories, in which vaccines need to
be defended against competition through patents, a record of technology that
cannot be used by any other company. The profitability logic makes access to
treatments difficult, causes scarcity and further aggravates the situation of
barbarism.

The corporatist media, allied to at least doubtful characters, such as the former
Minister of Health, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, now glorified in the logic of the
least worst, defends private research in every way and criticizes the breaking of
patents. It exalts the speed at which vaccines were produced, tested and brought
to the market, in an unprecedented record, as if this were due to the innovation
generated by competition between private laboratories. What these advocates do
not say is that all of this innovation would not have been possible without the
huge numbers of public resources injected directly into vaccines. Just as they
forget to mention that science is built by a series of open researches until it
reaches the final "product".

What they call innovation is a rhetorical maneuver to legitimize the logic of the
deregulated financial system, which increasingly brings catastrophe to the
working class in all sectors. In Brazil, public research progressively loses its
budget, transferring these public health resources to companies in the logic of
competition and profitability. In such a model, the focus is only on short-term
profit, which plays a fundamental role for society, as they do not bring
immediate resources to shareholders. For example, what is the interest of
companies in financing epidemiological control before a pandemic breaks out?

Doria's opportunism and the dismantling of the Butantan Institute
One of the most infamous episodes of this pandemic was the media dispute between
the governor of SP and President Bolsonaro regarding vaccination. The Butantan
Institute has become a centerpiece in this macabre chess of the government,
considering that, at least until the month of May, it is responsible for more
than 80% of the vaccines applied in the country. This important role in this very
difficult moment ends up erasing some issues, such as the process that has been
underway for years of scrapping the institute's civil service, in benefit of the
entity's new institutional demands, which is the partnership with private
companies and the sale of products.

In 2019, Butantan requested a loan of R $ 1.8 billion from BNDES to invest in a
modern production center, capable of placing it among the major manufacturers in
the world. Choosing the Big Pharmas profit logic, Butantan stopped, for example,
manufacturing BCG vaccines (given to newborns) and ImunoBCG, aimed at patients
with bladder cancer, to focus on the production of the flu vaccine, seeing an
expanding market there. In addition to supplying the Ministry of Health, the
institute hoped at that time to offer millions of doses to the Northern Hemisphere.

Within the logic of current managers, the pandemic of covid-19 and the
protagonism of the Butantan Institute, contrary to what may seem, accelerate the
dismantling towards the constant privatization of its services. The centennial
mission of the institute to research, develop, manufacture and supply products
and services for the health of the population has been destroyed and replaced by
the vision of the pharmaceutical industry, in which the main objective is profit
at any cost - even if the result is counterproductive. public health.

Health is not a commodity, for health at the service of the population!
Still using the example of the Butantan Institute, the working conditions of
health workers are increasingly precarious. On the part of civil servants and
civil servants, those who rise up against this logic are repressed with
administrative processes; in the segment of female workers and contracted
workers, there is no possibility of questioning, due to the flexibility of the
contracts. Another party is hired as a position of trust and without any public
oversight, leaving the way for private interests without obstacles.

It is urgent that we organize ourselves against the health privatization system,
which throws our lives in the hands of shareholders. The production of medicines
must be socialized under public control. Investments must be directed in a
transparent manner to the research and health of the population, and not
obscurely to financial market agents who pretend to be scientists.

In this moment of crisis, there is an urgent need to break patents! Vaccines
cannot be a luxury item for a minority of rich countries: they must be available
to everyone, anywhere on the planet. Breaking patents and intellectual property
rights is a decisive factor!

Sources:

https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/saude/noticia/2019-07/mandetta-diz-que-pais-nao-deveria-quebrar-patente-de-medicamentos

https://www.cartacapital.com.br/sociedade/butantan-se-afasta-da-saude-publica-e-mira-em-grandes-laboratorios/

https://anarquismosp.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/quebra-de-patentes-das-vacinas/

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