The last month of summer turned out to be rich in protest actions in Ukraine.
Anarchists held an ecological camp. As before, the protests of workers demandingthe payment of wage arrears did not subside: doctors and miners were especially
active. Residents in various parts of the country protested against the effects
of neoliberal reforms: extortion from gas companies, environmental destruction,
school closings, etc. ---- ANARCHIST ACTIVITIES ---- From 19 to 22 August, an
anarchist ecological camp was held on the territory of one of the national parks
in the Carpathians. It was organized by the Lviv Ecoplatform. The event, which
brought together activists from various regions of Ukraine, made it possible not
only to live in a healthy natural environment, but also to strengthen contacts
and conduct intensive discussions on social ecology and anarchism for several hours.
More information about the camp - in the story of its participant and participant:
" If you peer into the gap between the trees in the park for a long time, it
begins to seem that you are asleep. More precisely, that everything you have seen
so far is in fact a dream, and you are just now beginning to realize it. At such
moments it seems that it is worth only delaying a little. attention to the glare
of the sun - and you rise up, fly with the ease of a dream ... The line between
reality and sleep becomes ghostly.
The feeling that everything around is dreaming sometimes arises on the Carpathian
slopes. It appears now almost imperceptibly, sometimes capturing headlong into
its surreal whirlpool, full of fantastic colors and amazing pictures. And then
everything appears with a slight tinge of waking dream. Time in this dream flows
according to different laws. It's hard to say what happened two days ago and what
happened on the first day of the trip. The thread of time is lost, and only
records link events to dates. The alarm clock is forgotten, instead of it - the
internal time of the body, tied to solar cycles. You wake up with the first ray,
and when it gets dark, you just stop and settle down for the night. It doesn't
matter at all how long you are on the road and how much time is left before
returning to the stuffy embrace of the urban world.
But nevertheless, in prisons there are different regimes of detention. Both
Kharkiv and Lvov claim to be "progressive" and "intellectual" regional centers by
Ukrainian standards. Both here and there it is paid for at the expense of the
periphery, being sucked out at the minimum cost. Although it is a little more
difficult to go to a European gentleman on a bus from Gagarin Avenue than from
Stryiskaya Street - if this happens in Kharkiv, it often ends up. Meanwhile, the
land of wild spaces or former enterprises, torn apart by metal fences, here and
there is gradually becoming office and residential boxes.like bamboo shoots that
slowly cut into the body of the executed. Is there a greater monument to the
regulation and destruction of conquered territories and lives than a city under
capitalism, even if the fruits of exploitation mostly settle somewhere behind the
shade of the sun - after wood from mountain forests?
To discuss possible harmonious alternatives to this order of things, when some in
human society eat others, and all together - squeeze the juices from nature, two
dozen girlfriends and friends of the planet gathered at an eco-anarcho-camp
organized by the Lviv Ecoplatform in one of the national natural parks ... To
take back at least a few days from August 19 to 22 as a catalyst for collective
and personal doubts, as a starting point for building and strengthening our ties
and solidarity. For all those hands that support us, for all those eyes that
follow us!
After a few days, most of those present will already return to their usual
routine work for someone or for themselves . But all this will come later. In the
meantime - the joy of meeting, getting used to the new environment, arranging
tents and so on that is needed to build a short-term freedom from everything
oppressive and oppressive, from the Internet to alcohol.
And so, the main topic of conversation of the public is vegan grubs, clothes,
concerts. For lectures, presentations or seminars on non-everyday topics, there
were no cumulatively even several hours, despite the fact that meetings were
convened twice specifically to determine the time for them. "In theory, such
events are held to exchange experiences and opinions on theory, ideology,
strategy of activism and actionism. Up to the creation of new cells of movement
and coordination of joint actions. Nobody needs it here. In the same way, it was
possible to get out with the guys from the area and have a drink on the lake.
Weekend club ", - one comrade says wearily through clenched teeth, returning with
us after another trip to the mountains. Such is the paradox: people far from
anarchism can perfectly self-organize when they have a common goal and interests,
Still, there were half a dozen willing to debate about social ecology in its
entirety, breaking spears among themselves several times a day until the throat
dries up. And sometimes, during many hours of conversations, my head began to
spin - either from the acrid pine smoke, or from the number of facts and
inferences presented, or from the grandeur of our aspirations and dreams ...
"The proletariat must become the wall that will stop the expansion of industrial
imperialism," wrote Emilio López Arango, the ideologue of the Argentine Regional
Workers' Federation, one of the largest anarchist movements in world history , at
the beginning of the last century . "Only in this way, by creating ethical values
capable of developing an understanding of social problems in the proletariat,
regardless of bourgeois civilization, can one come to create the inviolable
foundations of an anti-capitalist and anti-Marxist revolution that will destroy
the regime of large industry and financial, industrial and commercial trusts."
Where will this wall come from when it, sometimes reviving in some separate
quarter , collapses as quickly and unexpectedly as it appeared? Live
communication is interrupted again, the flow of communication disintegrates and
is exhausted. There remains a minority from a minority , a passionate handful
that still have the strength and desire to continue. Maybe everything will change
or will begin to change after the sale of agricultural land, when the flow of
landless pilgrims of globalization knocks at the doors of key Ukrainian cities at
work? Only time will make it possible to understand this.
... Yes, we always have to look at the clock. Time flows through your fingers
much better than sand. We feel the sand by touch. Time passes silently, like a
skillful thief. We can only see and evaluate the consequences of its course. And
while everyone is busy at best with this, our everyday life will further become
ruins, and new wild and relatively wild territories - gray corpses.
...
In addition to the ecological camp, the anarchists of Ukraine were engaged in
quite "everyday" affairs. Activists of the "Black Flag" in Lviv waged a wall
campaign against liberalism, fascism and for a healthy lifestyle. Lviv anarchists
have raised funds to help an activist of the ecological movement "Friday for the
Future" of Ukraine, who suffered during the attack on him by the ultra-right in
Kiev on June 5. On the anniversary of Ukraine's political independence on August
24, the "Black Flag" distributed leaflets in Kiev with a text summarizing the sad
outcome of the 30th anniversary of neoliberal reforms in the country
LABOR PROTESTS
Dnipropetrovsk region
At the end of July, the labor collective of the hospital No. 8 voted for a strike
if the wage arrears were not paid. They had not received any money for the second
month. Officially, the delay was due to the forthcoming reorganization of the
hospital.
Donetsk region
On August 16, doctors in Slavyansk held a rally near the City Clinical Hospital,
demanding the payment of wage arrears from June. Having not received a positive
answer, doctors blocked the highway on August 23 .
Zaporozhye region
On August 19, a rally of workers and drivers of the ambulance took place in
Zaporozhye . They protested against the beggarly salaries and the collapse of the
industry, adopting an appeal to the President of Ukraine.
Lviv region
On August 4, hundreds of miners held a rally in front of the regional
administration building, demanding payment of wage arrears in the amount of about
UAH 300 million. Knocking helmets on the asphalt, the protesters chanted "Shame!"
The action was organized by the Independent Trade Union of Miners. The
representative of the administration who came out said that the government of the
country should decide the issue.
On August 12, 18 employees of the Sosnovka city hospital in the Chervonogradsky
district went on a hunger strike . Wage arrears in the hospital have been
accumulating since April this year. Doctors are starving in the workplace, while
the hospital continues to operate. The protesters demand payment of wage arrears
through July 2021 inclusive, in addition, they demand "covid" additional
payments, as well as health benefits for the current year, recalculation of
salaries for 2020 and compensation for the loss of part of the salary in
connection with the violation of the terms of its payment.
Ternopil region
On August 5, about 50 employees of the Monastery Hospital held a protest at the
surgical department and blocked the road. They pushed for July wages, sick leave
payments, and a general wage increase.
Kharkov region
According to the independent website Assembly, on August 11, workers at the
Electrotyazhmash plant, which has long suffered from the curtailment of
production, tried to remove the trade union bureaucracy.that does nothing to
defend their interests. The initiator of a series of rallies and strikes at the
enterprise, Anton Tolokov, called on union members at a meeting to remove the
local union boss and elect a new leadership. However, some workers expressed
doubts about the possibility of turning the pocket union of the administration
into a real labor union, since the salaries of the union bosses are still paid by
the management. The meeting, unfortunately, ended in failure: an insignificant
number of employees came and even the administration did not ask questions about
paying off the wage arrears. Meanwhile, from 23 August, the working day at the
plant has been cut by an hour.
According to the same website "Assembly", Kavobar, MaxBeer and the meat-packing
plant "Myasnoy" dismissed from Kharkov enterprises are calling for their boycott.
On August 29, in Kupyansk, near the Oskol restaurant, a protest action by
employees of the Kupyansk Territorial Medical Association took place. The
participants blocked the carriageway for some time. The protesters raised the
issues of paying off wage arrears and bonuses, raising salaries, providing the
institution with medicines and updating the material and technical base. Local
authorities said that the money had already been allocated to the doctors, but
had not yet reached them due to technical problems.
POPULATION PROTESTS
Dnipropetrovsk region
On August 25, a rally "Against gas arbitrariness" was held on the square near the
city council of Marganets . Residents are outraged by the city's gas supply
policy. The company cuts off the gas supply to entire entrances and houses,
allegedly referring to a gas leak, and then forces them to pay extra for a new
connection.
Zaporozhye region
On July 25 and August 1, hundreds of Orekhov residents rallied on Pokrovskaya
Square, protesting against the shutdown of the gas supply. The company turns off
the gas, citing technical work, but in fact is trying to impose new onerous
contracts on consumers. The protesters threatened to block the highway. Since the
gas was cut off the next day, the protesters closed the highway, announcing that
the action would be open-ended.
Ivano-Frankivsk region
On August 30, about 50 residents of the village of Yavorov blocked the Tatarov -
Kamenets-Podolsky road , protesting against the closure of one of the buildings
of the gymnasium in the village of Bezulka. They allowed only special vehicles
and cars with children to pass.
Kiev
On Independence Day, two teenagers, 12 years old, set fire to the national flag .
On August 26, guided by unidentified motives, a man threw a "Molotov cocktail"
into the building of the secretariat of the Human Rights Commissioner of the
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The doors of the room are damaged. None of the
employees and visitors were injured. The assailant was detained. Other explosives
were found with him.
Poltava region
On August 10, residents blocked the Kiev-Kharkov highway , protesting against the
extraction of hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of sand. The production is
carried out by firms within the framework of the presidential program "Big
Construction"
Kherson region
On August 10, residents of the village of Tavricheskoye blocked the
Kherson-Nikolaev highway , protesting against the closure of a local school. They
demanded to cancel the corresponding decision of the Belozersk village council.
The protesters threatened to picket the council, as well as to regularly block
the highway every 5 days.
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