Anarchic update news all over the world - 16.12.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL #289 - Digital: For a
      school freed from Gafam (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Poland, zsp: Another picket for Schaffa Shoes [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Poland, ozzip - Poznan: In the case of porters and porters
      employed in outsourcing [machine translation] 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Czech, afed: "Black block in yellow vest" -- Interview with
      a direct participant in Paris, published on December 5, 2018
      [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Greece, liberta salonica: EPT - Rubikon Intervention at the
      French Institute [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Britain, anarchist communist group ACG: London Meeting:
      Class Struggle in the Care System, 13th Jan (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





In November 2015, the Ministry of Education signed an eighteen-month agreement with 
Microsoft to " develop the digital plan at school " . Two years later, we learned that 
Apple organizes school visits in its Apple Stores. In capitalist logic, everything is 
marketed, even and especially children. ---- On November 30, 2015, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, 
then Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research, was smiling at Alain 
Crozier, then president of Microsoft France. These two had every reason to rejoice. While 
the minister of a government that presented itself as socialist opened the doors of the 
National Education to one of the leaders of modern capitalism, the second offered, for the 
modest sum of 13 million euros (the market capitalization of the company was then 333 
billion dollars), the entry into a juicy market: that of public education. These few 
millions invested by Microsoft " to contribute to the success of the digital plan at 
school " should allow to"To develop educational applications designed to support National 
Education programs " , to train teachers in the use of new technologies for teaching 
purposes, or to introduce students to computer programming, the Ministry's new hobby. 
Obviously, we do not care about the incongruity of entrusting a company that keeps its 
source code secret to train in programming !

An appetite without limit
At the beginning of April this year, a report of the 20 hours of France 2 showed an " 
ordinary " school visit of a class of CM2 in an Apple Store ! These visits obviously 
approved by the National Education were an opportunity for the firm to the apple (as it is 
called bucolically) to stuff the students with goodies (T-shirt with the logo of the 
company, USB key) under cover of discovery again of a programming activity. Faced with the 
rise of controversy over these " educational " outings , the ministry announced a few 
weeks later the end of these.

The appetite of the Gafam is limitless and we can not count on the State to protect us 
from it. The double discourse no longer makes any illusion. In the spring of 2016, the 
Framasoft association published an article entitled " Why Framasoft will no longer take 
tea at the Ministry of Education " in which it denounced both the entry of the Gafam and 
the free-washing of the Ministry .

Resistances are organized
If some highly popular educational blogs outrageously advertise pubs and other commercial 
promotions of Gafam, alternatives and resistance are organized, in and out of the 
institution, for the dissemination of free software. Some of them will be presented in a 
future article.

David (AL librarian working group)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Numerique-Pour-une-ecole-liberee-des-Gafam

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Message: 2





Once again, the Association of Polish Syndicalists organized a picket in Warsaw under one 
of the shoe stores belonging to the Schaffa Shoes network. The boss paid his outstanding 
remuneration. ---- Update: After the protest, the employer also paid the holiday 
allowance. ---- In April, we organized a similar action under the store at Pasaz 
Ursynowskim. At that time, we were demanding payment of overdue salary and holiday 
equivalent for the wrongly dismissed employee. The next day, after the picket, we received 
information from the aggrieved party about the payment of part of the money due. Later 
there was a favorable settlement in court. ---- On December 10, at the store in Kabaty, we 
demanded payment of the holiday equivalent for the employee who was wrongly dismissed. The 
outstanding remuneration has already been paid, because on the news of the picket, the 
employer paid by a quick transfer. The former employees of the company could experience 
the boss's approach. First, he sent his photo from the police station out of the cell, 
suggesting that the police would intervene on the protest (the police were, of course, 
like in every congregation, but did not take any action). During the picket he tried to 
scare the picketers and pull the megaphone, he called former employees "thieves". However, 
he only mocked his actions and caused only a greater anger of protesters. The picket took 
place as planned.

Unfortunately, this employer thinks he will get away with everything. However, other 
former employees decide to fight for their own! Below is a movie about the action.

http://zsp.net.pl/kolejna-pikieta-pod-schaffa-shoes

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Message: 3





On November 23, a protest against the exploitation of porters and porters guarding the 
objects managed by the Board of Municipal Residential Resources took place in front of the 
Poznan City Hall. They were employed at outsourcing, ie by external companies. Everything 
indicates that as a result of the pressure of the labor union Employee Initiative, ZKZL 
decided to break the contract with the previous mandator - Vision Group Sp. z o. o. with 
headquarters in Warsaw. Protection was entrusted to another entity, and the person who 
revealed the abuse was restored to work. We believe that from the ZKZL website these were 
steps in the right direction. ---- Although the company Vision Group Sp. z o. o. won the 
tender and had to provide the property protection service to ZKZL from August 28 to the 
end of this year, it did not employ concierge staff. Employees were persuaded to sign a 
contract with CAPREA Sp. z o. o. with headquarters in Warsaw. Only CAPREA, as a temporary 
work agency, "hired" employees and employees for Vision Group Sp. z oo (as the so-called 
employer's user). Directly, therefore, employees are subject to CAPREA Sp. z o. o. Now 
CAPREA is doing everything to force them to work elsewhere.

Because they were required to sign employment contracts and observe social clauses, an 
employment contract was signed with employees, but at 1/16 time. (Previously people 
working for Vision Group were employed on junk contracts - civil law). The rest of the 
remuneration was transferred on other principles - in our opinion, illegal. In this way, 
it was intended to mock the client and the public. In fact, the conditions of the contract 
after 28 August did not change. They are still mostly junk. What's more, CAPREA regularly 
settled with its employees only in relation to the amount of PLN 135.35 gross which was 
shown in the employment contract. For September the remaining part of the remuneration 
came out with a long delay; for October until December 5 it has not yet flown out. There 
is a justified fear that employees will have difficulties in enforcing remuneration for 
October and November. This means that they can lose 120-150,000 in total. net zlotys. This 
is particularly severe before the upcoming holidays.

The Workers' Initiative asked the Regional Labor Inspectorate to apply for inspections at 
the following companies: Vision Group Sp. z oo and CAPREA Sp. z o. o. The matter is 
referred to the prosecutor's office. At the same time, we organize legal assistance for 
aggrieved porters and porters.

We expect that the city will not allow employees to be harmed and deprived of support in 
this matter. We believe that not only moral responsibility, but also formal responsibility 
falls on it.

At the same time, despite our demand that all employees and employees employed as porters 
and porters in city buildings should be employed on a contract of employment concluded 
directly with the city (or a company owned by the city), ZKZL decided to call another 
tender, which is to be resolved. December 10. The Employee Initiative continues to take 
the position that in the long-term outsourcing of this type of work ultimately increases 
the exploitation, exposes employees to manipulation and repression for revealing 
irregularities.

Intercompany Commission
OZZ Employee Initiative at the Theater of the Eighth Day
ul. Ratajczaka 44, 61-816 Poznan,

Poznan Inter- enterprise Commission,
OZZ Employee Initiative
ul. Koscielna 4 / 1a, 60-538 Poznan

http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/wielkopolskie/item/2432-poznan-w-sprawie-portierow-i-portierek-zatrudnionych-na-outsourcingu

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Message: 4





The Yellow vestment movement (Gilets Jaunes) has become one of the most masculine in 
France in recent years, which, it seemed, was hardly surprising. People have upsetting the 
government's plan to raise taxes on oil from Emmanuel Macron. First of all, they would be 
taken by people who were not rich and were constantly encouraged to buy a diesel car for a 
few years. Protests began outside the capital city and practically suddenly grew up in 
street fighting with the police and accompanied by car ignition, barricades, smashing bank 
branches and expensive restaurants. Economic demands quickly grew in political - the 
resignation of the president. Finally, on December 4, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe 
announced a moratorium on rising fuel prices. But will it mean the end of the protests 
themselves?

The direct participants of events in Paris, Xenie Jermošinová, speak of the causes of the 
protests, the Yellow Vest movement, decentralization, street fighting and ecology.

On Tuesday, 4 December, the media reported that France's prime minister announced a 
moratorium on rising oil prices. Is it a victory?

The point is that the Yellow Village movement has initially set itself the objective of 
revoking this tax. But then the requirements grew. The movement is diverse and there are 
different people. Many have raised much wider requirements, namely the resignation of 
Macron. Therefore, for some part of the movement, this is a victory, but another is not over.

People in the movement refused to go to a negotiation with the government, due to take 
place on Monday, December 3. The Gilet delegation announced at the last minute that she 
was not going to go there. And one team outside Paris issued a statement saying, "We do 
not want any representatives, we need to organize themselves decentralized." So continue 
with the organization that the movement had at the beginning. The movement has no leaders, 
no trade unions, no intermediaries.

Interestingly, due to the fact that everything is organized through Facebook, negotiations 
have to be held with the moderators of these facebook groups. The movement has no leaders, 
but the government wants to communicate with someone. And that is a very interesting new 
situation. If formerly trade unionists, they are moderators today. Although this does not 
mean that they are really the leaders of the movement. Their names were simply known, and 
the government could accurately identify them in the flesh.

So the government has even made those concessions even without negotiations?

Exactly. I think that the introduction of the moratorium has been achieved so quickly, not 
least because the protestors did not attend. The French government does not know such a 
way of organizing protests at all. She is not used to working with such a movement. For 
the last ten years, protests have always been almost the same. When I was dealing with 
student protests, I found out that the scenarios of the protests were very similar: it 
always starts as a movement from the bottom, mobilizing universities, but gradually unions 
are being promoted and they determine the character of the movement. Government is 
negotiating only with them. For example, in 2006, the socialist party managed to get 
people out of the streets thanks to the trade union negotiations. Today he's not exactly 
who to talk to. That is why the government has decided to make a concession. That's the 
first. Secondly, because people have resorted to violence. And, thirdly, that the movement 
is very new in its demographic composition. Its basis is forty-fifty-year-old boys.

Can you describe in more detail who has become the core of this movement, and what 
political, leftist and right-wing political forces are there?

Geographically, it began outside Paris, in small towns, such as the 18,000 Thuir, where 
they lit the prefecture. The movement was based on people from such cities and villages - 
farmers, workers, small entrepreneurs, railroads. By the way, railroads have played their 
part when they first started a strike, blocked traffic, and even destroyed the tracks 
leading to the northern train station in Paris. Not demographically, there is a regular 
participant in the White French movement working for over forty years. And because of it, 
the right was right in the movement.

Movement was moving right from the beginning of the movement. But recently a discursive 
analysis of the facebook group of Yellow Vests was made by one laboratory in Grenoble. The 
group has about one and a half million people. As a result of the analysis, it is said 
that there is practically no racist expression in posts and commentaries. Certainly, the 
extremists are in the movement who have penetrated the protests and are visible at 
meetings. But in basic mass, if research can be believed , direct racism does not occur. 
Just as there are no leftist challenges. The movement itself is called apolitical.

I know exactly that the anarchists stayed away for the first two weeks. Many anarchist 
blogs have made a statement that they are right there and that they do not want to go 
along with them along the streets. But then they understood that the protest was much 
wider - they were people who were already tired. Those who have ceased to believe left and 
right who do not know where to go and who do not have their own political language or 
political culture. In the analysis, this internet community is labeled L'internet des 
familles modestes - the internet of modest families. They are people with modest income 
who do not know where to go and whom to rely on. Finally, the anarchists decided that they 
needed to join the movement, and on the 1st of December they were in the streets.

Anarchists are also actively involved in protesting. Even if the delegates did not 
negotiate with the government, it was because the anarchists had come to the core of the 
movement and almost physically detained those who wanted to negotiate. But so far, it is 
at the rumor level that needs to be verified.

If I understand correctly, people who do not usually go to mass demonstrations are the 
basis for the protestors. Why did they do this this time? And, moreover, they have made 
political demands - the resignation of Macron.

Why they stepped out, that's really interesting. I'm afraid this is not the only answer. 
However, it can be assumed that this was the consequence of the many unpopular laws Macron 
had accepted. The reform of the Labor Code was very unpopular. He had to push her out with 
a special precaution. This allows, in an emergency, to accept any law without discussion. 
(This state was proclaimed in France after the attacks in Paris in November 2015 and is 
still in force.) His admission accompanied great protests, which began to be called Nuit 
debout. And other protests were in 2017. But they were typically leftist and unions. And 
the working people saw it all and they said, "Yes, the law is bad, but we will stay at 
home for the time." But the increase in taxes on diesel was obviously the last drop in 
what was generally done in the budget area.

People from very different layers went to the streets. Reforms have affected not only 
fuel. As a result of the latest reforms, the railway budget was jeopardized, and railroad 
drivers began protesting at about the same time as the "population." Protests have merged 
and eventually slumped into one.

Macron's reforms are extremely unpopular. He is called the "President of the Rich" or "the 
President of the Start-ups" as he actively promotes new employment reforms like Uberu. 
Such "self-denial" of work. That is why taxi drivers joined the protests. A lot of people 
take it that the president is trying to solve the problems of the rich at the expense of 
ordinary people.

It is interesting where the symbol of the yellow vest was taken. According to French law, 
everybody must have such a vest in the car. So the vestments symbolically unified all, 
including the poorest drivers, those who have diesel cars and have to make the most of the 
tax. The movement began to be referred to as the "black block in the yellow vest" because 
the protesters look like the same dressed people who pillage and overturn cars.

Who actually decided to use violence? Youth from poorer districts, "radicals", "vandals" 
or ordinary protesters?

The yellow vests moved very quickly to the physical presence outside and "work" with 
public space and infrastructure. The railroads broke the tracks (they did not just sit on 
the tracks with the pickets, but they really destroyed them). Suddenly the blockades 
started, the tires were tumbling, the cars were overturning, barricades were built on the 
road exits, and permanent camps were being organized. Even today there are dozens of such 
blockades across the country. Resistance has been physical from the very beginning. 
Thousands of men in the Thuir prefecture set fire. Outstanding white kids with rakes and 
shovels emerged into the streets and thrust them into the car windshields. There were also 
children from the slums or the Breton with their flags among them. Just a mixture. So, it 
can not be said that only some unsuccessful grooms did it. At some point, they all did 
everything together.

And, of course, it has to be added that they were looting in the shops. But that is part 
of the folk anger, confronting the bourgeois districts. After all, the Paris protests 
broke out in the most prestigious neighborhoods with very expensive dwellings. If you live 
there, you are an enemy.

Even for ordinary protest participants? Did they also take part in attacks on the elite 
neighborhood?

Yes. Firstly, the Elysee Fields were selected as a demonstration site, not only near the 
Elysee Palace, but there are also the most concentrated boutiques and banks. It's a 
financial district. And this choice was not accidental at all. Protesters have identified 
their enemy, and even anti-capitalist passwords have been used by right-wing political 
groups who have joined the protests.

In general, protesters did the same thing as the "black block", but this time there were 
very many and the police were not prepared for it at all. Protests were held in different 
cities, people were constantly moving into smaller groups, and to be able to solve this 
problem, it would have to close half of the city. Today I heard that in about one day the 
cops had thrown about ten thousand tear grenades, and at one point they just got ammunition.

There is another interesting contradiction. The increase in the fuel tax was considered an 
environmental measure to reduce emissions, and it could have seemed quite a progressive 
measure. Are not yellow vests coming out of it like fighters against good environmental 
initiatives?

In this case, it was that ecological measures should be taken at the expense of the poor. 
Instead of taxing large businesses that are destroying the environment much more than 
cars, politicians have decided to throw a problem on the shoulders of ordinary people. 
People are not against ecology, they are not against the rescue of the planet, but they 
are clear that they are cheated. For those who are responsible for air pollution, at the 
same time, they pay either the same as they paid before, or nothing at all.

In addition, in 2015, a climate summit in Paris was held in which no effective measures 
have been taken to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. For example, it was proposed to reduce 
rail transport to make it cheaper than aviation. But it did not work: monopolists do not 
want to reduce ticket prices. And the new law will only raise prices.

Everyone understands this problem. They all want to live on a clean planet with good air. 
But people do not understand why they should pay for it, not big businesses.

If we were to trust the government, then it would start paying a moratorium in the coming 
days. Will it end the protests? Who protects this decision and who will continue to fight 
for political demands?

It is hard to say, but those who have already gone to the streets with passwords against 
Macron - and there were a lot of them - will certainly stay. Of course, not everyone. 
Anarchists will definitely continue into one.

There is a real fear that protests will fall. But the result can not be predicted with 
certainty. In addition, new protests by lyceum students have begun. They are blocking 
their schools across the country, which may mean new developments. Everything will be 
cleared this Saturday when other protest actions are to take place.[According to mass 
media, about 136,000 people participated in Saturday protests across France, two thousand 
of them detained, AF.]

I would say that protests in their present form may fall off, but something new can also 
begin.

https://www.afed.cz/text/6913/cerny-blok-ve-zlutych-vestach

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Message: 5





The intervention video is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1gImE938pQ ---- Solidarity 
with competitors and strugglers, insurgents and insurgents in France ---- Lately, a 
rebellious climate has struck the heart of Western capitalism and has managed to pass on 
the fear of the urban camp, to challenge the privileges of the powerful and to demand more 
decent working and living conditions. This movement is publicly known as "yellow vests" 
due to the relevant insignia of the demonstrators who make it. It was launched in May 2018 
via the internet when signatures were signed against the introduction of a fuel price 
increase measure announced by French President Emmanuel Macron for 2019. The "yellow 
vests", however, met on the road for the first time on November 11, on the hundredth 
anniversary of the end of World War I, protesting against austerity policies, inflation, 
corruption and government arbitrariness. With a center in Paris, the demonstrations spread 
to other cities in France, taking on a nearly daily basis a collisionist character either 
by attacking repression forces or by expropriating and hitting capitalist targets such as 
multinationals. Dynamic and young people, students and students, unions and political 
organizations, anti-fascist, migrant and environmental initiatives are involved in the 
event. The French state's response is the relentless repression and the militarization of 
the French cities. Tear gas and plastic spheres are thrown out of hand, as the French 
police have sprung up on the streets by beating protesters and proceeding to massive 
adulterations and arrests, trying at every opportunity to terrorize the protesters, such 
as when it forced a group of students to kneel with their hands on the back, a picture 
that resembles the "ritual" of executive fragments. In Marseilles, an 80-year-old woman 
lost her life after she was fatally injured by tear gas fragments while she was closing 
the windows of her home. Under the command of Makron, the army has also descended on the 
street to contribute to the suppression of the insurgent crowd, while at the same time 
they have been hijacked at nodal points in Paris and even snipers. after being lethally 
injured by tear gas fragments while she was closing the windows of her home. Under the 
command of Makron, the army has also descended on the street to contribute to the 
suppression of the insurgent crowd, while at the same time they have been hijacked at 
nodal points in Paris and even snipers. after being lethally injured by tear gas fragments 
while she was closing the windows of her home. Under the command of Makron, the army has 
also descended on the street to contribute to the suppression of the insurgent crowd, 
while at the same time they have been hijacked at nodal points in Paris and even snipers.

The "yellow vest" movement has gradually expanded its claims agenda and has now begun 
setting the class terms of its struggles. Among other things, "yellow vests" are 
struggling to avoid homelessness on the road, raising the minimum wage to 1300 euros, 
class proportional taxation (the rich to pay a lot, and the poor few), a social system 
insurance and retirement services on a level playing field for all, with 60 years 
retirement for all and 55 years for those who carry out heavy manual labor and with the 
elimination of profiteering against the elderly. Given the deregulation of labor relations 
and the class depreciation of the social base, the demands of the movement include the 
adjustment of wages and pensions on the basis of inflation trends, the protection of jobs 
in industry, the creation of new jobs and contracts of indefinite duration, the 
safeguarding of the same labor rights irrespective of nationality, the increase in 
disability benefits, the blocking of privatizations and the closure of small post offices, 
schools and kindergartens. The reaction to the aggravated austerity policies finds 
expression in the social de-emulation of the repayment of the amortization that bans the 
popular strata at a painful cost, and in consequence the requirement that the tax-evaded 
capitalists, not the proletariat, should repay the debt. Among the peaks of the "yellow 
vest" movement, the immigration issue has been raised, through claims for decent treatment 
of asylum seekers (food, housing and public education) and the fight against the causes of 
forced migration, as well as the ecological issue , as well as energy management. Along 
with the rapid decline of the social majority, coupled with the increasing 
proletarianization of the petty bourgeois strata as a result of the capitalist crisis, 
housing costs have risen in France, with more and more low-paid people being forced to 
leave urban centers and settle outside metropolitan fabric, making it necessary to use the 
car for their journeys.

Without any doubt, it seems that at the moment the "yellow vest" movement is relatively 
heterogeneous and spontaneous in its generation. This can be confirmed by some of the 
corporate and bourgeois demands, which, as well as by the extreme-right attempt to pierce 
and bury it with xenophobia and racism. The president of the National Front right-wing 
party, Marin Le Pen, has publicly expressed her support for the "yellow vests", reading 
that appropriate regular movements and corresponding communicative tricks can ensure 
increased party voting rates. The far-right attempts to hinder the movement and 
demonstrations, to prevent conflicts and class demands, focusing only on the issue of fuel 
and the rise of French nationalism through the lines of a chauvinistic Euro-skepticism, 
which is supposed to be otherwise "antisystemic". Of course, it is worth noting that there 
are few incidents in which anti-fascist protesters flattened or expelled the far-right 
from the "yellow vest" mobilizations. Clearly, these moves are positively valued for class 
struggles and are a betting, but also a historic task for oppressed and exploited to break 
the fascists and nationalists in every effort they make to socially and class struggle in 
a small-political way. Thus, the nationalists' crippling and exuberance must be 
generalized by the "yellow vests" and the anti-fascist fighters who flank their ranks so 
that the struggles of the movement can move in a class direction without setbacks and 
internal cannibalism. Under no circumstances, however, can we say that "yellow vests" are 
a far-right movement. We do not want to assign a massive conflict movement to the 
bourgeois reaction represented by the far-right, by being "purists". The bourgeois type 
and the regime media try to baptize this particular movement as a purely far-right to gain 
the depreciation and condemnation of as much as possible a portion of French society can, 
thus attempting to prevent further massification and intensification of collusion of. so 
that the struggles of the movement can move in a class direction, without setbacks and 
internal cannibalism. Under no circumstances, however, can we say that "yellow vests" are 
a far-right movement. We do not want to assign a massive conflict movement to the 
bourgeois reaction represented by the far-right, by being "purists". The bourgeois type 
and the regime media try to baptize this particular movement as a purely far-right to gain 
the depreciation and condemnation of as much as possible a portion of French society can, 
thus attempting to prevent further massification and intensification of collusion of. so 
that the struggles of the movement can move in a class direction, without setbacks and 
internal cannibalism. Under no circumstances, however, can we say that "yellow vests" are 
a far-right movement. We do not want to assign a massive conflict movement to the 
bourgeois reaction represented by the far-right, by being "purists". The bourgeois type 
and the regime media try to baptize this particular movement as a purely far-right to gain 
the depreciation and condemnation of as much as possible a portion of French society can, 
thus attempting to prevent further massification and intensification of collusion of. we 
can not say that "yellow vests" are a far-right movement. We do not want to assign a 
massive conflict movement to the bourgeois reaction represented by the far-right, by being 
"purists". The bourgeois type and the regime media try to baptize this particular movement 
as a purely far-right to gain the depreciation and condemnation of as much as possible a 
portion of French society can, thus attempting to prevent further massification and 
intensification of collusion of. we can not say that "yellow vests" are a far-right 
movement. We do not want to assign a massive conflict movement to the bourgeois reaction 
represented by the far-right, by being "purists". The bourgeois type and the regime media 
try to baptize this particular movement as a purely far-right to gain the depreciation and 
condemnation of as much as possible a portion of French society can, thus attempting to 
prevent further massification and intensification of collusion of.

Also, the attitude of the major trade unions, which, of course, works in bureaucratic 
terms and is so sudden and seeming to be "muted" by the revolt that is unfolding is also 
problematic. The trade union leadership of the largest class unions in France, the CGT, 
has so far been reluctant to contribute to the bout of the struggle and very hesitant to 
call for a general strike as long as the conditions require.

At that time, the political system in France and the urban establishment have been deeply 
skewed and declared to have been forfeited by the masses of the insurgent people 
themselves. At the same time, the French bourgeoisie, as well as Euro-Atlantic 
imperialism, have been alarmed as the rebels' currents refuse to live in poverty, 
devaluation and impoverishment, which is why it is increasingly questioning capitalist 
class sovereignty, injustice and inequality, detecting and walking the streets of direct 
conflict with the world of sovereigns. The "yellow vest" movement has once again 
demonstrated in the world history of social and class struggles that the only opposition 
is in the streets, through the uninterrupted and unpretentious action of the social base 
itself. The issue of President Macron's overthrowing has now arisen within France's wider 
competition movement. The reformist left calls for early elections, wanting to move on to 
the familiar frameworks of the bourgeois compromise in order to defeat social and class 
resistances and seek to re-initiate a new period of retreat for the downstream struggles, 
acting as a decompression valve resistances for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. The 
overthrow of President Macron and the re-election of a president may mean only a simple 
change of guard, just a change in the civilian staff of capital, perhaps with the shy 
logic of choosing as little harmful government as possible. The issue of elections can not 
be the end in itself of the movement. The elections do not change radically, they do not 
affect capitalism in its core, and they are virtually completely innocuous for the 
sovereigns (as it was so obvious in the Greek case with SYRIZA's example). What oppressed 
and exploited as opponents of their struggles should be is the overall transformation of 
social and productive relationships towards generalized social self-management and 
self-management of production, bringing to the spot immediate satisfaction of social needs 
and holistic self-realization of each individual. A massive and collusive movement will 
eventually be defeated if it brakes in the middle of the road if it stops in the elections.

Now is the moment when oppressed and exploited in France can dare what the state and their 
capital have forbidden to claim. The ground of urbanism is shaking, the sharpening of 
struggles has to be stepped up, class solidarity and racial collectivization can make the 
movement more coherent and turn it into a revolutionary direction, capable of even 
claiming in material terms the proletarian raid in sky.

 From the Aravakots and the Lissassians of the Great French Revolution, the 
Revolutionaries of the Spring of the Peoples of 1848, the Communists of the Paris Commune 
of 1871, the French anarcho-syndicalists at the dawn of the 20th century, the partisan 
anti-fascists in the Second World War, the rebellious students, young people and workers 
of the French May of 68 'as ZAD activists, the burning ghettos of immigrants and the 
"yellow vest" movement, the flame of the rebellion and the belief in the right of the 
social revolution are lasting q present in France and not only. The historical need that 
has its foundation in the material roots of capitalist exploitation,

For our part, we express our unparalleled internationalist, class solidarity with the 
struggling and struggling, rebels and insurgents of France who aspire to a better world 
for all, support their righteous struggle and hope to make the most extensive wins 
possible for the benefit of the bottom. Capitalism and statehood have, for centuries, been 
quite bloody and exterminating the world working class. Let us move concerted and 
internationally into the counter-attack against the state, capital and imperialism, with 
our weapons self-organization and direct action, class solidarity and proletarian 
internationalism, for the global social revolution, libertarian communism, anarchy.

Eleftherios Initiative of Thessaloniki ,

Anarchist Collectivity of Rubikon

(members of the Anarchist Federation)

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Message: 6






Struggling to Care: Class Struggle in the Care System.
The meeting will include discussions on topics of mental health, Universal Credit and 
social work with a speaker from Mental Health Resistance Network invited. Takes place on 
Sunday January 13th at 2pm at:
May Day Rooms
88 Fleet Street
London EC4Y 1DH
(nearest tube Blackfriars and St, Paul's, bus 15)
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2018/12/13/london-meeting-class-struggle-in-the-care-system-13th-jan/

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