Today's Topics:
1. ait-russia, Ukraine: Anarchists stand in solidarity with the
fight of doctors [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
fight of doctors [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, maurokok kino: Text of solidarity with the anarchist
Eroll (ca, de, it, pt) [machine translation]
Eroll (ca, de, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #311 - Unionism,
Auchan: no large distribution of wealth (ca, de, it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Auchan: no large distribution of wealth (ca, de, it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, To Break the Wall of Silence. In the midst of a
pandemic, the state kills in prisons By APO
pandemic, the state kills in prisons By APO
[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, Interventions against gender-based oppression in the
midst of a pandemic by the Women's Initiative
midst of a pandemic by the Women's Initiative
Against Patriarchy
by Anarchist "xx Horse" APO [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
by Anarchist "xx Horse" APO [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. [Chile] Valparaíso: Anarchism here and now | Inauguration
of anarchist space By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
of anarchist space By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. UK, anarchist communist ACG: Interview with NHS nurse
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On December 16, Lviv anarchists from the "Black Flag" and "People's Action" held
a rally against the neoliberal policy of the authorities in the health sector.
Protesters drew public attention to the fact that medical officials and oligarchs
continue to destroy public health services, encouraging private health care
instead. ---- Salaries of doctors in Ukraine remain low (below the average).
According to the country's Ministry of Health, the average salary of a doctor is
about 9 thousand hryvnia (about 24 thousand rubles), nursing staff - 7 thousand
hryvnia (about 18.5 thousand rubles), and a junior salary is 5 thousand hryvnia (
about 13 thousand rubles). ---- Anarchists expressed their support and solidarity
to the doctors. During the action, which took place under the slogans "For
doctors - a decent budget and salary" and "For nurses - a decent salary", the
following requirements of doctors were voiced:
1. Financing of medicine at the level of at least 7% of GDP.
2. Increase of salaries from 01.01.2021 for medical workers to the level of UAH
23 thousand for doctors; 17 thousand - to nurses; 12 thousand junior medical staff.
3. Guarantee of receiving insurance payments for occupational diseases for
patients with COVID-19.
4. Publication of medical expenses and income budgets (open accounting),
collective right to choose the management of medical institutions.
5. Launching a state program to provide medical workers with housing.
6. Stop the destruction of the institutions of phthisiology, psychiatry and
epidemiological services.
7. Transfer of nurses working in school and preschool institutions to the staff
of health care institutions of the Ministry of Health.
After the rally, the protesters staged a procession through the city streets.
A source:
https://www.facebook.com/blackflagua/posts/1007699079717234
https://aitrus.info/node/5606
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Message: 2
On December 6, Erol, an anarchist of French descent, is arrested and charged with
spreading the virus, which leads to deportation due to the pandemic. The
deportation sentence is currently pending against him on the pretext that he is a
"public danger" ---- The December 6 demonstration was a bet for the state, a bet
it ultimately lost. A total ban on the demonstration, under the guise of a
pandemic and with the ultimate goal of creating a condition in which the
movement's forces would be forced to retreat in the face of state demands,
creating an even more suffocating situation for all those who fight but also for
the oppressed in general. was eventually accomplished by the state and its
assassins in uniform. The coordination, organization and stubbornness of dozens
of comrades all over Greece managed to break, even for a few hours, the universal
ban imposed once again by the Ministry of "Citizen Protection" and attempted to
implement by the mercenary army of the occupiers. , keeping the flame of the
December uprising burning, keeping intact in the collective memory the figure of
the murdered Alexandros Grigoropoulos. Among the crowd of these fighters was
Eroll, who due to his political action, his participation in the anarchist
movement and his origin is the ideal scapegoat to implement the state policies of
repression and discipline. The method of deportation of Eroll, is not just a
direct threat to all the fighters who happen to not have Greek citizenship, that
a simple arrest in a demonstration could be a reason for deportation. It also
aims to create accomplished events, events on which it can rely in the future to
hit the movement and the fighters even harder.
It becomes clear, then, that the state will use every possible means to suppress
whoever chooses the path of struggle. Its arsenal is large and for this every
possible means is used. State repression is sometimes expressed through brutal
repression of cops, sexist attacks, torture of comrades and squatting
evacuations, and sometimes takes more "bloodless" forms through exhaustive
financial guarantees or deportation methods. From the immigrants stacked in the
infernos of Petros Ralli and Kara Tepe in miserable conditions and the daily
pushbacks to the repressive methods against the anarchist movement, the attitude
of the authorities for the complete crushing of the oppressed and the fighters is
evident. For us, the method of expelling the anarchist Eroll, fits into this very
context. The origin of a man, that is, becomes the means by which the state will
manage to "get rid" of an anarchist. Our solidarity with anyone who is hit by the
state and capital is not only self-evident and imperative.
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Message: 3
If there is one sector that garners "coronaprofits", it is supermarkets ! This
does not prevent the employers from laying off and restructuring. ---- Nicolas
Deluzier, CGT union delegate at Auchan in Clermont-Ferrand, is categorical:
"Large-scale distribution has never made as much revenue as during periods of
confinement." So that since November 4, some non-food sections were closed by the
government, not to diminish the crowds in the stores but to limit competition
with small shops closed. ---- Result: a majority of Auchan employees are now on
partial unemployment. For Nicolas, it is neither more nor less than a "taking
hostage of employees by the Federation of Commerce and Distribution, the
employers' union, to put pressure on the government so that it authorizes the
reopening of closed shelves" .
Timid but real collective resistance
The employers in the sector, already stuffed with public aid - 755 million under
the CICE paid to the Carrefour group alone between 2013 and 2019, not to mention
the reduction in contributions - did not wait for the health crisis to
restructure in order to increase profits to the detriment of workers.
The health context has also enabled it to impose more "versatility" on employees
and to better target its future redundancy plans - the drive, in strong
expansion, requires less labor.
Faced with these attacks, the resistance is difficult to organize in "a sector
where there is no history of struggles such as in the metallurgy or at the SNCF,
and with the majority trade union organizations (CFTC, FO) far removed from the
trade unionism. of combat", according to Nicolas, of the CGT-Auchan. It is also
difficult, in the field, to leave "yourlittle shop" to go see the employees of
other department stores to act together.
However, there is no question of "standing idly by": 80% of strikers on October 8
on the Auchan logistics platform located in Cournon (near Clermont-Ferrand),
which shows real anger.
During the first confinement, the employees of the department stores were able to
impose better protection of their health at work and, temporarily, reclaimed the
work tool. "Thewhole reorganization of the stores was carried out by the" little
hands ", the" first chores ". It was then that the colleagues said to themselves
that the shareholders were useless ! » Says Nicolas, enthusiastic but lucid: the
self-management socialization of mass distribution is not for tomorrow.
A day of industrial action has been set for November 27, the theoretical date of
"Black Friday". Of course, for Nicolas, "the problems of employment, wages and
working conditions do not only affect trade: it is the entire world of work that
is concerned" . And who must, according to him, coordinate to act. Chick ?
Dadou (UCL Clermont-Ferrand)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Auchan-pas-de-grande-distribution-des-richesses
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Message: 4
Interventions of the Anarchist Political Organization with banners in Athens,
Thessaloniki and Patras and a relevant announcement. ---- To Break the Wall of
Silence. In the midst of a pandemic, the state kills in prisons ---- "They are
playing with our lives and in fact it is as if we have been sentenced to
death[...]For me at least and for most prisoners it was certain, with
mathematical precision, that the coronavirus would go to jail. Because on the one
hand they have not taken any sanitary measures from the side of the Directorate
and the Ministry. On the other hand, we experienced a behavior from the human
guards who came in without masks, many times they came in without gloves and we
put their hand on them to wear their masks and gloves. There were no sanitary
measures, regular disinfection was not done properly and it was certain that many
of us would get sick as we are in wards of 8 and 10 people ".
V. Stathopoulos, an anarchist prisoner in Larissa prison
In the midst of a pandemic, the anti-social and murderous nature of the state and
capitalist system emerges in an even more tragic way. The health crisis we are
facing is intensifying through the criminal policies of the rulers, who not only
do not care about the needs of the social base, but condemn it to poverty, misery
and death. At a time when thousands of people are sick and hundreds have lost
their lives as a result of the complete devaluation and abandonment of the public
health system (with staff, material and hospital shortages), far-right political
management is accelerating anti-social restructuring processes and a series of
measures, of a repressive and non-sanitary nature.
Political and economic bosses attempt through the media, with the rhetoric of
individual responsibility, to transfer full responsibility for cases and victims
to the social base, to the bottom of this world, rinsing governments and states
of their own criminal responsibilities. At the same time, anyone attempting to
fight against state and capitalist dystopia is being targeted and violently
suppressed.
Today, prisons and immigrant camps across the country are miserable with
congestion and congestion, in a few square meters. Especially in prisons, the
cases are now hundreds, a fact that creates the conditions for the creation of
millions of dead prisoners in the near future. In Diavata prison, 3 prisoners
have already lost their lives. Where cases occur in prisons, the only measure
that is applied is that of isolating cases in chambers stacked on top of each
other and without any health care at all. In the prisons of Larissa, hundreds of
prisoners were diagnosed positive for the virus after their own mobilization with
which they demanded to undergo mass tests. Among them is the anarchist Vangelis
Stathopoulos, a prisoner who belongs to vulnerable groups and experiences state
analgesia in practice. The management of covid-19 in prisons is an ongoing state
crime.
In these circumstances, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is fully
responsible for the criminal lack of sanitary measures and resources and the
miserable conditions in the hells of democracy, proposed a new bill to sweep the
rights of prisoners. More specifically, the n / s complicates the possibility of
granting regular leave, as detainees are now entitled to leave after serving 2/5
of their sentence, a time limit that coincides with the possibility of requesting
release from prison. At the same time, it tightens the criteria for transfer to
rural prisons, prohibiting the transfer and stay of convicts and detainees for
terrorist activities. The last measure clearly targets the fighter D. Koufontina
as he is the only one convicted of terrorism who is serving his sentence in rural
prisons. This bill, which was voted a few days ago, is a point in the
continuation of the systematic extermination of prisoners. Beatings, intrusions
into suffocating small cells, and even deaths in prisons are not uncommon.
Attempts are being made to transform the country's prisons into Type C prisons
and to abolish those who were conquered by attitudes, struggles and uprisings
inside and outside prisons for life and dignity.
In the face of the pandemic and the state-capitalist barbarism that all it has to
offer to the social majority is poverty, impoverishment, repression, exploitation
and death, let us advance the struggle for life and dignity. To organize social
self-defense and class counterattack, with our weapon of solidarity and mutual
assistance for building a society of equality, freedom and justice.
PROTECTION MEASURES FOR PRISONERS
IMMEDIATE DECOMMODATION OF PRISONS
EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE - ONLY THE PEOPLE WILL SAVE THE PEOPLE!
Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities
http://apo.squathost.com/na-spasoume-to-tichos-tis-siopis-en-meso-pandimias-to-kratos-dolofoni-stis-filakes/
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Message: 5
Posted in: Women's initiative against patriarchy . Tagged: patriarchy , gender
violence , gender oppression . Leave a comment ---- In recent months, in the
midst of a pandemic and especially in the midst of a traffic ban, attacks on
women as part of the bottom have intensified, with the state and capitalist
system of organizing society already condemning millions of people to death from
starvation and disease. and war, to seek the perpetuation of his privileges and
power. The response of the state and capital to the spread of the crown was and
is the invocation of individual responsibility and the mandatory confinement of
people in their homes with the aim of not eliminating the pandemic obviously,
since no substantial health measures have been taken all these months, but
discipline and control.
But "We Stay Home" is not possible for many people, it is not possible for the
homeless, the refugees, the immigrants and the prisoners. The same is true for
women and children who experience gender-based violence in their own homes, with
the incidence of domestic violence having increased significantly during the
period of compulsory incarceration, as evidenced by the increase in telephone
calls to the respective lines. assistance and increase the incidence of such
cases in hospitals. Nor can it be possible for all those women who work day and
night in supermarkets, call centers, hospitals, etc. under destructive working
conditions and with minimal -to minimal- protection measures.
Thus, on Friday 18/12 and Saturday 19/12 we carried out interventions against the
gender oppression experienced by women in the midst of a pandemic in two
supermarkets in the center of Patras.
Hundreds of texts were distributed, t-shirts were thrown and banners were hung.
In the midst of a curfew it is more necessary than ever to remain on the streets
of the race. We must escalate our struggle against patriarchy, the state and
capital. Against the bans and the coordinated attack of the state and capital to
advance the organized and uncompromising struggle. To clash with the laws and
requirements of the rulers.
LOCK DOWN IN PATRIARCHY, STATE AND CHAPTER
THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN emancipation NOT ENTERED IN QUARANTINE
FROM ROTZAVA TO CHILE AND FROM MEXICO TO POLAND internationalist and class GAMES
WOMEN FOR LIFE AND FREEDOM
The text of the interventionhere:
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SEXUAL OPPRESSION DOES NOT QUARTAIN
In recent months and in the midst of a pandemic and especially in the midst of a
curfew, it has
intensify the attack on women as part of the bottom, with the state and
capitalist system
organization of society, which is already condemning millions of people to starvation
diseases and war, to seek the perpetuation of his privileges and power. The answer
of the state and capital in the spread of the crown was and is the invocation of
the individual
responsibility and the mandatory confinement of people in their homes with the
aim of not eliminating it
pandemic obviously, since no substantial health measures have been taken by all
of them
months, but discipline and control. The state itself that for years completely
degraded
public health, is what today invokes our individual responsibility for the spread
of the virus.
But "Staying Home" is not possible for many people, it is not possible for the
homeless,
refugees, immigrants and detainees. The same goes for
women and children experiencing gender-based violence in their own home with the
phenomena
domestic violence have increased significantly during the period of compulsory
incarceration,
as evidenced by the increase in telephone calls to the respective helplines
and increasing the incidence of such cases in hospitals. The state campaigns for
Dealing with domestic violence is at least hypocritical as we know that
this system feeds and is nourished by the patriarchy and has no disposition to
rupture and substantive
resolving such incidents.
Then, "staying home" may not be possible for all those women who
They work day and night in supermarkets, call centers, hospitals, etc. under
destructive working conditions and with minimal - to no - protection measures. At
the same time, the
patriarchal society wants the woman to take full responsibility for the household
and her
raising children in the midst of a pandemic. At the risk of their lives, working
women daily
they continue to go to work which makes them even more burdensome especially if
these are single-parent families.
Also, the criminal conditions faced by both immigrants / women in camps
as well as inmates in prisons and psychiatric clinics place their
these people in a constant state of danger. There, the huge crowd, the miserable ones
living conditions and lack of medical care predict a frightening future,
as rapid transmission of the virus seems inevitable. Typical examples are the
death of prisoner Azizel Deniroglu, who died helpless in her cell, in her prison
Thebes on April 9, which sparked a riot in the prisons by the other detainees
which, however, was savagely suppressed by the MAT as well as their recent
suicide attempts
women detained in the Amygdaleza detention center due to inhumane conditions
living they face. Also indicative is the fact that they were deprived of the
opportunity
access to hospitals for migrant women at the beginning of the pandemic, even for
process of childbirth.
At the same time, the state with its repressive mechanisms is attacking twice and
staying on
struggling women who refuse to submit to the fate of domination and
resist, setting up daily embankments in the onslaught of modern totalitarianism
and in
attempted social emphasis. Especially in the case of struggling women, the vengeful
mania of the state and its mechanisms, strikes twice. It hits them, both on the
basis of gender oppression
as women, as well as on the basis of their militancy against what domination
requires. Is not
after all, we have rarely witnessed further attacks of sexist violence on women
fighters during repressive attacks. Features, on December 6, 2019 at
Patras, MAT launched a brutal attack on women activists by exercising their gender
violence and making threats, sexist insults and gestures. While at the same time,
a few days
before, on November 25, the police, trying to convince us of their willingness to
eliminate the
gender-based violence in collaboration with the General Secretariat for Family
Policy & Gender Equality and
the Research Center for Gender Equality (KETHI) distributed a leaflet in the
center of Patras
information material on the prevention and treatment of violence against women.
It is clear to us that the introduction of the regime two days a year, related to
women, does not atone for sovereignty for its crimes. For her crimes against them
women, for its crimes against
women, for the daily brutal direct or indirect violence exercised by them. All of
the above
are situations that this world gives birth to, this world maintains and
reproduces. THE
regime introduction of such days aims at disinfesting and silencing bloody
days of struggle and resistance of millions of women around the world, distorting
the case
of female emancipation.
We stand in solidarity with the struggle of women in Mexico who are reacting and
fighting against
in the daily and ever-increasing murders of women, in rapes and disappearances. THE
mass and militant march in February outside Mexico's presidential palace against
Murders on the occasion of the brutal murder of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamila in
Mexico City
and the recent publication of photos of her mutilated body in the newspapers
occupation in early September at the building of the National Commission for
Human Rights in
Mexico City (CDNH) in order for the respective authorities to fully resolve the
requests of several
relatives of victims of abuse, as well as the demonstration on 28 September,
World Day for
abortions, where women took to the streets again to claim militarily safe, free
and legal abortions everywhere, remind us that the struggle for female
emancipation is
existing, necessary and the only way.
At the same time, in Poland on October 23 the state declares unconstitutional the
law on
abortions, banning them almost universally. That same night, crowds took to the
streets for
to claim the self-evident right of women to self-determination of their body. Few
days
then, anarchist women in Poznan symbolically occupy an old hospital and name it
"Abortion clinic". The state broke the occupation and made numerous arrests. The
Friday, October 30, thousands of protesters took to the streets
Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice and other Polish cities. So, after 12 days with
mass and militant demonstrations broke out in many parts of Poland, the far-right
Polish
government "froze" law enforcement. Against the control of our bodies and the gloomy
future reserved for us by the rulers around the world, we propose militant resistance
and their social self-organization from below to the demolition of its rotten world
patriarchy, the state and capitalism.
We send a message of solidarity to all women who are fighting around the world
and we are trying
to unite our voices. From women in Poland and Mexico to women in Zapatista
mountains of southeastern Mexico and the insurgent Zapatista communities, as far
as the Kurds
guerrillas and the revolutionary Rojava, we have only to organize, to collect
and as women and to resist all together, with the workers, the unemployed, the
students, the
students, LOATKI + people, to unite our voices and action towards our everyday
dynasties, with a vision of a society of equality, dignity, freedom and solidarity.
In the midst of a curfew it is more necessary than ever to stay on its streets
match. We must escalate our struggle against patriarchy, the state and capital.
Against the bans and the coordinated attack of state and capital to put forward
organized and uncompromising struggle. To clash with the laws and requirements of
the rulers.
LOCK DOWN IN PATRIARCHY, STATE AND CAPITAL
THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT DOES NOT QUARTAIN
FROM ROZAVA TO CHILE AND FROM MEXICO TO POLAND
WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL AND CLASSROOM STRUGGLES FOR LIFE AND FREEDOM
women initiative against patriarchy
https://prwtovouliagynaikwn.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/sm_covid.pdf
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/
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Message: 6
One year after the first Self-summoned Anarchist Assembly in Valparaíso, born in
the heat of revolt and collective joys and anxieties and 100 years after the
repressive forces attacked the IWW anarchist union site in this same territory,
we invite you to recognize us find to talk and build new complicities and
collective alliances, open and diverse in the inauguration of this new anarchist
space that we call Flora, with our ancestors and future buds in thought and
action. ---- We propose to share in a community space an open conversation around
the anarchism that we have imagined and built here and now, in our territories
and communities and what were our experiences, reflections and imaginations
during this year of meeting.
We are waiting for you this Friday (12/18) at 5 pm (sharp!) In office 9 of the
building located in Serrano 591.
Self-summoned Anarchist Assembly Valparaíso
Translation> Sol de Abril
Related content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2020/10/06/chile-assembleia-anarquista-autoconvocada-valparaiso-07-de-outubro/
anarchist news agency-ana
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Message: 7
The pandemic, pay and the state of the NHS: a nurse speaks to the No Safety No
Work (NSNW) campaign -- From the NSNW website ---- Q. What are your main concerns
about the NHS? ---- A. The health service has a shortage of 40,000 nurses and
10,000 doctors.By 2030 the NHS vacancy rate is predicted to rise to 250,000. ----
The billionaire, ex hedge fund managing Chancellor has now pitted public sector
worker against private sector worker as a divide and rule tactic.All workers
benefit from the labour of others and all deserve wages that reflect the true
worth of their contribution to society and comparisons are invidious. ---- In
2016 Jeremy Hunt gave £12.5 million to the Virginia Mason Institute hospital in
Seattle in order to teach five trusts how to maintain standards.During that
period my hospital failed in 29 areas. John Lister, national spokesman for Keep
Our NHS Public, suggested that if we return our health system to a well funded,
publicly managed and provided NHS service and we end wasteful private contracts
and market principles, then patient's will receive safer and more efficient
care.America has a neoliberal tendency to monetise and financially engineer
operations in favour of short termism. It would seem that we are being eased
gradually into a USA style healthcare model. The NHS is being set up to fail so
that the global private healthcare sector can be called to come to the rescue. It
makes me angry and depressed.
Q. How did the NHS manage the Covid 19 first wave?
A. Dr Dominic Pimenta, a junior doctor, started a charity, HEROES, to try and
obtain much needed PPE.His hospital ran out of supplies and he also stated that
some hospitals were low on oxygen and some drugs. The NHS has to avoid being seen
as something that needs to be supported by charity, even in an "unprecedented
emergency". It was well known that pandemics were a feature of global capitalism
and the failure to plan and prepare adequately for them is as disconcerting as it
is sinister.
In some hospitals PPE guidance changed 30 times.
Staff are not routinely tested and in areas where this was carried out it was
discontinued as many staff tested positive.Long term Covid is triggering
disciplinary actions regarding sick time.Morale has been badly hit and many
workers are considering leaving the service as they will never work under the
conditions that they have experienced again.The continuous employment of newly
qualified staff in specialised areas is not fair on inexperienced staff or the
experienced staff who have to ‘carry' them. Hospital managers are only concerned
about being seen to have "safe" staffing ratios. Staff morale and patient care
does not seem to have been considered. Migrant workers are compliant, due to
obvious reasons like security of tenure, and many staff are scared regarding
keeping their jobs and wanting to gain promotion.Privatisation will inevitably
creep in to the staffing of the service with more and more agency staff being
used. There is very little solidarity among staff. This is why we need support
from our communities and campaigners.
Q. Can you tell us about the NHS Pay Campaign?
A. Our campaign has been led by grassroots organising groups, like Nurses
United, but we have placed an emphasis on the need to join a union.There is now a
coordinated response in order to obtain the pay award. The Royal College of
Nursing (RCN), the clue is in the name, has broken ranks, though, and has
forbidden its members from joining Nurses United. However, it is well known that
the RCN is a ‘sweetheart' organisation so we are not discouraged by their attitude.
Nurses do not have a pay review body that truly represents their workforce's pay
interests.Not a single nurse, midwife or allied health professional sits on the
panel.
Nurses launched a Facebook page after nurses and other public sector staff were
left out of a public sector pay rise and now it has grown to an engagement of
85,000 people.Student nurses, midwives and other NHS trainees pay for their
training.We are marginalised and our voices are ignored by politicians.Pay
justice is about a real terms increase and nurses wages are 20% lower than they
were a decade ago.It is now a difficult time to campaign as we cannot spread the
message or be active in the same way, but we have lobbied MPs and forwarded our
personal experiences to the Pay Review Body.
NHS workers were inspired to come together in order to win the recognition,
reward and workplaces that we deserve.Nursing is political.We have to see the
connections between health and education, health and social care, health and
economics, health and all aspects of life. At the very least, our campaign can
raise awareness of interdependence.
Q. How is the NHS coping with the Covid second wave?
A. Despite the fact that our unit is fully staffed, our skill mix can be poor.A
large number of newly qualified and partially skilled staff puts enormous stress
on the long serving nurses.We have a stipulated patient/staff ratio according to
ITU guidelines.
There are revised guidelines regarding the second covid period when there may be
a surge in cases.Critical care nurses can have a ratio of 2:1 (double the former
one) and more, assisted by a non ITU nurse. This was agreed by NHS England and
nursing organisations.Concerns are that ITU nurses will be spread too thinly and
there can be substandard patient care with that kind of staffing ratio.
The advice for workers who are affected by this policy is to:
Record all incidents when patient ratios are exceeded.Be vigilant with recording
all near misses and when any harm has occurred. Of course, recording incidents is
time consuming, hence not all incidents will be recorded.
There will be a massive amount of psychological trauma in ITU nurses.We now have
a ‘bespoke' well-being management system.At what cost? Well-being is the new
capitalist spirituality.In a capitalist society stress is endemic and the only
solution that is offered is finding a way to cope.
Q. How do we engage with activists and the local community?
A. 1.Sign petitions.Use the relevant letter tools and write to your MP about how
you care and your concerns regarding the NHS pay issue.Take up the cause within
your own union, group or party.
2.Health workers - Talk to your colleagues about why they deserve a pay
rise.Write to MP's and join a union.
3.Supporters and friends.Talk to people you know and ask them to do the same.
4.Show support and put a poster up in your window.Share social media posts online.
Q. Is there anything else that you'd like to say?
A. The NHS has become top down and is riddled with private sector companies'
interests.The god of capital will always come first before people's health.
We must demand no more underfunding of our NHS or its subjugation to the needs of
capital.
If the government succeeds in carrying out this despicable attack on workers at
this moment, it could embolden them to be even more savage in their attacks on
working class lives as they try and mitigate the impact of the pandemic on
profits.A victory for health workers could impact on their destructive agenda for
the NHS and give strength to all forthcoming struggles.
Thank you for this and thank you for your work in the NHS. The No Safety? No
Work! Campaign will provide its Solidarity!
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/12/19/interview-with-nhs-nurse/
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Message: 1
On December 16, Lviv anarchists from the "Black Flag" and "People's Action" held
a rally against the neoliberal policy of the authorities in the health sector.
Protesters drew public attention to the fact that medical officials and oligarchs
continue to destroy public health services, encouraging private health care
instead. ---- Salaries of doctors in Ukraine remain low (below the average).
According to the country's Ministry of Health, the average salary of a doctor is
about 9 thousand hryvnia (about 24 thousand rubles), nursing staff - 7 thousand
hryvnia (about 18.5 thousand rubles), and a junior salary is 5 thousand hryvnia (
about 13 thousand rubles). ---- Anarchists expressed their support and solidarity
to the doctors. During the action, which took place under the slogans "For
doctors - a decent budget and salary" and "For nurses - a decent salary", the
following requirements of doctors were voiced:
1. Financing of medicine at the level of at least 7% of GDP.
2. Increase of salaries from 01.01.2021 for medical workers to the level of UAH
23 thousand for doctors; 17 thousand - to nurses; 12 thousand junior medical staff.
3. Guarantee of receiving insurance payments for occupational diseases for
patients with COVID-19.
4. Publication of medical expenses and income budgets (open accounting),
collective right to choose the management of medical institutions.
5. Launching a state program to provide medical workers with housing.
6. Stop the destruction of the institutions of phthisiology, psychiatry and
epidemiological services.
7. Transfer of nurses working in school and preschool institutions to the staff
of health care institutions of the Ministry of Health.
After the rally, the protesters staged a procession through the city streets.
A source:
https://www.facebook.com/blackflagua/posts/1007699079717234
https://aitrus.info/node/5606
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Message: 2
On December 6, Erol, an anarchist of French descent, is arrested and charged with
spreading the virus, which leads to deportation due to the pandemic. The
deportation sentence is currently pending against him on the pretext that he is a
"public danger" ---- The December 6 demonstration was a bet for the state, a bet
it ultimately lost. A total ban on the demonstration, under the guise of a
pandemic and with the ultimate goal of creating a condition in which the
movement's forces would be forced to retreat in the face of state demands,
creating an even more suffocating situation for all those who fight but also for
the oppressed in general. was eventually accomplished by the state and its
assassins in uniform. The coordination, organization and stubbornness of dozens
of comrades all over Greece managed to break, even for a few hours, the universal
ban imposed once again by the Ministry of "Citizen Protection" and attempted to
implement by the mercenary army of the occupiers. , keeping the flame of the
December uprising burning, keeping intact in the collective memory the figure of
the murdered Alexandros Grigoropoulos. Among the crowd of these fighters was
Eroll, who due to his political action, his participation in the anarchist
movement and his origin is the ideal scapegoat to implement the state policies of
repression and discipline. The method of deportation of Eroll, is not just a
direct threat to all the fighters who happen to not have Greek citizenship, that
a simple arrest in a demonstration could be a reason for deportation. It also
aims to create accomplished events, events on which it can rely in the future to
hit the movement and the fighters even harder.
It becomes clear, then, that the state will use every possible means to suppress
whoever chooses the path of struggle. Its arsenal is large and for this every
possible means is used. State repression is sometimes expressed through brutal
repression of cops, sexist attacks, torture of comrades and squatting
evacuations, and sometimes takes more "bloodless" forms through exhaustive
financial guarantees or deportation methods. From the immigrants stacked in the
infernos of Petros Ralli and Kara Tepe in miserable conditions and the daily
pushbacks to the repressive methods against the anarchist movement, the attitude
of the authorities for the complete crushing of the oppressed and the fighters is
evident. For us, the method of expelling the anarchist Eroll, fits into this very
context. The origin of a man, that is, becomes the means by which the state will
manage to "get rid" of an anarchist. Our solidarity with anyone who is hit by the
state and capital is not only self-evident and imperative.
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Message: 3
If there is one sector that garners "coronaprofits", it is supermarkets ! This
does not prevent the employers from laying off and restructuring. ---- Nicolas
Deluzier, CGT union delegate at Auchan in Clermont-Ferrand, is categorical:
"Large-scale distribution has never made as much revenue as during periods of
confinement." So that since November 4, some non-food sections were closed by the
government, not to diminish the crowds in the stores but to limit competition
with small shops closed. ---- Result: a majority of Auchan employees are now on
partial unemployment. For Nicolas, it is neither more nor less than a "taking
hostage of employees by the Federation of Commerce and Distribution, the
employers' union, to put pressure on the government so that it authorizes the
reopening of closed shelves" .
Timid but real collective resistance
The employers in the sector, already stuffed with public aid - 755 million under
the CICE paid to the Carrefour group alone between 2013 and 2019, not to mention
the reduction in contributions - did not wait for the health crisis to
restructure in order to increase profits to the detriment of workers.
The health context has also enabled it to impose more "versatility" on employees
and to better target its future redundancy plans - the drive, in strong
expansion, requires less labor.
Faced with these attacks, the resistance is difficult to organize in "a sector
where there is no history of struggles such as in the metallurgy or at the SNCF,
and with the majority trade union organizations (CFTC, FO) far removed from the
trade unionism. of combat", according to Nicolas, of the CGT-Auchan. It is also
difficult, in the field, to leave "yourlittle shop" to go see the employees of
other department stores to act together.
However, there is no question of "standing idly by": 80% of strikers on October 8
on the Auchan logistics platform located in Cournon (near Clermont-Ferrand),
which shows real anger.
During the first confinement, the employees of the department stores were able to
impose better protection of their health at work and, temporarily, reclaimed the
work tool. "Thewhole reorganization of the stores was carried out by the" little
hands ", the" first chores ". It was then that the colleagues said to themselves
that the shareholders were useless ! » Says Nicolas, enthusiastic but lucid: the
self-management socialization of mass distribution is not for tomorrow.
A day of industrial action has been set for November 27, the theoretical date of
"Black Friday". Of course, for Nicolas, "the problems of employment, wages and
working conditions do not only affect trade: it is the entire world of work that
is concerned" . And who must, according to him, coordinate to act. Chick ?
Dadou (UCL Clermont-Ferrand)
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Auchan-pas-de-grande-distribution-des-richesses
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Message: 4
Interventions of the Anarchist Political Organization with banners in Athens,
Thessaloniki and Patras and a relevant announcement. ---- To Break the Wall of
Silence. In the midst of a pandemic, the state kills in prisons ---- "They are
playing with our lives and in fact it is as if we have been sentenced to
death[...]For me at least and for most prisoners it was certain, with
mathematical precision, that the coronavirus would go to jail. Because on the one
hand they have not taken any sanitary measures from the side of the Directorate
and the Ministry. On the other hand, we experienced a behavior from the human
guards who came in without masks, many times they came in without gloves and we
put their hand on them to wear their masks and gloves. There were no sanitary
measures, regular disinfection was not done properly and it was certain that many
of us would get sick as we are in wards of 8 and 10 people ".
V. Stathopoulos, an anarchist prisoner in Larissa prison
In the midst of a pandemic, the anti-social and murderous nature of the state and
capitalist system emerges in an even more tragic way. The health crisis we are
facing is intensifying through the criminal policies of the rulers, who not only
do not care about the needs of the social base, but condemn it to poverty, misery
and death. At a time when thousands of people are sick and hundreds have lost
their lives as a result of the complete devaluation and abandonment of the public
health system (with staff, material and hospital shortages), far-right political
management is accelerating anti-social restructuring processes and a series of
measures, of a repressive and non-sanitary nature.
Political and economic bosses attempt through the media, with the rhetoric of
individual responsibility, to transfer full responsibility for cases and victims
to the social base, to the bottom of this world, rinsing governments and states
of their own criminal responsibilities. At the same time, anyone attempting to
fight against state and capitalist dystopia is being targeted and violently
suppressed.
Today, prisons and immigrant camps across the country are miserable with
congestion and congestion, in a few square meters. Especially in prisons, the
cases are now hundreds, a fact that creates the conditions for the creation of
millions of dead prisoners in the near future. In Diavata prison, 3 prisoners
have already lost their lives. Where cases occur in prisons, the only measure
that is applied is that of isolating cases in chambers stacked on top of each
other and without any health care at all. In the prisons of Larissa, hundreds of
prisoners were diagnosed positive for the virus after their own mobilization with
which they demanded to undergo mass tests. Among them is the anarchist Vangelis
Stathopoulos, a prisoner who belongs to vulnerable groups and experiences state
analgesia in practice. The management of covid-19 in prisons is an ongoing state
crime.
In these circumstances, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is fully
responsible for the criminal lack of sanitary measures and resources and the
miserable conditions in the hells of democracy, proposed a new bill to sweep the
rights of prisoners. More specifically, the n / s complicates the possibility of
granting regular leave, as detainees are now entitled to leave after serving 2/5
of their sentence, a time limit that coincides with the possibility of requesting
release from prison. At the same time, it tightens the criteria for transfer to
rural prisons, prohibiting the transfer and stay of convicts and detainees for
terrorist activities. The last measure clearly targets the fighter D. Koufontina
as he is the only one convicted of terrorism who is serving his sentence in rural
prisons. This bill, which was voted a few days ago, is a point in the
continuation of the systematic extermination of prisoners. Beatings, intrusions
into suffocating small cells, and even deaths in prisons are not uncommon.
Attempts are being made to transform the country's prisons into Type C prisons
and to abolish those who were conquered by attitudes, struggles and uprisings
inside and outside prisons for life and dignity.
In the face of the pandemic and the state-capitalist barbarism that all it has to
offer to the social majority is poverty, impoverishment, repression, exploitation
and death, let us advance the struggle for life and dignity. To organize social
self-defense and class counterattack, with our weapon of solidarity and mutual
assistance for building a society of equality, freedom and justice.
PROTECTION MEASURES FOR PRISONERS
IMMEDIATE DECOMMODATION OF PRISONS
EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE - ONLY THE PEOPLE WILL SAVE THE PEOPLE!
Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities
http://apo.squathost.com/na-spasoume-to-tichos-tis-siopis-en-meso-pandimias-to-kratos-dolofoni-stis-filakes/
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Message: 5
Posted in: Women's initiative against patriarchy . Tagged: patriarchy , gender
violence , gender oppression . Leave a comment ---- In recent months, in the
midst of a pandemic and especially in the midst of a traffic ban, attacks on
women as part of the bottom have intensified, with the state and capitalist
system of organizing society already condemning millions of people to death from
starvation and disease. and war, to seek the perpetuation of his privileges and
power. The response of the state and capital to the spread of the crown was and
is the invocation of individual responsibility and the mandatory confinement of
people in their homes with the aim of not eliminating the pandemic obviously,
since no substantial health measures have been taken all these months, but
discipline and control.
But "We Stay Home" is not possible for many people, it is not possible for the
homeless, the refugees, the immigrants and the prisoners. The same is true for
women and children who experience gender-based violence in their own homes, with
the incidence of domestic violence having increased significantly during the
period of compulsory incarceration, as evidenced by the increase in telephone
calls to the respective lines. assistance and increase the incidence of such
cases in hospitals. Nor can it be possible for all those women who work day and
night in supermarkets, call centers, hospitals, etc. under destructive working
conditions and with minimal -to minimal- protection measures.
Thus, on Friday 18/12 and Saturday 19/12 we carried out interventions against the
gender oppression experienced by women in the midst of a pandemic in two
supermarkets in the center of Patras.
Hundreds of texts were distributed, t-shirts were thrown and banners were hung.
In the midst of a curfew it is more necessary than ever to remain on the streets
of the race. We must escalate our struggle against patriarchy, the state and
capital. Against the bans and the coordinated attack of the state and capital to
advance the organized and uncompromising struggle. To clash with the laws and
requirements of the rulers.
LOCK DOWN IN PATRIARCHY, STATE AND CHAPTER
THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN emancipation NOT ENTERED IN QUARANTINE
FROM ROTZAVA TO CHILE AND FROM MEXICO TO POLAND internationalist and class GAMES
WOMEN FOR LIFE AND FREEDOM
The text of the interventionhere:
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SEXUAL OPPRESSION DOES NOT QUARTAIN
In recent months and in the midst of a pandemic and especially in the midst of a
curfew, it has
intensify the attack on women as part of the bottom, with the state and
capitalist system
organization of society, which is already condemning millions of people to starvation
diseases and war, to seek the perpetuation of his privileges and power. The answer
of the state and capital in the spread of the crown was and is the invocation of
the individual
responsibility and the mandatory confinement of people in their homes with the
aim of not eliminating it
pandemic obviously, since no substantial health measures have been taken by all
of them
months, but discipline and control. The state itself that for years completely
degraded
public health, is what today invokes our individual responsibility for the spread
of the virus.
But "Staying Home" is not possible for many people, it is not possible for the
homeless,
refugees, immigrants and detainees. The same goes for
women and children experiencing gender-based violence in their own home with the
phenomena
domestic violence have increased significantly during the period of compulsory
incarceration,
as evidenced by the increase in telephone calls to the respective helplines
and increasing the incidence of such cases in hospitals. The state campaigns for
Dealing with domestic violence is at least hypocritical as we know that
this system feeds and is nourished by the patriarchy and has no disposition to
rupture and substantive
resolving such incidents.
Then, "staying home" may not be possible for all those women who
They work day and night in supermarkets, call centers, hospitals, etc. under
destructive working conditions and with minimal - to no - protection measures. At
the same time, the
patriarchal society wants the woman to take full responsibility for the household
and her
raising children in the midst of a pandemic. At the risk of their lives, working
women daily
they continue to go to work which makes them even more burdensome especially if
these are single-parent families.
Also, the criminal conditions faced by both immigrants / women in camps
as well as inmates in prisons and psychiatric clinics place their
these people in a constant state of danger. There, the huge crowd, the miserable ones
living conditions and lack of medical care predict a frightening future,
as rapid transmission of the virus seems inevitable. Typical examples are the
death of prisoner Azizel Deniroglu, who died helpless in her cell, in her prison
Thebes on April 9, which sparked a riot in the prisons by the other detainees
which, however, was savagely suppressed by the MAT as well as their recent
suicide attempts
women detained in the Amygdaleza detention center due to inhumane conditions
living they face. Also indicative is the fact that they were deprived of the
opportunity
access to hospitals for migrant women at the beginning of the pandemic, even for
process of childbirth.
At the same time, the state with its repressive mechanisms is attacking twice and
staying on
struggling women who refuse to submit to the fate of domination and
resist, setting up daily embankments in the onslaught of modern totalitarianism
and in
attempted social emphasis. Especially in the case of struggling women, the vengeful
mania of the state and its mechanisms, strikes twice. It hits them, both on the
basis of gender oppression
as women, as well as on the basis of their militancy against what domination
requires. Is not
after all, we have rarely witnessed further attacks of sexist violence on women
fighters during repressive attacks. Features, on December 6, 2019 at
Patras, MAT launched a brutal attack on women activists by exercising their gender
violence and making threats, sexist insults and gestures. While at the same time,
a few days
before, on November 25, the police, trying to convince us of their willingness to
eliminate the
gender-based violence in collaboration with the General Secretariat for Family
Policy & Gender Equality and
the Research Center for Gender Equality (KETHI) distributed a leaflet in the
center of Patras
information material on the prevention and treatment of violence against women.
It is clear to us that the introduction of the regime two days a year, related to
women, does not atone for sovereignty for its crimes. For her crimes against them
women, for its crimes against
women, for the daily brutal direct or indirect violence exercised by them. All of
the above
are situations that this world gives birth to, this world maintains and
reproduces. THE
regime introduction of such days aims at disinfesting and silencing bloody
days of struggle and resistance of millions of women around the world, distorting
the case
of female emancipation.
We stand in solidarity with the struggle of women in Mexico who are reacting and
fighting against
in the daily and ever-increasing murders of women, in rapes and disappearances. THE
mass and militant march in February outside Mexico's presidential palace against
Murders on the occasion of the brutal murder of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamila in
Mexico City
and the recent publication of photos of her mutilated body in the newspapers
occupation in early September at the building of the National Commission for
Human Rights in
Mexico City (CDNH) in order for the respective authorities to fully resolve the
requests of several
relatives of victims of abuse, as well as the demonstration on 28 September,
World Day for
abortions, where women took to the streets again to claim militarily safe, free
and legal abortions everywhere, remind us that the struggle for female
emancipation is
existing, necessary and the only way.
At the same time, in Poland on October 23 the state declares unconstitutional the
law on
abortions, banning them almost universally. That same night, crowds took to the
streets for
to claim the self-evident right of women to self-determination of their body. Few
days
then, anarchist women in Poznan symbolically occupy an old hospital and name it
"Abortion clinic". The state broke the occupation and made numerous arrests. The
Friday, October 30, thousands of protesters took to the streets
Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice and other Polish cities. So, after 12 days with
mass and militant demonstrations broke out in many parts of Poland, the far-right
Polish
government "froze" law enforcement. Against the control of our bodies and the gloomy
future reserved for us by the rulers around the world, we propose militant resistance
and their social self-organization from below to the demolition of its rotten world
patriarchy, the state and capitalism.
We send a message of solidarity to all women who are fighting around the world
and we are trying
to unite our voices. From women in Poland and Mexico to women in Zapatista
mountains of southeastern Mexico and the insurgent Zapatista communities, as far
as the Kurds
guerrillas and the revolutionary Rojava, we have only to organize, to collect
and as women and to resist all together, with the workers, the unemployed, the
students, the
students, LOATKI + people, to unite our voices and action towards our everyday
dynasties, with a vision of a society of equality, dignity, freedom and solidarity.
In the midst of a curfew it is more necessary than ever to stay on its streets
match. We must escalate our struggle against patriarchy, the state and capital.
Against the bans and the coordinated attack of state and capital to put forward
organized and uncompromising struggle. To clash with the laws and requirements of
the rulers.
LOCK DOWN IN PATRIARCHY, STATE AND CAPITAL
THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT DOES NOT QUARTAIN
FROM ROZAVA TO CHILE AND FROM MEXICO TO POLAND
WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL AND CLASSROOM STRUGGLES FOR LIFE AND FREEDOM
women initiative against patriarchy
https://prwtovouliagynaikwn.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/sm_covid.pdf
https://ipposd.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/
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Message: 6
One year after the first Self-summoned Anarchist Assembly in Valparaíso, born in
the heat of revolt and collective joys and anxieties and 100 years after the
repressive forces attacked the IWW anarchist union site in this same territory,
we invite you to recognize us find to talk and build new complicities and
collective alliances, open and diverse in the inauguration of this new anarchist
space that we call Flora, with our ancestors and future buds in thought and
action. ---- We propose to share in a community space an open conversation around
the anarchism that we have imagined and built here and now, in our territories
and communities and what were our experiences, reflections and imaginations
during this year of meeting.
We are waiting for you this Friday (12/18) at 5 pm (sharp!) In office 9 of the
building located in Serrano 591.
Self-summoned Anarchist Assembly Valparaíso
Translation> Sol de Abril
Related content:
https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2020/10/06/chile-assembleia-anarquista-autoconvocada-valparaiso-07-de-outubro/
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Message: 7
The pandemic, pay and the state of the NHS: a nurse speaks to the No Safety No
Work (NSNW) campaign -- From the NSNW website ---- Q. What are your main concerns
about the NHS? ---- A. The health service has a shortage of 40,000 nurses and
10,000 doctors.By 2030 the NHS vacancy rate is predicted to rise to 250,000. ----
The billionaire, ex hedge fund managing Chancellor has now pitted public sector
worker against private sector worker as a divide and rule tactic.All workers
benefit from the labour of others and all deserve wages that reflect the true
worth of their contribution to society and comparisons are invidious. ---- In
2016 Jeremy Hunt gave £12.5 million to the Virginia Mason Institute hospital in
Seattle in order to teach five trusts how to maintain standards.During that
period my hospital failed in 29 areas. John Lister, national spokesman for Keep
Our NHS Public, suggested that if we return our health system to a well funded,
publicly managed and provided NHS service and we end wasteful private contracts
and market principles, then patient's will receive safer and more efficient
care.America has a neoliberal tendency to monetise and financially engineer
operations in favour of short termism. It would seem that we are being eased
gradually into a USA style healthcare model. The NHS is being set up to fail so
that the global private healthcare sector can be called to come to the rescue. It
makes me angry and depressed.
Q. How did the NHS manage the Covid 19 first wave?
A. Dr Dominic Pimenta, a junior doctor, started a charity, HEROES, to try and
obtain much needed PPE.His hospital ran out of supplies and he also stated that
some hospitals were low on oxygen and some drugs. The NHS has to avoid being seen
as something that needs to be supported by charity, even in an "unprecedented
emergency". It was well known that pandemics were a feature of global capitalism
and the failure to plan and prepare adequately for them is as disconcerting as it
is sinister.
In some hospitals PPE guidance changed 30 times.
Staff are not routinely tested and in areas where this was carried out it was
discontinued as many staff tested positive.Long term Covid is triggering
disciplinary actions regarding sick time.Morale has been badly hit and many
workers are considering leaving the service as they will never work under the
conditions that they have experienced again.The continuous employment of newly
qualified staff in specialised areas is not fair on inexperienced staff or the
experienced staff who have to ‘carry' them. Hospital managers are only concerned
about being seen to have "safe" staffing ratios. Staff morale and patient care
does not seem to have been considered. Migrant workers are compliant, due to
obvious reasons like security of tenure, and many staff are scared regarding
keeping their jobs and wanting to gain promotion.Privatisation will inevitably
creep in to the staffing of the service with more and more agency staff being
used. There is very little solidarity among staff. This is why we need support
from our communities and campaigners.
Q. Can you tell us about the NHS Pay Campaign?
A. Our campaign has been led by grassroots organising groups, like Nurses
United, but we have placed an emphasis on the need to join a union.There is now a
coordinated response in order to obtain the pay award. The Royal College of
Nursing (RCN), the clue is in the name, has broken ranks, though, and has
forbidden its members from joining Nurses United. However, it is well known that
the RCN is a ‘sweetheart' organisation so we are not discouraged by their attitude.
Nurses do not have a pay review body that truly represents their workforce's pay
interests.Not a single nurse, midwife or allied health professional sits on the
panel.
Nurses launched a Facebook page after nurses and other public sector staff were
left out of a public sector pay rise and now it has grown to an engagement of
85,000 people.Student nurses, midwives and other NHS trainees pay for their
training.We are marginalised and our voices are ignored by politicians.Pay
justice is about a real terms increase and nurses wages are 20% lower than they
were a decade ago.It is now a difficult time to campaign as we cannot spread the
message or be active in the same way, but we have lobbied MPs and forwarded our
personal experiences to the Pay Review Body.
NHS workers were inspired to come together in order to win the recognition,
reward and workplaces that we deserve.Nursing is political.We have to see the
connections between health and education, health and social care, health and
economics, health and all aspects of life. At the very least, our campaign can
raise awareness of interdependence.
Q. How is the NHS coping with the Covid second wave?
A. Despite the fact that our unit is fully staffed, our skill mix can be poor.A
large number of newly qualified and partially skilled staff puts enormous stress
on the long serving nurses.We have a stipulated patient/staff ratio according to
ITU guidelines.
There are revised guidelines regarding the second covid period when there may be
a surge in cases.Critical care nurses can have a ratio of 2:1 (double the former
one) and more, assisted by a non ITU nurse. This was agreed by NHS England and
nursing organisations.Concerns are that ITU nurses will be spread too thinly and
there can be substandard patient care with that kind of staffing ratio.
The advice for workers who are affected by this policy is to:
Record all incidents when patient ratios are exceeded.Be vigilant with recording
all near misses and when any harm has occurred. Of course, recording incidents is
time consuming, hence not all incidents will be recorded.
There will be a massive amount of psychological trauma in ITU nurses.We now have
a ‘bespoke' well-being management system.At what cost? Well-being is the new
capitalist spirituality.In a capitalist society stress is endemic and the only
solution that is offered is finding a way to cope.
Q. How do we engage with activists and the local community?
A. 1.Sign petitions.Use the relevant letter tools and write to your MP about how
you care and your concerns regarding the NHS pay issue.Take up the cause within
your own union, group or party.
2.Health workers - Talk to your colleagues about why they deserve a pay
rise.Write to MP's and join a union.
3.Supporters and friends.Talk to people you know and ask them to do the same.
4.Show support and put a poster up in your window.Share social media posts online.
Q. Is there anything else that you'd like to say?
A. The NHS has become top down and is riddled with private sector companies'
interests.The god of capital will always come first before people's health.
We must demand no more underfunding of our NHS or its subjugation to the needs of
capital.
If the government succeeds in carrying out this despicable attack on workers at
this moment, it could embolden them to be even more savage in their attacks on
working class lives as they try and mitigate the impact of the pandemic on
profits.A victory for health workers could impact on their destructive agenda for
the NHS and give strength to all forthcoming struggles.
Thank you for this and thank you for your work in the NHS. The No Safety? No
Work! Campaign will provide its Solidarity!
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/12/19/interview-with-nhs-nurse/
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