Today's Topics:
1. Federación Anarquistas Gran Canaria: MANIFESTO: STOP THE
EVICTION OF "LA MARISMA"! (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
EVICTION OF "LA MARISMA"! (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, ANARCHY SAINTS ANARGYRON-KAMATEROS: protaanka - 4th
issue of "Anthology" (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
issue of "Anthology" (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, UCL AL #316 - Culture, Read: "Les Utopiques"
magazine: the Paris Commune: memories, horizons (ca, de,
magazine: the Paris Commune: memories, horizons (ca, de,
it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, UCL - UCL press release - Trial of the murderers of
Clement: the far right is a deadly poison (ca, de, it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Clement: the far right is a deadly poison (ca, de, it, fr,
pt)[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Poland, Poznan, ozzip: Mockery of exploitation [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The undersigned organizations express our strongest rejection and our direct
opposition to the attempted eviction by CaixaBank (Coral Homes and Building
Center) of the self-managed community "La Marisma". A community located in the
municipality of Gáldar (Gran Canaria) and made up of around thirty families,
almost 70 people with more than 30 minors. Evicting these families, without first
offering them a decent housing alternative, would be a real estate attack that
would threaten the physical and moral integrity of those affected. ---- For all
this: ---- We demand that CaixaBank immediately stop this eviction. ---- We
demand that the City Council of Gáldar, the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and the
Government of the Canary Islands urge CaixaBank, its subsidiaries and subordinate
companies to stop the eviction and guarantee a suitable accommodation alternative
before it occurs.
ENOUGH WITH REAL ESTATE TERRORISM!
https://anarquistasgc.noblogs.org/post/2021/06/04/manifiesto-paremos-el-desahucio-de-la-marisma/#more-3178
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Message: 2
We publish in electronic form (pdf)
https://protaanka.espivblogs.net/files/2021/06/ ---- for free reading the 4th
issue of the "Anthology" of the group. This form includes texts, announcements,
posters, photos of interventions and actions of the months of February, March and
April 2021. ---- 4th issue of anthology (pdf)
https://protaanka.espivblogs.net/2021/06/08/4o-teychos-anthologioy ----
protaanka: Preface to the 4th issue of the Anthology ---- June 5, 2021 protaanka
Anthology , Home 0 ---- "It is clear, then, that the paralysis of most economic
activity due to the pandemic will cause rapid declines in international and
domestic GDP, while the effects of productive and purchasing short circuits are
already reflected in the financial system. The emergence of the coronavirus as an
"unpredictable" factor in overturning the so-called "normalization of markets"
and "economic recovery" will be the dominant communication recipe that will
accompany the new social euthanasia policies with which the system will attempt
to transfer the "broken "Of the Recession to the entire working class. "Together
we will succeed" will emerge as the central tool for extracting social consensus
on redundancies, padlocks and the over-accumulation of redundant work in the
coming months. The effects of the coronavirus, in addition to public health, will
be reflected across the spectrum of social life. The full-scale attack on wage
labor, labor acquis and social freedoms will alienate the pandemic and by
obscuring the system for a long time and everyone knowing that a New Recession is
not long in coming, the pandemic will be presented as an "asymmetric threat" is
solely responsible for the manifestation of the crisis and its painful
consequences. "
With the above words we described in March 2020, a few days before the imposition
of the first lockdown, the way in which the new episode of the systemic crisis
would be presented: as an "unexpected" condition for which there is no systemic
responsibility and which does not linked to the crisis the global capitalist
economy has been going through since 2007-8, but exclusively to the "mandatory"
measures to control the spread of the coronavirus. And we added that for the
"exit" from this treaty, new human sacrifices will be made on the altar of
capitalist profit, which will have as an alibi for those who follow, the pandemic.
The latter does not require, we believe, special insight. Everyone now knows what
will follow during the new "return to normalcy". After all, state management of
the pandemic is a prime example of urban analgesia and class bias that will be
mentioned for decades. Of course, in the above excerpt we outlined the
"post-pandemic" era in relation to the communication tricks that will be employed
and not the health management. We talked about the effects on the world of work
and the regime lies that will be unleashed to justify the new memoranda and the
new fiscal "arrangements" that will be imposed to heal the wounds of the new
economic recession.
In the months leading up to last March's crash, and while the coronavirus had
already broken out in China, Wall Street indexes were hitting record highs. This
was not a sign of financial market euphoria but the other way around. This was in
some ways a precursor, it was the confirmation that a fictitious rise in the
financial markets usually hides a future crash and that behind the veil of
virtual speculation are bubbles that pop at some point. These bubbles on the one
hand highlight the over-accumulation of surplus capital as an organic cause of
capitalist crises and on the other the failure of crisis management all these
years. A management based on tools not just reproducing it, but tools equivalent
to the causes that led to the domino of collapses in 2007-8.
If we wanted to oversimplify we could describe a scheme where "investors" bet on
the financial stratosphere, central banks "patch" the losses from the hassle
(inflating public debt) and during the transfer of the "virtual" economy to the
"real" the people pay the final bill of the game. This absurdity of the financial
system can be interpreted by detecting and palpating the operating conditions and
inhumanity of the capitalist system. It essentially reveals capitalist impunity
in its more advanced versions: capital ends up gambling on its collapse, with the
risk of collapse securitizing into risk-averse paper carried in pieces from
investor to investor. Something similar happened in 2008 with the CDOs that were
built on mortgages: first the real estate market collapsed, then the CDO prices
and then followed dominoes that passed into the realm of the "real economy".
Throughout this process, some parasitic capitalists became rich at the same time
that millions of people were impoverished.
At the beginning of the 2007-8 crisis, the Social Democrats spoke of a "crisis of
neoliberalism" and blamed all the blame on the financial system. Others referred
to an "artificial crisis" that does not exist and is nothing more than a "scam to
eat us". We hear similar "views" today about the health crisis with a more
typical example the so-called "autonomous" and the conspiracy theories about the
coronavirus as "sabotage in the west" for the "hegemony of China". The
ethnocentric narratives of 2010-12 about the "anti-Greek politicians" and the
laundries of the system for "bad managers" and incompetent political staff that
"brought us here" still survive. All these theories tend to disorient, the
declassification of the crisis as structural and the degradation of the fact that
this crisis is the greatest, the deepest, the most destructive of all capitalist
history. And its causes are found only in the very DNA of the capitalist mode of
production.
In the DNA of the capitalist system is the tendency to over-accumulate capital
and produce crises. The financial system has in the past been a large field of
profitability that has released stagnant capital, and the development of
neoliberalism has been a favorable economic and political complement to this
phase of capitalist development. But neoliberalism came only as a "response" to
the decline of Keynesianism that the Social Democrats restored and advocated at
the beginning of the crisis as a rapid antidote to the "crisis of neoliberalism."
And we say at the beginning, as the course of the crisis highlighted the
impossibility of the social democratic proposals and wherever they went to
implement the neoliberal shift it took place gradually (eg SYRIZA).
Of course, there is no "neo-liberal" solution for the system which has exhausted
its tools and survives on the one hand with painkillers and on the other due to
the absence of a revolutionary overthrow movement. Evidence is the inadequacy of
malnourished public health systems by neoliberal policies to control the
pandemic. Another proof was the self-abolition of neoliberalism by the strong
state intervention to rescue the banks from 2007-8 and then the examples abound.
The failure of the neoliberal model is something that can only be adequately
analyzed independently. In conclusion, neoliberal restructuring, like the
"European end", concepts that prevailed in previous decades, collided with the
systemic crisis and were never completed, much less,
However, if it has a value to keep repeating that the global capitalist crisis is
not "new", that it was not triggered by the pandemic and that there has never
been a "post-historical era" in Greece, this is nothing but the deconstruction of
systemic myths. These systemic myths are neither innocent nor neutral and it is
important that they be deciphered. Each of these myths charges the contents of
multiple semiotics and at the same time condenses bourgeois aspirations and
regime plans that are already unfolding.
So speaking of a "new crisis", systemic circles imply that the crisis that
occurred in 2007-8 is a thing of the past, that it was overcome thanks to its
policies that quickly led to a "success story" and that what will follow in the
near future in world economy will be the result of an "unbalanced factor", ie
covid19. Based on this narrative, they try to hide the fact that the mechanisms
of "limiting" the effects of the crisis all the previous years have been
mechanisms of its expansion and reproduction. They try to conceal through
communication that the policies of transferring the burden of the crisis from
capital to labor, apart from being criminal, were also part of a huge failure.
We never doubted the magnitude of the recession and what the manifestation of the
pandemic foretold at the class and social level. In an action we carried out in
March 2020, we hung a banner in Tritsi Park warning of the recession and
emphasizing that the coronavirus was the catalyst and not the cause. The data we
had at the time was sufficient to assess the situation and resulted from the
operation and panic of the financial markets: stock market crashes, massive bond
yields and a simultaneous expulsion to "safe havens" (eg German bonds, gold),
zero interest rates and the provision of trillions by the fed to absorb the
shocks, reinstatement of QE (quantitative easing) by the ECB. and of course the
vertical plunge in oil prices. All of this was a strong indication of the depth
of the new recession that goes beyond the 1929 recession.
Throughout the anemic development phase that preceded the new episode, the signs
were evident. The growing accumulation of global debt (public and private), low
growth rates, the trade war, brought the outbreak of the new episode closer and
closer. In Greece, a recession was already recorded before the appearance of the
coronavirus. Even earlier, in October 2019, the incumbent president of the BoG
and former minister Stournaras confirmed that "uncertainty in Britain's relations
with the European Union, geopolitical concerns in the Middle East, the
prolongation of the trade war and the reshuffles in Asian economies are some of
the key challenges facing the international economy today, raising concerns about
a new recession. "The president of the BoG in fact dispelled the myths and
triumphs of SYRIZA for the post-memorandum era on which N.D. the narratives of
"growth" and "normality" to finally crumble in March 2020.
We will not refer again to this text in the "post-memorandum" but not for fear of
repetition. There will be many reasons in the future as this narrative will be
attempted in the future to restore the government of SYRIZA as the so-called
"party that took the country out of the memoranda and the right put it back". And
we will make sure to change the lights so that it has the greatest possible
political cost.
Regarding the current neo-liberal government of N.D. we do not believe that its
popular endurance is due to some kind of social satisfaction. On the one hand,
the (fair) devaluation of the political staff and on the other hand, the
co-operation of SYRIZA, which until a few months ago refused to oppose it,
certainly bring it to an advantageous position. An "advantage" for the rulers was
the freezing of the fiscal rules that we could say that "sat a box". The pandemic
managed to hide the absolute failure of the economic program of N.D. since in no
case could it meet the targets for the damn surpluses and the new memorandum
would already be in the works. This memorandum was extended for one or two years
thanks to the pandemic.
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This publication is the 4th issue of the Anthology of the Anarchist Saints
Anargyros - Kamatero Initiative and collects texts, posters and responses to
actions that took place during the quarter February - March - April. A quarter in
which we proceeded to many informative excursions in the western suburbs about
the events in Nea Smyrni as well as to participate with a distinct bloc of the
Initiative in a local demonstration against "state terrorism". We also carried
out actions for the 11 years since the assassination of comrade and member of the
Revolutionary Struggle Lambros Fountas and carried out a campaign for the 200
years since the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1821 and the state myths that
accompany it.
The campaign for the 200 years was prefaced with the text "the revolution of
1821, its historical context and its character" found in this issue. It lasted
one month and took place in four cycles of actions. The first two cycles had the
character of transmitting messages through banners that were hung in areas of the
western suburbs and universities of Athens and with the dropping of thousands of
flyers. The third cycle concerned actions with text sharing in local schools and
the fourth cycle interventions in parks and neighborhoods with corresponding
distributions. The material continued to circulate and will be used throughout 2021.
For the events in Nea Smyrni our informative excursions were frequent and
thousands of texts were shared. Our intervention (without a relevant announced
call) in the local demonstration developed spontaneously and in the context of a
collective evaluation of data in the formation of a separate anarchist bloc,
which we consider successful as it rallied forces and gave impetus to the whole
demonstration by shouting at the anarchist politicians. Anargyron and Ilio where
he moved.
The above moves highlighted the importance of the intensity of the struggle and
the correlations of forces as determining factors for the intensification or
mitigation of state repression, which is not related to the change of government
reins and the way of "approaching" all kinds of managers but by state- capitalist
aspirations in dialectical relation to social and class resistance. This was
evident both on the day of the demonstration in Nea Smyrni and afterwards.
At the same time, during this period, after many months of internal collective
dialogues, we completed the statute of principles - operation and goals of the
Initiative. The statute codifies the identity of our political group, its
structure and the plans for a future organizational and political development in
a suburban area that will emerge planned, based on evaluated, objective and
subjective conditions.
The statute is posted on our political website and will be available in printed
form for anyone interested. We think it's quite informative about what we want to
do, what we stand for and how we operate. At the same time, we tried to reflect
the real dynamics of the group, as a core with a geographical designation of a
small municipality in the western suburbs of Athens, with all the inevitable
limitations inherent in it.
With the completion of the statute, one of the next milestones is the publication
of our collective positions on the thorny issue of the organization of the
anarchists, which we have often referred to in our texts as a historical and
political necessity, but never with the required completeness and with the
submission of specific proposals. This position of ours on a field of historical
importance for anarchism, but also of controversy, is of great political
importance to us and we hope that it will pave the way and if it does not
convince universally, at least it will cause problems.
In addition, one of the burning issues that will concern us in the near future is
the opening of political space. A fixed point of reference and competitive
ferment, which will release possibilities and contribute to our political effort.
It is true that the prolonged lockdown thwarted our original plans, postponed the
planning of a financial aid concert we were organizing and took us back to all
levels.
In the middle of quarantine we issued a call for financial support. Despite the
satisfaction and great joy for the response we received from comrades
internationally and domestically, we did not manage to raise the required
resources. As we have pointed out with honesty and political transparency, the
opening of a space at the sole expense of membership fees without self-financing
structures and without already accumulated financial resources, would greatly
paralyze our political plans. Such a discount for the sake of creating space
would be a step backwards and not forwards. We want our political space to crown
our activity and not to replace it. We do not want it to function as an
alternative island of so-called "freedom" nor as a hangout that will recycle "us
and us".
The reason we do not want to reduce but increase the pace of our activity is
connected with another reason: the texts and publications we publish are intended
for distribution to as many people as possible. We do not want them to be lost in
the digital chaotic microcosm and studied by a single small readership. The
internet is very misleading in "reassuring" and creating a false image that "you
are doing something". Instead, we want our voice to be heard all over the West
and beyond. We believe that we have made progress in addressing and intensifying
our propaganda activities in a satisfactory range of areas, without, of course,
having reached where we are seeking, let alone in the level of undertaking more
militant militant initiatives. There, after all, is also where the work you have
done is reflected. Competitive mobilization is always, among other things, an
indicator of possibilities.
In any case, our texts reflect our political positions and proposals. In our
opinion, these should be the criteria for joining an anarchist collective or
organization: the agreements on positions and proposals, the agreements on the
value and political framework of operation and goals. We cannot accept any
different motive or criterion. The positions and proposals of a group are also
indicators of what it wants to do in terms of regular action. Without political
positions and strategic direction, action is a dip in the void. But even without
action, positions are nothing but hollow declarations. In addition, if the
content of the action is determined by the positions and the goals, what you can
reach the level of the action depends and is determined by the dynamics that you
develop.
And political mobilization entails responsibilities and duties. If it is not
conscious, if it does not follow a value and moral structure, if it is not a
product of political choice but of a search for a "socialization" (without
underestimating its importance) sooner or later it deflates and demobilization
occurs. The informal operation of a political group-company can not bring
long-term results. It can only create transient clicks that will be lost in the
atmosphere. Nor can it create a stable value-companion political framework. As we
have mentioned other times the criterion of "public relations" and "company" as a
criterion for joining the struggle, apart from being apolitical and
non-competitive at its root, it is also a source of immorality and a "hunt" for
self-interest that tools the struggle itself to indulge in many kinds of
selfishness. But in the struggle that we promote, selflessness, value honesty,
solidarity, support for each other at any cost, are our beacons. And bonds of
union are our agreements and the goals for which we fight on the basis of the
above values. These we will serve until the end. Until the final victory, as if
we are when it will come. Because it will come. These we will serve until the
end. Until the final victory, as if we are when it will come. Because it will
come. These we will serve until the end. Until the final victory, as if we are
when it will come. Because it will come.
https://protaanka.espivblogs.net/2021/06/05/prologiko-simeioma-toy-4oy-teychoys-anthologioy/
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Message: 3
Les Utopiques is a trade union magazine published by Solidaires. The writings
that compose it are the work of activists. And now the number 16, published last
March, returns to ... the Municipality! ---- This notebook of reflections from
the review Les Utopiques, devoted to the Paris Commune is anything but a
notebook. It is a sum ; a sum of reflections, of crossed glances, female and
male, on what was the Commune of Paris and on the questions which were his and
cross our histories. ---- Bring the Municipality or rather the Municipalities to
life... To draw out all the wealth and all the mistakes, without becoming the
givers of lessons with peremptory remarks ; avoid the war of memories, the trap
of memory grabbers. "The memory of the Municipality needs to be expressed, even
today, the diversity of its readings, that we highlight the multiplicity of
possibilities that the inaugural act made it possible to open." (Roger Martelli)
A very complete panorama
The memory of the Municipality is not the legendary work of great characters, of
exceptional activists. The memory of the Municipality ; this terminology is
inappropriate ... To say "memories", in the plural, seems more adequate. Memories
of this people, far from militant clichés, of these workers who weaved these
stories, these meetings. Memories of an abundance of institutions, of various
groups that crossed this Paris of the time ... Memories of lives.
This is what Les Utopiques wanted to take up . Many themes are discussed: public
services, women's work, without forgetting the women themselves, school work,
secularism, the military question, colonialism but also the Municipalities of
Lyon, Nîmes, Marseille . We also immerse ourselves in questions such as that of
the minority and the majority in the Commune, or the recurring one of the Banque
de France. There will also be a chronology of these seventy-two days so teeming
with lives, dreams, realities and suffering.
But the Commune is not only a French work, it wanted to be cosmopolitan and its
impact went beyond, and still goes beyond the borders of France. The power of the
time was not mistaken as we see it by going through the scathing of the time, the
infamous caricatures or the writings of the most acclaimed writers of the time.
As if to counterbalance, Les Utopiques offers us quality iconography and a
hopeful look through songs, comics and a cover worthy of the commoners. Come on,
we end with the classic: the Municipality is not dead ! Thank you for keeping it
alive.
Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)
Les Utopiques, co-edition Syllepses and Solidaires, March 2021, 312 pages and a
CD, 12 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Revue-Les-Utopiques-la-commune-de-Paris-memoires-horizons
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Message: 4
Friday June 4, the Assize Court of Evry sentenced on appeal the two former
neo-Nazi skinheads for the death of our comrade Clément Méric to eight and five
years of imprisonment. These sentences, less severe than at first instance,
nevertheless confirmed that it was the fascist thugs who were at the origin of
the attack and delivered the first blows. ---- This trial and its verdict oppose
an unqualified denial of the thesis of the supporters of the assassins, including
their ex-mentor, Serge Ayoub, alias Batskin (former charismatic leader of
neo-Nazi Parisian skinheads), and widely relayed in the far-right media. and
beyond: it was not a simple brawl between two rival gangs that would have turned
out badly. The assassins acted consciously and out of political hatred.
Demonstration in tribute to Clément Méric in Paris, June 5, 2021 Photo credit
@parislovetrash (Instagram)
This aggression is characteristic of the true nature of the extreme right and of
the substance of its political project: to establish by violence or through the
ballot box, a racist, patriarchal and authoritarian order. We see it every day
with the increase in racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic attacks against LGBTI
people but also against all those who fight for a more just world. Clément Méric,
an activist of Solidaires Etudiant-es and the Paris-Banlieue Antifascist Action,
was a designated enemy, like all those who carry a political project of
solidarity and social emancipation.
The far right feeds on the social inequalities of this capitalist system in order
to prosper. Fighting one requires fighting the other. Faced with the extreme
right, our response must be firm, united and without compromise. We are already
congratulating ourselves on the success of the Parisian demonstration on June 5
and call on everyone to further amplify the mobilization for freedoms and against
far-right ideas on June 12 throughout the territory and on July 3 and 4 in
Perpignan during of the Congress of the National Rally.
Antifascists, everywhere, all the time.
Ucl, June 6, 2021
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Proces-des-assassins-de-Clement-l-extreme-droite-est-un-poison-mortel
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Message: 5
Portierki in Poznan are demanding 235 thousand. PLN overdue for three years of
remuneration. The Board of Communal Resources for Housing (ZKZL), which
administered the buildings that guarded, called for payment. ZKZL called the
latest protest in this case - in a statement published by the local Gazeta
Wyborcza - "caricatured". Our reply, sent to the editorial office, was never
published. We place it below. ---- On Thursday, May 20, 2021, the Polish Workers'
Initiative Trade Union organized a protest at the headquarters of the Z KZL , one
of the demands of which was the payment of outstanding wages to doormen and
doormen employed in buildings administered by the municipal company[read more].
In a statement handed over to representatives of OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza and
published in Gazeta Wyborcza, the spokesman of the ZKZL called the workers'
protest at the company's headquarters " caricatured " and " exposes the trade
union position itself to mockery . "
Admittedly, after three years of fighting for unpaid remuneration for work done
for the HCM, the victims have already got used to being ignored by various public
institutions, but the information that the HCMR sees their claims as a mocking
caricature is a novelty.
While the spokesman for ZKZL is in the mood to mock us, we are not amused. The
more so because two of the injured people died awaiting their outstanding
remuneration. Below, we would like to briefly refer to the arguments put forward
by the spokesperson for ZKZL in this statement.
A business model designed to be exploited
In 2017 and 2018, ZKZL signed 11 contracts with the same company (contractor
selected in a public tender) for the physical protection of real estate located
at ul. Ratajczaka 44, Kórnicka 24, Kasprzaka 16, Grunwaldzka 22, Roboczej 4 and
Mickiewicza 31. The company offered for its services a price several dozen
percent lower than other entities participating in the tender. It is worth
emphasizing here that the offered price was below the break-even point and was
inconsistent with any rational economic calculation: it assumed that the
contractor would have to perform his services for the HCM not only for free, but
at a loss of several thousand zlotys. In turn, the subcontractor (temporary
employment agency formally employing employees) would have to carry out the order
for the contractor with a loss of several thousand zlotys.
The whole procedure was possible only because the contractor's "business model"
assumed a real profit by systematically defrauding employees on hourly wages,
bonuses for night work and overtime.
These grossly low prices offered by the contractor should arouse the distrust of
ZKZL. If the city of Poznan announced a tender for the purchase of a new tram,
which costs PLN 5,000,000, and the tender was won by a company offering a new
tram for PLN 1,000,000, a red lamp should light up to the organizers of the
tender. It should, but it did not light up, because ZKZL simply paid off when it
could pay a significantly lower price for almost 18 months for the "security"
service of facilities managed by the city. The difference between what ZKZL paid
the contractor and what he should have paid if the employees were employed under
employment contracts (as provided for in the terms of the tender), constituted
pure profit for ZKZL, which allowed the company's management board to turn a
blind eye to the fact that from the economic point of view these contracts did
not make any sense to the company, which won the tender. The city bought a
cheaper tram, but unfortunately it turned out that it got derailed after a few
days of use.
CMO IB has very detailed calculations confirming the above statements. These
documents have already been submitted to the Poznan Stare Miasto District
Prosecutor's Office, which is conducting two preparatory proceedings, incl. on
persistent and malicious violations of labor rights and falsification of
documents. In addition, the union will submit the above calculations to the
Regional Audit Chamber in Poznan and the President of the Public Procurement
Office together with a request to initiate an ad hoc inspection of physical
protection contracts for the above-mentioned real estate concluded by ZKZL in
2017 and 2018. ZKZL transferred several hundred thousand zlotys to a contractor
company that has behind a long history of non-payment of wages to employees. The
circumstances of concluding these agreements require careful checking by
appointed institutions.
What did the ZKZL not take care of?
The statements of the ZKZL spokesman " on absolute compliance with the Public
Procurement Law"they are completely groundless and unbelievable. The provisions
of the aforementioned act give the contracting authority a number of rights that
allow him to verify whether employees are employed on the basis of employment
contracts (e.g. requesting copies of concluded employment contracts or conducting
an inspection). The trade union applied to the ZKZL with a request under the
procedure of access to public information to indicate the actions taken by the
company in order to verify whether the employees were actually employed in
accordance with the provisions of the labor law. In response, ZKZL admitted that
for several months of cooperation with the contractor, he had not taken any steps
in this direction. Several months! And it was enough to search the Internet for a
few minutes and verify the information in the electronic National Court Register
to find out, that people related to the contractor cheated (under different
names) a few years earlier, among others porters in Szczecin and security staff
employed at the District Court in Bartoszyce. The fact that an organized crime
group operates under the aegis of a contractor company, with a structure,
internal hierarchy and a defined division of tasks is evidenced, for example, by
the fact that its activities were already discussed in the Sejm in 2015
(initiated by an interpellation of MP Iwona Ewa Arent" To the Minister of the
Interior on massive fraud of security agencies").
We are of the opinion that ZKZL, through its omission and failure to check
publicly available information, led to a situation in which for over a year the
rights of employees employed on real estate managed by the company were grossly
violated.
Settlement or court
The spokesman for ZKZL advises the injured employees to refer their claims to the
labor court. Wise advice, but a bit late as employees have already done so and
have won all 27 cases closed so far (more pending). Unfortunately, court bailiffs
have a problem with the enforcement of the awarded amounts - it turns out that
the contractor of the ZKZL cooperated with companies whose presidents were
citizens of Ukraine, Belarus and Vietnam and no one had ever seen them. They also
do not respond to police calls for questioning. They fell into the ground.
Interestingly, during employment by the contractor, employees received documents
signed by the alleged presidents - you do not need an expert graphologist to say
that these signatures were significantly different from the specimen signatures
contained in the registration files of these companies.
The spokesman for ZKZL also claims that he has no legal title to pay the
outstanding wages to the injured employees. We agree on this point. The final
pre-trial payment notices submitted on May 20 to the ZKZL administration office
are the first step to obtaining the basis for the payment of wages. It is up to
the management board of ZKZL whether these titles will be subsequent court
judgments or a settlement with employees, which would finally end this
humiliating spectacle lasting over 3 years.
Marta Rozmyslowicz
https://ozzip.pl/informacje/wielkopolskie/item/2788-poznan-drwiny-z-wyzysku
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Message: 1
The undersigned organizations express our strongest rejection and our direct
opposition to the attempted eviction by CaixaBank (Coral Homes and Building
Center) of the self-managed community "La Marisma". A community located in the
municipality of Gáldar (Gran Canaria) and made up of around thirty families,
almost 70 people with more than 30 minors. Evicting these families, without first
offering them a decent housing alternative, would be a real estate attack that
would threaten the physical and moral integrity of those affected. ---- For all
this: ---- We demand that CaixaBank immediately stop this eviction. ---- We
demand that the City Council of Gáldar, the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and the
Government of the Canary Islands urge CaixaBank, its subsidiaries and subordinate
companies to stop the eviction and guarantee a suitable accommodation alternative
before it occurs.
ENOUGH WITH REAL ESTATE TERRORISM!
https://anarquistasgc.noblogs.org/post/2021/06/04/manifiesto-paremos-el-desahucio-de-la-marisma/#more-3178
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Message: 2
We publish in electronic form (pdf)
https://protaanka.espivblogs.net/files/2021/06/ ---- for free reading the 4th
issue of the "Anthology" of the group. This form includes texts, announcements,
posters, photos of interventions and actions of the months of February, March and
April 2021. ---- 4th issue of anthology (pdf)
https://protaanka.espivblogs.net/2021/06/08/4o-teychos-anthologioy ----
protaanka: Preface to the 4th issue of the Anthology ---- June 5, 2021 protaanka
Anthology , Home 0 ---- "It is clear, then, that the paralysis of most economic
activity due to the pandemic will cause rapid declines in international and
domestic GDP, while the effects of productive and purchasing short circuits are
already reflected in the financial system. The emergence of the coronavirus as an
"unpredictable" factor in overturning the so-called "normalization of markets"
and "economic recovery" will be the dominant communication recipe that will
accompany the new social euthanasia policies with which the system will attempt
to transfer the "broken "Of the Recession to the entire working class. "Together
we will succeed" will emerge as the central tool for extracting social consensus
on redundancies, padlocks and the over-accumulation of redundant work in the
coming months. The effects of the coronavirus, in addition to public health, will
be reflected across the spectrum of social life. The full-scale attack on wage
labor, labor acquis and social freedoms will alienate the pandemic and by
obscuring the system for a long time and everyone knowing that a New Recession is
not long in coming, the pandemic will be presented as an "asymmetric threat" is
solely responsible for the manifestation of the crisis and its painful
consequences. "
With the above words we described in March 2020, a few days before the imposition
of the first lockdown, the way in which the new episode of the systemic crisis
would be presented: as an "unexpected" condition for which there is no systemic
responsibility and which does not linked to the crisis the global capitalist
economy has been going through since 2007-8, but exclusively to the "mandatory"
measures to control the spread of the coronavirus. And we added that for the
"exit" from this treaty, new human sacrifices will be made on the altar of
capitalist profit, which will have as an alibi for those who follow, the pandemic.
The latter does not require, we believe, special insight. Everyone now knows what
will follow during the new "return to normalcy". After all, state management of
the pandemic is a prime example of urban analgesia and class bias that will be
mentioned for decades. Of course, in the above excerpt we outlined the
"post-pandemic" era in relation to the communication tricks that will be employed
and not the health management. We talked about the effects on the world of work
and the regime lies that will be unleashed to justify the new memoranda and the
new fiscal "arrangements" that will be imposed to heal the wounds of the new
economic recession.
In the months leading up to last March's crash, and while the coronavirus had
already broken out in China, Wall Street indexes were hitting record highs. This
was not a sign of financial market euphoria but the other way around. This was in
some ways a precursor, it was the confirmation that a fictitious rise in the
financial markets usually hides a future crash and that behind the veil of
virtual speculation are bubbles that pop at some point. These bubbles on the one
hand highlight the over-accumulation of surplus capital as an organic cause of
capitalist crises and on the other the failure of crisis management all these
years. A management based on tools not just reproducing it, but tools equivalent
to the causes that led to the domino of collapses in 2007-8.
If we wanted to oversimplify we could describe a scheme where "investors" bet on
the financial stratosphere, central banks "patch" the losses from the hassle
(inflating public debt) and during the transfer of the "virtual" economy to the
"real" the people pay the final bill of the game. This absurdity of the financial
system can be interpreted by detecting and palpating the operating conditions and
inhumanity of the capitalist system. It essentially reveals capitalist impunity
in its more advanced versions: capital ends up gambling on its collapse, with the
risk of collapse securitizing into risk-averse paper carried in pieces from
investor to investor. Something similar happened in 2008 with the CDOs that were
built on mortgages: first the real estate market collapsed, then the CDO prices
and then followed dominoes that passed into the realm of the "real economy".
Throughout this process, some parasitic capitalists became rich at the same time
that millions of people were impoverished.
At the beginning of the 2007-8 crisis, the Social Democrats spoke of a "crisis of
neoliberalism" and blamed all the blame on the financial system. Others referred
to an "artificial crisis" that does not exist and is nothing more than a "scam to
eat us". We hear similar "views" today about the health crisis with a more
typical example the so-called "autonomous" and the conspiracy theories about the
coronavirus as "sabotage in the west" for the "hegemony of China". The
ethnocentric narratives of 2010-12 about the "anti-Greek politicians" and the
laundries of the system for "bad managers" and incompetent political staff that
"brought us here" still survive. All these theories tend to disorient, the
declassification of the crisis as structural and the degradation of the fact that
this crisis is the greatest, the deepest, the most destructive of all capitalist
history. And its causes are found only in the very DNA of the capitalist mode of
production.
In the DNA of the capitalist system is the tendency to over-accumulate capital
and produce crises. The financial system has in the past been a large field of
profitability that has released stagnant capital, and the development of
neoliberalism has been a favorable economic and political complement to this
phase of capitalist development. But neoliberalism came only as a "response" to
the decline of Keynesianism that the Social Democrats restored and advocated at
the beginning of the crisis as a rapid antidote to the "crisis of neoliberalism."
And we say at the beginning, as the course of the crisis highlighted the
impossibility of the social democratic proposals and wherever they went to
implement the neoliberal shift it took place gradually (eg SYRIZA).
Of course, there is no "neo-liberal" solution for the system which has exhausted
its tools and survives on the one hand with painkillers and on the other due to
the absence of a revolutionary overthrow movement. Evidence is the inadequacy of
malnourished public health systems by neoliberal policies to control the
pandemic. Another proof was the self-abolition of neoliberalism by the strong
state intervention to rescue the banks from 2007-8 and then the examples abound.
The failure of the neoliberal model is something that can only be adequately
analyzed independently. In conclusion, neoliberal restructuring, like the
"European end", concepts that prevailed in previous decades, collided with the
systemic crisis and were never completed, much less,
However, if it has a value to keep repeating that the global capitalist crisis is
not "new", that it was not triggered by the pandemic and that there has never
been a "post-historical era" in Greece, this is nothing but the deconstruction of
systemic myths. These systemic myths are neither innocent nor neutral and it is
important that they be deciphered. Each of these myths charges the contents of
multiple semiotics and at the same time condenses bourgeois aspirations and
regime plans that are already unfolding.
So speaking of a "new crisis", systemic circles imply that the crisis that
occurred in 2007-8 is a thing of the past, that it was overcome thanks to its
policies that quickly led to a "success story" and that what will follow in the
near future in world economy will be the result of an "unbalanced factor", ie
covid19. Based on this narrative, they try to hide the fact that the mechanisms
of "limiting" the effects of the crisis all the previous years have been
mechanisms of its expansion and reproduction. They try to conceal through
communication that the policies of transferring the burden of the crisis from
capital to labor, apart from being criminal, were also part of a huge failure.
We never doubted the magnitude of the recession and what the manifestation of the
pandemic foretold at the class and social level. In an action we carried out in
March 2020, we hung a banner in Tritsi Park warning of the recession and
emphasizing that the coronavirus was the catalyst and not the cause. The data we
had at the time was sufficient to assess the situation and resulted from the
operation and panic of the financial markets: stock market crashes, massive bond
yields and a simultaneous expulsion to "safe havens" (eg German bonds, gold),
zero interest rates and the provision of trillions by the fed to absorb the
shocks, reinstatement of QE (quantitative easing) by the ECB. and of course the
vertical plunge in oil prices. All of this was a strong indication of the depth
of the new recession that goes beyond the 1929 recession.
Throughout the anemic development phase that preceded the new episode, the signs
were evident. The growing accumulation of global debt (public and private), low
growth rates, the trade war, brought the outbreak of the new episode closer and
closer. In Greece, a recession was already recorded before the appearance of the
coronavirus. Even earlier, in October 2019, the incumbent president of the BoG
and former minister Stournaras confirmed that "uncertainty in Britain's relations
with the European Union, geopolitical concerns in the Middle East, the
prolongation of the trade war and the reshuffles in Asian economies are some of
the key challenges facing the international economy today, raising concerns about
a new recession. "The president of the BoG in fact dispelled the myths and
triumphs of SYRIZA for the post-memorandum era on which N.D. the narratives of
"growth" and "normality" to finally crumble in March 2020.
We will not refer again to this text in the "post-memorandum" but not for fear of
repetition. There will be many reasons in the future as this narrative will be
attempted in the future to restore the government of SYRIZA as the so-called
"party that took the country out of the memoranda and the right put it back". And
we will make sure to change the lights so that it has the greatest possible
political cost.
Regarding the current neo-liberal government of N.D. we do not believe that its
popular endurance is due to some kind of social satisfaction. On the one hand,
the (fair) devaluation of the political staff and on the other hand, the
co-operation of SYRIZA, which until a few months ago refused to oppose it,
certainly bring it to an advantageous position. An "advantage" for the rulers was
the freezing of the fiscal rules that we could say that "sat a box". The pandemic
managed to hide the absolute failure of the economic program of N.D. since in no
case could it meet the targets for the damn surpluses and the new memorandum
would already be in the works. This memorandum was extended for one or two years
thanks to the pandemic.
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This publication is the 4th issue of the Anthology of the Anarchist Saints
Anargyros - Kamatero Initiative and collects texts, posters and responses to
actions that took place during the quarter February - March - April. A quarter in
which we proceeded to many informative excursions in the western suburbs about
the events in Nea Smyrni as well as to participate with a distinct bloc of the
Initiative in a local demonstration against "state terrorism". We also carried
out actions for the 11 years since the assassination of comrade and member of the
Revolutionary Struggle Lambros Fountas and carried out a campaign for the 200
years since the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1821 and the state myths that
accompany it.
The campaign for the 200 years was prefaced with the text "the revolution of
1821, its historical context and its character" found in this issue. It lasted
one month and took place in four cycles of actions. The first two cycles had the
character of transmitting messages through banners that were hung in areas of the
western suburbs and universities of Athens and with the dropping of thousands of
flyers. The third cycle concerned actions with text sharing in local schools and
the fourth cycle interventions in parks and neighborhoods with corresponding
distributions. The material continued to circulate and will be used throughout 2021.
For the events in Nea Smyrni our informative excursions were frequent and
thousands of texts were shared. Our intervention (without a relevant announced
call) in the local demonstration developed spontaneously and in the context of a
collective evaluation of data in the formation of a separate anarchist bloc,
which we consider successful as it rallied forces and gave impetus to the whole
demonstration by shouting at the anarchist politicians. Anargyron and Ilio where
he moved.
The above moves highlighted the importance of the intensity of the struggle and
the correlations of forces as determining factors for the intensification or
mitigation of state repression, which is not related to the change of government
reins and the way of "approaching" all kinds of managers but by state- capitalist
aspirations in dialectical relation to social and class resistance. This was
evident both on the day of the demonstration in Nea Smyrni and afterwards.
At the same time, during this period, after many months of internal collective
dialogues, we completed the statute of principles - operation and goals of the
Initiative. The statute codifies the identity of our political group, its
structure and the plans for a future organizational and political development in
a suburban area that will emerge planned, based on evaluated, objective and
subjective conditions.
The statute is posted on our political website and will be available in printed
form for anyone interested. We think it's quite informative about what we want to
do, what we stand for and how we operate. At the same time, we tried to reflect
the real dynamics of the group, as a core with a geographical designation of a
small municipality in the western suburbs of Athens, with all the inevitable
limitations inherent in it.
With the completion of the statute, one of the next milestones is the publication
of our collective positions on the thorny issue of the organization of the
anarchists, which we have often referred to in our texts as a historical and
political necessity, but never with the required completeness and with the
submission of specific proposals. This position of ours on a field of historical
importance for anarchism, but also of controversy, is of great political
importance to us and we hope that it will pave the way and if it does not
convince universally, at least it will cause problems.
In addition, one of the burning issues that will concern us in the near future is
the opening of political space. A fixed point of reference and competitive
ferment, which will release possibilities and contribute to our political effort.
It is true that the prolonged lockdown thwarted our original plans, postponed the
planning of a financial aid concert we were organizing and took us back to all
levels.
In the middle of quarantine we issued a call for financial support. Despite the
satisfaction and great joy for the response we received from comrades
internationally and domestically, we did not manage to raise the required
resources. As we have pointed out with honesty and political transparency, the
opening of a space at the sole expense of membership fees without self-financing
structures and without already accumulated financial resources, would greatly
paralyze our political plans. Such a discount for the sake of creating space
would be a step backwards and not forwards. We want our political space to crown
our activity and not to replace it. We do not want it to function as an
alternative island of so-called "freedom" nor as a hangout that will recycle "us
and us".
The reason we do not want to reduce but increase the pace of our activity is
connected with another reason: the texts and publications we publish are intended
for distribution to as many people as possible. We do not want them to be lost in
the digital chaotic microcosm and studied by a single small readership. The
internet is very misleading in "reassuring" and creating a false image that "you
are doing something". Instead, we want our voice to be heard all over the West
and beyond. We believe that we have made progress in addressing and intensifying
our propaganda activities in a satisfactory range of areas, without, of course,
having reached where we are seeking, let alone in the level of undertaking more
militant militant initiatives. There, after all, is also where the work you have
done is reflected. Competitive mobilization is always, among other things, an
indicator of possibilities.
In any case, our texts reflect our political positions and proposals. In our
opinion, these should be the criteria for joining an anarchist collective or
organization: the agreements on positions and proposals, the agreements on the
value and political framework of operation and goals. We cannot accept any
different motive or criterion. The positions and proposals of a group are also
indicators of what it wants to do in terms of regular action. Without political
positions and strategic direction, action is a dip in the void. But even without
action, positions are nothing but hollow declarations. In addition, if the
content of the action is determined by the positions and the goals, what you can
reach the level of the action depends and is determined by the dynamics that you
develop.
And political mobilization entails responsibilities and duties. If it is not
conscious, if it does not follow a value and moral structure, if it is not a
product of political choice but of a search for a "socialization" (without
underestimating its importance) sooner or later it deflates and demobilization
occurs. The informal operation of a political group-company can not bring
long-term results. It can only create transient clicks that will be lost in the
atmosphere. Nor can it create a stable value-companion political framework. As we
have mentioned other times the criterion of "public relations" and "company" as a
criterion for joining the struggle, apart from being apolitical and
non-competitive at its root, it is also a source of immorality and a "hunt" for
self-interest that tools the struggle itself to indulge in many kinds of
selfishness. But in the struggle that we promote, selflessness, value honesty,
solidarity, support for each other at any cost, are our beacons. And bonds of
union are our agreements and the goals for which we fight on the basis of the
above values. These we will serve until the end. Until the final victory, as if
we are when it will come. Because it will come. These we will serve until the
end. Until the final victory, as if we are when it will come. Because it will
come. These we will serve until the end. Until the final victory, as if we are
when it will come. Because it will come.
https://protaanka.espivblogs.net/2021/06/05/prologiko-simeioma-toy-4oy-teychoys-anthologioy/
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Message: 3
Les Utopiques is a trade union magazine published by Solidaires. The writings
that compose it are the work of activists. And now the number 16, published last
March, returns to ... the Municipality! ---- This notebook of reflections from
the review Les Utopiques, devoted to the Paris Commune is anything but a
notebook. It is a sum ; a sum of reflections, of crossed glances, female and
male, on what was the Commune of Paris and on the questions which were his and
cross our histories. ---- Bring the Municipality or rather the Municipalities to
life... To draw out all the wealth and all the mistakes, without becoming the
givers of lessons with peremptory remarks ; avoid the war of memories, the trap
of memory grabbers. "The memory of the Municipality needs to be expressed, even
today, the diversity of its readings, that we highlight the multiplicity of
possibilities that the inaugural act made it possible to open." (Roger Martelli)
A very complete panorama
The memory of the Municipality is not the legendary work of great characters, of
exceptional activists. The memory of the Municipality ; this terminology is
inappropriate ... To say "memories", in the plural, seems more adequate. Memories
of this people, far from militant clichés, of these workers who weaved these
stories, these meetings. Memories of an abundance of institutions, of various
groups that crossed this Paris of the time ... Memories of lives.
This is what Les Utopiques wanted to take up . Many themes are discussed: public
services, women's work, without forgetting the women themselves, school work,
secularism, the military question, colonialism but also the Municipalities of
Lyon, Nîmes, Marseille . We also immerse ourselves in questions such as that of
the minority and the majority in the Commune, or the recurring one of the Banque
de France. There will also be a chronology of these seventy-two days so teeming
with lives, dreams, realities and suffering.
But the Commune is not only a French work, it wanted to be cosmopolitan and its
impact went beyond, and still goes beyond the borders of France. The power of the
time was not mistaken as we see it by going through the scathing of the time, the
infamous caricatures or the writings of the most acclaimed writers of the time.
As if to counterbalance, Les Utopiques offers us quality iconography and a
hopeful look through songs, comics and a cover worthy of the commoners. Come on,
we end with the classic: the Municipality is not dead ! Thank you for keeping it
alive.
Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)
Les Utopiques, co-edition Syllepses and Solidaires, March 2021, 312 pages and a
CD, 12 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Revue-Les-Utopiques-la-commune-de-Paris-memoires-horizons
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Message: 4
Friday June 4, the Assize Court of Evry sentenced on appeal the two former
neo-Nazi skinheads for the death of our comrade Clément Méric to eight and five
years of imprisonment. These sentences, less severe than at first instance,
nevertheless confirmed that it was the fascist thugs who were at the origin of
the attack and delivered the first blows. ---- This trial and its verdict oppose
an unqualified denial of the thesis of the supporters of the assassins, including
their ex-mentor, Serge Ayoub, alias Batskin (former charismatic leader of
neo-Nazi Parisian skinheads), and widely relayed in the far-right media. and
beyond: it was not a simple brawl between two rival gangs that would have turned
out badly. The assassins acted consciously and out of political hatred.
Demonstration in tribute to Clément Méric in Paris, June 5, 2021 Photo credit
@parislovetrash (Instagram)
This aggression is characteristic of the true nature of the extreme right and of
the substance of its political project: to establish by violence or through the
ballot box, a racist, patriarchal and authoritarian order. We see it every day
with the increase in racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic attacks against LGBTI
people but also against all those who fight for a more just world. Clément Méric,
an activist of Solidaires Etudiant-es and the Paris-Banlieue Antifascist Action,
was a designated enemy, like all those who carry a political project of
solidarity and social emancipation.
The far right feeds on the social inequalities of this capitalist system in order
to prosper. Fighting one requires fighting the other. Faced with the extreme
right, our response must be firm, united and without compromise. We are already
congratulating ourselves on the success of the Parisian demonstration on June 5
and call on everyone to further amplify the mobilization for freedoms and against
far-right ideas on June 12 throughout the territory and on July 3 and 4 in
Perpignan during of the Congress of the National Rally.
Antifascists, everywhere, all the time.
Ucl, June 6, 2021
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Proces-des-assassins-de-Clement-l-extreme-droite-est-un-poison-mortel
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Message: 5
Portierki in Poznan are demanding 235 thousand. PLN overdue for three years of
remuneration. The Board of Communal Resources for Housing (ZKZL), which
administered the buildings that guarded, called for payment. ZKZL called the
latest protest in this case - in a statement published by the local Gazeta
Wyborcza - "caricatured". Our reply, sent to the editorial office, was never
published. We place it below. ---- On Thursday, May 20, 2021, the Polish Workers'
Initiative Trade Union organized a protest at the headquarters of the Z KZL , one
of the demands of which was the payment of outstanding wages to doormen and
doormen employed in buildings administered by the municipal company[read more].
In a statement handed over to representatives of OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza and
published in Gazeta Wyborcza, the spokesman of the ZKZL called the workers'
protest at the company's headquarters " caricatured " and " exposes the trade
union position itself to mockery . "
Admittedly, after three years of fighting for unpaid remuneration for work done
for the HCM, the victims have already got used to being ignored by various public
institutions, but the information that the HCMR sees their claims as a mocking
caricature is a novelty.
While the spokesman for ZKZL is in the mood to mock us, we are not amused. The
more so because two of the injured people died awaiting their outstanding
remuneration. Below, we would like to briefly refer to the arguments put forward
by the spokesperson for ZKZL in this statement.
A business model designed to be exploited
In 2017 and 2018, ZKZL signed 11 contracts with the same company (contractor
selected in a public tender) for the physical protection of real estate located
at ul. Ratajczaka 44, Kórnicka 24, Kasprzaka 16, Grunwaldzka 22, Roboczej 4 and
Mickiewicza 31. The company offered for its services a price several dozen
percent lower than other entities participating in the tender. It is worth
emphasizing here that the offered price was below the break-even point and was
inconsistent with any rational economic calculation: it assumed that the
contractor would have to perform his services for the HCM not only for free, but
at a loss of several thousand zlotys. In turn, the subcontractor (temporary
employment agency formally employing employees) would have to carry out the order
for the contractor with a loss of several thousand zlotys.
The whole procedure was possible only because the contractor's "business model"
assumed a real profit by systematically defrauding employees on hourly wages,
bonuses for night work and overtime.
These grossly low prices offered by the contractor should arouse the distrust of
ZKZL. If the city of Poznan announced a tender for the purchase of a new tram,
which costs PLN 5,000,000, and the tender was won by a company offering a new
tram for PLN 1,000,000, a red lamp should light up to the organizers of the
tender. It should, but it did not light up, because ZKZL simply paid off when it
could pay a significantly lower price for almost 18 months for the "security"
service of facilities managed by the city. The difference between what ZKZL paid
the contractor and what he should have paid if the employees were employed under
employment contracts (as provided for in the terms of the tender), constituted
pure profit for ZKZL, which allowed the company's management board to turn a
blind eye to the fact that from the economic point of view these contracts did
not make any sense to the company, which won the tender. The city bought a
cheaper tram, but unfortunately it turned out that it got derailed after a few
days of use.
CMO IB has very detailed calculations confirming the above statements. These
documents have already been submitted to the Poznan Stare Miasto District
Prosecutor's Office, which is conducting two preparatory proceedings, incl. on
persistent and malicious violations of labor rights and falsification of
documents. In addition, the union will submit the above calculations to the
Regional Audit Chamber in Poznan and the President of the Public Procurement
Office together with a request to initiate an ad hoc inspection of physical
protection contracts for the above-mentioned real estate concluded by ZKZL in
2017 and 2018. ZKZL transferred several hundred thousand zlotys to a contractor
company that has behind a long history of non-payment of wages to employees. The
circumstances of concluding these agreements require careful checking by
appointed institutions.
What did the ZKZL not take care of?
The statements of the ZKZL spokesman " on absolute compliance with the Public
Procurement Law"they are completely groundless and unbelievable. The provisions
of the aforementioned act give the contracting authority a number of rights that
allow him to verify whether employees are employed on the basis of employment
contracts (e.g. requesting copies of concluded employment contracts or conducting
an inspection). The trade union applied to the ZKZL with a request under the
procedure of access to public information to indicate the actions taken by the
company in order to verify whether the employees were actually employed in
accordance with the provisions of the labor law. In response, ZKZL admitted that
for several months of cooperation with the contractor, he had not taken any steps
in this direction. Several months! And it was enough to search the Internet for a
few minutes and verify the information in the electronic National Court Register
to find out, that people related to the contractor cheated (under different
names) a few years earlier, among others porters in Szczecin and security staff
employed at the District Court in Bartoszyce. The fact that an organized crime
group operates under the aegis of a contractor company, with a structure,
internal hierarchy and a defined division of tasks is evidenced, for example, by
the fact that its activities were already discussed in the Sejm in 2015
(initiated by an interpellation of MP Iwona Ewa Arent" To the Minister of the
Interior on massive fraud of security agencies").
We are of the opinion that ZKZL, through its omission and failure to check
publicly available information, led to a situation in which for over a year the
rights of employees employed on real estate managed by the company were grossly
violated.
Settlement or court
The spokesman for ZKZL advises the injured employees to refer their claims to the
labor court. Wise advice, but a bit late as employees have already done so and
have won all 27 cases closed so far (more pending). Unfortunately, court bailiffs
have a problem with the enforcement of the awarded amounts - it turns out that
the contractor of the ZKZL cooperated with companies whose presidents were
citizens of Ukraine, Belarus and Vietnam and no one had ever seen them. They also
do not respond to police calls for questioning. They fell into the ground.
Interestingly, during employment by the contractor, employees received documents
signed by the alleged presidents - you do not need an expert graphologist to say
that these signatures were significantly different from the specimen signatures
contained in the registration files of these companies.
The spokesman for ZKZL also claims that he has no legal title to pay the
outstanding wages to the injured employees. We agree on this point. The final
pre-trial payment notices submitted on May 20 to the ZKZL administration office
are the first step to obtaining the basis for the payment of wages. It is up to
the management board of ZKZL whether these titles will be subsequent court
judgments or a settlement with employees, which would finally end this
humiliating spectacle lasting over 3 years.
Marta Rozmyslowicz
https://ozzip.pl/informacje/wielkopolskie/item/2788-poznan-drwiny-z-wyzysku
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