#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #UKRAINE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL AL #331 - International, #Ukraine: The Trap of Sacred Union (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The Ukrainian government is taking advantage of the war against the Russian

invader to pass "emergency laws" reducing the rights of workers. ---- The
Ukrainian counter-offensive launched on August 29 is inflicting serious setbacks
on the Russian army and could spell the end of the attempted invasion of the
country. ---- The victory of Zelensky's troops does not mean that the proletariat
will see its living conditions improve. The current Ukrainian leader is indeed a
pure neoliberal who takes advantage of the conflict to accelerate anti-social
attacks. On March 15, a "regulation of labor relations during martial law" was
promulgated. ---- This law allows an increase in the legal duration of work, up
to 60 hours per week, dismissal facilities and suspensions without pay. This
regulation is meant to be temporary, but even a military victory will not be
enough to remove it. The government will be able to maintain it in the name of
the threat or for a hazy national unity necessary for the reconstruction effort.

The exception, especially in the name of the higher interest of the nation, often
becomes the rule. The vote of Law 5371 on July 19 proves it. This law will allow
individual negotiation of contracts in SMEs, which concerns 70% of workers in
Ukraine.

Clearly, this is the end of the labor code. Social struggles had blocked a
similar project in 2019. Today the Ukrainian bourgeoisie is taking advantage of
the war to pass anti-social laws. It is all the easier since many trade unionists
participate in the fight and in the organization of defense as conscripts or
volunteers.

Individual contract negotiation
Moreover, in a context of war propaganda and national unity, social struggles
risk being poorly received. All this allows a major attack against labor law,
breaking with international conventions. Concretely, this law will mean that the
contract between employer and worker will be made "by mutual consent of the two
parties".

This formulation reminds us of the arguments used during the passage of the labor
law in France. It is obvious that Zelensky is carrying out this attack as part of
a global capitalist offensive. This law also responds to the agenda of Ukraine's
allies. If NATO and the European Union have provided weapons, it is not for free.
Attacks on the labor code and the proletariat are attacks in the service of the
imperialists. It is a question of favoring the exploitation of Ukrainian men and
women within the framework of the globalized economy.

Beyond the fight that our comrades in Ukraine must wage, international solidarity
is necessary. The links created by the Union Syndicale Solidaires and the
International Network of Solidarity and Struggle are invaluable in defeating
capitalist attacks. The CGT and the FSU also expressed their solidarity through
press releases published on July 11 and 30.

We understand and support the proletarians who take up arms to defend their
homes, but this must not make us lose sight of the fact that the capitalists take
advantage of wars to advance their pawns.

Gaby (UCL Amiens)

I would like to receive the weekly newsletter.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Ukraine-Le-piege-de-l-union-sacree
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca

#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #IRELAND #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Ireland, Organise: BLACK STAR #20: It's not a crisis it's CAPITALISM (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 They work us harder, on fewer ‘guaranteed' hours and with worse terms and

conditions. The ‘social wage', that's education (for what it's worth), water
services, bin collections, street lighting, our fire service and our health
service (fuck the police) have suffered attack after attack after attack. ---- A
‘reserve army of labour' (the unemployed, under-employed and the socalled
economically inactive) is kept on a rapidly diminishing subsistence to keep those
of us in work afraid. Afraid we can be replaced. Afraid we can be sacked if we
have the temerity to complain. Afraid we can be scabbed on if, worse still, we
organise.
Government hands out a pittance (stolen
from us in our taxes and from countless
millions globally through centuries of
exploitation and colonial extraction), a
sticking plaster on a wound that will kill
more of us - children in poverty, the 'fuel
poor' elderly, the 'precarious', the poorly
paid, those of us on benefits. Rocketing
food, gas, oil and electricity bills kill.

It is however no crisis - profits are up.
What exactly are these profits? Profits are
the wealth that we, the working class,
create and have stolen from us by the
rich, the owners of the land, the housing,
the means of production. We produce all
the wealth of society - they produce fuck
all.
We are essential. They are parasites. Only
good at doing what parasites do - sucking
the life out of their host. They will
continue to get wealthier, fat and drunk
on their privilege while the rest of us
suffer and the planet is pushed to
breaking point.
Let us make no mistake, capitalism, the
system that benefits these already
wealthy robbing bastards, is working
perfectly.
And yet we are far from powerless. It is
time to organise!

Organise: anarcho-syndicalists in Ireland
---------------------------------------------
Cost of Capitalism Crisis

Rallies were held across Britain and Ireland
on Saturday, 1 October to protest against
the ‘cost of living crisis', the current term
favoured in the mass media and slavishly
parroted by the left in the latest attempts
to rouse us from our slumbers and choose
the ‘radical alternative' come election
time.
In Omagh, Belfast and Derry there were
sizeable gatherings, a lot of anger and
frustration but not many calls for direct
action. Organise! members were in
attendance in Derry and Belfast. In Belfast
at least the awful sound system spared us
from having to listen to calls for Stormont
to get back to work alongside complaints
that all it ever did was implement neoliberal
attacks when it was working!

The so-called cost of living crisis has not
been caused by a few profiteering energy
giants, British imperialism, the protocol,
Steven Nolan or Keir Starmer's haircut. It
is the process and product of global
capitalism. It's a campaign against capital
we need, not a price freeze, subvention
from Stormont, or a ‘socialist' in charge.
We understand that all of us need help
now but we can only do that through
collective direct action in the workplace
and in our communities.

https://organiseanarchistsireland.com/black-star
https://organiseanarchistsireland.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BlackStar20.pub_.pdf
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca

#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #SERBIA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Serbia, ASI, IWA-AIT: International Week Against Unpaid Wages (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative (ASI) as part of the actions of the

International Association of Workers, marked the last day of the International
Week Against Unpaid Wages the day before yesterday. The goal of this combat week
was to point out various forms of wage theft - unpaid wages and overtime work,
inadequately paid night work, work on Sundays and during holidays, and the like;
to summarize the ways of struggle that are available to us as workers and call
for organization and joint struggle. ---- ASI accompanied this week with calls to
organize and struggle, distribution of the trade union bulletin and other
activities, but far more important than that is that this year too many people
contacted us who experienced some form of wage theft and that we are now
coordinating with them to fight together for what belongs to them. Although this
announcement closes the International Week Against Unpaid Wages, we do not stop
our activities and invite you to continue to contact us with labor problems of
any type and to join us in the fight against the exploitation of workers!

https://www.facebook.com/borbenisindikat/photos/a.449692455051778/5830467746974195
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca

#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #BRAZIL #SAOPAULO #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Brazil, #SãoPaulo OASL-CAB:Fight the far right in the fight and on the streets! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 OASL participates in the 31st Congress of Sinpeem, a union that represents (or

should represent) education workers in the municipal education network of São
Paulo. The congress takes place between the 18th and 21st of October, at the
Palácio das Convenções do Anhembi. At the meeting, our militancy, which builds
actions together with regional strike commands, is distributing a publication
that brings together our reading of the national situation and the category. The
content follows below. ---- The election of Jair Bolsonaro, in 2018, was a card
of the ruling classes to advance the neoliberal economic project, radically
precarious the living conditions of the population. The approval of the Pension
Reform - which, in practice, represents a dismantling of retirement - is an
example. Inflation and the rising cost of living skyrocketed, with people
becoming increasingly hungry and even resorting to bones to survive!

Furthermore, during the Covid-19 pandemic, the government adopted a genocidal
policy, sabotaging prevention measures and refusing to buy vaccines. Officially,
in Brazil, we have more than 600,000 deaths from the disease. How many lives
could have been preserved?

The Lula and Alckmin ticket, which proposes a policy of conciliation to make
itself viable in the face of the ruling classes, will have difficulties. The
current global economic climate is unfavorable, with a war going on in Europe,
which contributes to domestic economic difficulties. Brazil has also gone through
an intense process of de-industrialization in the last 20 years, being even more
dependent on the export of agribusiness products.

Bolsonaro's possible electoral defeat in 2022, as much as it seems like a relief,
does not solve the problems. Even if he loses the presidency, the so-called
"bolsonarism" will persist in the next period, which symbolizes the worst -
fascism, racism, misogyny, LGBTQIA+phobia and ultra-liberal economic
perspectives. The base that makes up Bolsonarism is active and violent - see the
attacks and murders against political opponents and against any people contrary
to their "myth".

We cannot ignore, therefore, the risks that the extreme right represents,
advancing between police and military, CACs, religious, ruralists and the like.
It is essential that we assume combativeness from direct action and self-defense.
The retreat of sectors of the left so as not to displease the elites in the
electoral process is a mistake, since it strengthens the violent actions of the
extreme right Bolsonarista.

As organized and revolutionary anarchists, we reinforce that the electoral
dispute is not enough to make the necessary transformations for those from below,
nor to stop the offensive of the extreme right. A decisive confrontation and the
strengthening of popular movements and grassroots bodies are necessary, carrying
out the struggle in a radical way. Only the organized and combative struggle is
able to bring achievements to those from below and stop the advance of Bolsonarism!

The union bureaucracy
The current political conjuncture demands from us, the working class, an
organizational response and an increasingly strong struggle in defense of the
rights conquered in the past and in the advancement of improvements in living and
working conditions.

In education the situation is no different! In recent years, attacks on pensions;
the advance of privatization and outsourcing; the policy of death in the pandemic
and the devaluation of wages took tens of thousands of workers in education and
other public services in the municipality to the streets. However, even with the
willingness and impetus of the bases, the union leaderships, especially the
current board of Sinpeem and Cláudio Fonseca, were more interested in
conciliatory arrangements with the government, betraying the category and selling
defeats as achievements!

Cláudio Fonseca and his board, contrary to the interests of the majority of the
category, sent union elections in the middle of the pandemic, when we were in
isolation and with a high number of deaths in the city. The election proceeded
even with the demand for postponement, forwarded by the other slates - who even
withdrew from the process, out of respect for the workers. The result was an
election without political debate and with very low membership, in a
demonstration of dissatisfaction!

We also remind you that elections for Regional Councilors have not been called
for years!

Contradictorily, Sinpeem kept its doors closed under the argument of protection
from the pandemic, while part of the school board remained in face-to-face work.

It is important to highlight that, in this period, contracts with outsourced
companies were terminated; reduction in the number of workers in cleaning and
kitchen services; hiring family members of students on a precarious temporary basis!

Amid the 2021 health strike, once again Cláudio Fonseca abandoned the category,
which had its salaries cut by the government of Covas and Nunes. He did not
organize the strike fund, the primary reason for the existence of a union,
supporting the government's authoritarianism in publications and speeches. Even
so, the category proved resistant and did not leave the streets, radicalizing the
actions and self-organizing, through the Regional Commands, the solidary support
to those who did not receive their earnings.

In the second half of 2021, we once again fought a tough fight against the new
pension reform. The struggle also counted on the radicalization of the workers,
who blocked paths; they mobilized central and regional acts; camped in front of
the City Hall - even with rain and cold. The strike ended under repression by the
GCM. We were defeated, but we left standing and with our heads held high,
convinced of the strength of the category's base - even in the face of a board
that once again acted far below what was necessary in the face of the harsh
attack by the government.

In order to resist the current situation and advance in the struggles for rights
and valorization, we need an organizational instrument that really meets the
demands of workers. A combative and popular union.

For grassroots democracy and a true struggle union
The theme of this 31st Congress is "Education and Democracy", which also makes us
think urgently about our union structure! We understand that the organization of
the union is not an end in itself and must make the struggles of the category
viable, but the way in which it is structured can both dynamize and hinder the
movement of teachers in their struggles. We need to end the reign of Cláudio
Fonseca and his board, who haven't set foot on the floor of a school for decades.
But for us, just changing the direction is not enough.

We understand that a union structure that effectively meets the interests of its
category must start from the base itself - in our case, in schools! For this to
occur, there must be a re-signification of the instance of the REs, in which the
voice of workers is manifested.

Currently, the meetings of School Representatives are mere "takes and brings
back" of the decisions taken by the union board. There is practically a monopoly
of speeches and with little open space, which leads to a fierce dispute between
the opposition, which mostly question this logic.

Therefore, for there to be a change in this structure, the RE must be a
deliberative instance: fundamental political decisions must be forwarded in this
space, with greater freedom and speaking time for everyone present. In order to
streamline the meetings, bring the union closer to the category and to other
struggles in territories, the reopening of the sub-headquarters is of paramount
importance, a decision that was even approved in previous Congresses and not
carried out by the board of Cláudio Fonseca.

The subheadquarters, provided for in the Sinpeem Statute, could make it possible
to build a union from below and would reinforce a closer relationship between the
category and the organization. This is a fundamental issue, as the distance
between the union and the workers means that the instrument of struggle is
reduced to mere labor advice.

With the sub-headquarters, the Regional Councils would also gain greater dynamics
and function: effectively organizing each region, promoting regional bulletins
and forwarding the deliberations of each sub-headquarters to the General Council
- which should discuss them, approve them or give feedback to the
sub-headquarters. when not approved. We remind you that the Sinpeem Statute
determines that the elections for Regional Councilors take place biennially.

Another key point to be discussed is bureaucratization. It is not just a question
of ethics and justice, but of considering the perverse effects that bureaucracy
brings: for example, lack of legitimacy before the category and the notion that
the "union solves" without the need for participation.

Finally, the image that the union represents the workers in the same way that a
deputy of the bourgeois parliament does. In summary, bureaucratization kills the
union as a tool for organizing and mobilizing the category. Union whose
leadership has been crystallized for decades in their positions needs urgently to
be rethought!

The re-election of the union's board of directors and, mainly, of its president,
could not pass at once and its role should be minimized. The role of the union's
board of directors should only be executive, that is, comply with the
deliberations forwarded by each region. If it does not fulfill its functions or
when it adopts practices that disrespect the decisions of the category, the board
should be revoked. The executive role of the board is also provided for in the
Statute, but again we realize that the practice is reversed, as the president
behaves like a monarch.

In a category composed mostly of women, it is even possible to discuss gender
proportionality for the occupation of directorships, thus avoiding sexist and
misogynist policies and attitudes, as already denounced by colleagues in previous
Congresses.
We know that the path is long and difficult. Our fight against governments and
bosses will never cease as long as we live in a society organized by capital, but
we need the working class to add more and more strength and our instruments must
not reproduce the logic of the capitalist system.

It is with the organization of those from below that we join forces to overthrow
those from above and accumulate experiences to manage a new society, without the
presence of capital and the State - a self-organized society!
-------------------------------------------------------
On the second day of the 31st Sinpeem Trade Union Congress, municipal education
workers (who build the Regional Strike Commands) organized an act to participate
in the plenary, responsible for discussing trade union issues. The union's board
of directors - especially its president, Cláudio Fonseca - resumed the usual
practices of authoritarianism and censorship of voices and alternative and
combative proposals.
Despite this, the workers in education stood firm and made room for the category.
Afterwards, we held a "counterplenary", open to anyone who wanted to participate
and truly democratic. Trade union democracy must be built from the ground up so
that it effectively addresses its demands!

https://anarquismosp.wordpress.com/2022/10/18/combater-a-extrema-direita-na-luta-e-nas-ruas/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca

#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #CHILE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Chile, #Solidarity, libertarian communist feminist (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 For months we took to the streets to protest against the injustice and abuses of

a system that steals our lives. We call that struggle dignity and to achieve it
we put our bodies, our eyes and our lives. We meet in the squares and roundabouts
to talk about a fairer future, one with better living conditions, and above all
to fight. Everything that moved us to take to the streets is still there. The
rage, the love and the urge to change everything continue to make more sense than
ever. ---- We face difficult times as a working class. They have left an economic
and social crisis on our shoulders that will force us to find all the ways to get
ahead. And we will have to move forward facing a far-right that advances from the
fear of being left with nothing, and the disappointment generated by a government
that has turned its back on the social forces that lead the will for change.
Yesterday the repression was the same as it was three years ago, and we are
weighed down by the ghost of those who raped, mutilated, murdered and remain
unpunished.
Today the task is not to let go of what has been achieved so far. We have built a
minimum program that we have to dispute, we have forged ties throughout the
country, and we have shared an unprecedented experience of struggle and
organization on which to continue. It is time to unite our forces to consolidate
a political and social force that, from the construction of the base in all the
territories, opens the way for the revolution.
There are no shortcuts to this arduous task.

https://www.facebook.com/solidaridadfcl/posts/pfbid0xKC3daHExccPcarjMHFH1EUUJHfqGNuPLVU64t24jNgxTuQxcRY57uWUnuMhJc3il
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca

#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ANARCHISM #INTERNATIONAL (en) CNT-AIT #Anarchosyndicalisme! n°178: unlimited general strike! (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 "It is therefore the peoples who allow themselves, or rather are bound, since by

refusing to serve, they would break their bonds. La Boétie, The Discourse on
Voluntary Servitude ---- Towards Generalized Survival. ---- Today, everything
becomes clearer. All of us, who have already lost a lot in the past decades, can
no longer be mistaken. The times that are opening up will be, each day a little
more, those in which daily life will be reduced to the struggle for survival. We
are not talking here about the equipped and air-conditioned survival that was
that of the sixties; no, it is about the most raw survival, when housing, food,
treatment are no longer self-evident. No more society under the iron heel of the
neo-conservatives, only atomized individuals, subject to the iron Law of the
Economy and condemned to be nothing more than predators or prey, slaves in any case.

It would be pointless to list the multiple attacks that we have already had to
endure, they are very present in our minds. If we persist in fighting each one of
them, one after the other, like a patient who would fight the symptoms of the
disease without taking the root of the evil, we will be defeated. It is in these
fights, certainly justified, but too fragmented and often thankless that we have
left many of our forces in these past years. The weight of this sort of "struggle
routine", with at the end, in the best of cases, the only prospect of not backing
down too much, has discouraged more than one.
Don't back off too much! While around us an unprecedented social but also
ecological disaster is producing its first effects! While those who write history
today while relentlessly closing it for us, trap our lives in a device, close or
international, always more dangerous, always more delirious!

Make history rather than suffer it

The situation today is too serious for us to miss the opportunity to unite not
for an alliance of convenience, but for a fight that promises to be long and
difficult.
It is not the simple addition of limited claims that will allow this union, but
the awareness that we are at a key moment. If the powers are able to impose their
diktat, which has already proved so destructive in recent years, our entire
ability to fight in the years to come will be reduced. We all have in mind those
days of short-lived action that have punctuated the last few years and the
harmful role they have played in the development of a general strike movement.
Today, we cannot afford to have this false rhythm imposed on us. Our
participation in a one-day strike fixed well in advance can only be envisaged
insofar as, also well in advance, we will all have in mind that it will have to
be the beginning of a movement to the height of the stake.

LONG LIVE THE UNLIMITED GENERAL STRIKE!
According to a text by the revolutionary teaching group Vingtras, text
distributed by the anarchosyndicalist initiative CNT-AIT Allier at the
demonstration of September 29, 2022.

http://cntaittoulouse.lautre.net/spip.php?article1253
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca

#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #SPAIN #IRAN #ANARCHISM #News Journal #Update - (en) Spaine: CNT-AIT Anarchosyndicalisme! n°178: Solidarity with the Revolution in Iran (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 As we go to press, a revolutionary movement is stirring Iran. The murder of the

young Mahsa Amini by the morality police of the Islamic Republic has triggered a
huge wave of revolt. Women are at the forefront of the protest, removing their
hijab and burning their veils in protest. ---- But it is the very tyrannical
system of the mullahs' regime that is targeted by all the insurgents, women and
men mixed in the same cries of revolt: "we do not want the Islamic Republic" or
even "Khamenei (the Supreme Leader) is an assassin, his reign is illegitimate"...

Police repression is brutal, terrible, demonstrators chased and even shot in the
street. International solidarity is very important.

We associate our voice with that of our Iranian, Iraqi, Kurdish or even Pakistani
anarchist companions who have organized actions of solidarity with women and men
in Iran in the fight against the religious tyranny of a totalitarian state.

We assure the insurgents in Iran and around the world of our full solidarity so
that the revolt against injustice is transformed into a social, libertarian and
egalitarian revolution.

To read more: Support for mass protests and uprisings in Iran (Kurdish-speaking
anarchist forum) http://cnt-ait.info/2022/09/29/women-iran-kurde/

http://cntaittoulouse.lautre.net/spip.php?article1251
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca