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(en) UCL, The Quebec 2015-2016 Budget analyzed by a
libertarian Saguenay (fr) [machine translation]
Unveiled yesterday (26 March), the 2015-2016 provincial budget was announced as a "message
of confidence" by the Minister of Finance Carlos Leitao. The latter, who was the head of a
bank before assuming his position as Minister, said at the unveiling of the budget that
his "hope today becomes reality." Since this is not a trivial exercise book and this
budget will have very serious impacts on the human level, I offer this libertarian
analysis of the budget; outline, its impacts and finally, what might look like an
anarchist budget. ---- A fiscal year is based on the mass of money that enters the system
(GDP). It is a vision of the economy that excludes all the things we do without
compromising money. The services that we make in our voisinnages, care that is given to a
child, good dinners with friend-es ... everything, bounded vision of our economic leaders
the excluded. Weapons manufacturers, the railway company responsible for the disaster of
Lac Mégantic, mining who empty the basement ... are seen as participants in GDP. No
surprise then that, since the financial years are based on GDP, it is these very
destructive and retrograde companies for Humanity who benefit most rapid succession. In
short, GDP does not represent the general interest, and one wonders what kind of rich
elites tell us. The answer may be hiding in their brown envelopes ...!
The shaft government most of his speech on the zero deficit, with the pretext that he
would think of future generations. The paradox is great from a system that relies on the
intensive exploitation of natural resources, often until exhausted, and that significantly
impairs the quality of life for families by the loss. It is hard to believe the government
in his speeches. For example, how to justify the use of increasingly outsourcing as it is
demonstrated more expensive? On the other hand, Leitao says there is no new rate increases
in this budget, APART crowd of rate increases already announced before this one! We silly,
of course! It even announces a reduction in the corporate tax in 2017. It is understood
that belt-tightening, it's just not valid for the rich. 54 years old, Thierry Vandal,
Hydro-Québec CEO is leaving office on May 1 and receive an indexed annuity of $ 452,402
(an amount close to the salary he earns already). And, it is we who have to pay a hydro
bill ever growing ...
Women were most affected by the budget. Especially targeting key sectors of Education and
Health, the government leads an attack that will mean major setbacks in the social status
of women in Quebec. Recall that this is the same government that absolutely refused to
analyze the impact on women of the austerity measures he put on the table. In the health
sector, the budget provides an increase of only 1.4% - the impact will necessarily be very
large in hospitals and social programs and services. Should we be surprised also that this
year is 91% of the budget of the ministries of the Government of Quebec that are
administered by men and only 9% of women?
In education, this is the worst cuts over 20 years. With only 0.2% budget increase, we
must prepare well for special size cuts. The attack is cowardly and cruel. School boards
will be placed under impossible cuts will pass on an even larger share of the bill of
costs to parents. The government announces hypocritically that there will be no service
interruption (except those already announced, beautiful paradox!), But we can already see
that services are cut in different institutions. A student general strike is taking shape
and already the police forces seem to have had the directive of their high command to
attempt to crush the movement in its germination. As so aptly the poet Pablo Neruda, "they
can cut all the flowers, but they will never be masters of Spring."
The state wants to negotiate Patron dictatorial mode with the employees of the State that
then he should be the first to honor the negotiation principles in its labor laws. There
is already talk in the budget to freeze wages. Working conditions are not supposed to be
told, this is not normal. The fight is a matter of dignity and resistance to the
démantellement a very large number of jobs. This system draws us to a precariat market
sub-normalized (the "bullshit jobs") and does not even allow people to earn above the
poverty line. This certainly does not help the GDP but contributes to the general tendency
of capitalism to the accumulation of wealth in fewer and fewer pockets and aggrandizement
of the gap between the rich and the less affluent es.
In our time, tax solutions put forward by the electoral left and reformist social
movements are doomed to failure despite all the good intentions. The term comes from the
Latin tax to describe a basket. Taxation is somehow the money that comes in the common
basket to redistribute. But today, the year the budget is undermined. It is no longer so
much to please people, but especially to please the rating firms. After each budget,
evaluate recent "return of the state" according to profitability for the capitalists cuts
and privatizations granted by the government. The rating firms change thereafter the
interest rate charged on the debt according to these "performances". It goes without
saying that this debt is artificially inflated, that since the 80 Much of the debt is
illegitimate; it was imposed on us so we can no longer fraudulent. The dominant ideology
is now trying to make us believe that we should repay all that ... For the same profits,
big banks and big capitalists, that keep us in this state of slavery. A left government
would be caught in the throat by such a system.
In addition to the risk of being downgraded, management has the power to drive up
inflation so as to increase the cost of living if he sees his rate of profits attacked by
policies. And thirdly, there are the delocalisation. Ultimately, no problems of this
system can not be solved by tax solutions. It is capitalism that keeps us in this bondage,
he is to be eliminated. It's a social revolution we need! This perspective calls us to
build more concrete here and now the foundation of autonomy and popular power; form a
"power-cons".
It is interesting to think about what could actually be an anarchist budget. First,
without a government, the budget would be produced collectively by direct democracy and
respect the autonomy of communities. Rather than taking as a reference the GDP, an
anarchist society would address the real needs of the population and would work to achieve
the greatest possible social equality (no classes) and the destruction of patriarchy and
racism. The sectors of health and education would be among the biggest concerns of an
anarchist budget. The economy would be based on the maxim: "From each according to his
ability, to each according to his need." It is much more closer and the basket which the
term "tax" is derived. Peter Kropotkin also spoke of "taking the job." The expropriation
and socialization of the means of production and redistribution of agricultural land
according to the principle of "land that is cultivated" would activate a boss without
economy, directly in line with the real needs of the population and less alienating. It
would be a society without unemployment or the right to work is real, as is the right to
be lazy!
In Leitao quoting Saint-Exupéry at the unveiling of the budget, "this future is not to
predict but to make it possible," our words of March 20, 2012 remains a glaring news: "
The power is us ! The black and red of May redound of the most daring acts that changes
lives, without intermediaries! ".
Darth Vader
Posted ago Yesterday by Collectif Emma Goldman
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.co.il/2015/03/le-budget-2015-2016-du-quebec-analyse.html
International, The ECB fined by AL Montreuil (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation]
The new headquarters of the European Central Bank was inaugurated with great fanfare on
March 18 in Frankfurt. The opportunity for tens of thousands of people come to remind the
institution of class struggle exists, and it is one of the targets. The menu blockages,
actions and events. ---- This was to be a day of celebration for the boss of the European
Central Bank, Mario Draghi and more broadly for the representatives of an oligarchy so
locked into certainties they had probably not envisaged such a collapse. ---- Yes, they
hop planned for the inauguration of the new headquarters of the ECB was totally wasted.
---- The troublemaker has a name: Blockupy, the coalition strong anti-capitalist content
formed collectives, associations, trade unions and political organizations.
Getting shameful scene
In fact this inauguration turned into non-event: a few dozen invited es had to be routed
es by boat or helicopter, the only way for them to travel in a city disrupted by blocking
actions mobilizing 6,000 activists come-es 49 cities in Europe and determined es to fight.
This confidential reception was limited to part of the afternoon, when it was to celebrate
the power and capital.
Blockupy has so managed to make this scene shameful that the ECB has given itself to mediate.
The blocking actions began early in the morning on Wednesday 18th March. They were
preceded by clashes the day before between autonomous numbers of activists and police. The
rest of the police force were unusually numerous, as many as 10,000 cops.
Area blocking the new building of the ECB has been the subject of thorough preparation and
he mobilized a significant number of activists, it is first because everyone could find
its place , whether those that assume the use of violence or those who have opted for
active non-violence.
Several groups participated in the encirclement of the ECB throughout the morning, some
blocking driveways, others directly confronting the police or setting fire to one of the
outbuildings of the ECB. Police arrested twenty to five people and presented thirteen
before a judge. Federico Annibale, an Italian student, to date remains in custody and
mobilization continues to release. The cops poisoned hundreds of jammers and blockers with
tear gas and pepper clubbed some of them they are.
? Video report: Taranis News .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D2bMw-Pqqk
What was the main objective of Blockupy has been largely fulfilled.
By late morning, a trade union demonstration was held in the city center with processions
of IG Metall, ver.di, the union of the services of Deutsche Gewerkschaftbund (DGB, the
German Trade Union Confederation) and the union teaching and research, the IMF (Employee
Federation and metal workers related to the CGIL, Italy) and the Trade Union Solidarity union.
The meeting allowed to hear three types of interventions reflect quite well the diversity
of Blockupy.
You could hear the advocates of institutional path (SYRIZA, Podemos, Die Linke), the
verbal radicalism is particularly soluble test of power as can be seen with the Greek
government has decided to comply with the will of the troika (ECB, IMF, European Commission).
The interventions of social movements (unions, associations, collectives) occupied the
largest share of speaking time.
Finally, the extra-parliamentary left, including through the interventionist Left (Linke
Interventionistische, IL), was able to defend the idea of a break and a self-managed
alternative to capitalism.
20,000 people protest
The manifestation of the afternoon was attended by nearly 20,000 people. It was opened by
banners and Blockupy by activists and activists of IL-Vetu're a T-shirt with a slogan
unambiguous ("Vive la Commune" in French), followed by procession of Ums Ganz, another
movement from the autonomy preceded by a banner proclaiming "For a social revolution."
The anti-fascist bloc was the largest (about 2,000 people). It is in this block that
activists of Alternative libertarian-es came from Paris, Nantes, but also marched in Brussels.
We could also see union processions slightly fewer than in the morning. Left Party, Attac
and Kurdish organizations were the most important poles.
This Wednesday, March 18th was a beautiful day. So far do not see a mobilization nowhere.
Indeed, Blockupy, which existed for five years, aims to develop a genuine anti-austerity
movement in Europe. This is a good thing and he would win his fight with articulate
opposition to transatlantic draft treaties between the US, Canada and European Union
entered its final stages of negotiation.
These treaties, if ratified by those States will disintegrate all social and environmental
standards in order to facilitate investment and profit capitalists. Faced with these
criminal plans, international mobilization is scheduled Saturday, April 18.
As for France, clarifications will be needed. If the agreement was good between Attac,
Solidarity, Togetherness and Alternative libertarian, who found themselves in line with
the approach Blockupy, we can see that the Collective 3A (Alternative to Austerity)
totally manipulated by the Front left and involving CGT and Solidaires or Women Equality,
was completely left out of the blocking of the ECB, as it is true that his priority is to
rebuild a left enrolling mainly in the parliamentary field .
Laurent Esquerre (AL Paris-Nord-Est)
https://blockupy.org
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?La-BCE-mise-a-l-amende
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