Today's Topics:
1. The Coordination of Anarchist Groups - Paris region: State
and employers are organizing the unemployment and job insecurity.
Continuing the offensive! - CGARP (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Rail safety: rather than a boss most is of thousands of
railway workers and railway workers we need! - FLR Alternative
Libertaire activists working in the railway (fr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Second general strike in Greece since the elections of
January 2014 - llamamiento a general strike last December 3,
2015. (ca, gr, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group MACG: Statement of
Shared Positions On Michael Schmidt (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Message: 1
A calls to join the protest against unemployment and job insecurity in Paris Saturday,
December 5 (14h Place Stalingrad) on the initiative of organizations fighting for the
unemployed and precarious. At a time when unemployment explodes and our working conditions
are deteriorating, it is time to take the offensive! ---- ... Social state of emergency!
---- While media and politicians agitate for what is the best way to apply the ultra-safe
and draconian program promised by the government, the social question is more relevant
than ever. With more than 10.2% of unemployed workers (the highest since June 1997),
workers, employed or unemployed, continue to suffer the brunt of the economic crisis in
which we are immersed · e · s since 2008. This is a severe cold shower for the government,
which boasted in October for helping to reduce unemployment in the previous month while
this slight decrease was mainly due to the massive use of temporary and fixed-term
contracts by companies ...
If, as anarchists, we do not defend the work as it is organized today, it is clear that a
situation of unemployment can be disastrous financially but also in a society where social
work occupies a central place (for example, a number of social benefits are conditioned by
past or present occupation of a job). Among the purposes of difficult months, reinforcing
controls of unemployed workers operated by Pol (ice) Employment and CAF, the fear of
losing their rights (when present) or struggle to get a little job paid at launch stone,
the life of an unemployed person is not a bed of roses!
The widespread casualization of labor
Since taking office, the Socialist government applies to methodically break labor law,
allowing employers to benefit from a flexible workforce and exploitable to thank you.
Covenant of responsibility, ANI, Macron Act, Act Rebsamen, lower APL, social contribution
exemption, etc.: Attacks abound against women workers and workers in recent years.
The economic and social project of the government, like previous governments, is clear: to
ensure that working people are considered · e · s as a simple adjustment variable, "cost",
which should not hinder walking towards profit. State and employers want the establishment
of a precarious work (in the jargon we say employers 'flexible'), which means nothing more
than the permanent social insecurity for all.
To apply to this program applauded Medef, the government will stop at nothing and despises
the employee · e · s that are mobilizing for their jobs and their working conditions, such
as those of Air France · e · s Treaty of "thugs" and dragged · e · s court.
Faced with unemployment and job insecurity, no elections, no resignation solidarity among
working people!
Ultimately, unemployment is the weapon of the bosses because it allows one hand to put
pressure on those who have a job, with the threat of dismissal, and secondly impoverishing
unemployed population. In that game, we are · e · s · e · s loser!
Unemployment and job insecurity are not fatalities. To curb this deadly logic, we must
strengthen class solidarity between unemployed / unemployed and employee · e · s.
Struggles exist within and outside the world of work, but they are still too isolated and
lack of popular support.
On the eve of regional elections, in which politicians of all stripes will we drink their
promises, it is time to say that the solution lies in our ability to organize and in our
determination to be heard a society project egalitarian and libertarian. The elections are
not the solution: they are part of the problem!
Do not fall into the trap of nationalist emergency and state of war: continue to promote
the convergence of popular organizations against the employer's dictatorship. Become aware
of our strength, and we refuse resignation!
http://www.cga-rp.org/blog/2015/12/05/etat-et-patronat-organisent-le-chomage-et-la-precarite-reprenons-loffensive/
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Message: 2
After the fatal accident of Eckwersheim, SNCF management made announcements; rather, the
announcement effects. What Pepy said substance and Rapoport? A "boss of rail safety,
common to the three EPIC Group" will be appointed. ---- Note accuracy "common to the three
EPIC"; but then burst into 3 separate companies would not be a good thing? This is what
many have been saying for a very long railway workers and railway workers, is that explain
for months federations CGT, FO and SUD-Rail, is what motivated the renewed strike in June
2014. ---- One more effort and modern strategists will soon introduce ourselves as a
brilliant idea to create a Transport Directorate within the Public Railway Group, as it
has existed for decades before they suppress it! ---- Above all, who will believe that
security problems will be solved by the mere appointment of a Director for more?
Is he alone who will replace the Way officers missing, traffic controllers whose number is
no longer possible to ensure proper training, workshop staff in short supply that force to
defer maintenance operations and ... 25 000 railway stations and railway workers removed
in 10 years, many of which are directly related to security?
Without shame, SNCF executives explain that there is need for "more rigorous".
But who has set up the organizations of accident-prone work, denounced for years by the
railway, the railway workers and many unions?
Who organized the loss of know-how, the case of collective labor, reducing training times?
Which imposed battalions of "leaders" of all kinds whose main occupation is to statistics
and who do not know the job to do?
Who patiently destroyed the regulations?
Finally, another "ad": the premiums which amount will be linked to the security level.
It's scandalous. Security has no price! This kind of solution will have one effect:
dissimulation, throughout the hierarchy, security problems!
For rail safety, as for the rest, do not count on the leaders and bosses! They not only do
not help us, but we dig. Take our business in hand!
http://leraildechaine.org/post/134280220940/s%C3%A9curit%C3%A9-ferroviaire-plut%C3%B4t-quun-patron-de
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Message: 3
The call of the Assembly of anarchist social and class counter for a demonstration on
December 3, 2015 , day of general strike. ---- Eleven months after the seizure of power by
the coalition government of Syriza and Anel , the offensive of the State and Capital
continues unabated. The government coalition, faithfully serving the local and
transnational patterns and being totally subjected to them, has been responsible for the
continuation of this offensive, through the implementation of new laws and old memos. It
has already cut pensions has increased the tax , the property tax continues, it has
increased the years of contributions to retire, and is selling public wealth: This list is
endless. ---- Against the looting that is taking place, the only roadblock that can be
mounted is the development of a mass movement among all below, of all the oppressed and
exploited, that does not have mediation, but take care to defend their interests, openly
resisting the plans of Sovereignty.
Again, the General Confederation of Greek Workers has been forced to call a 24-hour strike
under pressure from the unions, while she supports the memo and has sided with the
bourgeois bloc "yes" ( in the last referendum ), so it can not be considered to represent
the working class. The strike of 3 December is the second strike after the elections of
January 2015 , and must be a milestone regrouping of political forces, social class and
opposed to the interests of the State and Capital. It must be a new starting point of the
awareness that we have to defend themselves oppressed our interests, against the logic of
the delegation, sold against the headquarters of vertical organizations national unity
proposed calling a truce class against delusions about the reforms and the humanization of
this system vendors hope. Taking as a weapon solidarity and faith in the possibility of
overthrowing the system of exploitation and oppression.
We organize and fight without hierarchies, against the institutions, without mediators,
against the state and capitalism. The dilemma is: Submission and utter destitution and
struggle for social revolution. Social and class counter. War War employers.
Concentration on the day of the strike, December 3 , at 11: 00h in front of the
Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Assembly anarchist social and class counter
http://www.alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/35334
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Message: 4
Serious allegations against Michael Schmidt, a prominent activist in the Anarchist
movement in South Africa, were published on 25 September: ----
http://www.anarchistnews.org/content/michael-schmidt-author-black-flame-white-nationalist-trying-infiltrate-anarchist-movement-ak
---- During October, documents were published in support of these allegations: ----
(https://medium.com/@rossstephens/about-schmidt-how-a-white-nationalist-seduced-anarchists-around-the-world-chapter-1-1a6fa255b528)
----
(https://medium.com/@rossstephens/about-schmidt-how-a-white-nationalist-seduced-anarchists-around-the-world-chapter-2-1849e232b943)
----
(https://medium.com/@rossstephens/about-schmidt-how-a-white-nationalist-seduced-anarchists-around-the-world-chapter-3-7d288d84b170)
(https://medium.com/@rossstephens/about-schmidt-how-a-white-nationalist-seduced-anarchist-movements-throughout-the-world-chapter-4-8ff357d222e3)
(https://medium.com/@rossstephens/about-schmidt-how-a-white-nationalist-seduced-anarchists-around-the-world-chapter-5-a6ae0f471e9e)
On 26 November, Michael Schmidt published a defence:
http://drinkingwithghosts.blogspot.co.za/2015/11/michael-schmidt-african-anarchist.html
The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group is studying these documents and has not yet
reached any conclusions. If the allegations against Michael Schmidt are true, he should be
expelled from the movement and treated as both a serious danger and a thorough scoundrel.
If they are false, he has been appallingly libelled and he deserves public exoneration –
and his accusers are guilty of, at best, reckless behaviour.
We believe that a tribunal, composed so as to hold moral authority in the Anarchist
movement, should be established to investigate the allegations thoroughly and impartially
according to the principles of natural justice and to publish a report of its findings.
The Anarkismo Network, to which the MACG belongs, is pursuing an initiative along these
lines. The MACG therefore appeals to the Anarchist movement to withhold judgement until
such a time as either the tribunal reports, or it becomes clear that the attempt to form a
credible tribunal has failed.
https://melbacg.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/on-michael-schmidt/
