Today's Topics:
1. A-Radio Berlin Mediterranean 4: The self-managed soap
factory Vio.me in Thessaloniki (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #256 - Elections to the
SNCF: The balance of power remains stable (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - No to a state of
emergency and security measures! Do not let an authoritarian
regime to settle! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Dear all, As Anarchist Radio Berlin we had the opportunity of talking to the workers of
the self-managed soap factory Vio.me in Thessaloniki, Greece. ---- In our interview they
tell us about the origins of this factory take-over by the workers, what this had to do
with experiences in Argentina and they managed to overcome financial problems. Listen to
this audio also to know how to show solidarity, as Vio.me is threatened by eviction due to
a planned compulsory auction of the premises. ---- You'll find the audio (to listen online
or download in different sizes) here:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/24/a-radio-in-english-mediterranean-4-the-self-managed-soap-factory-vio-me-in-thessaloniki/
---- Length: 12:48 min ---- You can find other English and Spanish language audios here:
---- http://aradio.blogsport.de/englishcastellano/.
Among our last audios you can find:
* Mediterranean 3: An audio by the self-organized refugee squat
Orfanotrofeio in Thessaloniki:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/16/a-radio-in-english-mediterranean-3-the-self-organized-refugee-squat-orfanotrofeio-in-thessaloniki/
* An interview with an activist of the Passe Livre movement in Sao
Paulo, Brazil:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/13/a-radio-in-english-brazil-the-passe-livre-movement-in-sao-paulo/
* Mediterranean 2: An interview with two anarchists working on the
refugee topic in Slovenia:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/12/a-radio-in-english-mediterranean-2-anarchists-in-slovenia-and-the-refugee-balkan-route/
* Northern Europe 3: An interview with two members of the new Anarchist
Federation in Finland, Alusta:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/05/a-radio-in-english-northern-europe-3-the-new-anarchist-federation-in-finland-alusta/
* Mediterranean 1: An interview with two activists of the occupied and
self-organized refugee center Notara26 in Athens, Greece:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2016/01/02/a-radio-in-english-mediterranean-1-the-occupied-refugee-center-notara26-in-athens/
* Northern Europe 2: An interview on the Anarchist Bookfair in Tallinn,
Estonia:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/12/18/a-radio-in-english-northern-europe-2-the-anarchist-bookfair-in-tallinn-estonia/
* Northern Europe 1: An audio on the countercultural Musta Pispala
festival in Tampere, Finland:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/11/23/a-radio-in-english-northern-europe-1-musta-pispala-festival-in-finland/
* Eastern Europe 5: An interview with Anarchist Black Cross Warsaw:
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/11/19/a-radio-in-english-eastern-europe-5-anarchist-black-cross-warsaw/
* The documentation of a presentation about the topic "Undercover for
State and Capital":
http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/11/04/a-radio-auf-englisch-audio-documentation-undercover-for-state-and-capital/
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A-Radio Berlin
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Message: 2
The four professional elections held on November 19 at SNCF have seen similar results with
previous elections, despite the efforts of management to push the unions CFDT and Unsa
yellow. This small employers defeat must be transformed into great workers victories. ----
Staff representatives, works council, board of directors and the supervisory board: the
railway workers and railway workers voted four times on November 19! The management had
imposed this juxtaposition polls for this to happen the worst possible; she wanted to
convince himself that he had to abandon the vote at the ballot box, in institutions, in
favor of electronic voting that it could not impose this time; who joined the CGT-SUD Rail
this year to denounce this type of vote, unlike the last polls. Despite the incompetence
of many officials of "human resources", the wage earners of the SNCF were able to choose
their representatives and representatives.
It shows great stability in the ratio of inter-union forces. The CGT decline of 0.92% and
34.33% collects. SUD-Rail gets 16,83% (16,84% previously). The two organizations that had
supported the renewed strike in June 2014 to obtain more than 50% and can therefore cancel
scandalous agreements signed UNSA and CFDT. In recent collect 23.86% respectively (23.07%
before) and 15.86% (instead of 15.15%). For the third time, the electoral alliance of
trade unions that have nothing in common, FO / GSC / First, do not cross the 10% threshold
to be representative (9.16% against 9.47% previously). The turnout was 66.82% (68.33% in
previous elections).
Representativity rules flouted
The direction of the station has helped outrageously UNSA and CFDT, hoping to drop CGT and
SUD-Rail: agreements signed in catastrophe enjoying a transition period where the rules of
representativeness were flouted, employers propaganda touting these two unions ... It is
an employer fail, but it will be helpful to workers that if we turn it into worker wins:
now it is we who are campaigning to SUD-Rail or CGT, to ensure that our unions and union
federations oppose a united front, facing the bosses and unions that support them.
Organising in each service, are establishing protest notebooks, decide actions to be taken
to enforce them, we coordinate regionally and nationally; unions are tools for this, they
are ours!
CGT and SUD-Rail represent more than half the votes cast by the railway workers and
railway workers: in a company that now has just 50% of senior staff, this is not nothing!
From the Run college, CGT and SUD-Rail totaling 66.59% of the vote. In total, this
represents thousands of delegates, tens of thousands of labor days each year, which must
be available to everyone to build our struggles.
The unbridled Rail (www.leraildechaine.org)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Elections-a-la-SNCF-Le-rapport-de
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Message: 3
Coordination of Anarchist Groups calls to mobilize against the state of emergency, its
inclusion in the Constitution, and the new anti-terrorism law to be presented in early
February by the Cabinet. ---- We call for strengthening the initiatives that oppose these
draconian measures, and to make the national day of January 30, 2016 to allow a successful
challenge to expand and create enough power struggle to roll back the state. ---- To
authoritarian rule: the démocrature 1 ---- Following the November bombings, the
government's responses are recorded in the security field. The reinforced Vigipirate
trivializes the massive presence of soldiers and police in the street; border controls are
reintroduced; state of emergency allows including any arrest, search, banning public
demonstrations and meetings 2 on ministerial or prefectural decision without review by a
judge.
The inclusion in the Constitution of the state of emergency aims to strengthen its legal
system and prevent any recourse to the Constitutional Council. As for the new
anti-terrorism law, its purpose is to significantly expand the powers given to the police
and prosecution outside emergency 3. Thus perpetuating measures that fall under the
exception, the removal of rights commonly accepted in representative democracies is
inscribed in law: separation of police powers, judicial and legislative, right to assemble
and demonstrate. For several years, with blows of security laws and measures, the
democratic veneer cracks, but this sequence appears to be a fatal blow to what remains of
our collective freedoms; the State is our essence in the service of the dominant, but we
are witnessing a kind of regime change, the transition towards an authoritarian government
and police.
Tools to stifle social protest
Under cover of emergency, the protest against the COP 21 of November 29 was banned and
repressed by force. Hundreds of arrests and 317 guards to view took place that day, and
house arrests 'preventive' of activists took place ahead of the event. Prohibitions on
demonstrations on public roads have multiplied, while at the same time were allowed sports
events and trade events such as Christmas markets. Easy to understand that these measures
have nothing to do with terrorism but allow the state to stifle social protest. While the
deterioration of our living conditions and working empire, the government is preparing to
dismantle what remains of the Labour Code, these security measures provide the legal base
to the State to suppress any hint of resistance. All Seuse-s-worker should feel concerned
by these attacks on our freedoms.
The government appealed to the responsibility of trade unions to assist in the building of
"national unity" against internal and external enemies to fight, the better to silence the
social inequalities and possible challenges.
State racism and xenophobic climate
Under the state of emergency, there has been several closures of neighborhoods, hundreds
of house arrest and thousands of searches in people of Muslim faith. In early January,
thus had 3021 searches, which led to the final four on anti-terrorist administrative
procedures. These measures have affected many people who have nothing to do with
terrorism. They reinforce the amalgam to all Muslim-es, more generally, racialized people
and neighborhoods.
The proposal to extend the deprivation of nationality and to include it in the
Constitution falls within the state racism and just feed the myth that the internal
enemies of the "nation" are immigrants or of immigrant. It formalizes indeed a
sub-category of citizen-not-s, all persons with dual nationality, which incur a double
penalty in addition to their conviction, that of losing the French nationality and all the
rights that go with it. On inequalities, we move on to legal inequalities; a hole is
opened, and a simple change in the law will come and change the reasons for the
deprivation of nationality. Already, the party Republicans and FN play upmanship to extend
the list of these conditions.
This racist measure must be fought with force, but it should not take his opponent es
forget to denounce the whole state of emergency.
This state racism fuels xenophobia that is spreading and becoming commonplace, evidenced
by ever higher scores of the National Front, particularly in the last regional elections.
But also the recurring violence of fascist groups against migrants camps like in Calais,
or lately, the ransacking of the mosque in Corsica and xenophobic demonstrations that
followed, carriers of all amalgams between aggressors, terrorists and people immigrant.
These racist acts benefited from net governmental complacency.
We lose our freedoms, but we will not have security
The increase in security measures can prevent indiscriminate terrorist attacks,
perpetrated by people ready to die. As the latest attacks, the arsenal of security laws
does not guarantee security, but just restrict our freedoms, often insidiously but
sustainably.
Worse, the current climate talks and feeds identity, national and religious folds. The
designation of enemies (indoor and outdoor) creates scapegoats, distracting the population
of social violence, violence of capitalism and the state.
The amplification of the imperialist war policy of the French state was a response to the
November attacks. Western states bear a responsibility to the growth and the emergence of
religious fascists movements in the Middle East; the path followed by the French state and
its allies are not a solution but rather feeds the problem.
Resist!
We have to fight in the coming weeks against the state of emergency and the new
anti-terrorism law, real damage to our liberties.
But beyond that we must oppose the imperialist war policy of the French State, to the rise
of racism, corollaries of this state of emergency, and to all safe and draconian laws. We
must assert our international solidarity through the reception of migrant-e-s and support
for progressive forces in the Middle East, particularly the revolutionary process in Rojava.
Our struggle against all isolationism has to go through an ideological offensive, in order
to deconstruct all racist discourse, fascist, religious, nationalist, and by the struggles
against social inequalities.
Faced with fascist violence, capitalist, nationalist, and say we have to build class
solidarity.
In January 2016,
Coordination of Anarchist Groups
1 démocrature = formed the words "democracy" and "dictatorship"
2 See the document "What is the emergency? What does the new draft anti-terrorism
legislation? "
3 See the document "What is the emergency? What does the new draft anti-terrorism
legislation? "
http://www.c-g-a.org/content/non-letat-durgence-et-aux-mesures-securitaires-ne-laissons-pas-un-regime-autoritaire-sinstal
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