Today's Topics:
1. Lesbos: Images of anarchist camp where washed, selected and
prepared clothes for refugees (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. CNT Barcelona 2015, a good year of struggle for the CNT-AIT
Barcelona! (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #256 (Dec) - Daech:
genealogy of a jihadist state (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Greece: New images of the anarchist camp in Lesbos where they wash, select and prepare
clothes for newcomers to the coast refugees. ---- Thanks to the images provided by the
collective Refugee Care (Refugee_Care), we can see the work of Lesbos by the anarchist
movement. Among other things, help to refugees by providing dry clothing when landed on
the shore, food for children and countless actions of incalculable human value. ---- This
photograph, along with the testimonies that we receive daily from Lesbos, belongs to the
group composed of Spanish activists, Refugee Care . If you want to collaborate with
activists who help refugees can make a contribution on page http://www.refugeecare.es ,
you can also help with the salvage team Proactive Open Arms . Their Twitter profiles are
Refugee_Care and PROACTIVA_SERV .
https://freecollective.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/lesbos-imagenes-del-campamento-anarquista-donde-lavan-seleccionan-y-preparan-la-ropa-para-los-refugiados/
http://www.alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/35567
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The past 2015 was a year of a lot of work for our union. New union branches and tactics of
struggle that have bet, direct action, led us to keep the pulse of a very dignified manner
with very important companies such as DHL or Hotelels Catalonia were implemented. Upon
completion of the year, the balance of the conflicts that have been very positive, staying
in many cases the unions and having achieved a position of legitimacy in the face of
coworkers and strength in the face of the companies themselves. ---- We believe with
humility we have shown that a small union is able to put on the ropes giants of the
business world. And most importantly, we have managed to do so on the basis of fighting in
the street, pickets, sabotage, assemblies, strikes ... It is true that on many occasions
we have had to support the legal way to solve our conflicts, but it is also true that the
weight of our union struggle has gone on direct action, reducing legal efforts to a minimum.
For us not only care about winning conflicts, also it matters how you win. It's useless to
accumulate favorable rulings if we fail to organize workers on the basis of a conscience
and some revolutionary ideas. And that organization, that force, is woven into the
everyday, in the complicity of struggles, not in offices.
The raison d'etre of the CNT-AIT is the workers' struggle, so it is normal that we are
present wherever there are conflicts. We do not forget our role in the class struggle and
are aware that our attitude often leads to repression either by the companies through a
layoff, or by the State through an arrest or conviction. However, we believe that the path
to freedom is not free of risks and assume with determination and firmness.
Then we make a brief summary of the most important conflicts that originated in 2015 and
maintain active today:
- DHL - Freight: The giant transport and DHL logistics often uses subcontractors to
generate a template for cheap labor and with conditions very precarized work, evading any
responsibility to them as they are hired by other companies . This situation, which is
seriously detrimental to workers, was the reason why our union branch started the fight in
the workplace of DHL in the port of Barcelona which resulted in the dismissal of all our
partners. Since then they have been carrying out actions against the company and its
executives, who flatly refuse to reinstate the dismissed workers. The conflict has spread
throughout the state and many countries, highlighting the actions carried out in Germany
and Argentina by FAU and FORA organizations, sections of the International to which is
also attached the CNT. DHL company recently filed a complaint against the CNT in the High
Court regarding this conflict. Once the trial concluded, we left acquitted. In recent
months, the conflict against DHL has spread to other companies and currently is conducting
a campaign against precarious work in the Port of Barcelona. Through the issue of DHL
workers you are pointing the outsourcing as a business tool to cut costs in exchange for
severely worsen working conditions. In February, the labor trial be held and DHL will face
the reinstatement of a template at war with its policy of exploitation and precariousness.
In turn, the reinstatement of the partners will be key when more dramatically raise
fighting casualization of workers in transport and logistics of the Port of Barcelona.
- Ambulances Saturday: a little over one year, a strike at the company's most important
ambulances Barcelona warned of the terrible working conditions suffering medical transport
workers: exhausting days, serious breaches in security and hygiene , lack of breaks ...
After the strike, several workers were disciplined and one of them, the local union
delegate nunestra, fulminant dismissed. Since then he began a struggle for the
reinstatement of our colleague and to counteract the degradation of working conditions
that is occurring in the sector. In this bitter struggle we have uncovered the strange
relationships that the company has with senior officials of the Government, where the SEM
(Servei d'Emergències Mèdiques) is directly involved. This has cost us many demands from
the company, because it seems that is not very accustomed to living with a combative and
direct labor practice. Today the company is bewildered, and facing a more than expected
reinstatement of a worker who has never ducked his head and that despite being fired has
maintained a presence at the level of fighting every week of the conflict. The truth is
that medical transport conditions require an organized and forceful response from the
workers. Today's climate of fear and demobilization, so the reinstatement of our partner
is essential to unblock this situation and encourage colleagues to fight.
- EUREST - COMPASS GROUP: this multinational is responsible for managing many canteens in
Barcelona and worldwide. One is the social dining Navas, owned by the City of Barcelona,
which has outsourced the service through this company. As usual, the service outsourcing
carried a degradation of working conditions, so a group of fellow who worked there decided
to establish a struggle for the dignity of their jobs.
As the section is formed, a fellow of it was fired. After a short but intense fight (two
weeks), got his reinstatement based pressure the company. From there, the section asserted
its position of strength to go slowly improving many of the issues that appeared in the
protest table. Today, 90% of soup kitchen workers have joined the fight, and the union
section begins to spread to other workplaces. Improvements in working conditions, the
result of the struggle and direct action are very important (adeudadadas payment amounts,
improved safety conditions, correct application of categories, payment of bonuses ...
etc.). The workers are determined not to tolerate even one abuse by the company and make
anarcosindicalismo the benchmark for the partners of other workplaces in the struggle to
defend their rights and dignity of workers ...
- UDON: the conflict against this chain of restaurants began relatively recently, the
result of the attitude of the company not sit improve certain working conditions were
becoming insulting to workers. Of all is known job insecurity that accompanies the
hospitality sector, UDON is a perfect example. In this case, our local union strength and
has accumulated since the company refused to speak for the good, we performed a series of
actions that have eventually led to a meeting request on their part. We hope that your
attitude change and decide to settle irrgularidades on schedules, breaks and contracts
that much harm to workers, especially those who have recently joined. Otherwise, you know
what to expect, because as you have seen its own executives in person, we are known not
just for keeping quietly and without disturbing.
- GINOS: another chain of restaurants that are determined to pursue and harass members of
our union branch for demanding decent working conditions. Today, after years of conflict,
the attitude of the company has changed significantly, and the activity of the section has
been normalized. This is the result of perseverance and the strength at the time of
responding to harassment and proliferation sanctions against our peers. Facing the
employees of the company we have become a benchmark of struggle and determination, and we
have made significant improvements for all conditions. Today, after layoffs, sanctions,
harassment and repression, the CNT is established and active in the company.
- Zaatar Vegetarian: undoubtedly the most extravagant conflict we have ever faced. It
started with a claim for amounts by two companions affiliated to the CNT of Badalona,
which finally resulted were paid. The result of this victory, another classmate decided to
stand up to an abusive and unfair dismissal by the company, which left him owe several
thousand euros. Once the conflict started we saw the spirit of the entrepreneur, such Eli
Cohen, who did not hesitate to confront our pickets in a very violent manner. This
situation led us to note the reality that restaurant workers lived: insults, threats and
even physical abuse. There was a time when the employer mess smacks literally peer of a
picket. Finally, after months of conflict, we learned that the employer had closed the
business and had left the country, leaving unpaid workers who remained. A few weeks ago
the trial for harassment, which was held not attend. Now we keep waiting for what will
happen with the money that is due to our colleague and who will take care of paying,
because we see that the workers' struggle was too much for the entrepreneur and has no
intention of returning here.
- Taxi Barcelona: Catalonia Hotels conflict led to a major victory for the taxi sector:
the cessation of payment of commissions to taxi drivers in the hotel chain's implanted
Barcelona. To this we must add the demonstrations against the agreement of the taxi, the
fight against exploitation in the companies, taxi drivers strike against UBER ... In
short, the presence of the CNT-AIT in such a precarious sector has been noted and it will
remain so, since 2016 is presented as a tough year and our section is already working to
address the complex problems faced by workers in the taxi.
- El Corte Ingles: certainly the fattest fish that we faced last year. The multinational
run by the Falangist Dimas Gimeno is the perfect example of right-wing macho capitalism.
Accumulate sentences for wage discrimination against women, promotes a misogynist and
homophobic policy sales, coerces workers to strike or do not organize, promote own style
of Franco vertical union unions have networks and contacts with highest levels of state
and senior police officers involved in the repression of strikers ... It is the symbol of
the ruthless capitalism commerce. All this has led us to promote a boycott campaign
against the English Court which began on November 1 and will continue until they terminate
their practices of harassment and repression against the strikers. Coming trial against
two co-defendants for damages and public disorder after last strike 29M 2012. Our aim is
for El Corte Ingles waive reimbursement of civil liability of EUR 8500 required the
strikers repressed. The boycott campaign we developed has spread so brutal statewide, and
are already countless the number of shares that have been made in virtually all cities in
which the company operates. In addition, many workers in El Corte Ingles are putting us in
solidarity, and it is possible that the struggle against this giant is extended
indefinitely and resulting in a trade dispute of major proportions.
Here are some examples, but there have been many more fights and active sections: the
campaign of dockworkers, victories Multi section Aeroportuarios, COMSA strike, conflict
... Hoteles Catalonia have also made many actions of solidarity with conflicts in other
locations as well as other workers' struggles that have taken place in Barcelona.
In short, the 2015 was a year of much union work, and so it seems, 2016 is on the same
path. And for our part, delighted. It motivates us to see how much effort and struggle are
bearing fruit, and although not everything is a bed of roses and sometimes stumble, move
forward with firmness that gives us the knowledge that we are going in the right direction.
Salut and social revolution.
http://cntbarcelona.org/2015-un-buen-ano-de-lucha-para-la-cnt-ait-de-barcelona/
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Originally from Daech ago the Iraq war started in 2003 under the aegis of the United
States - and in which the French government at the time had refused to engage. It is
indeed in the chaos caused by the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime created what Al
Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Salafist jihadist organization headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi will
be known by harassing the American occupation army of suicide attacks and almost daily
attacks. From this time the bonds are formed, in American jails, among them former
officers of the Baathist power and the future leaders of Daech. ---- In 2011, when the
United States eventually to withdraw from Iraq, leaving the Iraqi army billions of dollars
of military equipment, the Islamic State of Iraq (EII), into which melted Al Qaeda in
Mesopotamia, approximately 5000 men. It is a part of those men who, from the beginning of
the Syrian revolution, join the Al-Nosra Front to fight Assad and conquer hegemony within
the armed opposition.
Thanks to its financial resources, its military organization and its methodical cruelty,
EII manages to extend to Syria and proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (EIIL,
also designated by the acronym or the ISIS Arabic equivalent Daech). Therefore, the
objective is not only to engage in jihad but to introduce a new political power and impose
Islamic law on the conquered territories.
In June 2013, Daech takes control of Raqqa and submits the population through terror:
political opponents often suffer cruel punishments of up to beheading or crucifixion.
Raqqa becomes the unofficial capital of EIIL who in June 2014, launched his troops to
Mosul, in northern Iraq. The city is taken almost without fighting following the mass
desertion of Iraqi soldiers who leave behind the American military equipment brand new.
On 29 June 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the emir of EIIL proclaims the Caliphate on a
territory of about 200 000 km² straddles Syria and Iraq. It is this state jihadist who is
now the target of the international coalition.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Daech-genealogie-d-un-Etat
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