Today's Topics:
1. Greece, Anarchist Federation: For the employer terrorism and
layoffs in biovector by: Sotiris (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Aotearoa/New Zealand Workers Solidarity Movement (AWSM) -
System change, not climate change (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #255 (Nov) - Borders:
Walls everywhere, nowhere Home (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Indonesia, anarkis.org: Femicide: Shall HOPE WOMEN STRUGGLE
ON "GOOD" STATE? [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. The Cuban movement erased by Castro is coming back & they
need our solidarity, by Mario Castillo, Dmitri Prieto, Isbel
Díaz (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Biovector The company, which operates in the biomedical analysis it is for the Greek
market sizes a major company in the industry. With clients of thousands of doctors,
private medical centers and hospitals throughout the country, maintains sophisticated
laboratories in Athens, Patras and Thessaloniki. Back, however, from the window of a
profitable and innovative business hiding hard labor reality. Employees working on
exhausting working hours and conditions, unpaid overtime, by dealing every day thousands
of analyzes and their number is so mismatch of the actual burden of work that if someone
becomes ill automatically accept the threat of bosses. In the case of participation in
General Strike indirect threats of dismissal is the norm. ---- In terms of labor
relations, the company exploits all the advantages that offers the most non-existent legal
framework. Flexible employment contracts, semi-employment, part of the salary is given as
"alimony" via coupons for supermarkets as not counted on employer contributions and other
accounting tricks that make pocket money salary ....
In October the company announced a 20% horizontal cuts in already meager wages of inviting
all employees to sign new contracts. Those who refused their raw blackmail announced today
that fired. It is not the first time that the employer proceeds to massive wage cuts (the
last was in 2010) while those who occasionally resign are blackmailed by the company
Regulation that if you find a job in another medical center, the company will take legal
action against them.
It is obvious that this is yet another challenge bosses that we must not leave unanswered.
You will not pass them!
Solidarity with workers biovector
To revoke the dismissals - stop extortion
Struggle against modern medieval working
Anarchist Federation
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Message: 2
The twenty-first meeting of the Conference of Participants (COP21) will take place at the
end of this month in Paris. The purpose of the COP21, also known as the 2015 Paris Climate
Conference, will be to aim to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on
climate, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C. ---- Download our placards: 1 2
3 or make your own from our indesign files ---- Prior to this on the 28th and 29th
November a series of Climate Justice marches will be held across the world to demonstrate
the public’s concern about the imminence of climate collapse. If the science is correct,
very substantial reductions in carbon emissions worldwide must be achieved quickly, with
the ultimate goal of the near total elimination of fossil fuels, if the earth is not to
become unrecognisable, and all life on it threatened.
However, the fact that some of the major sponsors of the conference are companies who are
big emitters of the very greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, demonstrates
that the conference is unlikely to reach effective solutions to the climate crisis. They
themselves are part of the problem. Pollution and environmental degradation are the result
of the capitalist system that is run for profit not need, and has its roots in the
“grow-or-die” nature of capitalism, that dictates unless a firm expands, it will be driven
out of business or taken over by a competitor.
An ever-expanding capitalism must inevitably come into collision with a finite planet and
its fragile ecology. Firms whose aim is to maximise their profits in order to grow will
continue to happily exploit whoever and whatever they can to do so. To quote
social-ecologist Murray Bookchin:
“Capitalism is inherently anti-ecological. Competition and accumulation constitute its
very law of life, a law…summarised in the phrase, ‘production for the sake of production.’
Anything, however hallowed or rare, ‘has its price’ and is fair game for the marketplace.
In a society of this kind, nature is necessarily treated as a mere resource to be
plundered and exploited. The destruction of the natural world… follows inexorably from the
very logic of capitalist production.” [Post-Scarcity Anarchism, pp. viii-ix].
Our own personal actions, or reforms implemented by nation states, can have little effect
on this unrelenting process of growth for growth’s sake.
The only solution to halting the onset of climate collapse is to bring an end to
capitalism itself, an objective which sadly seems to be on the agenda of hardly any of the
largest groups of climate activists. An entirely new way of organising civilisation must
be built. This will be a decentralised world without borders, without states, with
production for use not profit. A world based on cooperation and mutual aid, without
wage-labour, money, markets, or hierarchy, a self-governing global social order based on
direct democracy.
There is a very rich tradition of social philosophy which for the past 200 years or so has
been making demands for such a world. That philosophy is anarchism, and its now more
urgent than ever that we learn from it.
http://www.awsm.nz/2015/11/28/system-change-not-climate-change/
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Message: 3
There are twenty-six, the wall cutting Germany in two fell. Beyond this fall has been
emulated, we now witnessing a proliferation of gigantic physical border barriers. ----
Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Cyprus, India, Saudi Arabia, Israel, China and of course
the United States: the list of border walls every day seems to grow. There remained only
ten at the end of the Cold War. There are now over sixty. In a world that the myth of the
happy globalization has promised free and open to everyone, people are divided into two
categories: those that can move freely and others. The Western world as a whole is
strengthened administrative behind first ramparts by offering very dear visa systems. When
these administrative barriers are deemed insufficient, the response of the States and now
takes more the form of border walls.
A barbed line of 175 km of 4 meters high now separates the border between Hungary and
Slovakia.
cc Bor Benedek
The idea of erecting a physical barrier to stop the waves of migration as it would divert
the flow of a river is not new and, above denotes a strong xenophobic sentiment of a
population to its neighbors. Let us remember Hadrian's Wall (Scotland) or the Chinese
Wall. In both cases, the walls were built to send a symbolic signal to anyone, inside or
outside.
A border patrol to $ 13 billion
And whether to judge the military effectiveness of these constructions, the Maginot line
reminds us a wall, as it is supposed impregnable, is still circumvented. Today, however,
despite these precedents, the Hungarian Viktor Orbán government is preparing him also to
enter history as a European leader who has strengthened its border. The erection of a wall
is not a trivial matter. These barriers are expensive to build and, like any building,
need to be maintained. These costs are never presented to policymakers at the time of the
vote when erected in the so-called democratic states. The 2015 budget for the Border
Patrol in the United States is, for example 13 billion against $ 5 billion in 2003. Far
from arresting migration attempts or the entry of illegal goods, this barrier has instead
signed the death warrant of 5000 people per year when they tried passing.
The Mexico-US border is "fortification" permanent and mixes capital and public and private
companies.
DC Dan Heaton
The walls are never more than a further obstacle on the long road of migrants and migrant.
At the symbolic violence that represents a border wall adds physical violence of its
circumvention. But as recalled former US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano:
"Show me a 50 foot wall and I'll show you a staircase of 51 feet. "The walls have never
stopped and will never stop those who have already had to abandon everything. Given their
"ineffectiveness", one can legitimately ask the question of erecting these barriers.
Ultimately, it seems that the wall is an object "photogenic" able to reassure a xenophobic
population without actually playing the role for which it was designed. Tackling the
actual cause of migrants and migrant arrivals would place most often introspection of
States over their past actions and present vis-à-vis the populations who are heading to
Europe today to find closed door.
Nico (friend of AL)
- Logo: Sándor Gémes cc / SzomSzed
BONUS: A documentary TARANIS NEWS
A survey in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia. 13-17 September 2015 by Taranis News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1xLS6-604Q
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Frontieres-Murs-partout-accueil
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Message: 4
"Since the beginning of the homeland of modern (nation-states), women have been colonized.
That is, the nation-state allows the control of sexuality, fertility and the ability or
their labor. Without this colonization, both capitalism and the nation-state can not be
maintained "-Maria Mies. [1] ---- A dalah EM, an alumnus of UGM, was found dead wrapped in
a prayer mat after being raped. Then in June 2013, NH, a graduate student in Makassar
killed by his co-workers with 49 stab interspersed rape when the victim is weak limp. EL
extant in Denpasar, the little girl who was raped and then killed by a worker at his home.
The phenomenon of rape and sexual violence will not be enough if it is described in this
paper sheets, ranging from experienced similar cases of infants aged 9 months to 80 years
old grandmother.
In space and time that is different from other cases, women workers had to fight harder to
get the wages and working hours, leave entitlements menstruation and childbirth, harder
against vulnerabilities layoffs and sexual violence in the workplace. Feminization of
poverty also attacked women in Rembang, Tiaka, Mesuji, Bima, Buyat Pante, Kulon Progo,
Parangkusumo, Kao, Gane, Halmahera, Timika or Merauke. The women and other residents have
to fight against violence-directly or indirectly-by the country due to political
appropriation of space that is run in order to accommodate the expansion of the interests
of investors.
In the latter case, when a woman has been knocked out of their productive land, paid work
space provided by the system today not open wide access to them. In the mining sector, for
example, women ex-farmers or fishermen were deemed not have the expertise to work as
laborers or employees at the company. While the practice of land grabbing that many are
intended for investment palm ultimately only able to place the majority of women around
the circumference of the concession as a daily low-wage workers without guarantee safety.
The village women Tabobo-circumference gold mining concession area of PT. NHM-former
craftsmen shrimp paste. They used to be known as mothers who feed their families and
communities. They take themselves shrimp finely scattered along the Gulf coast
Kao-sometimes aided also by a husband and children, and then return home to cultivate it.
Nowadays, when the Gulf Kao no longer abundant shrimp, anchovies, squid and other marine
life as a result of pollution of mining activities, some women are forced to switch into
Miners Without Permission (PETI), artisan barempel (breaking rocks containing gold
content), laborers garden, laundry workers and small proportion choose to become a
housewife alias depend on income husband. The majority of these women had to run the daily
routine of more than one type of work, which means more work load piled-working as illegal
/ artisan barempel as well as farm laborers / washing-without reducing their domestic
burden. The fact PT.NHM not need workers are women. It can be seen from the fact that the
18 workers in the village Tabobo NHM is male. All this proves that the labor sector is
'masculine' like mine does not marginalize or even require women workers who are
considered weaker and less productive, so that the domestication of women as stereotypes
keperempuannya was unavoidable.
Various acts of violence experienced by these women-both physically and
structurally-inducing various women's movement to continue to work harder. Some women's
movement more moderate feel the need to push for reform in the form of the birth of
product legislation that is able to accommodate all the needs and interests of women,
among others, the Law on the Elimination of Domestic Violence, the bill Elimination of
Sexual Violence and the Election Law which provide 30% quota for women ,
All reformist struggle above may be viewed as an urgent step that can be done at this time
in order to reduce discrimination and violence experienced by women. However, efforts saw
the reformist struggle as a strategic method, which deepened the belief that the state can
behave more equitable for women, should be questioned. In effect, on different occasions,
just to accommodate the interests of other countries to crush the awareness and the
women's movement. We can see the policy as well as national and local regulations that
were born during the last decade, such as sharia bylaws or pornography law that still
makes the female body as a sexual object; as well as the Oil and Gas Law, Mining, PMA,
Employment and women so that more and more distanced from their livelihoods.
The struggle to meet the quota of 30% women's participation in electoral politics these
days is not much give a significant change for women, in addition to the fact that the
involvement of women is used to qualify the verification of the party in the election. In
addition, there is also the strengthening of the system hierarchy in the social life of
women, in which a handful of women were deemed to have access to political, economic and
knowledge is a 'must' represent the majority of women who do not have access to
self-development capacity.
In an organization such as the power of the state, where freedom of speech and politics
are only able to be accommodated through a system of representative democracy, the
majority of people and diverse culture is then unified into a 'culture nasional'-place
capabilities define, manage, accommodate and regulate its own sake reduced by the
representative system. All the interests and needs of our lives-which in the past have our
own try-now destroyed through the fulfillment of the political party that is part of the
political representation.
Historically, the modern nation-state built through colonization and looting against other
tribes. At the time of World War I and II, the countries of the First World (Europe, USA
and Japan) practice of colonization of the Third World nations spread across Asia, Africa
and Latin America. They then establish colonies in each nation in order to obtain a source
of raw materials, labor and markets for their produce. The orientation of this global
capitalism and met with resistance from those in the colony. That's when national unity,
in which the peoples of smaller practices join forces against this foreign occupation.
Unfortunately, resistance to colonialism through the unification of nations is then formed
modern nation-state new, in the name of nationalism, constantly compete and fight-in the
traditional sense or paradigmatic-to reach the standard of the modern state in the system
of political and economic hegemony globally requires the creation of internalization of
oppression and occupation.
So how treatment of global political-economic system of the new nation-state? In the
global political-economic system today, we know the so-called free trade and rhetoric
about the world. In reflection, this kind of system aspired to share the chance freely.
Unfortunately, it does not happen in reality. In practice, free trade impede access any
new nation-state (former colonies) on the market, resources and manpower modern
nation-state, while the nation-state north can expand capital expansion and accumulate
their wealth of resources available in each country -bangsa in the south. This kind of
policy is in fact not respect the sovereignty of the new nation-state. Herein lies the
contradiction between the orientation of the global economy on the one hand and the
interests of the state (national) here the other. How could a nation-state oriented this
power can run national interests and ignore the global orientation that governs the world
market system?
Masculinization Mother Earth
Modern nation state that was built in the scheme to regulate the interests of mutually
contradictory, both internally and externally, must protect all threats in the form of
violence and coercion. Military and police institutions were constructed to secure the
existing power system. Yes, the characteristics of masculinity as violence and compulsion
is required states to maintain the status quo and national interests.
The man was then taken to war through a campaign of masculinity promoted by the media and
the film industry that displays of violence as the most modern form of masculinity. Fight
and win is characteristic of virility, while giving up and losing is a symbol of
womanhood, in which men are being feminine means to have the defective masculinity.
Industry-film industry today has a lot to show such a paradigm, in which the hero is a man
who has the strength and power to take the fight to win while women as weak and passive
people who need protection from the men.
In the days before the modern nation-state there, we only know the term natio, nation or
nations, which means a person's birth, ethnicity, territory, motherland. This is where the
origin of a person identified by his birthplace, where his mother lives. In
terminological, the nation derived from the traditions of maternal rights, in which each
organization is based on matrilokalitas tribal, matrilineal and everyone is deemed equal.
These tribes later destroyed by nation-states that are larger and modern through war and
conquest. Not only is the country that fought and conquered by Europe during the war, but
we also know that the Bedouins, Asmat, Amume, Malind, or other Togutil currently being
fought against and forced to submit by the state.
As has been described above that the construction of the modern nation-state always wants
war and the conquest of the nation-state or other smaller tribes. In it, each battle
requires the loyalty of its citizens, which means that this loyalty will only exist when
the need for the desire for the homeland, homeland, mother pertiwinya created. Desires of
this kind then directed to the doctrine of nationalism which leads to the protection of
the interests of the new nation even though almost all of these war occur solely to give
birth and strengthen the expansion of the nation-state, and not simply to defend the
homeland from destruction and conquest another nation-state. Brownmiller confirms that
during the war between nation-states, women became the main victims of which, in addition
to the physical violence and the structural form of massacres, murder and conquest over
their living space, also experienced sexual violence in the form of harassment, rape to
sexual slaves of soldiers. [2 ]
Shall hopes on the country after we uncover the fact that this hierarchical institution
built by destroying mother earth, symbols of female and ethnic egalitarian society before?
Very irrational and ahistorical if we say yes because, after the destruction of the
nation-state still wants internalization of colonization and looting, in which women
constitute one sector of society must accept the destiny became a colony for the survival
of the nation-state and capitalism itself.
Hierarchies Versus Women Equality State
Besides the fact that the nation-state built through the demolition of the symbols of
femininity and the motherland, the struggle for women's liberation has also ideals which
contradicts the nationalist struggle to maintain state power hierarchy. The struggles of
women want a system equal society, free, autonomous and regulated in the form of rational
authority, in which every individual in the community involved in policy formulation and
governance rules. Meanwhile, the struggle of the nationalist dream of a society that is
being ruled by a representative body, in which each citizen is forced to abide by the
policies and laws imposed by the authorities.
The struggle for women's liberation means that the struggle for equality and freedom.
Aspiration to achieve a society that is out of control and the control of centralized
power. While the nationalist struggle requires the creation of an order of the
state-controlled and fully controlled by the authority, in which equal rights and freedoms
contained in the constitution of the country is an ambiguity for power. How can a country
applying equality and freedom for all citizens, which means access to all the resources
open to everyone, while the system of representative democracy desired states require
political representation, in which the majority of women and citizens 'mandatory' trust
interests a handful of people in the structure of state government?
The struggle for women's liberation means to escape from the control and power
maskulitinitas upon women. That is, countries that represent characteristics of
masculinity with the strongest hierarchical system always requires control and control of
women, while the women's liberation struggle means struggle to destroy the order hierakis,
patriarchal, militaristic, maskulinistis, nationalistic and capitalistic reflected in the
form of state power.
footnote
[1] Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies, Ecofeminism: Perspective Movement Women and the
Environment, First Edition (Yogyakarta: IRE Press, 2005), p 139.
[2] Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, quoted by Sylvia Walby,
Patriarchy theorization, First Edition (Yogyakarta: Jalasutra, 2014), p. 203.
The author is a member of the People's Solidarity Learning Circle (Libertas)
http://anarkis.org/femicide-masihkah-perjuangan-perempuan-berharap-pada-kebaikan-negara/
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Message: 5
Comrades working to revive anarchism in Cuba need our immediate financial support. For
U.S. dollar donations, visit the Cuban Anarchist Solidarity Fund. For Euro-zone
contributions, click here. ---- Isbel, Mario & Jimmy (photo: Gabriel Uchida) ---- Changes
in the Cuban state’s regulation of private enterprise and in the relationship between Cuba
and the U.S. over the last decade are opening up new possibilities and dangers for Cuban
society. ---- However, the new conditions have also inspired the rebirth of the
long-repressed anarchist movement on the island. The Alfredo Lopez Libertarian Workshop
(Taller Libertario Alfredo Lopez, TLAL), named for an early 20th century Cuban
anarcho-syndicalist, is one of the main groups accomplishing this task.
In the 1980s, there was a loosening of the state’s control over cultural matters. Cubans
became very active in the punk movement, and street graffiti began to appear using the
circle-A, understood as a symbol of freedom.
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the so-called socialist camp at the beginning of the
1990s inspired many to think about a thorough critique of actually existing authoritarian
socialism—in Cuba, as elsewhere.
One clandestine student group active in the 1990s and early 2000s devoted themselves to
studying anarchist ideas and incorporating them into their protests and challenges to the
official culture. Anarchism was attractive because of its criticism of authoritarian and
bureaucratic rule and its simultaneous concern for human freedom, political confrontation,
self-organization, and social justice.
The group organized events including debates on topics relevant to anti-authoritarians and
formed alliances with autonomous cultural groups to promote change from below. The group
was involved in the creation of the Cuban Critical Observatory (Observatorio Critico
Cubano), which promoted discussions on Cuban society engendered by the transfer of
government leadership in 2006.
In the beginning, the Observatory was conceived as a network of various alternative left
groups. Some protested the bureaucracy, some worked on rescuing the spirit of May 1 and
the independent workers movement, others emphasized the importance of African heritage,
others paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, still others did street actions in solidarity with
the 15-M movement in Spain, others used blogs to criticize the government and denounced
the official Labor Code as capitalist because it encourages the development of small and
medium privately owned enterprises, while impeding the emergence of autonomous
cooperatives. They also protested the new Labour Code for weakening the position of
workers by authorizing private employers to dismiss them without appeal.
The Observatory facilitated meetings where people from various left tendencies could
express themselves. In addition, it organized meetings where local anarchists and
socialist critics of Cuba and those from other countries could discuss their ideas freely.
Fi’ve years ago the anarchists within the anti-capitalist project of the Critical
Observatory became aware of the need to organize themselves as a separate collective and
formed the Alfredo Lopez Libertarian Workshop, while also continuing to participate in the
larger anti-capitalist struggle. As they learned about the history of the anarchist
movement in Cuba, they began to realize that it was an immense mine of experiences,
achievements, knowledge, and inspiring energy.
They came to understand that the really existing socialism in Cuba had not been conducive
to the development of collective self-organized solidarity but instead had generated an
atrocious individualism, which lacked the spirit of collective actions and sharing of
skills by equals. Too many people had become accustomed to intermediaries organizing
activities from above.
The group realized that, as anarchists, they needed to learn how to lay the basis for
nurturing mutual aid and support, as well as for the ability to think critically and to
develop effective rebellious self-organization.
To introduce anarcho-syndicalist and other anarchist ideas to Cubans with no access to the
internet, TLAL began issuing a printed newspaper, New World! (Tierra Nueva!).
Thanks to the collaboration of comrades and friends in Spain, France, and the US, the
group has also become familiar with radical critiques of industrialism and advanced
technology, sexism and gender discrimination.
It now has expanded its critique of modern capitalist life to include the advocacy of
decreasing dependence on modern technologies and the defense of animal rights, as well as
the right to sexual diversity and to live together without sexism. It also is cooperating
with the independent, anti-capitalist, Project Rainbow activists for lesbian people, gay,
bisexual, trans, queer; as well as feminist activists.
In March 2015, along with other comrades in the region, the Cuban anarchists founded the
Central American and Caribbean Anarchist Federation network, which they hope will help to
strengthen movements in the region as a whole.
The comrades of the Alfredo Lopez Libertarian Workshop are now in the process of raising
funds to purchase a building for a social center and anarchist library where they can
build autonomous community and create activities and organizations to foster mutual aid.
The building is envisioned as the permanent headquarters of the TLAL, where they can hold
working meetings and other activities, and as the home of a Libertarian Library with
materials donated over the years by individuals and anarchist groups.
It will also host conferences, meetings of local groups, visitors from the area, other
provinces and abroad, shared meals, parties, video debates, concerts, readings,
exhibitions, and other activities.
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