Today's Topics:
1. Greece, Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative: Thursday 10/03
- Solidarity march for immigrants (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. fda-ifa: Turkey, Istanbul Techical University (ITU) intruded
by jihadist fascists groups (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire: Tract AL - March 9: The
response begins! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #258 (Feb) - The synthetic
meat on our plates (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, Patrida Imathia (northerm Greece), We start the
engines of self-management by Dmitri (trans. and edit.)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. wsm.ie: Newstalk push the narrative of 'recovery'
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
European states, faithful dogs across Europe bosses, open and close the tap of the influx
of migrants as the need for labor. - Facilitating and hindering the entry of refugees and
immigrants in European countries, drowning more or less in the Mediterranean, increase or
decrease the number of those who manage to reach their coveted destination, ie the
"developed" Western countries. - Keeping in illegal status, manage to always have an
alternating army of cheap, disposable workers without rights and "invisible" against any
arbitrariness and aggression. ---- Building concentration camps, their discipline and at
the same time send a message to all our teachers. As long as there is capitalism, as there
are military and economic interventions people are forced to migrate and the states of the
"advanced" countries will adapt (anti) their immigration policies to the needs in labor,
would incite the bottom charity when they are needed will plant and will grow big racism
when they are unnecessary.
In late February the European borders were closed to refugees. The nationalities that
allowed potential to cross the border were reduced to two: Syrians and Iraqis and the
number of people actually do it decreased to a few dozen a day or zero. The indignation of
refugees led to conflicts in Idomeni and camps without even the most basic infrastructure
sprang up everywhere -trigyro us: Diavata, Cherso, Nea Kavala and osonoupo Drosato-, and
added to the list and other daily. And along with the camps emerged and worms: patriots
all sorts resented watching "certain and inevitable deterioration of their neighborhood"
would mean the installation was tired refugees and immigrants who were locked in our
country. Gourounokefales riveted on the fence, camp fires "preventive" etc. compose the
picture of modern Greek putrid, putrid a quickly forgotten the times when grandparents or
our parents fleeing refugees or immigrants.
For us, however, the workers regardless of nationality, refugees and immigrants, victims
of war and poverty, is not managed state mechanisms and economic elite. We do not tolerate
human life depend on decisions of transnational institutions such as the EU and frontex,
the nation states, and needs of the economy.
The power that the gennofaskia of indifference to human life and dignity trivializes, puts
the mask of democracy and reveals the monster of fascism. This same monster, stripped
expressed through worm-Nazi Golden Dawn, now embodied as a daily practice of state
mechanisms. Embodied in Lesvos, Kos, Leros, Samos, the Idomeni in camps Diavaton, the
Terrestrial, Nea Kavala. Embodied most raw and vulgar than anywhere else in the fasismos-
"residents initiatives fascist swastika -No need."
Of the executioners of power, of his death celebrator, we can not expect anything. What
but put forward is the mass struggle for the overthrow and overturn the whole political
and economic system that creates hierarchies, which intensifies the exploitation and that
in times of crisis as a political practice enlists the state of exception and fascism.
Against each power, we now answer and always with class solidarity. The weary, the
barefoot of our time, the persecuted because of wars and persecution of all authority and
every state, refugees and migrants, are at the heart of our solidarity. It's our class
brothers, the most undervalued, underpaid and insecure part of our class, prey on the
teeth every small and big boss. It is our duty to preserve his dignity and the free
movement of all workers, erasing the boundary lines that powers carved out for their
nationals but not for goods of the bosses and demanding immediate legalization of all
migrants and immigrants.
Always on the side of the weak, the oppressed, those uprooted this world, regardless of
color and religion, locals and "foreigners", immigrants of yesteryear, immigrants of today
and tomorrow we join hands, we raise our fists.
FREE MOVEMENT FOR ALL / S
LEGALIZATION OF ALL IMMIGRANTS / immigrant
Demolish BORDERS, THE FENCES AND CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Demolish FORTRESS EUROPE
EXPULSION OF FASCISTS, RATSISTES AND BOSSES
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS WELCOME!
COURSE
THURSDAY 10 MARCH,
18:00 CHAMBER
Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative
lib_thess@hotmail.com
http://www.libertasalonica.wordpress.com
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Message: 2
The Ayazaga Campus of Istanbul Techical University (ITU) has recently witnessed the
efforts of jihadist fascists groups with supports of police and private security forces
aiming that turn the campus into their propaganda place ---- The Ayazaga Campus of
Istanbul Techical University (ITU) has recently witnessed the efforts of jihadist fascists
groups with supports of police and private security forces aiming that turn the campus
into their propaganda place. Today, the private security forces with policemen raided the
classrooms under pretext of ID checking at around 12 o’clock, just before the calling of
revolutionist and anarchists students for press release at 12.30. ---- The students
reacted to this police raid and Id checking and asked for them to show their identity as a
response. During the brawl between the students and security forces, some of the students
were taken into custody by policemen.
When the rest of students tried to gathered to protest these custodies, the security
forces attacked to the students and they caught some of them and handed them over the
policemen. During this attacked the members of private security shouted at the students:
“We cut off your head” .
Right now, inside and outside of university is under siege by police and anarchist and
revolutionary students are still in the middle of blockade.
To scrape fascism from the minds and the schools
Long live our Anti-fa struggle!
Istanbul Anarchy Initiative
http://fda-ifa.org/the-ayazaga-campus-of-istanbul-techical-university-itu-has-recently-witnessed-the-efforts-of-jihadist-fascists-groups-with-supports-of-police-and-private-security-forces-aiming-that-turn-the-campus/
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Message: 3
Labour Code, UNEDIC, emergency, union repression ... Repressive laws and anti-social laws
have the same logic: increase profits of the bosses, worse austerity and paralyze social
resistance. Unionists and environmentalists are assigned to residence-es, es submitted to
stick to the prison. And to divide the population, deprivation of nationality and night
searches come directly hit the immigrant-es. ---- the Labour Code and the agreements
already offer 35h thousand opportunities for patrons to always use the most or the
employee-e. But the government's draft law aims to dynamite the rights of wage earners:
With this tailored law, employers have the option to extend the maximum duration of daily
work (which may go from 10 to 12 ) per week (which can move from 48h to 60h) and will
propose agreements that allow them to reduce wages or increase the working time.
A law for employers
But that's not all: the allowances paid to employee-es-es unfairly dismissed will be
capped, companies can lay off even if they make profit (they will just prove that their
results are down) and the cherry on the cake, Sunday work may be imposed by the referendum
when unions have refused.
In the same period opens the negotiation UNEDIC and the government requires a saving of
eight hundred million on the back of the unemployed while he leaves burst the small and
medium farmers. At the same time for the rich is Christmas every day: two thirds of the
CAC 40 companies increased dividends paid to shareholders!
AL leaflet response begins
it's going to blow!
there is always a straw that broke the camel. eté 2015 intelligence law passes in
indifference while denouncing the state of emergency today has important mobilizations
(the next is March 12!). A Notre Dame moors sixty thousand demonstrators late February
despite the announcement of a referendum meant to lull the fight. The lightning spread of
9 March for the withdrawal of the law "work" through social networks demonstrates a desire
to do battle, at the base , the confederal leaders can not ignore. and the government
pretends to worry, operates step aside. But beware it is better to go to sleep and it is
feared that some organizations are ready to collaborate with the stuffing.
Against repression
This is in anticipation of this revolt that finally emerges that the PS government has
considerably tightened police powers and judicial orders hitting the activists: mass
police custody and house arrest for COP 21, nine months imprisonment for Goodyear ...
the battle for the withdrawal of the "work" law can become the halt against austerity, the
destruction of public services, wage freezes ... Build the general strike, the only method
to permanently bend the bosses and Governments!
card stock for March 9!
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?9-mars-La-riposte-commence
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Message: 4
The Food and Drug Administration, the US health agency, has authorized the marketing of a
transgenic salmon (AquAdvantage). ---- The manipulations consisted in recovering a gene of
growth in king salmon to make it grow faster, including in winter, with antifreeze
discomfort while eating 25% less. This marvel is now reserved for the United States and
Europe is unfavorable because its position on GMOs remains unchanged. But the risks of
transgenic salmon pass between the cracks are nonetheless very real, the pressure between
producers are enormous. ---- Chained Duck ----
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?La-viande-synthetique-dans-nos
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Message: 5
For the re-opening of the timber factory in Patrida Imathia --- We demand the government
to show us when the assets of a company deteriorate… Why when former employees been paid
their arrears the property is changed, and when the bosses sell out machines and made
money is not? We understand very well what is happening, how the bosses managed the
business. In 20-30 years in that same workplace, we saw so many that no-one can imagine.
---- We, the former and current employees of the company E.Papadopoulos - N.Pagouras SA,
are determined, and our momentum is our right. We do not give up the struggle. We do not
give away neither our accrued interests nor our compensations. ---- We start the engines
of self-management ---- With self-management and struggle for the re-opening of the timber
factory in Patrida Imathia (northerm Greece)
We are workers, men and women, of a once large timber company. Most of us work here 20-35
years. We are all those who for the last five and a half years have shown patience, as
unpaid workers, supporting amongst all other difficulties the possibility of the company
coming back on track, believing the promises and the lies of the company's owners. We are
all those who following bosses’ orders used to go an hour earlier and leave an hour after
the end of working hours. From night to night. We are all those who with all our soul and
courage, pretending to be the "captain" for not sinking the boat, as some of our
colleagues used to say.
So every worker in 2010 was having just 150-160 stamps instead of 300 (with 25 days of
work a month) and used to be paid in front over a month, 200-400 euros.
On 4/10/2011 the company brought before the regional Court an application for a
declaration of bankruptcy, which after repeated postponements of the hearing date in
2/22/2012 and in 11/11/2012, was going to be heard in 3/13/2013. The same day the company
acknowledged in writing all the outstanding arrears and advances to the staff up to
September 2011.
All these years the tactic the bosses followed was meant to relieve the company by their
responsibilities towards their lenders. And although the court decided otherwise, they
began selling the machinery, impairing the property of the company, destroying our pride,
our lives. First the truck, after the caterpillar, then forklifts, metals, cables,
coppers, a jeep and other stuff... And again promises for payments if we stop our struggle
and again attacks to us, taking advantage of the time passing and by the claim of
bankruptcy not been heard yet. Any worker who dared to ask for his/her money, faced
threats by bosses that banging their hands on the desk saying with a macho behaviour: "I
have not money, do anything you want and get ...", as if we “ate” the money together. We
forced to beg for our accrued interests and lifetime efforts. Insults and scorn were our
reward.
The last act of their project is played since September 2015, when someone appeared as an
investor to buy the company instead of a lentil dish (for peanuts). And he continues the
work of the previous bosses, leaving unpaid bills of social security, GST, taxation,
electricity, etc ... some hundred thousand of euros.
So we arrived in January 2016, when we declared work retention and occupied the factory.
We declare that our patience was been exhausted and want the immediate return to the
factory of all sold machines, equipment, cars, trucks, heavy duty machinery, and the
cables by the sale of which bosses made money.
We demand the government to show us when the assets of a company deteriorate… Why when
former employees been paid their arrears the property is changed, and when the bosses sell
out machines and made money is not? We understand very well what is happening, how the
bosses managed the business. In 20-30 years in that same workplace, we saw so many that
no-one can imagine.
We, the former and current employees of the company E.Papadopoulos - N.Pagouras SA, are
determined, and our momentum is our right. We do not give up the struggle. We do not give
away neither our accrued interests nor our compensations.
We are determined to start the factory without bosses, and by self-management to raise
ourselves, recovering our dignity.
What our former rulers of E.Papadopoulos-N.Pagouras SA could not do, we can do it.
Following the example of VIOME in Greece (Thessaloniki) , we say that without us no cog
turns, we workers can do without bosses.
We start the engines!
Robin Wood,
former employees of the company E.Papadopoulos-N.Pagouras.
Patrida, Imathia
February 2016
https://robenworkers.wordpress.com/
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/29145
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We're paraphrasing but that's the argument put forward by a veteran member of everyone's
favourite gombeen party, Fianna Fail.In a debate with TD Paul Murphy on Newstalk's 'The
Right Hook' earlier Noel managed to articulate the truly astounding narrative that if
Fianna Fail, and the political remora fish that is the Green Party, had not gifted tens of
billions of our taxes to secured and unsecured bondholders, we wouldn't have any money in
our bank accounts. ---- Putting aside the fact that a lot of people, especially those who
aren't on generous ministerial pensions, actually don't have any money in their bank
accounts, that argument is what is being aimed at radio listeners by the people and
organisations that promote the interests of the capitalist class.
This narrative is popular among right wing pundits and was previously expounded by Shane
Coleman, also of Newstalk. Arguably, he said, since the economy is 'recovering', the left
wing people who said we should have burned the bondholders, have been proven wrong.
So giving away €64,000,000,000 that we didn't have in the midst of an economic crash is
how the right wing goes about 'recovery' but whenever they're debating the left, they talk
about being 'realistic'. This is how straightforward class warfare is masked and promoted,
this is the modern bourgeois media in Ireland.
http://www.wsm.ie/c/newstalk-push-narrative-recovery
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