Anarchistic update news all over the world - 10 May 2016
Today's Topics:
1. wsm.ie: Rebuilding radical trade unions from below - audio
from #DABF 2016 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. New Zealand, awsm.nz: A Message for May Day ~ What is
Anarchism? (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #259 -
Notre-Dame-des-Landes: The moment of truth (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Poland, rozbrat.org: National Union of Workers' Initiative -
OZZ IP: On the anniversary of the massacre of Poznan railway
workers. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, Articles of ESE, Bulletin Labor Counter #112 - Bull
Workers Counter (gr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
One hundred years after the vigorous labour organising of Jim Larkin, James Connolly,
Rosie Hackett, and Louis Bennett in Ireland, we still remember the old labour slogan “An
injury to one is an injury to all”. ---- But in their present structure, are trade unions
nothing more than an arm of the state and of the bosses? Do unions function more to
control workers rather than advance their interests? Can the major unions be reformed from
within, or should we start building new ones? Are militant trade unionists ‘wreckers’, or
the future of the labour movement? ----
https://www.mixcloud.com/workerssolidarity/rebuilding-radical-trade-unions-from-below-audio-from-dabf-2016/
---- In this audio from the 11th Dublin anarchist bookfair speakers from the Independent
Workers Union (Ireland) and the Industrial Workers of the World (Scotland) discussed the
current state of organised labour and propose possible ways to advance the interests of
workers today. They draw on experiences of struggles they have been involved in, specific
challenges that unions face, and specific ideas about the way forward.
Dek Keenan is an organiser and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW),
currently based in Glasgow.
Paul Bowman is an organiser and member of the Independent Workers Union, currently based
in Dublin
--
This panel is part of the 2016 Dublin Anarchist Bookfair, see www.wsm.ie/bookfair
http://www.wsm.ie/c/rebuilding-radical-trade-unions-audio-dabf-2016
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Message: 2
I want to tell you about Anarchism. ---- I want to tell you what Anarchism is, because I
think it is well you should know it. Also because so little is known about it, and what is
known is generally hearsay and mostly false. ---- I want to tell you about it, because I
believe that Anarchism is the finest and biggest thing man has ever thought of; the only
thing that can give you liberty and well-being, and bring peace and joy to the world. ----
I want to tell you about it in such plain and simple language that there will be no
misunderstanding it. Big words and high sounding phrases serve only to confuse. Straight
thinking means plain speaking. ---- But before I tell you what Anarchism is, I want to
tell you what it is not. ---- That is necessary because so much falsehood has been spread
about Anarchism. Even intelligent persons often have entirely wrong notions about it. Some
people talk about Anarchism without knowing a thing about it. And some lie about
Anarchism, because they don’t want you to know the truth about it.
Anarchism has many enemies; they won’t tell you the truth about it. Why Anarchism has
enemies and who they are, you will see later, in the course of this story. Just now I can
tell you that neither your political boss nor your employer, neither the capitalist nor
the policeman will speak to you honestly about Anarchism. Most of them know nothing about
it, and all of them hate it. Their newspapers and publications – the capitalistic press-
are also against it.
Even most Socialists and Bolsheviks misrepresent Anarchism. True, the majority of them
don’t know any better. But those who do know better also often lie about Anarchism and
speak of it as ‘disorder and chaos’. You can see for yourself how dishonest they are in
this: the greatest teachers of Socialism – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – had taught
that Anarchism would come from Socialism. They said that we must first have Socialism, but
that after Socialism there will be Anarchism, and that it would be a freer and more
beautiful condition of society to live in than Socialism. Yet the Socialists, who swear by
Marx and Engels, insist on calling Anarchism ‘chaos and disorder’, which shows you how
ignorant or dishonest they are.
The Bolsheviks do the same, although their greatest teacher, Lenin, had said that
Anarchism would follow Bolshevism, and that then it will be better and freer to live.
Therefore I must tell you, first of all, what Anarchism is not.
It is not bombs, disorder, or chaos.
It is not robbery and murder.
It is not a war of each against all.
It is not a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man.
Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.
Anarchism means that you should be free; that no one should enslave you, boss you, rob
you, or impose upon you.
It means that you should be free to do the things you want to do; and that you should not
be compelled to do what you don’t want to do.
It means that you should have a chance to choose the kind of a life you want to live, and
live it without anybody interfering.
It means that the next fellow should have the same freedom as you, that every one should
have the same rights and liberties.
It means that all men are brothers, and that they should live like brothers, in peace and
harmony.
That is to say, that there should be no war, no violence used by one set of men against
another, no monopoly and no poverty, no oppression, no taking advantage of your fellow-man.
In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and
where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.
From What is Anarchism? – Alexander Berkman
http://www.awsm.nz/2016/05/01/a-message-for-may-day-what-is-anarchism/
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Message: 3
The news is jostling always around Notre-Dame-des-Landes. Despite the success of the
demonstrations of January 9 with blocking of Nantes ring and a strong mobilization in
Rennes the following weekend, the ax of the court fell on January 25: farm evictions and
"legal" homes are delivered from 26th March. means of production of the four farms in the
Zad (livestock, equipment ...) can be entered at any time. The judge did not ask pushed
cynicism to a fine of 1000 euros per day as requested obnoxiously Vinci. After accusing
the blow, residents and inhabitants and farmers and farmers quickly regain taste for
struggle. The next day, eighty tractors of the Collective of agricultural organizations
outraged by the airport project (Buddy) were set up on different farms in the Zad to show
the determination of farmers and farmers in the Nantes region . Buddy announces that it is
only a first demonstration and many other tractors will be available in the event of
intervention of security forces.
A future without airport
In continuation of the mobilization, a weekend "tender of the Zad to an airport without
future" was held on 30 and 31 January. More than four hundred and fifty people applied
upstream to come work for the construction of the Zad. Various works (maintenance of
hedges, ditches, home construction) took place. This initiative reinforces the multiple
experiences of existing alternative agriculture on site (production of cereals, bread,
vegetables, etc.). Indeed, far from the cliché of "violent Zsadist and barbaric"
(Retailleau, new president of the Pays de la Loire, comparing Zad in Aleppo and Mosul!), A
majority of zadistes participates in the life of this territory and developing another
project for society.
After the environmental commitments of a government that claims to be at the forefront of
the fight against global warming, one of the first statements of Manuel Valls is to assert
its authoritarianism by announcing the expulsion of Zad in the coming months. You can also
see a great unity between the Socialist Party and Republicans, calling it "courageously"
at the beginning of the project and denying the strong mobilization of January. The
political vaudeville turns to farce with the emergence of Ségolène Royal who plays
appeasement when Manuel Valls promises confrontation. Francois Hollande with his legendary
cowardice let the situation deteriorate hoping for the "hot potato" to his successor.
The latest announcement speaks of an intervention in November 2016 which seems strange to
six months of the presidential election.
media propaganda
After the trial of January 25, media propaganda and Ouest-France Presse Océan did not
hesitate to lay an openly proaéroport and shocking editorial, calling unambiguously the
work begins. This sheds light on the myth of "press freedom".
The employers' association and regularly proaéroport The West Wing has access to full
pages in the newspapers. Their small numbers and their low representation does not exclude
funding.
Following the cabinet reshuffle and the bad joke of a so-called "turn green" government,
the national secretary of Europe Ecology-Greens, Emmanuelle Cosse, would have torn a
referendum on the airport project. This decision had the merit to agree on the pro and
antiaéroport shape and cowardice of this decision, typical of the verve of Holland.
We can ask questions about the realization of the referendum. Who will decide in scope:
the region, the department or the municipality? Who will decide the question posed?
Substantive issues of this case, based on manipulations and lies, they will be presented
to the public? etc. In short, it all feels the huge hoax and whatever happens we will
remain opposite-es to the project. Mobilization took place on February 27 Zad. It is our
best guarantee that the airport project dating from another century would never do. We
need more than ever to strengthen the mobilization, activate local committees because it
is now that the fight is played! In these times of social regression this fight is the
opportunity to prove that only struggle pays!
Stef (AL Nantes)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Notre-Dame-des-Landes-L-heure-de
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Message: 4
We support the demands employees of the Wielkopolska National Union of Workers' Initiative
---- massacre Poznan railwaymen ---- "I tell you that as you do not go, and does not show
that they are a handful and we force as it does not threaten a strike and stop rail
traffic, it's still a few months will be politely and patriotically divert our delegations
from one dignitary to another, until our wives and children croak of hunger. We go under
the castle or not !? He spoke with such power that went into what each of the workers
weighed in his mind. " ---- April 26, 1920, the police, involving right-wing governments
endeckim Wielkopolski, opened fire to approx. 3,000 peaceful protesters in Poznan Castle
railway workers. The workers demanded the payment due to them "extras drozyznianych." 9
protesters killed, over 30 wounded. The bloody crackdown on workers were to be a show of
force and a warning to other strikers.
The authorities, fearing the reaction of the workers of Poznan, put in a state of
emergency and police on the streets replaced the military. The protest, however, had the
effect. May 1, 1920 r. Was paid to employees due to the addition of turn. Also failed to
effectively intimidate workers and workers who for 1,923 years have repeatedly insisted on
their rights out against the National Democratic politics. Wielkopolska became the scene
of a particularly fierce class struggle. Many times the right-wing government dispersed a
crowd using military swords and ordered to shoot demonstrators. Supporters Dmowskiego,
which today power elite treated with esteem, had their hands stained with blood. Recalling
these events we want to give the lie to one-sidedness with which presents many events in
the history of Poznan and Wielkopolska. For those moments include, among others the events
of the years immediately after World War I, or 1,956 years. Right-wing elite, political
tools, impose their religious and nationalist interpretation of history and use it for
their legitimacy. You have to openly oppose, pointing to the real course of events and
recalling that the criminal character not only had communist governments, but also the
National Democratic party.
We also want to recall that, even today, railway workers are fighting for a better
tomorrow. Workers Union Railways Company Greater a labor dispute. April 13, 2016 r. Union
applied to the management of demands: the reinstatement of dismissed conductors, standby
redundancy, increasing the role of the employee in procedures antymobbingowych
konduktorskich and wage increases by 25%. In February, it planned to release the 17
conductors. Another did not renew contracts. A lot of talk about bullying in the company.
Improvement of the situation also requires workers to maintain the purity of the stock. We
support the protests of workers and workers turn! We remember those who improve working
conditions and a decent life have suffered the highest price! Quoted from: The massacre of
protesting workers in 1920. - Memories participant
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Message: 5
Workers Solidarity and Mutual Fund was set up in Thessaloniki of class solidarity Assembly
consisting of the Association of Base Music & Workers in the AKROAMA Area, the Waiters
Cooks Central Macedonia Association and the Libertarian Syndicalist Union Thessaloniki
Below unedited communication establishment of a solidarity fund and mutual: Labour groups,
base unions and workers committees inn Thessaloniki take the initiative to create a fund
support workers struggles and activists, as well as a coordinated action. Commonplace
those involved is anti-hierarchical mode and class positions and consciences. Because of
the apparent lack of trade union structures in the workplace, the sold out bureaucratic
leadership of GSEE and the association identified with the petty type PAME parties, there
is a big gap in employee claims against the bosses. This gap will try to cover through
coordination we want to create in order to reach employees and to rally them around the
base unionism.
Through the fund will focus on financial support to struggles arising and by coordinating
a network built with class reflexes that creates and promotes workers' struggles. Therein
champion the collegial solidarity, organizing from below by the general assembly and
immediate action against any employer arbitrariness. With the establishment of a fund, the
Labour Fund Solidarity and Mutual as solidarity structure, we believe that satisfied a
consistent need for the creation of material forms of support for workers' struggles. We
believe that the solidarity fund with the effective support of workers who struggle or
suffer from occupational barbarity of capitalism, can be a pusher force for the start and
continuation of new labor claims. Moreover, the fund and the risk of coordination of the
groups that make up the class solidarity Assembly could serve as an initial basis rallying
forces that share common political projects. The ultimate goal is the base unionism to
acquire its own ischyropoiimeni voice on the labor issues, so as to compare it more
centralized and effective ratio of exousias.
Sto functional piece centers, with regard to what needs and what faces financially
supported by the Fund, what but put forward is to strengthen workers laid off, unemployed,
in patients or in cases of accidents. The Fund covers both those / s already in the
structure or in groups to make up. Second - without discrimination - aimed at employees
who have not had a kinematic participation, subject to the decision of the persons to run
with kinematic terms a labor struggle and support the fund structure. Because, however, it
is impossible to advance a priori any request, the Assembly of the Fund will be able to
discuss and approve separately each particular case will occur. The fund would be assured
by events or other initiatives organized by the fund to financial aid, as well as from the
free assistance of groups that compose it, according to their capabilities. We understand
yet, that to give practical exercise is critical condition to have the economic
opportunity that will enable them to support the needs of workers. Therefore, the fund
apart from their resources to ensure the same open and invites those collectives or
individuals wishing to contribute to the amount of money they wish to strengthen. In the
Fund's Assembly and coordination, involving members of the groups and associations that
make up once and take place monthly.
Solidarity message sent by the Libertarian Syndicalist Union (ERC Athens) to the " Robin
Wood." The message was the following: Colleagues, we send racing greeting in your
difficult struggle, which aims to safeguard your jobs, to continue working in a plant in
operation at a plant alive and not ruined. Your choice to proceed to occupy the factory
and attempt to reopen without bosses, is a promising option and exemplary. It is an option
that needs the support of the entire labor movement. Our deep belief is that every
employee / n and each union will understand the need to sustain the difficult steps
carved, in such stifling conditions where former bosses left you unpaid and factory
leilatimeno.I Libertarian Syndicalist Union ( ERC Athens) offers 200 euros from the Mutual
Fund operates, in order to bear, not to bend, to go out winners. Your victory will be
victory for us all. The slogan, "worker, you without bosses" are not empty content. With
determination and your fighting stance given meaning to this slogan. With little financial
support we send you, we try and we on our part to give meaning to the concept of class
fraternal solidarity. Colleagues heads held high. Not only j.
considering? unacceptable Board initiative of the Panhellenic Federation Union of
Journalists to call a meeting of the managers of all forms of broadcasting and online
media to syndiallachtei with them amid strike, members of the "Assembly of paid, unpaid,"
notepad "," black "unemployed and students in the media" together with colleagues who
responded to the call of the "Initiative for the overthrow" proceeded to intervene in the
meeting that took place on the 3rd floor of ESHEA. With these words describes the
communication ESHEA occupation intervention on Monday, April 25 and adds: Fully aware that
managers of stores came to this meeting the majority in a bad mood to break the strike and
the false argument that it ask their employees and that the union of their POESY called
treating them like colleagues in the mood to the "soft" and the "quarrel" we made this
intervention interrupting harmonious union unionists and employers. We opened banners,
protested about this fraudulent partnership was underway and asked openly whether this is
the beginning of the end of the notorious "perpetual fight" that have announced long
bosses of the industry, as evidence that it will not proceed with the continuation of a
lasting strike. The whole announcement here that and HERE
Amid strike at an extremely critical point for an industry that the coming weeks will be a
ghost of his old self, the salaried Assembly, unpaid, "notepad", "black", the unemployed
and students in the media, remained faithful to the vision of match the base and the
promotion of self-organization in workplaces. This writes in response to strike the
interventions salaried Assembly, unpaid, "notepad", "black", the unemployed and students
in the media. In response ( entire response and the text of speeches can be found on page
found on the website of the Assembly of paid, unpaid, "notepad", "black", the unemployed
and students in the media ) also reported the following: When the trade union leaders of
industry flock to defecate the "colleagues" (aka manager), forgetting that a strike was
underway, we together with other fellow strikers we conducted jointly strike interventions
scabs shops like "newsit.gr", the "thetoc.gr "the" newsbeast.gr "and" enikos.gr ". we
distributed our text, talked with colleagues (as it was possible - sad exceptions
reactionaries" colleagues "who have not understood that we are partners with those who
suck our daily defending the identity of the "non-striker") trying to convey their sincere
and our own experience. Without bichtes and admonitions. How could moreover when we feel
in our own skin how working in journalistic medium in which you are practically invisible
and a machine in front of a monitor. But through communication between employees in any
shop, to bring agitation and panic bosses and create race conditions.
In new mass protest show on M. Wednesday 27/4 at work ministry progressed
"active-unemployed with peak demand to provide immediate temporary allowance to all
unemployed for Easter. For previous intervention Friday 22/4 and the meeting was not a
press release issued by the "active-unemployed" wrote the following: For a yet again the
ministry attitude reveals ridicule and mockery of the government towards the unemployed .
We were told that our request mislaid somewhere between Minister (Katrougalos) and
Secretaries (Photios Andonopoulou), that they had been informed about the presence (even
if we waited our riot police outside the ministry), they do not have time due to workload
and meetings, while our abundant hypocrisy said they want to meet us (!!!) but some other
time, to have time etc. After our pressure that must be placed immediately agreed to set a
meeting on 27/4. Although we had no illusions about the attitude that will keep the
government against us we can not denounce their indifference towards the unemployed s.Oli
detio the type you can find HERE.
Resolution of solidarity with the four redundant in Rolling Burger Bar in Thessaloniki,
unveiled its employee base in the Association of mental health and social welfare .In
resolution inter alia stated: The struggle of four redundant is our struggle. Their
victory and their uptake will win the whole working class. Direct payment of accrued and
reinstatement of the dismissed. We are next to each worker struggling. The bosses
terrorize and want to silence you, organizing grassroots unions, concludes the resolution.
Continue abstinence notaries until May 6. Notaries will refrain from the exercise of their
duties Wednesday, May 4 through Friday, May 6 against the bill for the Social Security.
Went on strike from Monday 25/4, workers in Spinning Thrace in Komotini, claiming payable
accruals owed to the employer. Recall that the workers are unpaid since January and until
Monday they had not been paid and Easter gift.
Four-hour rolling work stoppages for their accrued held the week workers spent in
supermarkets 'Karipidis' (former Arvanitides) .Diekdikoun their accrued and safeguarding jobs.
Strike Sunday, April 24 made by the workers in the trade. On the same day there were
several interventions strike with blockades stores in Athens and other cities.
Wars and poverty give rise to refugees and migration, under the border was the message of
May Day poster of Libertarian Trade Union, panelladika.Tin poster you can see HERE.
In Eugenides Foundation (Planetarium) management held a trade union dismissals. In
particular the Planetarium Administration proceeded to simultaneous vindictive and
telephone! dismissal of five workers, ostensibly supposed abolition or reorganization of
the Interactive Science and Technology Exhibition (DEET), after 10 years of operation. The
real but why employee dismissal is that workers reacted to the situation at the Foundation
lately, especially after 3 layoffs in December 2015 in the library, at reception and in
the Ticket Fund. Employees and t sectoral union claim now their reinstatement.
In an unprecedented move moved a few days ago the mayor Oreokastrou A. Gavotsis. While he
hired 63 workers in the cleaning sector with ochtamini contract through ASEP in December
2015 not only has left unpaid for three months while workers provide normal work but going
a step further fired their essentially denouncing the agreement the he signed! It
complains COMMISSION ACTION western districts of Thessaloniki and requires be taken behind
the redundancies and paid all accrued.
Event entitled: Insurance, mnimoniaka new measures, political conjuncture and proletarian
strategy organizes Friday, May 6 at 19:00. In the political space Sp. Trikoupi 44, in
Exarchia, at 19:00 the anarchist-communists Assembly class counterattack against the EU.
Event-talk-video presentation from the collective workers in "standing" of the trade
sector SATURDAY 7/5, 20.00, Lodi 6 EXARCHIA, second floor . for the resistance in the area
of trade, for the rights and demands for the interests and dignity, for small and large
battles to be given away in the workplace, for the organization and our collective
apantiseis.tha follow bar financial aid for the costs of syllogikotitas.Axizei also be
noted that the "standing" released the first issue of the labor card which you can find HERE .
New meeting of the Coordinating action against the abolition of the Sunday holiday and
"liberated" hours is scheduled for Wednesday 4/5 at the offices of SYVCHPSA (Londos 6
Exarchia). The relevant call said: Before us we have Sunday 8/5, when the shops are open
again (according to the law on "8 Sundays" still applies). For the day has been declared
"May Day" general strike. For Sunday that the Coordinating action against the abolition of
the Sunday holiday and 'liberated' schedules calls to strike concentration at 10 am on
Ermou (Constitution) .The meeting our apparently again is open to those unions and
collectives, female counterparts and colleagues found the strike and all our relevant
interventions throughout last season and generally all those who wish to develop /
coordinate action on this issue.
Finally, in desperation they find once more the Easter and May Day workers in the field of
Drug with unsolved their labor problems. The biggest perhaps "thorn" for the industry is
the lack of a Collective Labour Agreement (CLA). For Medical Visitors already completed
three years and for Farmakoupallilous 6, respectively. "For the CRS we have made proposals
in SFEE only with institutional demands and without wage costs," the National Federation
of Medical Representatives (what), noting that is still waiting for an answer in order to
assess the intentions of the pharmaceutical industry still empraktos.Ena confrontational
issue between the Federation and the Association on a consistent basis is the dismissals
are recorded primarily in the area of medical visitors, simultaneously with the expansion
of tire / opportunistic forms of work and workers' complaints of violation of their labor
rights and to prevent industrial action in the factories . "The crocodile tears that the
situation is such we can not do otherwise unconvincing. Those who speculated in previous
years it was time to repay to society a part of the profit into jobs and jobs "says what.
Proexangellei while principle demonstrations starting from the 48-hour General Strike GSEE
for the Social Security & the Tax Bill.
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