Anarchistic update news all over the world - 5 May 2016
Today's 5 Topics:
1. Portugal, AIT-SP Lisbon 1st May 2016 Combative (pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #259 - Essay:
"Bureaucracy", (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Holand, aga Anarchist spread wall newspaper (Muurkrant). One
arrest for "sedition and incitement to violence." (nl, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. iwa-ait: The History of May Day is also part of the History
of Immigrant Labour Struggles (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative: Strike
CONCENTRATION SUNDAY 8 MAY (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
First of May: International Workers' Day -- May 1 Combative 2016 Lisbon: 15:30, Praça D.
Pedro IV ---- This is the day we celebrate the struggles of all workers worldwide.
However, do we have to celebrate? The prevailing unemployment? Wage exploitation? The ease
of redundancies? Precarious work? A parliamentary left that is more preoccupied with
getting the most votes? ---- The trade union confederations, organized on a bureaucratic
and reformist syndicalism, prove to be unable to successfully lead the workers' struggle
against the ruling class profiting from our misery. They have long abandoned this goal and
support the narrative that the operation of our lives to enrich the pockets of a minority
is here to stay. ---- It takes again the forms of struggle that got 8 hours of work, such
as direct action, boycott, strike and sabotage. revolutionary syndicalism, organized by
workers of assembleária form is required, which does not surrender to the will of
employers, and that does not stop until you reach your ultimate goal: the emancipation of
the workers. We must take control of our workplaces, our neighborhoods, our streets, our
lives!
Against the "party" of misery! States and self-organized we give them the crisis!
AIT-SP Center Lisbon
ait-sp.blogspot.com.br
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Message: 2
The last book of David Graeber evil carries its French title, Bureaucracy. The original
title, The Utopia of Rules (Utopia rules), did not sell a sum of knowledge heavy,
monolithic but rather an original argument: the bureaucracy is perhaps one of the last
utopias construction. ---- Graeber, in this book, the fact Graeber: it develops ideas,
made detours, mobilizing much culture, ancient or popular, and never closes a debate. That
is why his books are always emerge in the minds of Readers' questions but also
frustration. ---- The most interesting thesis Bureaucracy is that neo-liberalism is
characterized by a development of bureaucracy ever seen in history. This is the
fundamental difference between liberalism "classic" of the nineteenth century and early
twentieth century. The extension of state control to the most mundane aspects of life
corollary that people get used to living in a straitjacket of rules, sometimes absurd, and
think less and less to question them despite deep displeasure they generate. Especially,
control of dimensions "apolitical" of our lives is misleading since it ends up making the
political action and the constitution against-companies increasingly difficult.
Graeber notes however that this system of domination is ironic because if the control is
central, efficiency too. Or the system prefers to appear effective as actually being. It's
the eve observation sociologists work more workers can organize their own activities, they
are more productive. Bureaucracy denies this desire for autonomy and resumes through the
managerial discourse, the idea that efficiency is gained by always introducing more
arbitrary rules. Financial capitalism therefore come to generate economic inefficiency by
bureaucratic runaway.
Bureaucracy and opens doors to the advantage of easily read, even without sociological or
anthropological culture. It offers a fresh look at the problem of bureaucratisation of our
societies, a theme that deserves to regain its central role in the anti-capitalist discourse.
J. Clamence (AL Brussels)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Essai-Bureaucratie
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Message: 3
Closed Sunday evening in The Hague anyone arrested on suspicion of pasting the Anarchist
Muurkrant. Him get sedition against authority, incitement to violence and laid pasting
posters dependents. He is in police custody and prosecutors want to conduct him Thursday
at the bankruptcy judge to hold him any longer. ---- Over the past week, hundreds of
anarchists Wall Newspapers distributed in eg the Hague districts Transvaal and
Schilderswijk. The first issue of the Muurkrant about the uprising in the Hague
Schilderswijk last year. Here, thousands of people came days long revolt against the
police and the state after the murder Mitch Henriquez who was strangled dead by agents.
Henriquez was another victim of violence by racist police of The Hague. The corps which
together with the OM for months has made long hunting the insurgents last summer.
Now there is already someone stuck and it seems that the OM do all it can to keep him as
long as possible on suspicion of distributing a poster with text, our solidarity express
the only thing we can do. Solidarity through action. Here you can download the Anarchist
Muurkrant. Print the Muurkrant and spread it everywhere.
Download the Anarchist Muurkrant:
https://www.indymedia.nl/indyfiles/AnarchistischeMuurkrantApril2016.pdf
Stop the repression! Solidarity with the prisoners! Down with the police state! Long live
anarchy!
Here you find the text of the editorial.
Down with the police and the state. Long live the revolt!
About the uprising in the Schilderswijk
In the summer of 2015 raged an uprising in the Hague Schilderswijk. A revolt against the
daily oppression and racism of the police. Against the suffocating reality of exploitation
and unemployment. An uprising of people who broke with the normality of state repression:
the roles were reversed and the police the streets was chased. The murder Mitch Henriquez,
another racist police murder was the spark that sparked the rebellion. Let us not forget,
let us not forgive!
By politicians, the media, mosques and various clubs around the uprising was dismissed as
an ordinary riot. If a criminal act whose perpetrators should be punished harshly. But do
not believe them, the organizations that survive grant from the state, those who want to
pursue their own agenda on the backs of the oppressed, those who sell out to the oppressed
by those in power to be able to sit down. That people are oppressed in neighborhoods like
Schilderswijk is clear. Not adopted because of your name or exploited for a pittance while
the bosses, big corporations, politicians and banks enrich themselves.
It is in the state integrated racist political scapegoat to blame people of color
indicates poverty, housing problems and cuts, just to get people to play against each
other. But refugees, Moroccans and Surinamese are not the cause of these problems. The
problem are the politicians and the state that only represent the interests of the bosses
and big business, and it is the murderous police all that, cost what it costs, protecting.
The uprising in the summer of 2015 was no ordinary riot. It was a legitimate rebellion
against all that oppresses us. It was a rebellion against the police who terrorize our
streets. By controlling madness of CCTV, ID checks and the so-called 'zero tolerance
policy' which we see only in poor neighborhoods. It was a rebellion of a community that no
longer pass distribute political games. For years there has been talk and asked for change
but no one would listen. Then the only option to get tough revolt. For our dignity, for
our existence.
Those who rebelled and refused to bow to oppression and repression are the people who have
not lost their dignity. It is precisely those people who offer hope for a different,
better future! This summer will be a hot summer!
Down with the police state! Long live the revolt! Long live anarchy!
http://www.agamsterdam.org/2906-2/
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Message: 4
Around the world, immigrant labour is exploited. The economic inequalities of the world,
made worse by capitalism and the privatization of resources, has long been a motor behing
emigration as people struggle for their daily bread. ---- It has been always in the
interest of capital to exploit this situation. In response, the revolutionary workers of
anarchist and anarchosyndicalist tendencies have stood for the elimination of the nation
state and maintain that the resources of the world are common. The wealth and resources
accumulated by the few must be redistributed and further managed collectively, with a aim
of creating equilibrium throughout the globe. ---- The labour movement which fought for
the 8-hour day in the 1880s in the United States was mixed, with American born workers and
immigrants. Its most radical branch, the anarchists, included large groups of immigrant
workers who fought not only for the 8-hour day, but the radical transformation of society.
In the aftermath of the May 3-May 4, 1886 events, it was especially the immigrant radicals
who were targetted by the police. 6 of the 8 Haymarket anarchists were immigrants. They
were arrested and even killed by the state for their convictions and their activism. As
these events mobilized workers around the world, we see a strong link between the history
of our movement and the history of immigrant labour organizing.
Currently, immigrants have found themselves under attack in many parts of the world as
xenophobia and nationalism are on the rise. Some working class people, whose material
position has been eroded and is further threatened by the economic inequalities of
capitalism, have fallen victim to the tricks of the ruling classes, which have always
benefitted from divide and conquer. They wish to scapegoat immigrants and blame them for
“stealing jobs” or whatever, while the capitalist exploiters grow rich off their labor.
But we mustn't be fooled about who our real enemies are!
Much of the world is being plundered for resources and those with capital enjoy the
unequal status of workers confined within national boundaries to get cheap labor and make
more profits. The control of national borders and immigration is partly connected to
realities of protecting private property and privelege in a situation where the global
north has plundered the global south for hundreds of years. The divide is not only between
north and south. A velvet curtain divides Europe. As long as a stark difference in living
standards exist, the capitalists will exploit this by pitting people against each other in
the search for people who will work for less.
In order to fight against this, we need to be organized and united in our opposition to
the capitalist beast. Immigrants, as a group of workers in a particularly vulnerable
situation, must play an important role in the struggle and must be given complete support
since the struggle is exactly against the same monster. Workers must also be united on an
international level and more attention must be paid to the places on the globe where
workers struggles are yet to be organized on a mass scale or are brutally repressed by the
capitalists or the state. It is exactly in these places where exploitation thrives. The
power of workers around the world is only as strong as the power of workers in the modern
centers of exploitation.
The International Workers Association wishes all the workers of the world strength in
organizing and success in their struggles to end exploitation. For a world without
divisions and without borders and an end to the privelege and domination created by
accumulated wealth and capital!
IWA Secretariat
http://www.iwa-ait.org/content/history-may-day-also-part-history-immigrant-labour-struggles
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Message: 5
The Sunday, May 8th is day strike for hundreds of thousands of workers in the trade as the
SYRIZA-ANEL government continues to satisfy the appetites of large commercial capital, to
abolish the Sunday holiday. Ardent desire of course total capital and the employer is to
extricate once and for one of the last labor rights of the last century. A century of
great industrial battles bloody conquests. From Chicago and May 36 in Thessaloniki until
today, the working class won rights through strikes, riots and revolutions. Now they want
us to take back everything we fought to win. The right to leisure and relaxation to social
security. To reverse this trend towards barbarism have to go forward again to the
forefront in fighting class movement that will collide with the forces of capital and its
political mouthpieces of.
We have no confidence in the employer-bureaucratic unionism has picked camp and is on the
side of employers, of "social peace" and "we remain Europe". A Europe that condemns its
people to poverty and authoritarianism while it becomes a racist fortress closing the
borders to the damned of this planet, refugees and immigrants.
For all these reasons we need new Maides. The strike on May 8 is only the beginning.
Workers in the trade and all the workers involved in the fighting class movement will take
the case of the strike in their hands. Not because it decided GSEE, which have nothing in
common there, but because the employers and government challenge at a time when it is
voted the most reactionary insurance bill must take massive and decisive strike response.
The strike merger will simultaneously and class May Day demonstration grasping the thread
of the great struggles of the last century to a akidemonefto term struggle to overthrow
the anti-labor attack.
Strike CONCENTRATION SUNDAY MAY 8 at 10:30 a.m. TSIMISKI WITH ARISTOTELOUS
We go in strike inclusive and independent class demonstration in the city's commercial center.
We will not live like douloi.Tha fight for our labor rights with class independent labor
movement.
We call on all workers and political collectives and organizations to support the strike
syndiorganonontas the equally militant,.enimeronontas same time that the next meeting of
the coordination is Wednesday, May 4 at 18.00 in libertarian sabot area (Gkarmpola 4 Pitt
Bazaar). COORDINATION ACTION against the abolition of the Sunday holiday and "liberated"
timetables
To break the window of Capitalism
In times of impoverishment of the working class and the state of exception in which they
are unemployed came from the previous government, the law provides for the operation of
shops for seven Sundays a year, which by decree increased to 52. "We defend the Sunday
holiday! Not shop not working "was the slogan of Syriza up before the election.
Nevertheless the shops will remain open for another lady AKI on 8 May. Anything that with
a number of issues that would change radically with the left government, so it is on ice.
We had no doubt this development already before the election, let alone now. The
SYRIZA-ANEL government does nothing other than to ensure "labor peace" and to promote
"national unity", a section always orchestrated by the bosses and works in their favor.
Where it aims to abolish the Sunday holiday?
The abolition of the Sunday holiday and full flexible working hours is a very important
part of capitalist restructuring intensified in response to the crisis. At the heart of
this restructuring is the labor relations as the factor that is based on the exploitation
of workers, the production of surplus value and ultimately the profits of the capitalists.
It is a measure that will directly benefit mainly of businessmen trade sector and major
shopping areas that foster the further accumulation of capital. But it is still another
attack on labor achievements that opens the way for the further intensification and
aftarchikopoiisi already bad labor relations in accordance with the prevailing spirit of
full commercialization of our lives. To survive capitalism in crisis should be expanded
aggressively in more and more places where until now had not been sufficiently exploited.
The goal is the transformation of workers into labor machines with few rights when no work
would be tame consumers. That is, the total conversion of life in a goodwill production
cycle, consumption goods and capital accumulation. This is the notorious capitalist
development. Anyone who thinks that this attack in his spare time workers will cease to
trade is very mistaken.
The holy alliance of commercialization of our lives
This effort brings together an enlarged front forces each in its own way contributes to
the common goal. The driving force is of course the capitalists and a key lever the
government using the state apparatus acts as trustee of capital. This course is one of the
basic functions of the state in modern totalitarianism. The role of the judiciary is also
clear and distinct and a rough look at the role played in smashing to pieces of labor
rights in recent years does not let the fact on which the decision of the State Council to
cloud the issue. The mainstream media have taken over the role of the ideological vanguard
trying to present the Sunday opening of shops as a solution to the crisis and to advertise
as much as possible, at the same time showing any reaction as antisocial and harmful to
workers. Particular mention should be made of the chipsterofasistikes free press tabloids
who allegedly apoideologikopoiimeni and aestheticised visual content crystallize social
ekfasismou as aggressive neoliberalism. Trade associations in the majority and they helped
them in their own way. Initially the tergiversation of "7 Sundays and not 52," which
seemed to not understand that hegemony now belongs to the bourgeois and not the same, and
any change in the Sunday public holiday will not be staying there but will sway me
everything. After the introduction of institutions that contribute to more flexible
schedules such as the "white nights" where workers are forced to work until midnight to
increase turnover. In the 'white nights' they contributed several municipalities that
supported many such efforts, even mayors belonging to the left, demonstrating its role as
left the capital and their potential power management system rather than the tipping
force. Finally, shouting consumers who are willing to preface their breasts to shop Sunday
playing the role of useful idiots who do not realize that the complete elimination of
labor rights and will affect them. The importance of the fight against the abolition of
the Sunday holiday
We must not forget the direct impact of the intensification of work in the lives of
workers. At the same time the official unemployment rate is 26% spending time workers
clipped. The concept of free time shrinks to only fit the consumption and much needed
rest. The labor movement needs to understand the problem of free time as the same
importance to the salary, as aspects of the same thing. Must epananoimatodotisei the
meaning of free time outside and against capitalism, a time that employees use to organize
their resistance to capitalist barbarism, to create their own culture, to live outside the
sovereignty of the goods. The struggle against the abolition of the Sunday public holiday
must beat to give an impetus to the workers' struggles and to enrich their content.
What to do
The abolition of the Sunday public holiday is not just for shop assistant but all workers.
The strikes of the industry associations Sundays are open shops are necessary and should
be supported, but not enough. It is necessary to horizontal coordination of larger pieces
of our class, based associations, labor collectives and shapes that these strikes to
obtain generalized characteristics. In this endeavor the institutional unionism and
defeated logic and practices of a burden, not an ally. To win this battle, the road is
one: we must destroy the functioning of the market on Sundays. With massive marches,
dynamic interventions and inclusive shops, sabotage, closures of roads to create a diverse
movement until you get a decision that our Sundays are not going to give away the world of
the commodity. Our Sundays will use that to just have fun and talk, to fall in love and to
organize the social revolution that will sweep the world of the state and capital and
build freedom. On Sunday, May 8 will be in the street protesting and safeguarding, with
inclusive shop, general strike has been declared, not because the said GSEE, which we
explicitly and clearly in opposing sides of the class struggle, but because the abolition
of the Sunday public holiday should not be imposed. Because it will resist any aggressive
movement of capital, the new insurance bill, as wage and pension cuts, cutting benefits,
dismantling of public health care, the price increases in basic goods, increase ticket on
public transport, decisions the Supreme Court requiring workers to compensation bosses for
occupational accidents, power cuts and water and first-time auctions.
Strike CONCENTRATION
SUNDAY MAY 8 at 10:30 a.m.
TSIMISKI WITH ARISTOTELOUS
We support the Coordination of Action against the abolition of the Sunday holiday and
"liberated" hours, calling in strike inclusive and independent class demonstration in the
city's commercial center.
Libertarian Thessaloniki Initiative
lib_thess@hotmail.com
w*w.libertasalonica.wordpress.com
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%B7-%CF%83%CF%85%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%B5%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%81%CF%89%CF%83%CE%B7-%CE%BA%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%B7-8-%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%B7/
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