Anarchistic update news all over the world - 09 May 2016
Today's 5 Topics:
1. Greece Anarchist Political Organisation: WORLD OF STATE AND
BOSSES IN ABSOLUTE bankruptcy (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL #259 - Read: "I am writing
from the factory" (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Southern Africa, Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF):
WHY MAY DAY? AN AFRICAN WORKING CLASS PERSPECTIVE by Leroy
Maisiri (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Holand, a-g amsterdam: All Flex? About the limits of the
flexibility. (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Britain, EDINBURGH ANARCHIST FEDERATION VICTORY FOR THE PCS
NATIONAL MUSEUM WORKERS. by Scott Forster (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The society savage attack experiencing today is the result of the time effort of the state
and the bosses to transform and enforcement sweatshops and prison conditions. This attack,
in conditions of deep and comprehensive systemic crisis and de-legitimation of the
political system, scaled and highlighted both incurable contradictions of state-capitalist
system of organization, and the absolute inability to produce from up any coherent social
vision, perspective and hope. ---- The roots of this, the ever-increasing aggressiveness,
are the very nature of the oppressive and exploitative system. The need for deepening and
expanding the power company seeks to control human activity, in order to complete
subordination of society to the requirements of the state and the bosses. The
state-capitalist system is structured on the basis of the absurdity of social and class
oppression, which seeks by all means the perpetuation and therefore the perpetuation of
destructive effects on society and nature. The decay so visible today is not the result of
a multifaceted crisis. In contrast, multi-faceted crisis is the result of deep decay and
chreokopias system in social, political and level of values.
In this context, the basic direction that continuous individual state and capitalist
entities in the West, regardless of political and economic management, is the campaign for
the establishment of a modern totalitarianism, the regime proofing business for
uninterrupted perpetuation of, for establishment of a new impersonal autocracy imposed by
one provocative luxurious living of the elite and on the other the unliveable up crippling
conditions for the excluded defined as "redundant" - in which are forced to exist as
slaves billion people.
The uprooting of the resistance and the transformation of society in galley is the
response of the rulers in the continuous sharpening of social discontent. Sharpen
resulting and constantly arises from unresolved and fundamental contradiction of the
system, the contrast between the many who lack the ability to decide about their lives and
the few who appropriated. That is, the contrast between the real social possibilities for
creation through mutual aid, freedom of coexistence and on the other the suffocating
restrictions and distortions imposed social relations the state and the bosses.
The recent restructuring of the state and the capitalist world is accelerating in the
early 90s with the collapse of the "Eastern bloc" and the renewed aggression of Western
power block, the capitalist periphery and within Western societies. Notices for End of
History and the New World Order accompanied by the creation and upgrading of supranational
and transnational control and subordination mechanisms.
The creation of the WTO, the upgrading of the EU's role and G8, the establishment of
agreements such as Maastricht and NAFTA are fanfare war elite during the plebeians. At the
same time, rearrange the geopolitical balance of forces and resulting war, after the
emergence of a single superpower with its allies expand the boundaries of the world "of
living space." These companies have as an ideological vehicle the "war on terror" and
"anti" -tromokratikes crusades. The strongest block of sovereign attempted spread of
power, putting constantly 'fire to powder kegs "with prominent examples of the two wars in
Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and the creation of the state of modern apartheid in Israel.
The devastating effects of these crusades and the capitalist periphery intensive looting
is the disintegration of all social life meaning and existence in the Middle East where
the war has swept local populations. It is these effects result in millions of uprooted
and desperate people to try in every way to escape and entry into Europe. To prevent them,
the state - capitalist system shielded both law with the adoption of the Dublin 2 and
sedatives creating the corps of FRONTEX.
After the war in Syria, a huge refugee and migratory wave moved from the wider war zone to
the west, to Europe - Fortress. The new treaty is formed, resulting in a revision of
previous agreements -as Dublin 2 and the further enhancement of FRONTEX, creating hot
spots and many new camps, closure of borders to refugees and immigrants consistently
trapping tens of thousands at entry corridors of Fortress Europe.
The decision to treat the refugees from the same political and military mechanisms (NATO,
EU) that caused the destruction of the site has multiple objectives:
It is part of the preparation for the generalization of war that has declared sovereignty,
initially in the area where the competitions of the strongest power block main expressed
today, namely the Middle East and Southeast Mesogeio as the grim prospect of a global
conflict returns to the fore and plans of military-political staffs.
It is indicative of the treatment accorded to uprooted, which includes concentration
camps, repression and persecution.
It is a clear signal for the use of military units and the ferocious repression to deal
with populations that the state and the bosses define as "unnecessary".
Within Western societies, the status of emergency is fixed through the militarization of
societies and ekfasismou. Within the modern ghetto under supervision or militarized
repression units either individually and military units, as in the recent example of
France, the war unfolds against the "internal enemy", the war against the poor and
excluded. More specifically, after the attacks in Paris last November, the French State
under the pretext of security took the opportunity to establish and then make permanent
the Status of Emergency with simultaneous invasions into houses, especially the struggling
fragments society and immigrants , impose ban gatherings and demonstrations and to
guarantee institutional maintain this special arrangement for long. Upgrading the legal
arsenal, which is already in the mobilization bureau, such as those against the new labor
law in France, increased surveillance / monitoring, prefiguring the repressive maze of
modern totalitarianism.
The people of the state and capitalism is bankrupt. It can not give answers to real social
needs and not to promise nothing but more misery, poverty, oppression, cannibalism, war
and death. The absolute sovereignty of the jungle law of force Os of the fittest.
It is this condition that determines each individual policy and in the field of class
struggle, which is why internationally exacerbated by looting proletarians businesses. The
attack in a series of social and class conquests are part of the business establishment of
modern totalitarianism, in the same way, which is the spread of the war. The war and the
volume measures of looting of social wealth, beyond the material benefits they produce for
local and international elites, to the sense of weakness of the oppressed majority by
partitioning it into disadvantaged units struggle for survival, and through the propaganda
and exemplary repression even want to deprive and thinking of another fair and open social
coexistence.
In Greece, the current government (SYRIZA / ANEL) - who last summer signed a loan
agreement on 3-mnimonio-, receiving social consensus for the continuation of political
restructuring, based primarily on the cheap trade and hope in trying to kapilefthei and
assimilate the social and class struggles in recent years, stepped up in these races to
disarm them and to maintain social peace in conditions of intense social de-legitimation
of the political system.
The basic ideological proposition is none other than accepting the brutality of the state
and capitalism -arkei wearing the remnant of a democratic prosopeiou- with concomitant
threat to the oppressed for the unfolding of the same barbarity, without the pretext of
democratic masks the which humiliated and constantly assail. Today, attempts to impose new
measures (eg insurance, tax), signed a few months ago, while social tolerance seems to be
running constantly, as not only can not stand the illusions sown for landscaping state and
capitalism, but becomes more and more apparent the prospect of an even worst for plebeians
survival.
At a time when the state and capitalist barbarism attempts to dispel the lives of the
workers, the unemployed, the poor and plebeians of society, at a time when no government,
party, parliament and mediating mechanism can not promise only subjugation and
impoverishment, and we need to develop the communities, the operating areas, in
neighborhoods, in schools and colleges, self-organized structures struggle and solidarity.
This is the time when some and-demand games must be connected to permanent and stable
employment, access to social goods, housing, healthcare, education, to defend labor and
social rights, for the protection of nature, the total and topical social and political
demand to overthrow power world and libertarian transformation of society.
This is the time to be politically connect with their partners and competitors
internationally, to tackle common assault which we accept. By example of our historical
deposits from the First International and International divisions of the Spanish
Revolution, the real hope lay modern resistors, the Zapatista uprising, the demonstrations
against globalization, the December 08 until Rozava, compose against the bleak world of
power, the mosaic of revolutionary perspective for society of freedom and equality. From
Mexico to Turkey and to Greece to the slums of France, shouting in our class brothers that
nothing is not over and that nobody oppressed is not alone as there is resistance and
struggle. To take the lives in our hands, to take responsibility to define the present and
the future, building a new emancipated society based on dignity, justice, freedom,
solidarity in the wreckage of the power world, the state and capital.
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Message: 2
Since his book Damn factory in 2002, Jean-Pierre Levaray joined the valiant cohort of
Proletarian Writers, in which the former were preceded by noble feathers as Marguerite
Audoux, Georges Navel, Henry Poulaille or, more recently, Mehdi Charef (Tea in the harem
d'Archi Ahmed, 1985), Maxime Vivas (Paris-Brune, 1997) and Hubert Truxler, aka Marcel
Durand (Grain of sand under the hood, 1990). ---- Precisely Truxler Hubert, former workers
of Peugeot Sochaux, who prefaced the latest book Levaray, I am writing from the factory,
compilation of his columns published monthly from 2005 to 2015, the QED newspaper. It was,
says Truxler, the first paper he was reading by opening the newspaper, because "to write
on the plant, it must live inside, sniffing with his guts."
Worker in a fertilizer plant in Grand Quevilly (Seine-Maritime), CGT unionist, activist in
the Anarchist Federation, Levaray is verbose - about twenty books or collaborations to his
credit - a flexible writing without pathos or frills. The thousand and one stories he
relates are generally strong enough, in themselves, to make an impression. It tells the
few good moments with friends; sometimes combative colleagues, often jaded; the nasty fire
chief, sub-genre off 'in 1912; the secretary who escapes a social plan and that lonely,
colleagues parties bitterly regret; the old communist militant but "not practicing
Stalinist," who died asphyxiated to have all his life, breathing in harmful dust.
The plant's figures are there, their lives punctuated by the vagaries of an industrial
site classified Seveso 2 aging, will falter, whose closure is feared but ultimately does
not close. However, outsourcing multiplies. "So says the author, according to the box that
pays you, you have a different color. There are almost no blue blue [...]. We are now
working in a multi-colored plant, but it has nothing racist, it's just as blue is orange,
gray, black, red, green, and so on of the best. Differentiated to divide us. "
For several years, the author has accepted a chore: to represent the CGT of Directors of
the company board. The meetings he endures at headquarters in Defence bring, too, their
share of anecdotes, humorous or pathetic. The general director of the factory, a manic
look in the Gestapo, one day pours his bile against the CGT and the "practical leftist"
workers of the box. As Levaray remains impassive, showing only a smirk, the maniac clings
illico another scapegoat: "You serve me for nothing, he spits the unhappy clown of the
CFDT, petrified by this unexpected attack . No, I do not need you. You do not even have
prevented the strike takes place. [...] What do you serve? "The author could have sneer.
It does not do the opposite. He suffers from this public humiliation of yellow union by
his master. This is not the slightest expression of his humanism.
Guillaume Davranche (AL Montreuil)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lire-Je-vous-ecris-de-l-usine
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Like a baby deer born into an unforgiving world with three broken legs, life has never
been fair for the working class. We have witnessed centuries pass by, half-awake,
half-trapped, half-fed. ---- Locked in a cage fight with feet shackled to the ground
(pound for pound, “no kicking allowed” they said) while the state and capitalism take
turns at us, the dazed giant called the working class. With complicated combinations, the
system lands organised blows: a punch to the heart called colonialism and apartheid; a
quick right uppercut called minimal wages; a roundhouse kick called neo-liberalism; an
elbow strike called privatization; the full body blow of unemployment; and the referee
joins in with a face stomp called the “law.” The young champ is sent to the floor. ---- In
South Africa, the black working class majority is gripped by the rough hands of its ruling
class, made up of a cold combination of black state elites and white capitalist elites,
who choke the very life out of her.
How tight does this noose around our neck have to be before we choke? We do eight to five;
the system works overtime to ensure the hungry never get fed, to make sure working class
children never receive an education beyond what the system needs, and blocks access to
tertiary education with financial barricades. If education is the key to being free, it’s
no wonder they keep the poor locked out, or our throats slit with debt.
The system suffocates, and there is really not enough space at the top; we need to make
society bottom-up instead. It is far more important we empower ourselves with liberatory
education, from below, embrace the lessons learnt from day-to-day struggle, building our
own popular education, opening our own mind. Let us move onwards, with a revolutionary
counter-culture embracing new ideas of what a better free anarchist society looks like.
And clear about the enemy we face. I present to you capitalism. Capitalism, who never
travels alone: his brother, the state, next to him; his son racism to his right, and his
daughter, the class system to his left. And at their feet, we, the working class: the
workers, the unemployed, slaves of the factories, slaves of the offices, slaves of the
mines, slaves of the shops, slaves of the system, picking up the pieces of our broken
dreams, chained by a past of exploitation, racism and colonialism, blinded by the glare of
a fake future promised on the billboards. Held down by the weight of our chains.
This why it is important we celebrate May Day.
The working class – all of us, white collar, blue collar, pink collar, employed and
unemployed, skilled and unskilled, city and country, men and women, of all countries and
peoples – have never stopped fighting back.
We have been picking up broken crayons, in the hopes of colouring in a better tomorrow for
ourselves. We carry hand-me-down dreams from different tales of socialism, the dreams of
freedom, of dignity, burning in our hearts, while we wear fake smiles for our masters,
in-between lies. In our eyes, rests the hope of one day being able to grow into the sounds
of our own laughter, where we can wear our happiness and freedom like fitting gloves.
Unbowed. Unweighted by chains. Not forgetting the past, but moving into the new land of
freedom.
Capitalism, racism, sexism, and class: hammer forces, colliding trains, smashing into us,
who have no life insurance, and leaving us shattered windshields for eyes. Battered and
blinded, it’s no wonder we'd rather march for minimum wages than a wage-less society; no
wonder we constantly stumble after false solutions in “workers parties” and election
promises, instead of democracy-from-below, in building our movements into a counter-power
that can create a new world. No wonder we are held into separate sections of the
stumbling, by continuous lines of old division and dogma.
An entire orchestra drowns in our throats: the voices of the unemployed echoing in a
society with veins like guitar strings, our voices cracking, like the self-esteem of the
single African mother dependent on a barely functional welfare system, our screams
whispers, our dreams blazing but blinded.
In days like these it is important to remember our heroes, our champions of past years, to
remember the stories of Ma Josie Mpama, who wanted nothing more, than to see the working
class mature, to explode like landmines under the feet of the oppressive system that has
spent centuries trampling over us.
The other day, while deep in thought, I felt the room grow more still, filled with
clarity. The voice of Lucy Parsons pierced my very being. She, a labourer, a black woman,
radical socialist and a mindful anarchist, had joined me in a conversation, not alone but
with the likes of comrades from many sides, among them Samuel Fielden, S.P Bunting, T.W.
Thibedi and Johnny Gomas.
Their voices reminded me of the dream, the obtainable goal. They reminded me that it was
days like May Day, a symbolic dream, a global general strike, raised over the broken
promises and bones, made by rich and powerful men carrying the flags of slavery, racism,
gender oppression, exploitation, and neo-liberalism. The flag of capitalism and all its
children, and its brother, the state.
They jogged my memory, reminded me that it was up to us to create a better tomorrow, and
that we can! Even if the system has us looking like we are losing the fight against a
melanoma, where even chemotherapy has claimed all our dreams.
To remember that we, the working class billions, can be more than what we are now, that we
can awake, from our half-life, that we can be more than the shares and stocks that the
system has nailed to our backs. That we can have the audacity to breathe, that we can do
more than march apologetically, hoping for concessions from our ruling class masters.
I hope we wake up from our slumber. I hope the working class remembers that without her,
there is no them, no ruling class. I hope we form ranks so tight, that nothing can get
through them. I hope we remember that it all belongs to us.
That ours are victories won neither by co-option or negotiation. I hope we remember why
May Day is what it is, that it is more than a public holiday but a powerful reminder: of
the ongoing struggle for a united, anti-capitalist, anti-statist, bottom-up, international
movement, asserting the common interests of the people against the minority elites who use
laws and their militarized police to keep us oppressed.
This is the time to embrace working-class unity and challenge the status quo of capitalist
oppression.
May Day is a call to the global working class to unite across any and all division lines
that exist; to unite across race; to unite against nationalism and to fight for a
bottom-up democracy, for workers’ control, one world, freedom and justice, redress of past
wrongs and economic and social equality, self-management. Only then are we truly free.
Related Link: http://www.zabalaza.net
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Thursday May 26, the anarchist group Amsterdam organizes a screening of the documentary
‘Alles Flex?’ followed by an interview with Abel Heijkamp and music by the Italian
troubadour Allessandro Mezzigori. ---- Alles Flex? About the limits of flexibility. ----
What kind of society are we creating if living and working is increasingly flexible? This
is the question central to Abel Heijkamp and Julij Borštnik’s documentary ‘Alles Flex?’.
Through the eyes of high and low educated, young and old, singles and families, we take a
look at how the flexibilisation of work and housing affects family planning, communities,
inequality, gentrification, renters and labor protection. In other words: What are the
limits of flexibility? ---- The documentary will be in Dutch with English subtitles. ----
See the trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=rnD5zSYKgp8&
Thursday, May 26
Open 19:00, start 19:30
Theater Munganga, Schinkelhavenstraat 27
Free entry.
The day before, Wednesday 25 at 20:30 Faircinema will host screening at the Pieter
Nieuwlandstaat 93, free entry.
http://www.agamsterdam.org/alles-flex-over-de-grenzen-van-de-flexibiliteit/
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The Visitor services staff of National Museum of Scotland members of the union PCS
recently won a victory over their bosses after their long running dispute. This is
Edinburgh Anarchist Federation’s statement of Congratulations. ---- Edinburgh Anarchists
would like to congratulate PCS Museum Workers at the National Museum of Scotland on their
recent victory in their dispute with their bosses. ---- After a long dispute going back
years over the issue of unequal pay and weekend working, major gains have been won. ----
Fair Pay at National Museums Scotland writes “Thanks to everybody who worked so hard over
the years, and to those who showed their solidarity and support! ---- ‘Following a
breakthrough offer from management, PCS suspended the first three weeks of a planned six
weeks of sustained, weekend industrial action. Members had been due to escalate their
action from Easter until the Holyrood elections at the start of May.
Intensive negotiations with management have been ongoing for the last 2 weeks, which led
to an offer being made. Our members voted to accept an offer to put an end to the two-tier
workforce and tackle low pay at the museum.
Members will receive wage rises of between £221 and £1,634, with the lowest paid gaining
the most. Most members will also get compensation payments of between £600 and £15,000,
with an average of over £12,000 for those currently in receipt of the allowance. National
Museums management has committed to further addressing the issue of low pay going forward.
Overtime rates and shift allowances will increase and temporary workers will get first
option of new permanent jobs, expected soon.
Lynn Henderson, PCS national officer, said: “We are pleased to announce that our members
have voted overwhelmingly to accept the offer from management. For PCS, the dispute was
always about two things, low pay and ending the two-tier workforce. This deal meets both
our objectives. This settlement is hugely significant for our members in National Museums
Scotland who have shown that through united and determined action we can win significant
results, even in the face of austerity.” ”
This victory shows the value of organizing and that despite the nay-sayers today strikes
can achieve great successes.
Edinburgh Anarchists truly hope the Museum workers are satisfied with this result and
these gains are in line with the aimed result.
Well Done!
https://edinburghanarchists.noflag.org.uk/2016/05/victory-for-the-pcs-national-museum-workers/
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