Today's Topics:
1. Greece, anarchist-communists Assembly: Coordinated attack
against the working class (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Anarchists against the wall: direct action and solidarity
with the Palestinian popular struggle (fr)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement: SOLIDARITY! #18 - A
better paid wage slave is still a wage slave (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Fda-ifa: Solidarity with evicted squats in Thessaloniki by
comrades in Cologne (Germany) 28.07 -- Anarchistische Föderation
Rhein/Ruhr (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. afed.cz: anti-globalization Notes [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
The tale of "national accord and unity of the social partners" against the lenders have
collapsed in the most resounding way. - Government, SEV and GSEE, each in its own way,
fully aligned with mnimoniakes requirements of lenders, representing the interests of the
Greek bourgeoisie in its efforts to recover from the capitalist crisis. - It should be
understood throughout the working people that the imperialists lenders and the Greek
capital are not in a competitive relationship, but in a symbiotic relationship one-sided
cooperation and uneven / hierarchical alliance. ---- The dependence of the Greek state and
its binding to the chariot of the Euro-Atlantic imperialism is the most fertile soil
enrichment for the local capital. Therefore, the BSE and other employer associations,
despite the "single national front" tale, representing consistently the interests of their
class, rushed to fully adopt the recommendations of lenders for the violent restructuring
of labor relations.
one making a comparative study between the proposals of the European Commission, the
European Central Bank, the Instrument for Stability and the IMF on the one side and the
Federation on the other will find a full match and identification of class interests
representing all these aspects. Moreover, the statements of Dimitri Fessas, head of the
Federation, and Marianne Tisen, EU Commissioner for Employment, is not only identical, but
almost identical.
Reforms in the field of labor relations preparing for winter, for the second evaluation,
constitute a concerted attack on labor-popular interests, it is the continuation and
escalation of the war from the international and domestic capital. The outlines of a new
massacre, which creates "friendly environment for investment" and aligns the Greek
institutional framework with the "EU Best Practices" will be:
- Employer flexibility to adapt wages (wage flexibility), depending on the particular
business interests at the given moment.
- Further expansion of forms of work flexibility.
- Further reduction in the minimum wage and change its structure, to form a single
reference amount (single rate) with no allowance to be comparable with other EU countries.
- Removing obstacles to collective redundancies, increased redundancy threshold from 5% to
10%, as required by the EU commission directive and reduce the warning time.
- Limitation of industrial action and the right to strike. Increasing the strike warning
time and mandatory definition of security personnel for companies.
- Establishment of the possibility of employers' lockout (lockout).
- Strengthening the validity of the operational contracts over sectoral.
The routed deregulation of the labor market for the benefit of employers' interests,
coming together with the preparation of the "Medium Term Fiscal Strategy 2017-2020" which
gives two-year extension of the current program and will be even more deepens the
capitalist restructuring. Although not yet know in detail the precise measures to be taken
after the deposit of the Committee of Experts' findings in mid-September and bazaars that
will follow, it is certain that it will be yet another link in the chain of changing the
correlation of forces the class to bosses. The mnimoniaki capitalist restructuring,
integral part of which is the employment restructuring in winter, as a whole is transfer
huge amount of wealth and power from labor to capital. The organization of proletarian
counteroffensive to reverse this flow, in sight of the generalized revolutionary
overthrow, is the bounden duty imposed by our era. The battle for labor that will
culminate in the winter is another moment of sharpening of class war and we must prepare
our counterattack and to rise to the historical moment and to set up embankments in the
onslaught of modern barbarism.
The OUR ENEMY IS HERE, IN THE GREECE, IN EUROPE
WAR IN INTERNATIONAL WAR AND DOMESTIC CAPITAL
anarchist-communists Assembly class counterattack against the EU
07/27/2016
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Message: 2
Bear witness. This is the modest ambition of this book and, by publishing the French
version, we witness about us our solidarity with Israeli companions. In a fight where hope
it gives these days to despair, women and men of Israel, young girls and young men spend
the line, crossing the wall erected by the authorities of their country and this is to say
that another remedy that separation is possible. ---- In a hard beginning, they go week
after week, Friday after Friday, at the wall; they will walk with those we manifest
designates them as enemies and assert, without violence, their unwavering determination.
They stuck their label on the back of anarchists wanting to discredit; now they claim it.
And rather than building walls, they launched bridges.
There is a living anarchism, anarchism in action, a perennial anarchism as a weed that
grows freely between the stones. The situation being what it is, we can objectively
recognize that without the establishment of two states, there will be no peace, adding
that soon it will be two states too. However, if we can be admiring the commitment of
Israeli companions before such breaks in front of their strategy that takes the edge
between legality and illegality, we can only be appalled by the media discretion around them.
It is the merit of the anarchists against the wall to show us another possible way, for
the use of violence, even if it sometimes seems inescapable, is still deadlocked.
Authors : Uri Gordon: + ohal Grietzer: +
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Message: 3
THE GOVERNMENT RECENTLY announced a 50 cent increase in the minimum wage to be payable
from 1 April, bringing it up to $15.25 per hour. This new rate will see someone working a
40-hour week getting a pre-tax weekly wage of $610, although it should be noted many
thousands of minimum wage workers are part-time, and work fewer than 40 hours per week.
---- Often such an increase is met with the complaints of a loss of jobs, but before our
bosses start pleading poverty even the Government seems unconcerned by this and
confidently declared that the 3.4 % increase will not “hinder job growth.” Indeed,
economists are increasingly of the opinion that gentle rises in minimum wages are at worst
neutral and at best actually creates jobs. When low-income people got a pay increase they
tend to spend it in their communities and help the local economy.
While any increase in the wages of workers is always to be welcomed a minimum wage is not
the same as a living wage, and those behind the Living Wage Movement maintain that even
this rise still sees the minimum wage well below what people actually need to live a full
life.
The living wage is seen as not just meeting subsistence needs, or a basic cost of living,
but also takes into account larger social and cultural needs, such as having money to
spend time with family, time for enjoyment, time for education and self-improvement, and
enabling a more dignified existence. The Living Wage Movement calculates that the rate for
a worker to be able to participate as an active citizen in the community, and not just
survive, should be a minimum of $19.80 per hour. This movement has had some success at
getting its voice heard and, there are now nearly 50 fully-accredited living wage
employers in New Zealand, up from 27 last year.
Tales of workers struggling for, and getting, higher wages if they can, is always a good
thing, but is it enough? The Living Wage Movement will improve the living conditions of
some workers; and any struggle is good for developing confidence in the workers’ own sense
of ability to change the world in which they live.
Real and achievable struggles like this are more valuable than abstract plans and
theorizing, even defeats can be used to teach valuable lessons, such as the importance of
solidarity and unity, and demonstrating the common interests of the working class against
the exploiting class.
Admittedly wage battles, like all immediate struggles, are limited, but, at the end of the
day, a working class that is not able to take the basic step of fighting for an increased
wage will be unlikely to manage to organise and fight to completely change society, which
has to be our ultimate aim, as all victories under the existing capitalist system are
partial. Rising prices, cyclical periods of rising unemployment, and attacks on working
hours and conditions will continually erode better wages that have been won through struggle.
A fight for a living wage may be a step in the right direction, but has to be linked with
the knowledge that better wages are not enough since wages are always less than the value
of what the worker produces, with the surplus value being claimed by the employers. A
better-paid wage slave is still a wage slave; and higher wages do not remove this
exploitation and the resulting inequalities. If we want to end the permanent fight for
better wages we need more than redistributing income from the employer to the worker, we
need to see the establishment of a society that would not be divided into employer and worker.
No amount of reform will eliminate the irreconcilable clash of interest between the
capitalist and the working class. The wages system cannot be made fairer. So while
supporting workers’ struggles for better pay, we also say that instead of just asking for
a fair day’s wage we need to demand the abolition of the wages system, and ultimately
widen the struggle to take the means of production into common ownership and under the
democratic control of the whole people.
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Message: 4
Again a left government showed its real face: On wednesday morning they evicted three
squats in the city of Thessaloniki, which were being used as shelter for refugees. ----
With this action they are destroying selforganized structures that are more than nessecary
not just because of the fake left government in Greece but also because of national
isolation politics of the European Union. With their violent forms of repression in
Thessaloniki like in Berlin they try to shut us down but we won’t be quite! ---- We want
to show our solidarity with all refugees, political prisoners and people fighting for
freedom and human dignity in greece and all over the world. ---- “NO GOVERNMENT IS LIKE NO
GOVERNMENT” ---- Wir möchten unsere Solidarität mit allen Refugees, politischen Gefangenen
und Menschen die für Freiheit und Menschenwürde in Griechenland und der ganzen Welt
kämpfen teilen. ?#?freebalu? ?#?freeaaron?
https://fda-ifa.org/solidaritaet-aus-koeln-mit-geraeumten-besetzungen-in-griechenland/
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Message: 5
AF publishing house published a pocket brochure, which recalls the alter-globalization
protests in Prague in 2000 and in Gothenburg the following year. ---- The last number
anarchist revue, Existence dealt with the topic of the Transatlantic Business and
Investment Partnership (TTIP) - an agreement that continues to pursue global capital to
expand its economic and political power, dismantle standards of environmental, consumer
and labor protection and other alleged barriers to free trade, which became Holy
revelation today. Time, dominated by neoliberal ideology. In the context of the fight
against TTIP we remembered well the struggles that accompanied the millennium summits
peaks richest nations and global financial institutions. They included thousands of
protests and a number of accompanying events and formed around them global movement
against neoliberalism and for planetary justice movement very diverse and based on many
other previous struggles - environmental, union, protikorporátních for indigenous peoples'
rights and to protect local farmers.
One of the battlefields became in 2000 also in Prague, where in late September summit was
held International Monetary Fund and World Bank, institutions that looked as if they want
to solve poverty in the world, but in fact were themselves the cause of the problem with
its structural adjustment programs, which became the tools of new forms of economic
colonialism.
We approached these events for those who really do not remember this time, and refresh
memories of those who have them on the side of protesters actively involved, we have
decided to release this pocket booklet. In her Sergej Fomicov, an activist of the radical
ecological anarchist movement Guardians of the rainbow, describes his visit to Prague and
then participate in the protests in Gothenburg, Sweden, where on 14 to 16 June 2001 EU
summit was held.
The Prague event provides us a man who sees events in Prague and outside it, which may
well bring a few minor inaccuracies, but rather surprise you good information about local
conditions and circumstances at the time. But mainly it introduces an introduction to how
globalization is perceived and how there was great alter-globalization events. The term
alter-globalization we would like to emphasize, because it better captures the essence of
the movement against economic globalization. In translation notes, however, we reiterate a
bit misleading term anti-globalization , which was then used in the movement, but was it
more precise, and the media, which never occurred to his reflection, which mainstream
commentators led to embarrassing paradoxes tumbling alleged behavior antiglobalists.
Sergei does not try to be "objective", describes the protests from the perspective of
foreign demonstrator, but without somehow tended to idealize. From Russia we are
accustomed to harsh repression, but the visit to Europe full of police mistreatment
assures him that despite the more liberal environment is on the agenda to speak of "ending
European democracy". Faced with police shooting sharp to people in Gothenburg him the
European Union at the summit reaffirmed its repressive nature and the fact that democracy
is the only one who determines or blindly follow the status quo, and no longer for those
who had defy or to he just does not fit. But this author these lines did not yet know that
soon they will write a new chapter of repression in the administration of the "democratic"
states, such as the bloody police rampage in Genoa during the G8 summit month after
Gothenburg or measures blanket monitoring of communication between residents and various
war campaigns after 11th September.
AF publishers . 52 pages A6. 30 CZK. http://nakladatelstvi.afed.cz/
https://www.afed.cz/text/6495/zapisky-antiglobalisty
