Today's Topics:
1. awsm.nz: Modern Day Slavery in USA by Pink Panther
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. anarkismo.net: Is Trumpism Fascism? by Wayne Price
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Communist anarchists Assembly: Interventions against the
selling off of public property (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. RESISTANCE TO PROJECTS OF STATE AND BOSSES-NONE HOUSE IN
HANDS banker, By A.P.O. (gr) [machine translation]
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Message: 1
Since the 45th Anniversary of the Attica prison riots - September 9th, 2016 - an estimated
24,000 people have been on strike in the USA. If you haven't heard of the strike you are
not alone. It has mostly been ignored by the mainstream media and even much of the Left.
This is because the strikers are made up of a group who usually don't feature in strikes:
prison workers. ---- Though the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States forbids slavery
and involuntary servitude there is a glaring exemption that is obvious when you read what
it states: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or
any place subject to their jurisdiction."
If you have been convicted of a crime you are not protected from the laws that protect
other workers from involuntary servitude or slavery. Thus, all over the United States,
thousands of prisoners are toiling for little or no money against their will in prisons.
According to the International Labour Organisation the wages paid to prison labourers
range from about 23 cents to $1.15 an hour before tax. Once taxes and other deductions are
paid, many of which are highly dubious deductions such as so-called "fines" and
administrative fees, the prisoner will often have no money or leave prison owing money. A
2010 study by the Brennan Center for Justice found that states and counties are
increasingly imposing "per diem" fees on prisoners, resulting in some inmates going into
debt by the time they are released. In some states, such as Arkansas, Georgia and Texas,
prisoners receive no money whatsoever for their labour.
Most prison labour is deployed in the day-to-day running of the prison, such as cleaning,
laundry and kitchen duties, running the libraries and other such tasks, but a large amount
of prison labour is being contracted out to private companies where the workers are forced
to work for long hours with little, or no, compensation under conditions that are often
dangerous.
One of the biggest advantages for companies using prison labour is they get a work force
that is not only compelled to work for them but they can't complain as their working
conditions are not covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act because the courts don't
regard the prisoners as employees for the purposes of this law.
To make matters worse, as reported by the American Prospect in its investigative report
"Modern Day Slavery In America's Prison Workforce" (May 28th, 2014), the labour unions
won't represent prison workers because they produce goods that compete with other
industries. Or, to put it another way, prison workers undermine the working conditions of
other workers because they produce goods that can be made cheaper than those produced by
companies that have to deal with irritations like minimum wages, working standards, health
and safety issues and other such stuff that the capitalist classes are always moaning about.
The use of prison labour has been justified by the likes of Chris Gautz, a Michigan
Department of Corrections spokesman, on the basis that "[Work]provides monetary value
for[prisoners], but more importantly, a lot of prisoners come to us without ever having
had a job. They're learning not only the task of the job of what they have, and they're
learning the soft skills of showing up on time, general interpersonal skills, how to take
criticism, all those things they've never had any experience with... The goal is to find
them jobs before they're paroled."
Well, that may be the case in theory but the more brutal reality is that many prison
workers were not unemployed before they arrived in prison and the skills they learn from
prison labour does not always provide them with the skills they need to re-enter the work
place once they have been paroled. That's because a lot of the work is menial labouring
and other make work schemes that are often jacked up between cash-strapped not-for-profit
organisations and government agencies that anyone familiar with the so-called "work for
the dole" schemes used in Australia and New Zealand on and off over the years would be all
too familiar with.
Another big problem with the use of prison labour is that it is a breach of international
law. Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which the United States is
a signatory to, states: "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the
slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." Yet, it would appear that if you are
unfortunate to be arrested and jailed in the United States you will be subjected to
slavery or involuntary servitude.
Theres also a fair dose of hypocrisy in the situation, with the United States government
condemning China for its use of forced prison labour. For example, on June 6th, 2016, CNN
reported that the United States had stepped up pressure on the Chinese government and
Chinese businesses using forced prison labour. However, CNN did point out that the federal
agency responsible for contracting out prison labour in the United States (UNICOR) had
also come under criticism for the low wages and often exploitative conditions endured by
prison workers in the United States.
(http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/06/news/economy/china-prison-labor-exports/)
What is interesting was the weasel words used to excuse the United States' use of forced
labour by the article writer Sophia Yan: "Unlike China, the U.S. doesn't deny that prison
labor is taking place. Detainees are subject to a more transparent judicial process and
review than in China, where the legal system can be opaque and confessions are sometimes
coerced." As noted above forced labourers in the American prison system don't have any
rights because the laws that protect most American workers don't apply to prison workers
because they are not regarded as employees for the purposes of the Fair Labor Standards
Act. It's also a very piss poor argument to claim that the United States using prison
labour is okay because they are open about it but it's wrong for the Chinese government to
do so because they aren't.
The point is that slavery of any sort is wrong. It's wrong from an international law
perspective. It is wrong from a moral perspective. It is wrong even under United States
law. Yet the United States allows the use of forced prison labour - slavery - because of
some highly dubious arguments about how work is benefitting the prisoners for that day in
the future when the prisoner will be paroled.
Perhaps a more telling statistic is one that Mother Jones slipped in about who really
benefits from the use of prison labour. According to their September 19th, 2016, article
about the prison worker strikes Mother Jones stated that "prison workers reportedly helped
Florida taxpayers save more than $59 million in 2014".
So the state, which is supposed to be protecting its citizens from exploitation, is
actually participating in the exploitation of the working class in order to trim the tax
budget!
It does not require a PhD in Economics to work out who the real beneficiaries of forced
prison labour really are. It's the business owners who use prison labour costs to
undermine the wages and conditions of the working classes and to undercut their
competition by means that are blatantly illegal, underhanded and unfair. It's the
taxpayers who get their precious taxes reduced because the people providing the services
paid for through their taxes don't get paid and don't have any working standards or legal
protections. The only people who don't get anything good from this arrangement are the
workers themselves. They are losing their jobs because the businesses and other
organisations they work for can't compete with the companies and county and state
government agencies using prison labour.
"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose except your chains!" It's become a
cliché but it is also true. In the case of prison workers in the United States, China and
other countries the chains are not metaphorical but quite literal. The workers of the
world must not stand for this shameful exploitation of the most vulnerable. We must not
allow the American labour unions or the United States government to use weasel words to
excuse doing nothing to protect prison labourers from being exploited. Slavery,
involuntary servitude and any other form of compulsion in the workplace is an affront to
all humanity and must be opposed by any means at our disposal. It is not acceptable to be
silent when workers are being forced to work in conditions that even the mainstream media
is calling modern day slavery, in a country that claims to respect human rights and the
rights of the individual.
Just as I was about to sum up this article I read that, according to the Free Alabama
Movement, which is one of the groups organising the prison strike that prison guards have
started to join the strike. (Free Alabama Movement website, September 26th, 2016.) They,
too, have began protesting against the conditions in prison including poor pay,
overcrowding and human rights abuses.
On the negative side organisers of protests in prisons in Florida, Virginia, Ohio,
California, and South Carolina have been subject to various sanctions including being
transferred to other duties, lockdowns or solitary confinement. On the whole, though,
there has been no indication of the strikes being violent. (The Largest Prison Strike in
U.S. History Enters Its Second Week, The Insider, September 16th, 2016.)
As of the time of writing the strike is still under way. About 40 to 50
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What is Fascism? ---- Donald Trump and those who follow him have shown certain specific
traits of a fascist movement. Does that make Trump or the Trumpets into fascists? What is
fascism? How is it counterposed to bourgeois democracy? Is there likely to be a fascist
movement in the U.S.A.? How do we fight fascism? ---- Whether Donald J. Trump wins or
(more likely) loses the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the movement which he has stirred
up will continue in one form or another. A question which is widely asked is, whether this
movement-call it Trumpism-is fascist, semi-fascist, or a forerunner of fascism? ----
Unquestionably, he has been supported by out-and-out fascists, U.S. Nazis, white
supremacists, Ku Klux Klan members, and others of the "alternative right" or "alt right,"
as they call themselves. He has repeatedly re-tweeted posts from Nazis and Klanspeople, he
has quoted Mussolini, and he adopted the slogan "America First" from the
pro-fascist-dominated America First movement of the pre-World War II era.
He has expressed admiration for dictators and "strong" rulers of other countries. He
appointed a notorious anti-semite and racist as a top official ("C.E.O") in his campaign
(Bannon, formerly the main person of Brietbart News). When asked about his supporter,
David Duke (Nazi and Klansman), he coyly denied knowing anything about him, until a later
date when Trump officially rejected Duke; Duke and other white supremacists took this as
"something Trump had to say." Hillary Clinton, his opponent, has denounced Trump's support
from the alt right and similar "deplorable" people. Trump responded that his followers
were all good, patriotic, Americans. Meanwhile various alt right groups held a joint press
conference in Washington D.C., laying out their support for Trump and openly expressing
their white racism. (They claim to be an "alternate" to the more mainstream far-right
"conservatives," who present themselves as opposed to racism and for "small government.")
These actions are in the context of an election where the establishment candidate,
Clinton, is widely disliked, or at most, is uninspiring to the mass of voters (despite
being a woman). A large proportion of the electorate is disgusted with both candidates and
rejects voting for either.
The overall point is not just that Trump is playing footsie with previously marginalized
crackpots and has opened the door for them or that Clinton does not seem to offer much of
an alternative. Even more significant is that these people see something they like in the
campaign of the nominee of a major U.S. political party. They like his openly expressed
hatred of immigrants, Latinos, and Muslims, and his implicit hatred of African-Americans,
his misogyny, his isolationism somehow combined with militarism, and his general
authoritarianism and opposition to civil liberties. They like his appeals to violence and
his posing as the "strong" leader who will fix everything for the U.S. people. Are they
correct? Is Trump a fascist or Trumpism a fascist movement?
Fascism against Bourgeois Democracy
"Fascist" is often used as a broad insult, a label for politics we don't like of the right
or even left. Many people (even some anarchists) have an essentially liberal vision of
capitalist democracy. They believe or believed in the picture of a free, democratic,
society which they learned in school. They are then shocked to learn that the U.S.
government spies on its citizens, tortures prisoners, discriminates against workers, the
poor, and People of Color, wages unjust wars, and generally is a servant of the rich. This
isn't democracy! they cry. It's dictatorship, its fascism! They do not understand that
this is what capitalist democracy is. Bourgeois democracy is and has always been limited.
Every democratic gain in the system has been won by the blood and struggle of the mass of
people.
We have only to think back to the 50s, when the U.S. was proud of its freedom and
democracy, having defeated the fascist powers in World War II and now facing off with the
Communist states in the Cold War. In fact, U.S. politics was overwhelmed by anti-communist
hysteria, when thousands of leftists were purged from jobs in government, universities,
schools, and unions. Meanwhile a third of the country lived under Jim Crow legal racial
segregation, enforced by the terror of the Klan. To change all this took the massive
rebellion of the African American population, and its white allies, and the demonstrations
and rebellions of the movement against the war in Vietnam-and a virtual mutiny in the
armed forces. (It was not elections which changed society for the better but independent
mass actions-something worth remembering in this election year.)
There are also people who think "fascism" should be used only for the historical examples
of the Fascist Party of Italy, the German National Socialists (Nazis) led by Hitler, and
various other movements and parties in Europe in the 20s and 30s. However, I believe that
certain traits of the historical fascist parties may be drawn out and applied to current
events. While history never repeats itself exactly, lessons may be learned from the past.
The single most important trait of fascism is its goal of overturning bourgeois democracy
and replacing it with dictatorial rule. Under a capitalist economy, society is dominated
by a small number of very rich people (capitalists, the bourgeoisie, a fraction of the
"one percent"). Without any democratic control, they own the corporations and
semi-monopoly businesses for which just about everyone works, directly or indirectly. From
the labor of the mass of people (the working class or proletariat), they draw their vast
profits, while paying the workers the least they can get away with.
They insist on a government which will guard their interests: enforce contracts, keep the
money supply stable, keep the workers from rebelling, protect their interests
internationally (going to war when needed), and so on. So long as the government carries
out these tasks, it is a bourgeois state. Yet the government may take various forms, while
protecting capitalism.
Under a capitalist democracy, the people are allowed to vote for officials in leading
positions, such as president. (After voting, they go back to their jobs where they take
orders from their unelected bosses.) Of course, the alternatives are kept limited. In 2016
we get to chose between two rich people both of whom are enthusiastic supporters of
capitalism and its national state-and so it has been throughout U.S. history. (Third party
candidates haven't had a chance since the Republicans got elected on the eve of a civil war.)
There are advantages for the capitalist class in this limited political democracy. It
permits different factions of the ruling class to fight out their differences and make
joint decisions, without (much) bloodshed. It lets them fool the majority of the people
that they are free and run the government. It brings up new talent from the masses (think
of the Clintons or the Obamas). If they get a crazy or incompetent leader (say, if Trump
were elected), they can get rid of him or her at the next election, instead of being stuck
with him (as the German establishment was with Hitler, by the tail-end of World War II).
On the other hand, there are disadvantages for the corporate rich, especially if popular
forces use their apparent freedom "too much." There may be riots and strikes and other
expressions of discontent. Someone might actually run in a major party as a "socialist"
advocating "political revolution," as Bernie Sanders did (although his program was always
mild-no expropriating the capitalists-and he quickly fell into line once he lost the
primary, as he was certain to do). Or a candidate might be chosen for a party's nomination
who would obviously be unable to effectively run the executive branch of the national
government (the bourgeoisie is more worried about Trump's obvious incompetence than his
reactionary program).
Meanwhile the openness and rights of a bourgeois democracy are immensely valuable to
radicals (anarchists, socialists, communists, pacifists, black nationalists, radical
feminists, etc.). Although tiny minorities, they are able to organize, to work out theory
and strategy, to publish their views, and to speak to others. This is in spite of their
opposition to capitalism, the state, and other institutions of oppression (patriarchy,
white supremacy, imperialism, ecological destruction, etc.). The bourgeoise tolerates this
so long as the radicals remain tiny minorities; but there is always the "danger" that they
will grow during times of crisis.
What is Fascism?
The capitalist system as a whole is in decline, facing crises, long-term stagnation, and
an expensive, drastic, need to deal with climate change. This requires the capitalists and
their state drive down the standard of living of the working class in order to boost
overall profits. There has been a steady long-term attack on the working class. A reaction
against it fueled both Sanders’ movement on the left and Trump’s appeal on the right
(speaking of popular motivations, not of the value of actual programs). If the crises
continue to worsen, and if the reaction to capitalist conditions causes further rebellion,
and if the radical minority grows in numbers and influence—then the bourgeoisie may decide
to junk the advantages of political democracy and replace it with an open dictatorship.
In its history, capitalism has existed under a series of different political systems—
while maintaining its economic system. Besides various forms of political democracy (some
quite limited), it has existed under monarchies, police states, military juntas,
“democracy” for only one race (apartheid South Africa and the U.S. South), as well as
fascism. Under fascism and other undemocratic capitalist governments, there were no
elections, no alternate political parties, no unions, no strikes, no radical political
organizations, no opposition press, no right to assemble. These regimes differed in the
degree of suppression. Some (most monarchies for example) permitted people a lot of
freedom so long as they did not challenge the regime. Fascism was the most repressive,
seeking to totally dominate every aspect of society, from politics to religion to chess
clubs. Thus they were called “totalitarian.” They required everyone to declare their
support for the state, the party, and the Leader.
To totally crush all independent organizations and groupings, of the working class and all
other parts of society, required more than a military coup. It requires a movement of
millions of people. The Nazis and Mussolini’s Fascists organized large numbers of
discontented people, mostly from unemployed veterans and lower middle class people who
hated the rich but were afraid of falling into the working class. They did not just
publish newspapers and make speeches, but went out to beat up —and murdered— socialists,
communists, anarchists, and unionists.
While always extremely nationalist, fascism has not always been racist. Italian Fascism
was not racist (it had Jewish members) until its last days when it became dominated by the
Germans. In the U.S.A., as mentioned, the standard conservative (really reactionary)
far-right has denied being racist, either anti-Black or anti-semitic. While most of these
conservatives are still for bourgeois democracy, fascist sentiments are expressed at
times. Occasionally spokespeople will say that if the “tyranny” of the government
continues, then “second amendment remedies” will be called for and “patriots” will have to
take to the countryside to defend themselves with guns. In fact there are various groups
of armed “militias.” They have various ideologies, but some are preparing to resist the
government when it comes to take away their guns (they think). This may be expressed in
terms of local democracy or a wacky interpretation of the Constitution, but what is
implied is the armed overthrow of the elected government. That is an element, at least, of
fascism. (Similarly, Trump has hinted, in his speeches, that supporters of the Second
Amendment should assassinate Clinton if she is elected.) Also, parts of the anti-choice
movement have insisted that “God’s law” should be above “man’s law.” This is a way of
calling for the replacement of bourgeois democracy with a theocracy, in which their
leaders would dictate to the rest of the population, while claiming to speak for the Almighty.
But racism is deep in the U.S. consciousness, despite its decline among some sections of
the population. Even the supposedly non-racist conservatives advocate programs which
specifically target African-Americans and Latinos (such as voter suppression laws and cuts
in public services). Despite denials of anti-semitism (and support for Israel), the right
emphasizes its Christian faith and calls for a “Christian America.”
It is not surprising, then, that there is a section of the far-right which is openly white
supremacist and anti-semitic. They say explicitly what the respectable right only implies.
They believe that to whip up a mass movement to overthrow political democracy, it is
necessary to openly appeal to the racism of much of the U.S. white population. (Why
anti-semitism? Because the racist stereotype of African-Americans and Latinos is that they
are “stupid” and “lazy.” Their stereotypes are not useful for a fantasy of an evil secret
conspiracy which is dominating society. The racist image of the Jews can fit this
threatening picture. The right has tried to use other groupings, such as the “secular
humanists” or the “Illuminati,” but none quite replaces the image of the Jews.)
Is the U.S.A. Ready for Fascism?
There are forces which could coalesce into a fascist movement under the right
circumstances. The Trump campaign has revealed the existence of such forces as an overripe
piece of fruit, once cracked open, reveals its maggots. But it is not yet a cohered
fascist party. Its leader, Trump, is happy to get support from the alt right. Their
worked-out ideology is consistent with many of his prejudices, but he himself does not
have an developed ideology. While he likes the adulation of the crowds, he does not have
the organizing skills to pull together a real fascist party, nor does he have the interest.
Meanwhile the core of his followers, outside the alt right, while they accept most of his
provocations, do not presently want the overturn of capitalist democracy. And certainly,
the majority of Republicans who are voting for him because they are loyal to their party
or hate Clinton do not want this. Conditions are bad in many ways, but not yet that bad.
Most important of all, the capitalist class, in almost all its sections, does not want to
jettison democracy. Even the right wing, which has backed all sorts of far-rightists, has
not supported Trump (of the leaders of the Fortune 100 leading corporations, not one has
donated to Trump; neither have the Koch brothers). They are not ready to back a fascist
movement, let alone a fascist takeover of the state. In any case, they do not want to put
such an incompetent, ignorant, impulsive, and thin-skinned fool in charge of the U.S. state.
If the crisis get worse, if more rebellion boils up (which the bourgeoisie will want to be
channeled into a pro-capitalist movement as opposed to revolutionary anti-capitalism), and
if a more competent leader arises, then the capitalist class may decide differently.
I believe, and have argued previously, that overall things will get worse — despite
temporary ups and shallow recoveries. The capitalist economy will continue to go downhill.
Wars will continue to rage around the world, threatening a wider conflagration (and
nuclear war). Climate warming is continuing at an increasing rate. And other evils of
capitalism still appear, such as racist oppression.
But there are the beginnings of a massive upsurge of rebellion by working people and all
oppressed. The Black Lives Matter movement has been especially exciting. The struggles of
Latinos, citizens, residents, and immigrants, has been heroic. There is a growing
environmental movement against climate change, including the struggles of Native
Americans. Young women are refusing to accept misogyny. The fights for a $15 minimum wage
and for organizing fast-food workers have had a great impact already. While I do not
regard Bernie Sanders as a genuine socialist, it is nevertheless important that very large
numbers of young people were inspired to support someone calling himself a “democratic
socialist.”
Conclusion
As I see it, the job of anti-fascist radicals is not just to oppose Trump but to oppose
Trumpism. That is, to oppose the elements of a movement which could, in the not so distant
future, come together into a fascist movement. And the most important way to do that is to
build up a radical alternative. The middle is coming apart in U.S. politics—and in the
politics of many countries. The discontent with Clinton and her campaign shows that the
status quo does not offer any solutions. Politics will polarize into the far left and the
far right. Revolutionary anarchists are the farthest to the left, meaning those most in
opposition to capitalism, the state, and all oppressions. Working together with other left
groups where we can, we need to build up every element of opposition to this vicious,
doomed, system.
The capitalist system as a whole is in decline, facing crises, long-term stagnation, and
an expensive, drastic, need to deal with climate change. This requires the capitalists and
their state drive down the standard of living of the w
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Message: 3
On 6 and 7 October they distributed leaflets against privatization in Aristeidou PPC,
EYDAP in the September 3, the OAED and PPC at Peristeri. - The text: - NO MORE STEPS BACK
- class front against sellout OF PUBLIC PROPERTY - On September 27 even completed a crime
against the workers and popular interests, the coalition SYRIZA / ANEL act as sales
representative of the interests of local and international capital. - The so-called
"Superfund" under effective control of creditors and headed by French technocrat Jacques
Le Pap undertakes to sell out with humiliating conditions on public property, the basic
social goods such as water and electricity, until infrastructure (schools, hospitals,
airports, Via Egnatia, Greek etc.). ---- Privatisation in no way serve the workers' and
people's interests, such as trying to get our modern preachers of exploitation, either
wear or wear neoliberal social democratic facade. The public wealth stolen is sold out
industrious sweat and through the plunder of intensifying the deterioration of working
conditions, combined with tariff increases and deterioration of infrastructure and the
quality of social goods.
The so-called "Superfund", which have joined the HRADF, the Financial Stability Fund, the
Company of the State Property and Public Holding Company, is a neo construct, which takes
about 99 years to "build" and to liquidate assets public, under the supervision and direct
control of the imperialists lenders. H commission and the ESM will appoint two of the five
members of the Supervisory Board (which in turn appoints the board members), while
decisions are taken on a qualified majority members 4.
With this trick the absolute control of "Superfund" passes substantially and formally in
the hands of lenders, since no decision would not be obtainable without their approval.
The proceeds from the sell-off will head straight into the pockets of loan sharks, to
service a debt that is not created by the people, under the third memorandum, while
releasing and new fields of profitability for capital. The "Superfund", together with the
financial "cutter" that acts as term memorandum mortgage the future of the country and its
people, monimopoiontas the looting and social desertification status.
The mnimoniakes governments all these years trying to convince the workers that their
countless sacrifices, the cuts in social spending and privatization will bring growth and
economic recovery, with "equitable distribution and social sign". The working people have
longer experience not believe these tales, as he feels in his own skin the constant
abrasion to serve the interests of a handful of plutocrats. He knows very well that any
"development" come in the near future to press on the blood and sweat of those who produce
with their work the entire social wealth.
Only with constant stubborn struggle and the struggle of the exploited can turn this
negative correlation we experience during the years of mnimoniakis squall. Only the
organization of working people, creating a broad front of class struggle and disobedience
to the dictates of the civil power block will be built mounds in barbaric attack by
capital and the state of. Only the class tried to come back the hope.
WHY THE ROAD TO THE SATISFACTION OF MODERN EXTENDED popular needs PASSES THROUGH THE
CONFLICT WITH IMPERIALISM, THE LOCAL CIVIL CLASS AND THE STATE OF
"Without the conflict not Carter the right
never steriose the right without fight
For those who build the world
it's never too late"
Communist anarchists Assembly class counterattack against the EU
For communication: Political space on Spyrou Trikoupi 44, Exarcheia
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"You are tired" ---- "Listen: you do not want anymore to work with us. ---- Knelt, not
another can be run. ---- Tired, no longer able to learn new. ---- Xoflisei: No one can ask
you to do anything anymore. ---- Learn then: we ask. ---- As tired and fall asleep he will
not wake up anymore to say: ---- pull their food is ready. ---- Why have food ready? ----
As you can else to run, you will stay lying. ---- Nobody in search for say: "there was a
revolution, factories in waiting." ---- Why 'has become revolution? ---- When you die you
will bury or fault for dying or not. ---- You say: long time struggled. can not you
anymore n 'games. ---- So listen: either your fault or not as you can to fight the other
will die. ---- You say: long time hoped, you can not any longer be hoped. Hoped what? ----
How the race Thanasis' easy?
There it 's our etsi.I position is worse than I thought.
It is such that if we do not manage the impossible we have no hope.
If we do what no one can ask us will perish.
Our enemies wait for us to get tired.
When the fight is tougher watershed, the fighters have the longest fatigue.
Tired, they lose the battle. "
Bertolt Brecht
In recent years, in response to the capitalist crisis, state capital conducting an
outright attack against the bottom of society. Thus, for six years he has been declared in
Greece a state of "emergency", which formally institutionalized with the signing of the
first Memorandum (in May 2010) between the Greek government and supranational
allies-lenders (European Union, European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund) and
implemented with polynomoschedia, their efarmostikous laws and loan agreements. Key
components of this class of attack is conducted vertical deterioration of living
conditions of vast tracks of society and further ftochopoiisi and misery. So observe the
wage cuts and pensions, dismissals and blackmail of unemployment, the abolition of
collective agreements, the conquests of the class struggle constantly leveled, full
deregulation of labor relations and their readjustment in favor of the bosses, the
exclusion of thousands of people from basic social goods such as housing, education and
health, privatization of ports and airports, the attempt to commercialize water and power,
imposing new taxes, the destruction and looting of the natural world in the name of
development, squelch, the fierce repression and intimidate those who fight and resist
against the plans of the state and the bosses to impose new working medieval and modern
totalitarianism.
SYRIZA, through assimilation and the capitalization of all races given in previous years
and through hope commerce and '' red lines '' that '' put '' came to work as a social
decompression valve for the already bankrupt political and economic system allowing the
prolongation of life and waiting in shaping social peace treaties. From the first months
it became clear that SYRIZA will continue the same barbaric and anti-social policies of
his predecessors. The 'red lines' 'of' 'aristerodexias' coalition SYRIZA-ANEL were red
ribbons and fully collapsed delusion and illusion on a better, just and alternative
management of the political and economic system under capitalism, since not only was the
continuation of austerity measures and the attack on the already stricken social base, but
it is a fact and the promotion of new antisocial measures and reforms in the form of third
memorandum (with the accompanying) who signed the coalition SYRIZA - AN.EL. A coalition
fully aligned with European Union political imperatives, a supranational chain states aims
both in bleeding and the subjugation of societies within and on the other to impose
domination of world, always with a view to serve the interests of powerful political and
economic elite.
The adoption of the third memorandum, the prerequisites and the implementing laws that
go with it, are a new round of looting to society in terms of more onerous and tougher
than the past since the measures are added on the ruins left by the previous two
memoranda. The job failed to complete the right-wing government comes to complete the
'populist' coalition SYRIZA-ANEL (as he and tycoon Agnello commenting on the politics of
his country, "There is a kind of Left that is more useful than the Right. it is at the
left that can do everything you could not do right. " So we see the imposition of new
taxes, reducing pensions, continuing the ENFIA and hike, privatization of ports, airports
and entire regions, the continuation of works on Slag of Halkidiki and the abolition of
the Sunday holiday. Another measure that attempted to apply is the release of the auctions
of primary residence. One measure is to fly on the road all those 'ftochodiavolous'' for
years now suffer the brutality of State Ms. capital. One measure would be the final blow
for the lower social classes since many families thrown out on the street. A measure that
shows the more violent the anti-social nature of the government (like any other).
From all the above it is obvious that the brutality is the norm rather than the
exception in capitalist Treaty. Unemployment, suicide, poverty, misery, hunger and poverty
make up our daily lives. Evidently capitalism is bloodthirsty and ruthless and not done to
humanise only be overturned.
The only way to be able to respond to this attack we are experiencing is the path of
social and class struggles. The same workers, the unemployed, youth, natives and
immigrants, knowing their real needs, they have to take their lives into their own hands,
organize and fight collectively self-organized and adiamesolavita in any society and the
workplace, in schools and colleges, workplaces, neighborhoods and streets, away from any
party and union manipulation which inevitably leads to the weakening and degeneration of
social and class movement. Now it is understood that the bottom of society, can no longer
have any confidence and can not expect anything from them all sorts of aspiring managers
and facilitators of social rage. The only way for the abolition of exploitation and
oppression are self-organized, unmediated, akidemoneftoi social and class struggles, the
overall rupture and the overthrow of the state and capitalism.
To connect a couple and-demand games for permanent and stable employment, access to social
goods, housing, healthcare, education, to defend labor and social rights, for the
protection of nature, with the total and topical social and political demand to overthrow
the world of power and libertarian transformation of society.
Block IN PRACTICE THE AUCTIONS OF FIRST RESIDENCE
DO NOT let anyone expose TO STATE AND BOSSES OREXEIS
Organize social and class counter attack!
anarchist group "restive horse" / member of the Anarchist Political Organisation -
Federation collectivity
Patra, October 2016
http://apo.squathost.com/
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