Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Decembre - Ideas: From
class to race, tame the anger of opprimé.es (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. [Kurdistan] Ceremony and a convoy for the return of the
remains of Michael Israel brought from Rojava By ANA
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Britain, afed: DISRUPTJ20 - STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FROM THE
INTERNATIONAL OF ANARCHIST FEDERATIONS by W
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Poland, Workers' Initiative, forum amazon ozzipcy: It's
stuff that you fired - Teachers from Wabrzezno fight for
reinstatement [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Greece, workers counter-Bulletin #142 - From ESE-Athens (gr)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. US, ideas and action: And Fidel Left... By Gustavo
Rodríguez (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
More than just the armed wing of the bourgeois state, the police has with him complex
reports. Institution partly autonomous, heiress of methods tried in the former colonies,
it ensures the suppression of dissent, but it also participates in the constitution of
race relations. ---- "Being a police officer is trying to protect the French from all
forms of violence" [1]which is Cazeneuve said. Furthermore, "the guarantee of human rights
and citizen requires a public force; this force is therefore established for the benefit
of everyone, and not for the particular use of those to whom it is entrusted, " dixit
DDHC[2]. So the police, it would be this specialized body of citizens to whom we entrust
the monopoly of the use of violence to limit violence, and for the common good. In theory,
this is a response from others to the question of control of the immanent violence in
society opposite to that of arming everyone or to punish any transgression of a final
ostracism.
Obviously, for those who are to control, humiliate, beat up daily in their neighborhood or
fumble the baton sides to every demo, it sounds hollow. The police is neither neutral nor
pacifist; it can not be reduced to the protection of the population; and acts of violence
or murder, "blunders" are much too massive for being the fact that a few isolated cowboys.
But simply the armed wing of capital, the threat to all wild challenge, it would miss the
specificity of modern police. Present it as a class police, following a binary schema, is
not enough.
First, the police is relatively autonomous vis-à-vis power, even in a country like France
where it is very centralized. As we saw recently with the demonstration of cops, the
requirements which Cazeneuve and Holland were soon sold. No doubt they had led police
demonstration of 13 March 1958, which has escaped the unions and sped Bourbon palace
chanting "Deputies to the post! "" Sold, bastards! We foutrons a grenade at the Palais
Bourbon, "and so precipitate the semi-legal coup de Gaulle by amplifying the voice of the
radical right in Parliament[3]. Then, historically, it is true, the modern police
accompanied the creation of the proletariat. Before the police activity existed, but it
was not performed by a professional body detached - rather by the notables of each city.
The movement of enclosures in the eighteenth century in England dispossessed and thrown on
the number of vagrants and homeless roads that parochial institutions can no longer absorb.
Repeated checks facies
In 1829, Sir Robert Peel then created this specialized police institution whose members
recruited outside the cities to avoid patronage, working full-time in uniform, according
to strict rules and without judiciary: its mission is explicitly to contain the
marginalized and the many riots that marked the beginnings of industrial capitalism. In
addition to managing the excesses of these uprooted workers, she sometimes has a mission
of inculcation of bourgeois moral order, as in Germany. Long fiercely opposed by a section
of the bourgeoisie, jealous of its prerogatives on policing and public anxious to see a
third party to interfere in its affairs, the institution ultimately prevail in Europe.
However, this role first framing of the working class becomes less prominent as it sees is
integrated to the welfare state through social policies and the affirmation of the unions.
Once acquired the relative pacification of the margins of the national proletariat is now
mainly in the colonies, the margins of empire, that the police exercise its strength, it
develops elaborate techniques of crowd control and that it oppresses the daily. But from
the 1970s with the oil crisis, the dismantling of the welfare state under the influence of
neoliberal policies and the structural crisis of legitimacy of social systems unable to
maintain the living standards of their population, makes changes: the new balance is to
"civilize the crisis," in the words of Stuart Hall. The capital needs fewer workers and
workers, and whole sections of the population, including recent immigré.es economically
become "surplus"[4]. Due to this general trend towards casualization and exclusion since
the neoliberal turn of a hand, and the legacy of other empires, colonies are recomposed
within the same cities. The police, for this exceptional power it has to use force, will
play a key role in drawing the new boundaries.
Indeed, the police do not apply the law to the transgressive margins of society. As part
of such a legalistic conception of its action, the source of oppression would only
upstream of the legislative side, or the side of the judiciary, which indeed are largely
biased in favor of a patriarchal order, white and bourgeois. On the contrary, the police,
for his exceptional powers, helps create the transgression, to be the enemy, which
justifies its action in return and motion implementation of the penal apparatus. Including
police harassment takes the form of repeated checks facies to absurdity, several times a
day, the same people that the police sometimes have for years (the state is also being
held responsible for identity checks deemed unfair by the Court of Cassation); the offense
is watched avidly, albeit insignificant (be it a broken headlight, helmet without a pipe,
a ball of shit in the pocket) or induced (interpellations which are based only on the
grounds of contempt and rebellion are endless). The institutional policy of the figure is
there for something. The police organization also: for example, members of the BAC, which
often commit to action by imagining a heroic profession fight against crime, find
themselves without daily patrol nothing happens; the conflict comes to be desired for
itself, so much so that the original residents of the affected neighborhoods sometimes
prefer not to call the police in case of problems, certain that the situation will worsen
if the BAC is involved.
This is done on a deep racism of background: the training of future police officers, and
their isolation on a ground where they have never lived, make their purchase a besieged
mentality of "us" against " them, "those they commonly call the" bastards "in French
suburbs, or" assholes "in the United States. The fact that for a long time, the police had
been composed exclusively of white men is also revealing. The transition is slow, and in
some areas it has never even been initiated, eg Ferguson - where the murder of Michael
Brown in 2014 caused riots violently repressed.
Let us add that this systematic oppression would not be possible without the downstream
justice complicity. It is in the social spaces where the police are most likely to make
use of force that police violence are less likely to be brought to court. The penal system
gives little credibility to potential witnesses - to load against the police - who have
already been dealing with justice; or police harassment and social segregation are that
such witnesses are rare precisely where the police commit violence. Add to this that the
police, when charged, cover each other, which is the easier they are never put under
judicial control (and therefore can coordinate to arrange their story), and that complaint
back against their victim simply made to frustrate the procedure that targets, even if the
violence is medically documented. Only the media business seems to bring the perpetrators
to justice[5](for very low penalties in general).
All this leads to a more general level, the formation of figures "enemy", the police
targets and threats to the Republic: for example the "offender", popularized by the 1964
presidential election in the United States, which appears a later in France, or more
recently the "terrorist / Islamic fundamentalist" under surveillance, which are the living
embodiment of the widespread social insecurity. The moral panic that these margins
generated throughout society allows the unification of society, completely geared to this
designated enemy. If the race is a social relation, then report to the police - and
fantasized figures that the action plans of the latter - is one of the components.
inner colonies
It is in this sense that the class police also became part of a race of Police within the
metropolis, when the rocker in the crisis and its neoliberal management; production of
internal colonies and quasi-military management of social protest are two sides of the
same coin, the two dimensions of society where the police is exercised and reveals his
role. Particularly the violent repression of the social movement against the labor law in
France has also given the protestors preview the daily plight of racialized populations
and suggesting the time of a social spring, the possibility of dialogue .
Marco (U 92)
For further:
1) Stuart Hall, Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order (all over the
Internet).
2) Didier Fassin, Law enforcement's: an anthropology of police districts, Points, 10 euros.
3) Fabien Jobard and Jacques Maillard police Sociology - Policy, organizations, reforms,
Armand Colin, 29 euros.
4) Mathieu Rigouste, Police Domination - An industrial violence, La Fabrique, 15 euros.
[1]Letter from the Minister of Interior on the police in October 2016. ...
[2]Declaration of Human Rights and the Citizen, Article 12.
[3]Fabien Jobard, "police Colères" Spirit flight. March / April, 2016.
[4]Marx described these dynamics terribly current, inclusion and exclusion in Section 23-3
of the first book of Capital.
[5]Cédric Moreau de Bellaing, 2009, "Unlawful violence and publicity of police action" in
the journal Politix.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Idees-De-la-classe-a-la-race
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Message: 2
From the International Freedom Battalion (International Freedom Battalion) ---- The
following speech was made by the political organization SYPG and by the union Komîteya
Kedkarên: ---- " Brothers and sisters, ---- On behalf of Komîteya Kedkarên, the new trade
union confederation here in Rojava and SYPG, we salute the martyr Michael Israel, known
here as Robin Agiri. We sent this regretful greeting to his family and friends, as well as
his comrades in his organization, Democratic Socialists of America, and his brothers and
sisters in the unions, SEIU (Service Employees International Union) The IWW (Industrial
Workers of the World). In his own words, he came here not only as an anti-fascist, but
also to fight against capitalism and imperialism.
We recognize him as one of us: his struggle did not start here in Rojava, he was a worker
and part of the workers' movement. He knew that our biggest weapon is the organization,
and in his homeland he fought against low wages and the precariousness of work. Like the
best of us, Michael knew that class struggle occurs in many ways; Sometimes it happens
with a clipboard and booklet in the hands, sometimes with a rifle. In this way, when he
heard the call to defend this new society, he did not hesitate to come here to serve the
people.
Michael fell over. But he still lives: let us lift up his struggle. We will fight in the
workplace and in the community, and when necessary on the battlefield, for a just and
egalitarian society, for a life of happiness and purpose. All those who are inspired by
the example of Michael Israel will see that he still lives. In this sense, even though it
has fallen, it has also become immortal - the martyrs are immortal - sehit namirin. "
Video of the ceremony funeral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_AjI2Lk31E
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Message: 3
As the International of Anarchist Federations (IAF-IFA), we support the demonstrations
planned to take place during the inauguration of Donald Trump, 20 January 2017. ---- It
should go without saying that we do not support Hilary Clinton or any other politician: we
know they are both faces of capitalism, racism and war. But the inauguration of Trump
means the legitimisation of white supremacy, neo-nazism and misogyny. ---- We don't give a
damn about elections; the change we fight for will be achieved only by ourselves, through
direct action. We expect nothing from politicians but suffering, exploitation and
oppression. We stand with all those experiencing police attacks, racist murders and sexual
violence. ---- In solidarity, ---- CRIFA (meeting of the Relations Commission of the
Interational of Anarchist Federations), Marseille, 3-4 December 2016.
http://i-f-a.org
https://afed.org.uk/disruptj20-statement-of-support-from-the-international-of-anarchist-federations/
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Message: 4
Forum: Combating Employee ---- Planned by the Ministry of Education education reform in
recent months has raised a lot of controversy, emotion and criticism. Ekspertki and
experts, including the Association of Polish Teachers, reporting that the liquidation and
reorganization of the existing junior high schools will lead to a drop in the level of
education. The planned changes were not consulted with local authorities, parents or
teachers. November 19 was held in Warsaw convened by the PNA demonstration, which also
joined the Workers' Initiative. In addition to the effects of the planned reforms on
education and level of education, also pointed out that the same teachers and the teachers
mean she will be job insecurity and its conditions. There are also reasons to believe that
the reform will facilitate the release and avoidance guarantees contained in the Charter
of the Teacher. An example of the problems already faced by teachers and junior high
school teacher is the situation in Wabrzezno (province. Kuyavian-Pomeranian) where the
staff middle schools affiliated to the OZ IP struggling with redundancies motivated
"reorganization." The situation in Wabrzezno writes activist Inter-Sector Committee on
Education, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Maria Przytula-Blonkowska.
(Editorial)
Educational reform will be a green light to layoffs of teachers for these bodies to
schools (local government units or other legal entities - ed. Ed.), Which does not depend
on maintaining jobs. Much depends here on the good will and kindness makers. There are
legitimate concerns that there may be irregularities, if the management of human resources
in schools in implementing reforms, will not be monitored by the authorities of the parent
(eg. The board of trustees). The consequence of these anomalies will be the real dramas
fired teachers and teachers. The school is somehow entrusted to the care of the
Directorate for the period of tenure, as well as the city and residents are entrusted to
the mayor. Unfortunately, some performing these functions seem to forget this and act to
the detriment of the residents and the employees and workers. Teachers in middle school
Wabrzezno live in anxiety and uncertainty, because the body conducting speaks directly
about the dismissals of teachers in relation to educational reform.
The situation of teachers from Wabrzezno high school is an example of the fact that
teachers are already unduly released and the planned reform will give a pretext for
redundancy. In April 2016 years the only teachers in high school were confident about
their jobs. Despite the demographic decline each year all worked out full-time. This is
not a special school, so that pupils and students with disabilities attend classes mass
which is conducted teaching inclusive. Therefore, every year there are many hours of
classes revalidation and individual learning.
Personnel policy of school for several years involves allocating the project worksheet
only hours of classes. Then, posts are supplemented just about revalidation classes and
tuition. Finally, every year, all teachers have a full teaching load, and most had
overtime. In April this year, at the meeting of the teaching staff, school management
confirmed that it will be in the coming school year 2016/2017. All teachers have to keep
working. In May it kicked off the next Board of Education, which took place evaluation of
school director in connection with the extension of the term in this position. Even if not
a word was spoken about the planned redundancies.
Meanwhile, the next day it was released biologist (26 years of service, certified teacher
qualifications oligofrenopedagoga), and later Polish teacher (22 years seniority, the
graduate teacher qualifications oligofrenopedagoga, as well as a graduate of postgraduate
studies in counseling).
It should be emphasized that the Teachers' Council not only did not know about the planned
layoffs, but she did not know their criteria. They were not presented as the teachers made
redundant, which appealed to the labor court. The Directorate for the first time commented
on the criteria only at the council on 23 June 2016.
Presenting the termination of a teacher of biology and polonistce management stated that
the authority conducting the sheet is not approved in April because too many teachers
there did not disclosed the full-time and ordered the dismissal of teachers. In response
to a question about the cause of changes in current practice - completion time
revalidation or individual classes, Polish teacher heard that "Mr. Mayor to did not
agree." It should be emphasized that some teachers lacked only 2-3 hours to full-time. It
is also incomprehensible why a spreadsheet created a vacancy (37 hours), instead of using
it to create full-time jobs for individual teachers by giving them the missing hours. Slow
the teachers were not offered even a reduction in teaching load.
Teachers received a notice from the work of the Article 20 of the Charter Teacher -
changes in curriculum. It should be clarified that in school there were no changes, which
would explain the dismissal of teachers. There was no change of curricula and the number
of branches has not decreased, but even increased by one unit compared to the previous year.
Arouses astonishment that experienced and Qualified teachers with qualifications
oligofrenopedagoga (person appointed to work with children with reduced intellectual
ability - ed. Ed.) Have been released due to changes in curriculum, which in fact was not.
It should be explained that teacher j. Polish conducted in previous years 1 hour of ethics
(in overtime), and the argument of the management having to justify her dismissal was
unplanned for next year's classes Ethics. However, according to the curriculum activities
they are organized on the basis of declarations made by the parents of all classes until
September at the first meetings, and there is no reason to may assume that they will not.
After meetings with parents at the beginning of September 2016. We found that parents
reported children willing to attend classes of ethics, which now take place.
The pending lawsuit argues the management school biology teacher dismissal reduction
informatics for 1 hour, while at the same time there has been an increase in the number of
hours of biology for 2 hours. Released teacher does not teach science, but instead use
management vacancy (37 hrs.) To complement other teachers teaching load, allocated a time
to the previously granted biology teacher. These teachers now work out overtime, a
biologist unemployed. It should be clarified that science teachers are also qualified to
teach another subject. The teacher with the most qualifications and experience in teaching
computer science was suddenly shifted to the teaching of biology, which for many years
taught only sporadically in the context of individual learning. Planned for the earlier
hours of computing but has been distributed among the other teachers.
At a meeting of the Council of Education on June 20, 2016. Teacher commented on their
dismissal. They spoke with great feeling of injustice: they think it is unethical to
create a situation in which they are released, and the others will have overtime at their
expense. At the same time they stressed that everyone, both the management and the
authority conducting, as well as members of the teaching staff, are aware that every year
is much more than just the hours allotted to classes of classes. The Directorate stated
that the release of the teachers ordered the mayor. The authority conducting strives to
ensure that teachers have the overtime, because it is more cost than maintaining jobs due
to the payment of any additional additives.
Termination of work is all the more unacceptable that teachers are aware that this
situation could have been avoided. Teachers repeatedly called for good will. They argued
that in the current challenging times for schools, good will and honest communication in
finding positive solutions for the entire school community are particularly needed.
Unfortunately, it turned out that during the council (20 June 2016). Management
deliberately introduced the teachers and teachers in the confusion, saying that it has
taken the problem of exemptions in the previous (May) council, because still was not sure.
However, the documents (such as a new sheet approved by the provider) clearly show
something else.
It should be emphasized that the school management is provided with free legal aid center,
while exempt teachers in this difficult situation, have the same look and the same lawyers
financed the cost of court fees, legal advice and representation costs.
This situation reflects negatively on the functioning of the teaching because other
teachers feel threatened, especially to the plans blanking middle schools. Although the
minister ensures that teachers and teachers are not at risk of losing their jobs, but the
layoffs in Wabrzezno high school are an example of the body conducting it is not always
interested in finding solutions and taking action to preserve the jobs of teachers and
teachers. It is a series of systems and according to which the teacher is often at a
disadvantage.
The current situation of teachers
Polish teacher was reinstated by a court settlement and 19 September 2016. Back to school.
Biologist while waiting for the settlement. Both painfully felt as helpless is man against
the system dependencies. Especially difficult is knowing that no action was taken, no
effort, no good, effective communication, to avoid unnecessary losses. In contrast,
efforts to create a semblance that the dismissal was justified, united directorate and the
authority carrying.
In spite of the actual situation, the management continues to create unethical fiction,
that there is no possibility of reinstatement biology teacher qualifications
oligofrenopedagoga. While the facts are different - high school teachers and the teachers
granted more than 150 hours as overtime, including 40 hours, to which the conduct freed
biology teacher is qualified.
The restored Polish literature supports exempt friend and as she points out: "I do not
want to settle for the fact that I had been restored and move the agenda on the wrong
friends. I say this out loud. Sam I am indeed treated as persona non grata by the
management and the authority carrying. A colleague three years left to retirement
compensation and is looking for work, but when it turns out that he is a qualified
teacher, the interest in her employment falls to almost zero. "
The teacher added that students who met during the holidays, expressed their assessment of
the situation in the school, saying: "It's stuff that you fired." And she felt the need to
clarify the schoolgirls that the exemption teachers did not follow from this that did
something wrong, but was due to cost savings.
A handful of reflection on summary
Polish studies she worked 22 years in the same building - first at school, and after the
1999 reform. In high school. Biology teacher taught in a neighboring elementary school,
and then was delegated to junior high school. Less dziwilby lack of good will and
sensitivity makers to teachers, had the benefit of working in a large, and therefore
anonymous environment. While Wabrzezno is a small town and the whole situation played out
in the institutions falling within the same street bearing incidentally the name
"Freedom", which, in relation to the illustrated history more accurately could be called
street "discretion" not to be confused with the "For Freedom".
Maria Przytula-Blonkowska
http://forumamazon.ozzip.pl/teksty/publicystyka/walki-pracownicze/item/2204-to-swinstwo-ze-pania-wylali-nauczycielki-z-wabrzezna-walcza-o-przywrocenie-do-pracy
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Message: 5
The bosses of the clinic "NEW ATHINAION" and leave the state unemployed and unpaid
workers, said in a statement the Multidisciplinary SSC Athens unchanged following text:
--- The bosses left jobless and the unpaid worker A.M. and now continues to do so the
government department of the Ministry of Health EOPYY which in turn continues to mocks and
derides an employee withholding of accrued years and has already accepted the request of
the "New Athenaeum" the employing company to EOPYY state organization for allocation and
transfer to payment of wages owed by the employer to its employees. --- The EOPYY he
certainly accepted the request of the employer of the private clinic "New Athenaeum" for
assignment because there was debt agency to the company and acknowledged debts as real and
payable and pledged to pay them.
And while EOPYY had already paid a small part of the total amount due to the employee from
accrued not proceeded to the payment of all wages owed claiming to justify the legislation
applied to repayment requirements due to third parties in order priority state, banks and
last, battening and katalistefmenous workers. For us it is clear that this legislation is
in substance a further attack on the working people, the current and against any bourgeois
government that faithfully serves the capital, the banks and the bosses, with victims on
the altar of profit of bosses workers. As for the argument of the state EOPYY organization
for non or payment accrued to the employee at time indefinite (ERA to receive), ostensibly
the law mentioned above, it can not be accepted since there was already accepting the
assignment from the state organization and had initiated the payment of wages which
unnecessarily interrupted and without formal justification and as informed the employee of
the administration EOPYY never assignment notified to competent legal department of the
organization until today, without of course to justify this as a serious omission which
essentially obliges the EOPYY to the employee for the payment of wages owed. Another lie
So the SYRIZA-ANEL government to its employees for alleged "social" state and even from an
organization that is supposed to be related to health and social security of citizens, not
taking first into account the survival of workers They remain unpaid and unemployed,
unable to meet even their basic and immediate needs. State and the bosses against the
workers, unpaid leave, first the bosses, and now the state through its competent staff.
The request is not the working A.M. EOPYY making the denial of payment of wages owed,
leading her to despair. We are on the side of our female counterparts A.M. which has
organized and participates actively in the class struggle, not only for its own
justification and vindication for the remaining employees of the private clinic "New
Athenaeum" and the whole of the working people. We urge each employee and employee,
unemployed and unemployed stand on the side of the working A.M. and each worker and worker
who mocked and wronged grossly and organize in workplaces against the permanent practice
of the bosses in stealing accrued, the exploitation of workers and the state that serves
and protects the interests of capital disregard for the lives and our survival. The text
you find HERE
The unemployed deletions from OAED denounces announcement collectivity NO beneficiaries /
s. Specifically, the complaint reads: "Regulation of the obligations of the unemployed"
was passed by the Employment Board, which established penalties such as loss of benefit
and unemployment card for the unemployed who do not engage in "active job search" and
provide the necessary documents. In "crime sheet" with which the OAED wants to comply with
the relevant EU regulations in order to continue smoothly financed by it, stand out the
following provisions: First, the "acceptance of any proposal by the competent Authority of
the Agency, which relates to position work, professional training, counseling or other
agreed action under the Individual action Plan ". As "beneficiaries / s" we know very well
what it means blackmail. Loss of meager unemployment benefits and "free labor" for
"practice" and "retraining" after the unemployed / the stand two options. Whether to cut
the allowance and accept to work for a free space and without basic rights as
"apprentice", waiting to get a "bonus" labor in doses after months or years. Or deny the
operation and remove it from the OAED, losing bonus, the card, the free movement in the
transportation etc.. Second: the unemployed for not deleted by OAED should demonstrate
"active job search itself the duration of the registered unemployed, with the obligation
to preserve relevant evidence and to present them within 15 days upon request. " That
evidence included "evidence for jobs, private employers, participation in competitions,
interviews with employers, communication or collaboration with private or public
employment agencies, publishing Job search ads or responding to ads." Essentially
formalized the "martyrdom" of an unemployed person who looking teeth bosses to offer an
employment of € 400, is itself a tedious unpaid work will be evaluated by OAED. Based on
this assessment, the OAED will "discard" the records from those who do not "work enough"
to find a job, saving natural and funds that will serve their immediate and basic needs of
the unemployed. We now expect the typical-final decision of the ministry ...
Intervention at everest in Kaisariani and Pangrati, held on Monday 19/12. The action was
organized by the Assembly Byron residents, Kesariani, Pangrati and Assembly unmediated
Byron Action, Kesariani, Pangrati, Painter and supported by several solidarity and
solidarity. The collectives stood for some time out of their shops with banners shouting
slogans against labor "accidents" and in favor of solidarity and self-organization of the
workers. Alongside talk with workers and workers who have shift at the time, Share
documents and threw several leaflets. The text that was distributed throughout the
intervention here. More photos here.
Severance recall worker in a contracting cleaning company General Hospital of Corfu,
achieved by the dynamic mobilization made by hospital employees, associations and
organizations on the island in the morning Tuesday, December 20th. This is a victory of
the labor movement, which clearly demonstrates that when the working class organized and
claims, can achieve much more.
Unnecessary delay in the payment of unemployment benefits and of the gift of Christmas by
OAED, the unemployed and seasonal workers in tourism, denounced in a joint the Association
of Workers communication at Rhodes hotels «AMILIA MARE», «PARADISE VILLAGE», «Sheraton"
«MIRA MARE WONDERLAND», as well as the Hotel Employees and Unions Waiters Kos and Corfu
Hotel Employees.
New protests outside the Macedonia - Thrace Ministry held on Monday 19 and Wednesday,
December 21 the company's employees' Karipidis SA "(former" Arvanitides "), continuing
their fight for payment of accrued and ensure all jobs. Workers say not determined to
continue and step up the fight against the plans of the 'Karipidis SA "to transfer the
business to the' MARKET IN" and continued operation of the shops by smashing to pieces of
labor rights. On Tuesday, December 27 employees will move to a new mobilization to the
Ministry of Macedonia - Thrace. Also read about HERE.
Work stoppage Tuesday, December 20 against the dismissal of the worker in the IT company
«UNIFY», carried out by employees of the firm. As part of the work stoppage was protest
and performance management.
Mobilization outside the factory «NIKI INOX» against the dismissal of striker, made by
employees in cooperation with the sectoral union Wednesday 21Dekemvri.Malista characterize
the dismissal unlawful and vindictive, and that this was because of his union activity in
the workplace.
Employer arbitrariness of the consortium «Bonatti - J & P AVAX" which attempts to send on
unpaid workers salaries for the TAP pipeline. Light Christmas, the company announced the
closure of the project and forcing workers to make use of the authorization in 2016 or
take by force unpaid leave.
The dismissal was ... Christmas Bonham for 72 oktaminites contract Management Agency Solid
Waste Central Macedonia who have hope in the judgment on the injunction. Indeed, not a few
people who argue that the redundancies of 72 is nothing more than dress rehearsal for the
dismissal of hundreds contractors currently working in municipalities throughout the country.
Unpaid leave the contractor cleaning company of the Hospital of the Rio "contractor
employees" and not pay them yet today the accrual of October and November, Workers with
associations, trade unions and organizations of Achaia claim excluding accrued to renew
all contracts, which expire in the near future, be converted into open-ended contracts,
8-hour job and stop holidays charged as empty.
Protest Thursday 22/12, the Department of Labor, made by hospital doctors Greece,
demanding the necessary clarifications on the "parallel security ', but not to the new
reinsurance transactions applied antilabour law promoted by aristeroakrodexia coalition.
In repeated 24-hour strikes took the employees to "Lambrakis" (DOL), from Monday, December
19th. Workers due accrued five months, while doubtful is the payment of the Christmas
bonus. But in mid Bobola property, workers decided that if not paid directly part of the
arrears will start strikes. We are talking about two of the regime's biggest mintiaka
trusts that all previous governments led to poverty most of the people supporting
mnimoniakes policies. But because the two large-publishing organizations working tens of
hundreds of workers-except dimosiografon- we can only stand -as in the case of the
Alter-solidarity.
Do not say a word, keep hidden secrets and DOCUMENTA, said in the announcement, the
Assembly of paid, unpaid, "notepad", "black", the unemployed and students in the media for
the obscene exploitation by the bosses and minions newspaper << Documento> > Costa
Vaxevani. Here are extensive extracts from the statement: "notepad with you? Because if
you have no need to do the interview, "These were the words of the editor of the newspaper
Site << Documento >> prospective employees, who after the hype created social media, boss
and hangers tear their hair, that no employee works there with odious terms. And proclaim
mainly through personal, vulgar attacks on the worker who dared to say that the aspiring
middle of militant and independent journalism is still a copy of the well-established
experiences of media Galleys - only a little more left batarismeni. In vulgar and sexist
comments Panagiotis workers Frountzou and Tassos Theodoropoulos, who like faithful dogs of
the bosses, rushed to defend with all their shameful ways, it seems like I never suggested
humiliating wages for work at the Site << Documento >>. As no agreement not to violate
labor laws. And as if that were not enough, special effort paid and effort that unemployed
colleague eponymously filed personal experience, without naming or offend anyone, to
appear as "MORI and Atalanta," "jerk," "swab" "grime rather galleon», (sic) and other
obviously indicative of the ethos of self-appointed defenders of boss / ... / Their site
will initially recruit six pads, to all nine authors. He offered 600 euros future
employees gross salary and assurances 480 net. However Accounting beans do not come out.
The requirement for workers on the first day of their work to speak again with the
newspaper accountant to assure the salary presence all showed that the net salary for 8
hours (at least) five-day, rolling, with one or two weekends a month and a day off
unclear, it was not 480 but 330. It will closely monitor the works and days of the bosses
and employers newspaper << Documento >>. We will find no surprise misery of these
properties at times working middle ages. Would expect, not fall from the clouds, the
cannibalistic "collegial" the expression, but we will be uncompromising towards working
barbarism. By draft of the Galleys.
Those who want us both to work as extreme undervalued rogue and to pay hike as seasoned
biznesmen -and unrepentant "fraudsters" - should be aware that derive financial
"outperform" and maintain their profitability with borrowed ours: money us, our labor, our
time, our knowledge, our work. Baptizing us hand who does not work, and the
"entrepreneurs", forcing us to remind them that the frogs (unlike the buffalo) are
irresistible habit transformed: for this, as they do not respect us, would do well to fear
us. These states including announcement of the Translators Association of Probation
correctors (SMED) on the track on their industry in plywood that has arisen between the
state and the bosses of the book. Elsewhere SMED mentions: Behold they say to each other
buffalo, employers and state: one claim that the "externals" them producing the product
book is passing from the area, so they should be cheap and untaxed , and the retort that
is entrepreneurs, unless become employed in the pattern of industrial workers and civil
servants, because another dependent employment relationship does not exist (while
thousands of workers in Greece and millions worldwide work directly under "other"
employment relationship from home, with suffocating deadlines, starvation wages, payments
once in a while, without any work and / or insurance right). For the buffalo, among
businessmen and invisible is the vacuum zero, interrupted only by the challenge-closing
state eye for employers to begin to fill this gap by hiring. For which recruitment, of
course, both parties know they will never be, since although employers just want to make
more cheap invisible "outside" them, and the state has already figured out how to
charatsonei mercilessly those who baptizes " entrepreneurs ", so no party has no interest
in the strengthening of wage labor in the traditional sense. See full announcement SMED HERE.
Regarding the protest show on 21/12 in the labor ministry in a press release collectivity
Active-Unemployed states among others: On the issue of free movement from the air due to
the implementation of electronic ticket, we set our uncompromising position that in these
circumstances it is absurd to require the unemployed to pay a ticket for their movement
when they have no income and it should be given immediate clarifications to continue the
free movement in place since the summer of 2015. the side of our ministry categorically
said the new system will be implemented from April 2017 (rather than the beginning of the
year as planned) and that there is provision for the issue of bonus cards for vulnerable
social groups including the unemployed. They were also informed, that in the coming days
will be a meeting and cooperation of labor ministries and transport and there will be
announcements. On the issue of the decision of the Employment Board stated the director of
Mr. Minister's office that it is exasperating, contrary to the role of OAED which should
be protected and not the punishment of the unemployed, that is not going to let someone
punished unemployed for any reason, that if we adopt such a decision leading de facto to
the extreme, and the leadership of the Ministry of Labour will be fully responsible for
that ensued. Mrs. Our Kavvatha stressed that the Employment decisions are advisory -
consultative (something known in advance) but also stressed that express the positions of
OAED and find no consistent leadership ministry. We said he had taken note of the signs of
the decision, they will not proceed with the approval of and a subsequent meeting with
OAED dioikitria (n. Karamesini) the matter will be settled. On the issue of the grant of
the unemployed did not receive specific answers beyond the known generalities about the
tight budget of the country, the austerity crisis etc etc. We stressed that it is vital
subject and the survival of 1 million. People have some degree of aid even in view of
events to allow somewhat relieved. Again responses were friendly pats on the back,
understanding "supposedly" hard reality we live and exhortations to patience and courage.
"Hollow" words now, after the hearing for the seventh consecutive year without changing
even a little of our life conditions.
An update on the case of three colleagues who were persecuted for strikes on 28.12.2014,
the Association of Workers at Nokia Greece and the Hellenic Wind Association of Workers
state: On Tuesday 12/06/16 heard the case our three colleagues
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Translator's Note: This essay was penned by Cuban comrade Gustavo Rodriguez in the early
morning hours after the announcement of Fidel Castro's death. Posted on social media on
the following day in Mexico, Latin America, and Spain, his essay was immediately met with
virulent criticism from various quarters of the Left and ultimately removed from various
sites[1]. We offer this English translation of Rodriguez's essay as a direct counter to
the fawning over an authoritarian leader who ultimately co-opted an historic, potent mass
movement in Cuba; who silenced generations of activists and artists; who used murder and
deceit to wield and maintain power; and who ultimately betrayed the hopes and dreams of a
people with deep libertarian socialist traditions. ---- (In memory of Marcelo Salinas,
Santiago Cobo, Claudio Martínez, Canek Sánchez Guevara and the many no longer with us[2].)
"To call the State a "Revolution" was undoubtedly a great political success for the Castro
dictatorship, and to accept it at its best, the most serious dialectical error (and not
the only one) of the international communist left." - Canek Sánchez Guevara.
"It is true that the Cuban revolutionary process is no longer - and hasn't been for quite
some time- the revolutionary model par excellence in this region of the world, nor any
other; but to continue keeping silent about it is significantly suspicious in that the
lessons have not been sufficiently learnt and that there will come again before us those
using the same or similar words, and that will ask us to be indulgent with respect to
Jacobin and vanguardist ideas, which are ultimately veiled or clearly authoritarian. "
- Daniel Barret (Rafael Spósito)
My first reaction to the news of his death was silence. Immediately afterward I decided
that I wouldn't write a single word about it. An event so trivial doesn't deserve even a
single letter. In addition, a whole legion of "cubanólogists" (themselves somewhere
between detractors and idolaters) surely were ready at this moment to take charge of the
task. I preferred to leave the dirty work to them and to continue with the course of my
daily life. No death is a reason to interrupt life, and Fidel's was no exception. But my
companion convinced me to write up a small note that, with the coming of the new day, has
become these untimely lines that I link together and articulate with no other pretension
than to leave a record and express a point of view that does not align with the
collective hysteria of the ruling party on the island nor with that in Miami.
After the public declaration by the Cuban President-General announcing his death, the
conflicting messages began to flow across the so-called "social networks". The worshippers
and enemies of the deceased ex-ruler break into their passionate emotions. Jubilation and
sadness are the feelings that are assigned to the most effusive protagonists surrounding
this event; sorrow or celebration become the dilemma. One might remark wisely, "so it
seems that two men have died with the same name, on the same day and at the exact time."
The hyper reaction was also predictable. On the island today an endless parade of mourners
is stirring, a long farewell line starting, eternal speeches of praise, opportunistic
realignments, with jokes and criticisms in whispers. Nor could it be otherwise. On the
island that has been the reality for more than half a century: endless parades, long
lines, praise-filled speeches, opportunistic maneuvering, and cowardly critical whispers.
In Miami, a multitudinous conga took Calle Ocho[3]by storm, celebrating the death of the
tyrant. No other answer was expected there, either. Miami is a great conga, a perpetual
comparsa[4], a fatality of a consummate and consumerist exile.
They all proceed as if the inanimate body of the mythical commander was still warm. But
Fidel did not die last night. He's been a corpse for a decade. It was fitting that regular
Cubans on the street baptized him with the name "the unburied"[5]. His death occurred at
the moment when he was already demoted to being an insular Caesar and had passed the
scepter and absolute power to his younger brother, but not without first "wrapping
everything up and double-wrapping it" according to the rules and customs of this infamous
caste. From then on he was bent behind the scenes, limiting his performances to sporadic
public appearances where his fulminating decrepitude became more and more evident as did
his senile incontinence. Nevertheless, under his name continued to be issued "reflections"
- as if it were Corin Tellado[6]- in the face of the almost unanimous indifference of the
majority of Cubans and the incredulity of those who simply felt that "the number didn't
match the ticket."[7]
That infallible, omnipresent and omnipotent Colossus, the Lord of the Island, the boss of
the cemetery, the owner of small horses, the great circus master, the audacious and
effective wizard who once ordered a pigeon enthusiast to secretly train three white doves
so that they posed on his shoulder during his very first speech before the astonished gaze
of thousands of Cubans who spoke of blessings and good omens, who spoke of nothing more
and nothing less than the "Holy Spirit." The arrogant olive drab[8]giant able to turn the
country into a monumental trench, to inseminate cows, change the course to the hurricanes,
and decree the planting of coffee in personal gardens. That impenitent orator who could
utter endless speeches where he could afford to talk and talk and talk for hours - thanks
to a catheter that made the natural release of his bladder invisible to the crowds - and
to invent numbers and statistics that would oblige the censuses and official records to be
changed the following day. That hardened expert on every topic who did not hesitate to
offer opinions on art, biotechnology, baseball, contemporary architecture, ice cream,
botany, boxing, hermeneutics and nuclear engineering. The insomniac Father who never
hesitated to lecture about the best way to prepare warm bath water, in the thousand and
one ways of brewing coffee, in the art of tying our shoe laces and the four infallible
strategies of putting down a double nine[9]... He left!
It still seems unthinkable to be able to express myself in the past tense. But yes, at
last, the great gravedigger of the Cuban Revolution has left. The sad undertaker of all
the dreams of freedom and autonomy long cherished by generations of tireless
revolutionaries. The great traitor of the World Revolution. The disciple of Sorel, the
admirer of Primo de Rivera, the devout reader of Mussolini, the tireless conspirator of
the Caribbean Legion. The megalomaniac and self-centered Caribbean Duce has departed.[10].
He has died of natural death at age 90, surrounded by his relatives and stalwarts, after
resisting countless assassination attempts. He ended his days undefeated, just as Josef
Stalin, Francisco Franco, and Augusto Pinochet. There is no doubt that dictators always
know how to erect a wall of acolytes and faithful guard dogs to prevent at all costs that
libertarian bullets fulfill their mission.
But finally, the dictator is dead. Now we have to kill the Fidel that we all have inside
us. Sadly, thousands of puppets still swarm along the two shores ready to embody that
spirit. The snake is dead but the egg survives. Fidel has disappeared from the face of the
earth, however, fidelismo still persists. That sad joke, that putrid jumble of rapacious
opportunism, of galloping nationalism, paralyzing populism, and backwoods fascism, still
lingers, obscuring the present and threatening the future.
Today, a "corte de caja[11]" is imperative to allow us to take stock of more than a
century of history, from the establishment of the republic with its immoral procession of
generals and doctors, to this irony of history that brings us back to the starting point
in a sinister circular journey: with the inheritance of a new President-General, a grossly
enriched military caste, and the most shameless impoverishment of regular people,
particularly Afro-Cubans. Now is the moment for self-criticism - no matter how annoying
the prospect. We have to evaluate our own performance in this story, the role that each
one of us has played in the staging of this pitiful farce. This task is still pending.
Dictators do not fall from the sky, voluntary servitude creates them and leads them by the
hand to the throne.
That is why - among other reasons - last night I could not raise a joyous cup for the
death of the tyrant as many of my dear friends did. I can never toast death, but I can
never do so to the memory of the Coma-andante[12]. Last night I drank to the last drop a
majestic mezcal[13], toasting to the health of Memory. Yes, I toasted so that we never
lose our memory. Let us never forget this half-century of abuses and fear! That never
again there reappear on the island any Fidels, Machados or Batistas! That we never have to
suffer in the world any Castros or Francos or Videlas or Pinochets![14]That we Cubans
finally learn the lesson and start thinking for ourselves and stop mouthing the slogans
and being the useful servants of Havana mandarins, of Washington hierarchs, or the crows
of the Vatican!
Believe me, last night I drank a toast with all my passion for being alive, for that
possibility that a new life opens with the late arrival of this announced death. A new
life that we will be tasked with building collectively as Cubans, as regular Cubans,
without having to ask permission, without messianic architects or pre-fabricated designs;
Without "strong men" that force us on the path; Without insomniac "parents" (lovers or
castrators) who watch over our dreams and treat us like children; Without patriarchs who
demand from us eternal sacrifices to sustain their thrones of shame and death; Without
leaders or shepherds to guide us over the precipice.
I also toasted last night with all my absent companions - with that bunch of beloved
ghosts! - and we clinked our glasses so that sort of banana republic national-socialism
that still oppresses us disappears forever with a simple stroke and soon becomes just the
vague memory of a long and distressing nightmare. I wish my grandchildren - that beautiful
Asian and that big-eyed Arab - and my dear Dario and all of us who have missed the
attainment happiness in our existence, that someday they not only see with their own eyes
all these dreams come true but that they contribute to forging with their own tender hands
that new world that we carry in our hearts.
Cheers!
November 26, 2016.
Translation and notes by David Fernández-Barrial
[1]The original essay "Y se fue Fidel" in Spanish is currently available online at:
http://periodicoellibertario.blogspot.fr/2016/12/y-se-fue-fidel-vision-de-un-exiliado.html
[2]Marcelo Salinas (1889-1976) was a noted Cuban Libertarian author, playwright and
activist. Santiago Cobo Cesar (1919-1989) was anarcho-syndicalist militant and member of
the Cuban Transportation Workers union from the 1940s until 1959. Claudio Martinez was a
militant in the Cuban Gastronomic Union during the same era. All three were members of the
Movimiento Libertario Cubano. Canek Sánchez Guevara (1975-2015) was a musician, anarchist
activist, author, and grandson of Che Guevara.
[3]"Calle Ocho" ("Eighth Street") is the main thoroughfare that cuts through the heart of
Miami's "Little Havana" - home to tens of thousands of Cubans in exile.
[4]A comparsa is a folk song and dance, often performed at carnivals and street festivals.
[5]Unburied.
[6] "Reflexiones de compañero Fidel" was the title of Fidel's ongoing column that appeared
in the official State newspaper, Granma after he retreated from public view. Corin Tellado
(1927-2009) was the prolific writer of Spanish-language romance novels.
[7]A reference to matching tickets to drawn numbers in a lottery; i.e. something didn't
add up.
[8]Verdeolivo is the olive drab color of Fidel's omnipresent uniform from the 1960's to
the late 1990's, when he switched to tailored suits for the visit of Pope John Paul II,
and later, to Adidas track suits.
[9]A reference to a strategy of getting rid of tiles in the popular Cuban game of dominoes.
[10]George Sorel (1847-1922) was a revisionist Marxist and syndicalist whose orientation
eventually became nationalistic and proto-fascist. Primo de Rivera (1903-1936) was the
founder of the Spanish Falange. Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), known as "Il Duce" (The
Leader ) was the Italian dictator and founder of modern fascism. The "Legión del Caribe"
was a group of Latin American activists and revolutionaries who sought to overthrow
dictatorships in the late 1940s and early 1950s - most notably that of Rafael Trujillo
(1891-1961) in the Dominican Republic.
[11]A "corte de caja" is a monthly cash closing, an audit of accounts.
[12]A pun on Castro's title "Commandante", emphasizing the "coma"-inducing aspects of his
rule.
[13]A distilled Mexican drink made from the agave plant.
[14]Various and sundry Latin American and Spanish dictators: Cuba's Gerardo Machado
(1871-1939) and Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973); Spain's Francisco Franco (1892-1975);
Argentina's Jorge Rafael Videla (1925-2013); and Chile's Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006).
http://ideasandaction.info/2017/01/fidel-left/
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