Anarchic update news all over the world - 2 June 2016

Today's Topics:

   
1.  Britain, "Black & Red" APO - INTERVENTION IN TURKISH
        CONSULATE FOR Turks HUNGER STRIKERS (gr) 
        [machine translation]
        (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  freedomnews org uk: Anarchists analyse Brazil's political
      earthquake (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  Poland, WORKERS' INITIATIVE: Palestine: 40 days on hunger
      strike in Israeli jails [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  US, WSA, ideas and action: Haitian Garment Workers Go On
      Strike! By Winter Jones (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Poland rozbrat: Police abuse - Igor Stachowiak was not the
      only - Jaroslaw Urbanski [machine translation] 
     (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  Ruptura Colectiva (RC): Support the national workers strike
      and the boycott of Walmart - THE TRANSNATIONAL EMBODIMENTS         OF
      CAPITAL, in Mexico! (ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1




The repressive campaign of the Turkish state, in recent years manifested in military 
operations in the Kurdish regions, mass persecution and murderous attacks on resistance 
movements and revolutionary organizations. This campaign peaked today, after the failed 
coup last July and extend the State of Emergency. We express our solidarity with those who 
struggle in Turkey against state totalitarianism, keeping alive the vision of a world of 
equality, solidarity and freedom. ---- On March 11 two teachers begin hunger strike in 
Ankara with a view to their reinstatement and dismissal of emergency regime, who are now 
in prison. At the same time, from February 23, the 70chronos father begins hunger strike 
to be given away by the Turkish state, the Bulk of child fighters. On May 24 his race won 
after three whole months.

For this reason we made last intervention in front of the Turkish consulate along with the 
solidarity committee on political prisoners in Turkey and Kurdistan and other collectives 
of the city, comrades, opening banners, throwing leaflets and chanting slogans at the 
entrance, which years riot police guard. While banners were opened and from the opposite 
side of the consulate.

Vindication of the demands of the hunger strikers Turks.
Solidarity our weapon.

Collegiality for social anarchism "Black and Red" member AP -O.S-

https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2017/05/26

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Message: 2



In the following essay members of Coordinación Anarquista Brasileña, a member group of the 
Anarkismo network, analyses the series of mass protests, riots and rebellions which have 
rocked the State and its elites in recent months. ---- Brazil is experiencing a political 
earthquake, exposing the rottenness of the country's elite and further weakening the bonds 
that hold them in power. The orchestrated operation that led to a recording  between 
President Michel Temer and owners of beef company JBS over hush money payoffs has altered 
the balance of forces in the country and pours gasoline on an already existing political 
and social crisis. ---- The government is having more difficulty in mobilising its base 
amid the instability and with moving forward its retirement reforms and attacks on the 
rights of workers. That's no reason to celebrate, we must not take anything for granted.

Now is the time to move, amass mobilisations blocking the streets, from strikes to general 
strikes to lock out welfare cuts and reforms. We must deepen democracy, but direct 
democracy, where workers in their workplaces and homes study and decide the country's 
direction. We cannot accept crumbs from above, we need to impose a popular program of 
social rights built and decided by the people. We need to build direct democracy in 
neighborhoods, in the favelas, in the slums, in the occupations of land and housing, 
factories and schools outside of the State's purview.

Temer's coup that deposed the leftist Workers Party (PT)/PMDB presidency in 2016 enabled 
the successful beginnings of tough measures brought against the people at an overwhelming 
pace, with broad support in Congress and in the media, especially through television 
network Globo. Michel Temer approved reforms of education, a State expenditure cap, 
outsourcing, privatisation and other attacks - many which had been begun during the 
government of the PT itself.

The bureaucratisation of decades of struggles by large union federations and a practice of 
co-opting the leaders of major social movements by PT helped and still helps to demobilise 
the people and hinder the massification of resistance against these attacks. However, 
other sectors such as indigenous students have given renewed encouragement to the social 
struggle. Growing popular dissatisfaction with retirement and labour rights reforms has 
manifested itself with a big impact on the streets, in demonstrations for the general 
strikes of April 15th and 28th.

With poll rejections of more than 90%, Temer's government has no legitimacy to support 
this false democratic system, which only serves to keep businessmen and politicians 
robbing and killing the people. PT's class conciliation government of Luiz Inácio Lula and 
Dilma Rousseff however was also a government for entrepreneurs and wealthy, with a few 
crumbs for the poor. And countless allegations of corruption favouring the disgusting 
relationship between big business and the State remain apparent. Corruption cases are not 
isolated events, but it does move the wheel of the State and the private sector. That is, 
the representative system does not serve the interests of the people, those of the 
political and business class, so they can advance their capitalist projects.

That is why "magic solutions" such as privatisation, outsourcing and attacks on labour 
rights only serve to benefit more entrepreneurs. Likewise are the attacks on social 
rights, indigenous peoples and their territories, landless peasants, women, LGBTs, the 
genocide of black people and inhabitants of favelas and slums, the criminalisation of 
poverty. All are measures and policies for the right and the conservatives, businessmen, 
landowners, bankers to impose their ideology, profit more, concentrate more wealth and 
exploit more people. Entrepreneurs like João Dória are no different from other 
politicians, they are enemies of the people. If professional politicians are discredited 
the justice system tries to defend its legitimacy with anti-corruption operations to 
increase their power in the State structure. And that network of the Judiciary, the 
Federal Police and the Public Ministry, with sectors aligned directly to the United 
States, has the massive support of the Globo media network to accumulate power for its 
dangerously authoritarian bias. We must repudiate this escalation and avoid any illusions 
in salvation through bourgeois justice.

Old media plays a crucial role in the tangle of interests that is the ruling class. Globo, 
the same network that supported the Paraliamentary legal coup last year, constructed and 
legitimated the current hit, now stands with the stronger side, with the Attorney 
General's Office (PGR) and output by Temer. Its purpose is to restore conditions for 
approving the reforms with the installing of a new president through indirect elections. 
We cannot underestimate the role that media giants have in the ideological field. The 
position that Globo has taken against Temer does not mean progress for the masses. In the 
discrediting of professional politicians it is simply discarding an old bet and 
reorienting its agenda to leverage the nominations of personalities apparently "outside" 
the party-political field.

It is a strategic move into attack such old media and quicken the pace of democratisation 
of communication, restricting the power of these companies and strengthen popular media. 
It is necessary to question the reason for the complaints of such groups, which only arise 
now. Although some politicians have been discarded and it has triggered some instability, 
Globo's activities demonstrates loyalty to  the broader agreements between State and 
capital. The criterion is economic and there is no interest in defending JBS, a company 
that recently faced "Operation Weak Meat" - an action that, if one side showed the 
terrible condition that our food is produced, mainly served US interests to weaken a 
competitor in the international meat markets. It should be noted that it was the 
government of PT / PMDB that fattened itself with cash from BNDES JBS millionaires as the 
company transformed into one of the largest in the world.

Down and Left, Direct Democracy Now!

The fact is that the demand that led many people to the streets during the one-year 
government of Temer can become reality: the ousting Michel Temer from the presidency of 
the republic. And we wonder: What now? What is the next step? We know that with the coup 
weakened and a weakened vacillating parliamentary base, conditions are currently lacking 
for a stable handling of labour and retirement reforms. It is now urgent to mass and fight 
those reforms, to regain rights that were removed by coup leaders of the past and the 
current situation of PT/PMDB. In addition to stopping the reforms, we need to build a 
project that will hold the rich to account for the crisis and recognise the political 
elite, businessmen and media as enemies of the people. Large companies such as JBS owe the 
government more than R400 billion (£95bn), about three times the value they add to the 
false Social Security deficit.

Only the organisation of the people and pressure on the streets can impede reforms and 
attacks on social rights. Nothing will come from waiting for parliament. We must prevent 
entrepreneurs and political elites from reforming and continuing their project. 
Mobilisation and popular pressure are urgently needed now to prevent the progress of 
reforms in the midst of this instability. It is necessary to impose pressures on the 
government with popularly-backed demands, also in the case of a direct election. And the 
mobilisation of the people today is urgent to prevent the worst-case scenario, which is a 
suspension of elections in 2018 through a political-military intervention and the 
persecution of militant sectors of the left.

The left's electioneering aims to land the Presidency of the Republic so a new Lulismo can 
emerge, as in years ago, presenting themselves as a supposed popular saviour amid the 
earthquake of political crisis. They can not fool us! We have said and continue saying: 
PTism must be overcome and all its inheritance on the left. The belief that Lula will be 
able to confront the crisis and bring improvements in the lives of those below has no 
basis. Lula's election would represent just another class pact with the bourgeoisie on 
even more onerous terms than previous years.

The important thing now is that the fight has to be from below and in the streets to 
advance popular rights! Promote organisation, mobilise against pension reform and labour 
rights attacks and build a popular project regardless of class. Catalyse the popular 
revolt and dissatisfaction with progress to promote militancy. Don't get carried away by 
supposedly easy solutions of "reorganising the left" and making a new deal with bourgeois 
democracy - there are no rabbits to be pulled from that hat. The key is to build 
grassroots organisation in neighborhoods, in schools, in workplaces with the poor and 
oppressed people. We must demand the suspension of all anti-political measures initiated 
in the PT government and continued by the Temer coup.

The moment is unfavorable for us oppressed and downtrodden, but the crisis and the dispute 
between elites opens room for other projects. We need to use this dissatisfaction to 
delegitimise the system and channel social struggle.

Direct Democracy Now! By the suspension of all anti-political action! Against the fiscal 
adjustment and cuts! Get out putschist Globo! Build the Popular Power against adjustment 
and repression!

This essay is an edited machine translation of an article which first appeared at the 
anarquismo blog. Any problems lets us know!

https://freedomnews.org.uk/anarchists-analyse-brazils-political-earthquake/

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Message: 3



Warsaw Graphics Environmental Commission OZZ IP expressing solidarity with the hunger 
strike of Palestinian political prisoners Today is the fortieth day hunger strike carried 
out by 1 500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The strike began on April 17 in 
protest against the conditions in which prisoners are held punishment. Starving demand 
m.in .: ---- - law enforcement to meet with families and telephone contact with the 
outside world; ---- - adequate medical care; ---- - the cessation of (illegal) practice of 
transferring prisoners from the Occupied Palestinian Territories to prisons in Israel; 
---- - to end the use of solitary confinement punishment; ---- - to end the use of 
administrative detention (detention without charge or trial).

Strike is accompanied by massive protests and street demonstrations: On the strike 
occurred protests and clashes with the Israeli army prison Ofer (near Ramallah) and 
checkpointach[1]and Qalandia Beitunia; April 21 the army fired upon with rubber bullets 
and tear gas grenades from a demonstration in the village of Nabi Salih, and for several 
hours blocked traffic on the access roads to the village; April 27 one-day general strike 
erupted throughout the West Bank; May 5 2 people were shot and 11 were taken to hospital 
after the army fired upon a demonstration in Hebron; May 11 clashes in Ramallah - 11 
people were injured when the army had used rubber bullets and smoke grenades to disperse 
the demonstration.

According to the Palestinian prisoners' rights organization Addameer Prisoner Support and 
Human Rights Association in Israeli prisons currently 6 300 political prisoners, including 
61 women, 300 children and 13 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (the 
legislative authority of the Palestinian Authority). With a total of 6 300 prisoners, five 
inmates staying in prison under administrative detention - are detained without trial and 
the charge on the basis of a military order for a maximum period of six months, which, 
however, can be extended indefinitely by the occupation forces. By. Addamer data, since 
the beginning of the occupation of the West Bank in 1967. by the Israeli prison scrolled a 
total of 800 thousand. people - ie. 20% of the Palestinian population. Palestinians from 
the West Bank - unlike Israeli settlers living in the area of illegal settlements, who are 
judged by the civil courts - are subject to the military courts, where 99% of cases end in 
a conviction, and the average hearing lasts 10 minutes.

Among the detainees are also individuals recognized by Amnesty International as "prisoners 
of conscience" - that is, people in prison because of political beliefs or participating 
in peaceful protests. The informal leader of the strike - Marwan Barghouti[2]- writes 
about this situation as follows: "Among the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians whose 
imprisoned Israel, there are children, women, parliamentarians, activists, journalists, 
human rights defenders, academics, political activists, militants, random people, family 
members of prisoners. "[Read the full article in the NY Times Barghouti]

Solidarity protest expressed many human rights organizations and working for peace: 
American organization Jewish Voice for Peace (Jewish Voice for Peace) sent "greetings to 
the brave men, women and children who are out or support a strike under the banner of 
Freedom and Dignity on the future free from occupation and oppression "[full content of 
the position of Jewish Voices for Peace]. The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights 
in the Occupied Territories, B'Tselem said, however, that "Israel must meet the demands of 
the improvement of prison conditions." B'Tselem also draws attention to the fact that "the 
strike can not be seen in isolation of the context of the occupation, the fiftieth 
anniversary falls next month (June 5). While maintaining long-term control of[the West 
Bank], Israel has imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in their own territory 
. Most of them without a fair trial, and some without any process. prison and extreme 
restrictions imposed on prisoners are part and parcel of the occupation. "[Full content of 
the post B'Tselem]

Expressed support for the strikers also compounds including zawodowe- Belgian FGTB, the 
French Union Syndicale Solidaires, the British UNISON, Fagforbundet Norwegian or Spanish 
CGT. 5 May 25 local and national trade union organizations (including the Warsaw 
Commission Environmental OZZ IP) issued a common position in support of the strike, 
stating: "We believe that as activists and activist union and conscious citizens and 
citizen we have the duty and the power to speak. We express solidarity with Palestinian 
prisoners conducting a hunger strike and support their demands humane treatment and 
justice. " Polish translation position is available here:[link]

footnotes:
[1]checkpoints - checkpoints of the Israeli army (IDF), usually placed on the interurban 
roads that regulate traffic on the West Bank. By. Data organization B'Tselem, in the West 
Bank currently operates 27 permanent checkpoints, not counting stations on the border 
between Israel and the Palestinian Occupied Territories and 11 internal checkpoints in Hebron.

[2]Marwan Barghouti - a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, one of the leaders 
of Fatah. He was arrested by the IDF in April 2005. And was subsequently sentenced by an 
Israeli court for five times life imprisonment and an additional 40 years in prison. 
Barghoutiemu assigned responsibility for the terrorist attacks that took place during the 
so-called. "Second Intifada" (2000-2005). International observers from the 
Inter-Parliamentary Union (an organization of parliamentarians and parliamentarians from 
around the world) pointed out, however, that the process was carried out in violation of 
the law, and the verdict was based on questionable premises.
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Inicjatywa Pracownicza (IP, Workers' Initiative) was formed in Poland in 2001 first as an 
informal group of worker activists willing to unite and fight at their own workplaces and 
to support other workers' struggle. In September 2004, IP was established as a formal but 
independent and grass-roots trade union, seeing itself in the anarcho-syndicalist and 
revolutionary syndicalism tradition. Inicjatywa Pracownicza build on self-organization of 
workers and radical democracy without bureaucracy and leaders on permanent post. Creation 
of IP was a reaction to crisis of the Polish official union movement - to its bureaucracy, 
passivity and links with the anti-social and anti-workers governments.

http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/zagranica/item/2264-palestyna-40-dzien-strajku-glodowego-w-izraelskich-wiezieniach

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On May 19, 2017 4,000 Haitian garment workers went on strike with three demands[1]: ---- A 
minimum wage adjustment to 300 to 800 gourdes daily (from $4.28 to $11.43 per day), on top 
of meal, transportation and housing subsidies Workers are demanding Social Services. ---- 
They demand that production quotas do not increase with the increased minimum wage. ---- 
The unions involved in the strike are SOTA-BO, PLASIT-BO, and Batay Ouvriye (Workers 
Fight). ----According to Rapid Response Network, Haitian workers are often paid below the 
minimum legal wage and are given ridiculous production quotas. Union members are harassed 
and fired arbitrarily, despite union activities being legally protected under Haitian 
law.[2] ----False statements have been put out to the press by the garment capitalists of 
The Association of Industries of Haiti (ADIH) stating that protesters violently forced 
their way into factories and attacked workers. Despite having no evidence of these 
preposterous claims, Jacqueline Charles, of the Miami Herald blindly repeated these lies.

On May 20 the strike continued and workers at the Sewing International, SA (SISA) factory 
ceased work to join the strike, but were locked inside the factory gates by the 
management. They managed to later join the strike. The striking workers marched towards 
Toussaint Louverture Airport, but were stopped by the CIMO (Haitian Riot Police), who 
attacked the workers with tear gas and skin irritating acid.

The strike continued on its 3rd day on May 22.[3]

For more information and to follow the strike please check out the following links:

https://www.facebook.com/RapidResponseNetwork/

http://rapidresponsenetwork.info

https://twitter.com/RRNsolidarity

[1]http://rapidresponsenetwork.info/2017/05/22/strike-owners-call-for-repression/

[2]http://amchamhaiti.com/home/summary-of-labor-code/

[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfanoAcHzko

Post navigation

http://ideasandaction.info/2017/05/haitian-garment-workers-strike/

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In recent days, the whole of Poland learned that Igor Stachowiak was tortured and killed 
by police officers. Environment anarchist repeatedly alerted that comes to this type of 
abuse, not only on police stations, but also eg. During social protests. In Poznan, the 
courts systematically organized and komisariatami pickets and protest actions on this (eg. 
On August 19 and 20 June last year). The statements emphasized that Igor Stachowiak is not 
the first, nor unfortunately the last victim of the police. ---- Earlier in 2015. Knurów 
27-year-old man was wounded in the neck area, and after being taken to the hospital died. 
That same year in Kutno 29-year-old man was fatally shot during an interrogation at the 
police station. Also, in 2015. Legionowo police action during the 19-year-old Raphael W. 
swallowed a bag of marijuana that was stuck in his trachea, which led to his death; in 
turn, in the Hawk-Zdroj 35-year-old miner from the mine during a protest Zofiówka was shot 
by a police rubber bullet, and as a result he had a fractured skull, brain swelling and a 
broken leg. And so on.

All this happens in the face of total impunity, abuses which are usually covered up or 
justified by the politicians and the government. In one of our last year we wrote 
statements min .; "Statistics regarding. Police crime show that only 3.5 per cent. Of the 
16 thousand. Complaints of abuse by police prosecutors headed to court. Others refuse or 
discontinue the proceedings. These figures relate to the extortion of confessions by the 
police, unlawful protect the interests of influential people and ill-treatment of 
detainees. In the case of extracting confessions beaten statistics are even worse: only 
1.3 per cent. of cases ends in the indictment. "

At the same time activist and activists of our movement they are punished by the courts 
for taking part in demonstrations against police violence.

http://www.rozbrat.org/publicystyka/kontrola-spoeczna/4535-policyjne-naduycia-igor-stachowiak-nie-by-jedyny

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Since last weekend, several groups of workers from Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Suburbia, Bodega 
Aurrera and FEMSA in the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Michoacán started a work stoppage 
in several facilities due to the poor conditions of labor and wages, such as the 
distribution of goods ranging from a few cents to 200 pesos (about 10 USD) ... per year! 
The workers report a salary of 1,500 pesos is true misery and an insult to the economic 
situation in the country. ---- A new movement begins. This Saturday, May 27, the working 
class has called a national strike from its time of entry in different states of the 
republic to take the facilities, until there is a convincing response from the employers. 
To all them we say: "Organize yourself comrades, do not be alone! Fight until your bosses 
never dream of taking away a single cent! While we work day in and day out to survive, a 
few become millionaires and end up with the planet!

WE HAVE TO ACHIEVE:

- A dignified deal for all the workers and respect for the 8-hour day

- For the freedom of labor and union organization, always autonomous, horizontal, 
inclusive and without the interference of employers and their threats to disrupt any 
organizational attempt

- For decent salary increases and compliance with established rest time

TO THE PEOPLE IN GENERAL:

And to those of us outside, we must not hesitate, we must support with all that is within 
reach the cause that is being defended and can be extended to other social sectors.

- DO NOT buy or use their services

- SUPPORT the occupations of the closest establishments of where you are

- ORGANIZE with more people to spread this information with propaganda
in the streets and social networks

THIS MAY 27TH WILL SCREAM ... WITHOUT WORKERS, THE BOSSES WILL BECOME ASHES!

Revolución Internacional / World Revolution - Ruptura Colectiva (RC)

http://rupturacolectiva.com/support-the-national-workers-strike-and-the-boycott-of-walmart-in-mexico/

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