Today's Topics:
1. Poland, rozbrat: Discussion about the 500+ program, part 3
Jaroslaw Urbanski [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Chile, Grupo Ecoanarquista gea: The new "cordial"
pacification of the Araucanía (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Greace, APO: INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF THESSALONIKI, 2017:
DEMONSTRATION ON SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER --
NO OTHER WORLD IS
FEASIBLE AS LONG AS THERE IS STATE AND CAPITALISM
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Britain, afed: MOURN THE DEAD AND FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE
LIVING! - RESISTANCE BULLETIN #162 by W (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - antipatriarcat, Labor
law: Women's rights are also (too) trapped (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. France, Alternative Libertaire AL September 2017 - Content +
Editorial (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Britain, Bristol Anarchist Federation: Bristol Set for a
VERY active couple of weeks (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. Greece, anarkismo.net: The horror season (gr) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. Czech, afed: Duhová Plzen - The first September Saturday in
Pilsen was the new local pride parade of Pilsen Pride. [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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We present three articles about the 500+ program. Originally published in the magazine
A-TAk. ---- Absolutely, the 500+ program is one of the largest social transfers in Poland
after 1989, irrespective of the intentions of the ruling party. I therefore agree with the
author's observations, which argue with the text in the previous issue of "A-Taku". "500+,
750?". It is worth mentioning, however, that there are several issues concerning the
broader context of the introduction of this program. ---- Inheritance of poverty ---- It
is good to see that research is beginning to confirm the positive impact of 500+ on the
financial situation of many of the poorest households in Poland. In the case of children
peculiar perversion takes on a capitalist doctrine, which says that each man himself is
responsible for his or her fate. This thesis is especially difficult for the youngest.
Poverty is simply inherited, and the career of "from sho-chef to millionaire" is a myth,
at best the "incident" rather than the path of universal material advancement. It was the
Civic Platform itself, which in its writings was written in 2005: "Since the mechanisms
for equalizing the life chances of children from very poor, often very rural families are
practically absent, most will not be able to break free from poverty, if existing social
mechanisms function ... ". It has been shown, inter alia, that especially agricultural
families receive 44% less income than the working families (1). For this reason,
self-defense and the blockade of roads were very popular. Boiling in the province had its
social background, which was not always seen from the perspective of the urban environment.
The situation in the countryside was to change after the accession of Poland to the EU
thanks to agricultural subsidies, especially direct, to the farmer as a subsidy to his
hectares of agricultural land. (This is not the kind of another, as much redistribution of
resources we have dealt with in the last decades.) In the years 2007-2013, the transfer
amounted to approximately EUR 15.4 billion (2), ie PLN 61.6 billion[at the adopted rate of
PLN 4.00 / EUR 1.00]. (In the years 2014-2020 it is expected to amount to 23.3 billion
euros). For this there is also EU money (smaller) for rural development.
The emergence of these measures in the Polish countryside caused radical changes, an
increase in the average income of farmers and improvement of the living situation. A
number of studies have pointed to improvements in the financial situation of rural
dwellers, but EU subsidies have promoted mainly large farms. These funds were actually
grants resulting not from the social situation, but above all on the possession of land.
And because the dwarf farms dominated the Polish countryside, the problem of growing
income inequalities was growing. As noted in the Forbes magazine in 2015: "Farmers'
incomes are also very diverse, and this diversity is growing." Let's take, for example,
the Gini coefficient, which illustrates inequality in a given society; It is expressed in
a scale of 0.0 to 1.0, where 0, 0 all members of society earn the same amount, while 1.0
means extreme income inequality. In 2004, before the entry of Poland into the EU, in the
case of Gini farmers was 0.49, and in 2014 already 0.56 - with the average for the whole
country about 0.34 (3).
Drops of prosperity
Contrary to the belief of the neo-liberal elite, there were areas of poverty remaining in
the countryside, especially in the pope's areas, where, as I have mentioned, a relatively
large proportion of the population had only a small area of land and lived (mainly) as
wage earners in industry and services. In general, today's proletarianisation is
happening, so EU direct subsidies are likely to reach a larger stream to a smaller group
of people. In turn, false in turn in this case called. The theory of drifting (which
theory is not, but only a popular view and ideology), saying that the wealth elite "drips"
on the poor, improving their material position. Therefore - according to economic
liberals, also, I think, those under the PiS sign - the appearance of property differences
are not something bad. With the enrichment of selected groups, others gain. It turns out,
On the other hand, 500+ is not - as is often believed - a "universal" program and does not
at all in Polish history something extraordinary. Suffice it to say that in the 70s and
80s of the previous century, family allowances in the People's Republic of Poland
accounted for even 6% of the national wage fund. According to GUS data for 2015, support
for families with the 500+ program accounts for about 3% of the national wage fund. Taking
into account all the differences between the situation in the Polish People's Republic and
today (functioning of the labor market, full employment vs. unemployment, etc.), we see
that 500+ is not something special. I grew up in the Polish People's Republic, which today
may be considered as many (I have two siblings) and my mother, who was not working at that
time, received relatively large sums. There was also no problem that when we grew up, it
was in the mid 80's. hired labor in industry.
This is not necessarily the kind of family allowances that must mean female inactivity,
but they are - in my view - a compensation or even a kind of payment for the unpaid,
caring work of women at home. Currently deploring the fact that 500+ "throws" out of the
labor market of women, I find it exaggerated and often expressed from a liberal
perspective as if the work of a mother of three children on tape in a special economic
zone for 2000 zl gross per month was something she especially desired. It is not.
Neoliberal politicians (eg from Modern), however, say that if women do not accept these
half-working conditions, they will not "get" pensions. But they are - in my view - a
compensation or even a kind of payment for the free, caring work of women at home.
Currently deploring the fact that 500+ "throws" out of the labor market of women, I find
it exaggerated and often expressed from a liberal perspective as if the work of a mother
of three children on tape in a special economic zone for 2000 zl gross per month was
something she especially desired. It is not. Neoliberal politicians (eg from Modern),
however, say that if women do not accept these half-working conditions, they will not
"get" pensions. But they are - in my view - a compensation or even a kind of payment for
the free, caring work of women at home. Currently deploring the fact that 500+ "throws"
out of the labor market of women, I find it exaggerated and often expressed from a liberal
perspective as if the work of a mother of three children on tape in a special economic
zone for 2000 zl gross per month was something she especially desired. It is not.
Neoliberal politicians (eg from Modern), however, say that if women do not accept these
half-working conditions, they will not "get" pensions. In the special economic zone for
2000 zl gross per month, was something she was particularly desirable. It is not.
Neoliberal politicians (eg from Modern), however, say that if women do not accept these
half-working conditions, they will not "get" pensions. In the special economic zone for
2000 zl gross per month, was something she was particularly desirable. It is not.
Neoliberal politicians (eg from Modern), however, say that if women do not accept these
half-working conditions, they will not "get" pensions.
500 plus nationalism
As we well remember, the fact of high family allowances did not protect the PRL from
economic degradation and political disaster. Today's right-wing government can not stop at
this system of redistribution of income, which is 500+, if it wants to govern by
successive - as the Law and Justice leaders announce - a dozen or so years. Let us
remember that the introduction of 500+ coincided with a particular economic boom that
would not last forever. Economic turmoil is an integral feature of the capitalist economy,
whose foundation the PiS government does not want to change. Therefore, it may turn out
that during the economic downturn, PiS will become hostage of its own flagship program.
We should be wondering now how we will defend social benefits such as 500+, lowering the
retirement age and progressing the minimum wage. Nothing was left to the public.
Convolutions were won in direct confrontation with today's post-solidarity elites. There
was no vote on the PiS to explain the "Smolensk mystery" but above all because of
retirement age, low wages, junk contracts, and insufficient redistribution of social
income to the poorest classes. In any case, the voices of voters waiting for changes in
economic policy have ensured PiS victory. Continuation of ultraliberal economic policy,
supported since its inception by today's PiS leaders (formerly under various party signs)
It threatened the permanent post-solidarity postponement of power. The current pro-social
changes are an attempt to save the elites of these elites that have emerged and shaped
over the last 25 years. Of course, 500+ is not the only "weapon" in the arsenal of the
right. It can also include, for example, scaring away refugees or nationalist indoctrination.
Footnotes:
(1) Jaroslaw Urbanski, "Precariat and the new class struggle", Poznan 2014, p. 224
(2) Piotr Prus, Bartosz Mickiewicz, "Comparative Analysis of CAP support instruments
within the multiannual financial perspective 2014-2020 in relation to the CAP in 2007
Tomasz Józwik, "Farmers in Poland Have Revenue above the National Average ", Journal of
Agribusiness and Rural Development No 4 (34) / 14, http://www.jard.edu.pl/pub/10_4_2014_en.pdf
(3) ", Www.forbes.pl z dn. 12.01.2015 r.,
Http://www.forbes.pl/dochody-rolnikow-przychody-w-gospodarstwach-rolnych-rosna,artykuly,200488,1,1.html
http://www.rozbrat.org/publicystyka/kontrola-spoeczna
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On 23rd June 2016 Michelle Bachelet, the President of Chile, revealed her new "Plan of
Recognition and Development of Araucania", apologised for "having failed as a country",
and for the "horrors and errors" committed by the Chilean state against indigenous
peoples. However, beyond this late recognition, in the aftermath of her second government
and after having driven the criminalisation of the Mapuche with the application of the
"anti-terrorist law" in the zone where they live, we think it is necessary that we pause
in order to understand what the Government is really intending. ---- This plan tries to
respond to that which the media have dubbed the "Mapuche conflict", a terminology that
subtly criminalises the cause of the Mapuche. In reality it revolves around the
"occupation of Wallmapu", of the occupation of the territory that historically belonged to
the Mapuche. According to the historian and investigator of the Observatory
of Indigenous Rights, Martin Correa: "When the Mapuche communities raise
the point: ‘these lands are ours, we never sold these lands', it is the
truth. These lands were legally usurped, but not legitimiately by the
Chilean state. And there is a continuity of this usurpation and the
repression(...) We are talking about four generations of repression, of
usurpation and of the death of those that the Chilean state does not
want to take over".
There has been a recent intensification of raids in Mapuche communities,
with children and adults injured, the increase in policing in the zone
and its "militarisation". The ANI (National Intelligence Agency) and the
Armed Forces work together develop a joint anti-terrorist intervention
strategy, and the permanent threat of applying a "state of
constitutional exception" decree, that will involve further restriction
of the Human Rights of the Mapuche communities and to provide the Army
with control of the zone ...In other words, once more the same policy that
has been applied for decades in order to try to subdue the conflict,
with blood and bullets.
None of these problems are addressed by the ambitious "Plan of
Recognition and Development of Araucania" that the President now claims
puts an end to the conflict. The "anti-terrorist" policy driven by the
government was not addressed in her message so we can expect that what
follows in parallel to the plan recently announced, invalidates it as a
result and condemns it to failure. In other words, for the television
cameras there is a soft-handed "cordial" offer, and for the Mapuche, the
stick if they do not accept the plan that is offered to them.
What remains clear in the government plan is that it will initiate a
process of a new institutionalisation of the conflict, with the
objective of prosecuting the Mapuche and rendering them invisible.
Although the constitutional process that intended a new Constitution for
Chile has failed, the Government insists now in Wallmapu, on driving
forward the implementation of an "Indigineous Constituent process". This
process above all has not been asked for by the Mapuche communities nor
responds to their cultural horizon of conflict resolution. It is a
strange component of the plan which will be an experiment and that of
course will not respond to the true aspirations that the people have.
Apart from the creation of an onerous new bureaucratic institutional
apparatus (ministries, institutes, funding, studies, subsidies,
investments, etc, etc.), the intention is to drive "productive
development" in the Mapuche zone. This is the magic wand that
neo-liberal governments use in order to give a "solution" to poverty.
Because, despite the speeches, the Mapuche are far from being treated as
members of a nation, of a social group with their own motivations and
complexities, and instead will be treated as "vulnerable families", with
all the evangelical and capitalist neoliberal commandments that "solves"
all of the afflictions of "the poor" applied to them. This, without
considering that the Mapuche are not nor have ever been a capitalist
people, that accumulate riches, trade or "undertake" through small and
medium sized (SME) businesses as the technocrats of social development
like to categorize.
A relevant point in the plan that merits a mention is this part:
"CORFO (The Corporation of Chilean Advancement) will design a Forestry
Fund, that will begin to work in the second half of this year, for the
planting, management and operation of indigenous plots suitable for
forestry that the owners, the communities wish to allocate to this end".
Neither with the forest fires of last summer, where the combustibility
of the monocultures of pine and eucalyptus remained evident, nor with
all the complaints that the Mapuche make due to the drought and
destruction that these plantations cause in their communities, does the
governement rectify its continued intent to benefit these crop types
which are so damaging for the Mapuche and farming communities, and for
the enviroment.
Finally, as a finishing touch, the plan considers the implementation of
a "Policy for the protection and the support to all the victims of
violence in the Region", a strange entity that seeks to leave everyone
alone; above all the Christian Democrats and the right. As a result, the
government aims to deliver new subsidies to the timber industry and big
businesses, as a form of appeasing their demands after calming the
"political violence" as alluded to by the SOFOFA (Manufacturers'
Association) representative of the businesses, the local administrators
of the transnationals.
Just as over 100 years ago the Chilean state tried a "pacification of
Araucania" by means of war and occupation by foreign colonists, today it
is by means of a more "cordial" nature but no less spurious, attempting
the cultural assimilation of the Mapuche in the "vulnerable families"
category, a brutal "help program" that is used for the large opressed
and exploited mass of multicultural Chilean nationals.
Author information
René Cumplido Cáceres
Grupo Ecoanarquista (GEA), región chilena
https://www.wri-irg.org/en/story/2017/new-cordial-pacification-araucania
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-Sharpening of poverty and misery. 15 dead workers in the last few months in "accidents at
work" (murders), under conditions of full intensification of rental slavery. New measures
for the economy, labor and insurance, which strengthen employers' terrorism and exclusion
from health, education and housing. Privatizations, arrangements against strikes,
unemployment, legislation to abolish the "Sunday holiday". ---- -Pillage and destruction
of the natural world and local communities. From the gold metallurgy in Skouries,
Halkidiki, to the immediate announcement of the Messochora dam in Acheloos and the design
for the diversion of the river, the capitalistic "development" destroys nature and human
communities equally. ---- -Imprisonment of refugees and immigrants under miserable
conditions in concentration camps, expulsions, violence from the police every time they
claim their freedom (Lesvos, P. Rallis detention center in Athens).
-State repression and strengthening of the fascist gangs. Evacuations and targeting of
squats as buildings-symbols of anarchist/antiauthoritarian struggle and as structures of
solidarity with refugees and immigrants. Attack from the police on anti-fascist
demonstrations in Thessaloniki and Oreokastro. Anti-fascists' trials.
-Persecutions against those who struggle (like in Skouries) and fake indictments based on
the "anti"terrorist state of emergency, as in the case of Irianna and Pericles, as in
cases of lots of strugglers. Special detention conditions for political and/or struggling
detainees.
AGAINST ALL FAKE DILEMMAS OF THE "LEFTY" MANAGEMENT OF MODERN TOTALITARIANISM THAT TRIES
TO EMPOWER ITSELF THROUGH SOCIAL PEACE AND SUBMISSION...
THE ONLY DILEMMA FOR THE OPPRESSED IS THEIR CHOICE BETWEEN STATE AND CAPITALISM BRUTALITY
AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
The only proper answer is resistance and solidarity and self-organization from bellow on
every front of the social-class war. For a world without exploitation and oppression,
without prisons and borders, without states and bosses.
FOR ANARCHY AND LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM!
DEMONSTRATION ON SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017, AT 18.00,
AT KAMARA (THESSALONIKI)
ANARCHIST POLITICAL ORGANIZATION - FEDERATION OF COLLECTIVES
apo.squathost.com/categoryinternational/
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The Autumn 2017 16 page issue of our free paper Resistance is out in print and available
for free download here: http://afed.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/resistance162.pdf
---- Contents ---- Mourn the Dead and Fight Like Hell for the Living! Grenville fire - 1
Cover article ---- Topple Trump - 2 ---- Anarchism in the Age of Trump - 3 ---- Latest
Battle Against the Racist Vans - 4 ---- Organising at Work - 5 ---- From Bristol to
Berlin, the Gig Economy Fight Back Continues - 6 ---- Struggle For The Soul of Pride - 7
---- Because They Were Poor: The Grenfell Fire - 8 ---- Four Ways You Can Support the
Survivors of Grenfell - 9 ---- Edinburgh Mothers Fight the Benefits Cap! - 10 ---- Rent
Strike in Toronto - 12 ---- Say No to Prisoner Exploitation - 13 ---- Struggling for Our
Families and Our Lives - 14 ---- Anti-Fracking Round Up - 15 ---- Back page contacts etcc - 16
Mourn the Dead and Fight Like Hell for the Living!*
The devastating fire at Grenfell Tower led not only to a collective feeling of grief
throughout the UK but also to anger. Ordinary people stepped in to help those in
need, long before the government or council offered any meaningful assistance. The
occupation at Kensington Town Hall and marches and protests throughout the
country expressed people's outrage, fueled by decades of neglect and mistreatment
by those with power.
The same capitalist system, with its endless pursuit of profit and its casual disregard
for the lives of working class
people, continues to take its toll across the UK. People die within days of having their
disability benefits stripped
away, are killed by illness or injury at work, fall victim to the cuts made to the NHS,
are kicked out onto the streets
by landlords, or driven to suicide by poverty and isolation. This shouldn't just make us
sad, it should make us angry.
These aren't natural disasters, but events caused by people who have the power and wealth
to make decisions with
horrendous consequences for the rest of us.
The murder of an anti-racist and anti-fascist protester at Charlottesville in the US
caused equal outrage, both at the
white supremacists and at Trump. The racist and fascist response to economic and social
problems is a real danger
and is being challenged by grass roots movements around the country.
We call this paper Resistance for a reason. There are plenty of people across the country
already resisting (and
winning). Acts of resistance can always use our support, but we need to go beyond support
to really make an
impact. We need to follow the examples of those fighting back, learn from them, and look
for our own ways to fight
for a better life. The opportunities are everywhere: in our communities and workplaces, in
the streets, in the forests.
After all, what better time is there to fight than now? The political esteblishment is in
tatters. Our leaders are still....
https://afed.org.uk/mourn-the-dead-and-fight-like-hell-for-the-living-resistance-bulletin-162/
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Orders are not neutral. They will increase job inequalities because " the most affected
employees are those on fixed-term contracts or working in small businesses. Two categories
where women are overrepresented, "alert more than 60 personalities and feminist
organizations. ---- Emmanuel Macron has promised. Women will be the great national cause
of the quinquennium. He has been elected for just 150 days and has already managed to get
himself lied three times. A first time with the appointment of the government and the lack
of dedicated ministry. A second time this summer, with the 27% decrease in the budget of
the Secretary of State for Equality. A third time with Labor Law No. 2. ---- As often,
apparently "neutral" texts actually have clear consequences on inequalities.
Reform of pensions, health insurance or the labor code: all these reforms, which targeted
all employees, had a different impact on women and men. Surprising ? Not that much. When
you propose a reform in a country like France, where job inequalities are strong (26% wage
gap), reform is rarely neutral or ineffective. Either it aggravates the situation and
increases inequality, or it tackles inequalities and makes them fall back.
Orders fall into the first category. The employees most affected by the reform are those
on fixed-term contracts or working in small enterprises. Two categories where women are
overrepresented. Several measures will therefore have a particular impact on women and
increase professional inequalities.
The reversal of the hierarchy of standards refers to the definition of many rights,
including family rights.
Sick child leaves taken overwhelmingly by women, the extension of maternity leave and the
maintenance of 100% remuneration, the reduction of working time for pregnant women ... all
these rights, hitherto provided for in the Conventions group, will be able to be
challenged tomorrow by a company agreement. This is also the case for seniority,
retirement or dismissal bonuses.
The government weakens the tools of professional equality in companies.
The law now provides for an annual bargaining " equality in the quality of life at work "
and obliges the company to provide data to the employees on the professional inequalities
between women and men. These data are those of the former Comparative Situation Report,
resulting from the first 1983 Equal Employment Act (Roudy Act). These data are now
integrated into the economic and social database. Firms that do not open such negotiations
and do not provide such data may be penalized. Orders will make it possible, through a
company agreement, to change the content of the negotiation, to choose the equality data
to be transmitted (or not) and to switch from an annual negotiation to a quadrennial
negotiation ... negotiate at all.
It will now be possible to impose mobility clauses by company agreement without the law
setting a geographical limit or obligation to take into account the family situation of
employees. Idem for changes in working hours and working hours or wage cuts. Particularly
penalized by these measures are women, who are more often part-time, more often
precarious, heading single-parent families and taking over a large part of their parenting
duties. The first argument put forward by women who withdraw from the labor market is the
impossibility of fulfilling their family responsibilities due to the atypical schedules
imposed on them. Orders do not help them.
The disappearance of the CHSCT (the health, safety and working conditions committee)
provided for in the ordinances will have an impact on the prevention of sexual violence at
work. 20% of women report that they have already experienced sexual harassment in the
workplace. 5 years after the improvement of the law on sexual harassment, the government
decides to eliminate the body dedicated to health and safety at work.
Finally, the right to gender equality expertise, gained in 2015, helped elected and unions
to identify and understand the sources of inequality. Previously paid by the employer,
this right of appraisal will now have to be co-financed by the works council. Because of
its limited budget, it will have to make choices. And often, in this case, equality
becomes secondary.
Orders are not neutral. They will increase job inequalities.
Emmanuel Macron, Marlene Schiappa, your great national cause begins badly. Change course,
do not sell off the rights of women to MEDEF requirements, remove these orders.
Feminists will demand it on the street with all !
Signatures:
Irene ANSARI, coordinator of the League of Iranian Women for Democracy ;
Ana AZARIA, President of Femmes Égalité ;
Delphine BEAUVOIS, France Insoumise ;
Sophie BINET and Céline VERZELETTI, leaders of the CGT in charge of equality between women
and men ;
Emmanuelle BOUSSARD VERRECHIA, lawyer ;
The CEL ;
Laurence COHEN, Senator, PCF ;
Gérard CORNILLEAU, researcher, OFCE ;
Pierre CONCIALDI, Researcher, IRES ;
Michèle CRES, Emission Femmes Libres ;
Monique DENTAL, Feminist Network Ruptures ;
Caroline DE HAAS, feminist activist ;
Adèle DORADA, Alternative Libertaire ;
Micheline DUPONT, collective for the rights of women 41 ;
Pénéloppe DUGGAN, NPA ;
Corine FAUGERON, Europe Ecology of the Greens ;
Jocelyne FILDARD, Lesbian Coordination in France ;
Women's Mediterranean Forum ;
Sigrid GERARDIN, Co-Secretary-General of the SNUEP-FSU ;
Cécile GONDARD LALANNE, general co-delegate of the Union Syndicale Solidaires ;
Bernadette GROISON, Secretary General of the FSU ;
Mathilde GUERGOAT-LARIVIERE, Researcher, CNAM, CEET ;
Marie-Caroline GUÉRIN, women's sector of the FSU ;
Gwenn HERBIN, National Coordinator of the French Communist Youth Movement ;
Hélène HERNANDEZ, Emission Femmes Libres ;
Pictures and Lyrics ;
Clara JABOULAY, President of the National High School Union ;
Camille LAINÉ, General Secretary of the Communist Youth Movement of France ;
Jacqueline LAUFER, Researcher, HEC-Paris ;
Lilâ LE BAS, President of the UNEF ;
Laurence LE LOUËT, National Secretary of the SNPES-PJJ-FSU ;
Séverine LEMIERE, Researcher, Paris Descartes University ;
Daniéla LEVY, Collective 13 Rights of Women ;
Myriam MARTIN, co spokesperson Together ! ;
Marie-Thérèse MARTINELLI, World March of Women ;
Antoine MATH, Researcher, IRES ;
Dominique MEDA, Researcher ;
Françoise MILEWSKI, Researcher, OFCE ;
Mathilde MONDON, spokesman for Les Effronté-es ;
Françoise MORVAN, Coordination for the European Women's Lobby ;
Solmaz OZDEMIR, SKB Union of Socialist Women, Turkey ;
Martine PERNOD, Researcher, Lille University 1 ;
Emanuelle PIET, President of the Feminist Collective against Rape ;
Sophie POCHIC, Researcher, CNRS, Maurice Halbwachs Center ;
Christine POUPIN, National Spokesperson, New Anticapitalist Party ;
Raphaelle REMY LELEU, spokesperson for Dare Feminism ;
Suzy ROJTMAN, spokesperson for the National Collective for Women's Rights ;
Cécile ROPITEAUX, women's sector of the FSU ;
Roseline ROLLIER, Women's House of Montreuil ;
Sabine SALMON, President of Femmes Solidaires ;
Muriel SALMONA, Traumatic Memory and Victimology ;
Véronique SEHIER and Caroline REBHI, co-chairs of Family Planning ;
Rejane SENAC, Researcher, CNRS, Sciences Po ;
Rachel SILVERA, Researcher, University Paris-Nanterre ;
Mireille STIVALA, General Secretary of the Federation CGT Health and Social Action ;
Nora TENENBAUM, President of the Coordination of Associations for the Right to Abortion
and Contraception ;
Aurélie TROUVE, spokesman for Attac France ;
Monique VÉZINET, Feminism Commission, Union of Lay Families UFAL ;
Françoise VOUILLOT, researcher, CNAM ;
Layla YAKOUB, National Secretary of the Left Party responsible for Feminism.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Loi-travail-les-droits-des-femmes-passent-aussi-a-la-trappe
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Politics ---- Analysis: What is Macron the offspring ? ---- Antipatriarchate ---- Right to
Abortion: Europe mobilizes on 28 September ---- Syndicalism ---- Review: think the
struggle with "The Utopians" ---- Ecology ---- Bure: Why the state is so anxious to break
the protest
Nicolas Hulot's nuclear policy: the headlong rush
Paris 2024: the chips are down, nothing goes
Olympic Games: It always slips
Notre-Dame-des-Landes: What future for the ZAD ?
International
" Boligarchy " in Venezuela: Chavista against pro-Washington oligarchy
Social movements in Venezuela: Trade unionism autonomous or domesticated by the State ?
Anarchist movement: Libertarian intervention remains to be invented
Basque Country: A peace process but not at all costs
Culture
Film: «120 beats per minute» by Robin Campilo
Documentary: «I'm not your negro» by Raoul Peck
History
Forty years ago: Witch-hunting in the CFDT
Editorial: Sermons or Revolution ?
The monarch complained that the French "hate reforms ." He gets angry and takes the air
of a parent recalling his rebellious children to add that " we have to explain to them ".
Thus speaks the one whose election owes everything to the circumstances and who is
nevertheless preparing to destroy what remains of the social gains enjoyed by the greatest
number.
The reality is that this novlangue preaches only for the small clique of bandits who rule
this country and whose arrogance will eventually pay off. For these infantilizing sermons
are but a modern variant of the invitation made a few centuries ago to the hungry without
bread to eat the brioche. This time some heads had fallen.
Today no one needs explanation because everyone knows what is going on and that circus has
been going on for far too long. Those who work, study, galley in this country are fully
aware of social realities. It is from this consciousness that the refusal is born. And it
is long since the sermons, the foreign languages of a world of cloistered haves, no longer
reach them.
The period which is opening might confirm this fact: if the people of France or elsewhere
really hate the reforms, it is because, at the bottom of their conscience, they are hoping
for a revolution.
Alternative Libertaire, the 1 st September 2017
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Edito-Sermons-ou-revolution
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Message: 7
We were just about to bang away on the keyboard listing all of the demonstrations,
festivities and events coming up in the fortnight. However, we spotted that our friends
over at Bristol IWW had just done the same, and we hope they won't mind us coping their
homework. Cheers comrades! ---- Make it to as many of these as you can - we'll certainly
be there! ---- This Saturday, the 9th of September, there is an IWW contingent joining the
anti-austerity march and rally called by Bristol People's Assembly and Bristol Labour
Party on College Green. Facebook event here. Look for the IWW banner[and the AFed one,
probably next to it] ---- Sadly on the 10th of September, fascists will be descending upon
our city from outside Bristol attempting to whip up Islamophobia and hatred. This time
we're dealing with Tommy Robinson front group ‘Gays Against Sharia' who will be attempting
to use the LGBT community to peddle known fascist speakers such as former BNP youth
activist Jack Buckby, Paul Weston of Pegida UK/Liberty GB, figurehead of the EDL's deluded
LGBT grouping Tommy Cook aka Tommy English and wingnut fash-favourite, UKIP leadership
candidate Anne Marie Waters. Bristol Queercaf have already called a counter demonstration
and Bristol IWW encourages all members and supporters to go along. Fascist groups have
never had much success at organising in our brilliant city but we need to keep opposing
until they finally get the message. Again look for our banner or check Loomio for on the
day plans.
On the 14th of September the IWW have their branch meeting, which will include a workshop
with our FWs from the Incarcerated Workers' Organising Committee (IWOC). Come and find out
how IWOC supports prisoners to organise & fight back against prison slavery and the prison
system itself. After the meeting we generally go for a drink in a local pub.[For more on
the prison abolition movement see the latest issue of Organise! - which you can download
for free or pick up from Hydra Books or Kebele Info Shop]
On the 16th of September we'll be running our usual stall at the Bristol Anarchist
Bookfair with pamphlets, badges and other merchandise. This year's event has moved to St
Werburghs Community Centre BS2 9TJ
Finally on the 17th of September Bristol Radical History Group will be holding a Radical
History Festival at the M-Shed, which looks to be a really interesting event with some
contributions from local Wobblies.
Whatever you're doing have a lovely September and we hope to see you sometime.
https://bristolaf.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/bristol-set-for-a-very-active-couple-of-weeks/
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To answer these employers' absurdities, we, workers, irrespective of age, gender and
nationality, must be actively organizing our societies, stepping up class antagonism, and
knowing that the societies that lead to impoverishment tend to revolt, to claim our rights
until we get what we own. ---- In one more summer in Greece the crisis with a lot of heat,
some have been on an island for several months, not for holidays, but to survive. It
appears that in a scattering landscape, with youth unemployment reaching 50% now, the
tourism industry maintains a (even small) capacity to absorb labor - especially youth.
Experts have been saying it for years: Greece's future is necessarily going through
tourism. ---- But what's behind the showcase we see as "customers"? ---- How honest is
this smile with which our employees work in the shop?
And how much is the dignity and the need for survival of the workers to be valued for the
bosses?
Many employees, especially young people, trying to raise money in the summer to make it
out in the winter, do not make holidays, work and suffer abuse of their rights by the
bosses who are accustomed to exploiting to a large extent the workers who go to work for a
season, believing that once an employee works for them he is essentially their property
and is not entitled to privacy.
The most frequent exploitation phenomenon in many tourist areas is that the worker is
declared for 8 hours of work, 5 days a week, and ends up working for 9 hours and 10 hours,
7 days a week, with overtime (obviously) not being paid .
It is also customary for bosses to delay workers' wages (if they pay all wages together),
which means that the worker is required to survive at his own expense as long as he stays
on the island. We also have to take the fact that the money given by the bosses is always
almost black, while the hours change constantly according to the appetites of the
employer, without asking the employee.
Very often the demands of the bosses reach an outrageous point, since many of them
prohibit their workers even sitting on the job, taking breaks, and even speaking in the
dress / style of the workers, since they require their staff not to has dainted nails,
earrings, tattoos and other accessories that can make them lose their valuable customers.
Some bosses pull the rope even further, and wanting to have absolute control, they have
the key to the toilet in the shop, because as they say, the workers "bow off" on the
pretext of their visit to the toilet and sit above the toilet, that it should. Last but
not least, employers do not hesitate to cut money from workers' wages in either cases,
either as an example or on the grounds that the shop's internal 'rules' have not been met
(for example, employees were talking a lot of time , sat while it was banned etc).
The only benefit that those who go to work in the season usually enjoy is that their
employer provides them with shelter and food, but this is not entirely positive, as it is
commonplace that the rooms where the employees are staying are of low quality and do not
even have the basic amenities. Very often cases are reported where these rooms did not
even have windows, they were very small and could be used exclusively for sleeping and
nothing more.
To answer these employers' absurdities, we, workers, irrespective of age, gender and
nationality, must be dynamically organized into our societies, exacerbate class
antagonism, and knowing that the societies that lead to impoverishment tend to revolt, to
claim our rights until we get what we own.
1/9/2017
http://ese-thessalonikis.gr
https://www.facebook.com/ESEThessalonikis
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/30493
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According to the organizers of the event, Plzen is rather a conservative city, where the
LGBTQ + community has almost no background. That is why it was the idea to organize the
first rainbow procession brave and from the beginning attracted the attention of various
associations and individuals. A number of queer and anti-fascist organizations have also
appeared in support of the new "pridu" - from the college around the traditionally mass
Prague Pride to the new Queer Anarchist group or the Anarchist Federation. And it soon
became clear that this support would be important. The organizing team did not really
experience, which is not surprising when it was his first major public event. ---- That it
is not a bloody march was obvious when social networks started to mobilize various Nazis
and Nazis against the Pilsen Pride and to make the shoulders of the type "get through the
muzzle". The reliance of organizers on the police sounded to those who had richer
experience with her as a clear zinc.
On Saturday, September 2, the participants of the Pilsen Pride started to meet at Mlýnské
sruchy. Many had rainbow flags, and several flags of transgender people appeared. Clearly
the largest transparency, "Do not adapt, change society," came from the recently formed
Queer Anarchist Group (QAS). She offered to the others even prepared pickets. The local
Anarchist Federation group has also expressed its support.
Parallel to the beginning of the rainbow event, there were about forty neo-ladies and
"decent Czechs", who usually fulfilled the idea of white trash. Hateful speeches about
"multi-cultures of fascism," white family rescue, and other nonsense enriched Karel Kryl's
recorded music without knowing what really is the message of Kryl's creation.
In the meantime, the rainbow crowd grew to about three hundred. In addition to the
organizers of the Pilsen Pride itself, representatives and representatives of Prague
Pride, Fair Fair, Transparent and S Color Out have spoken. Maria Feryn of Transparent was
the most appropriate. In her speech, she emphasized the need for solidarity across
oppressed groups and that the fight against the oppression of queer people is still
painfully up to date. There was also a commemoration of the first "Prida" - the Stonewall
Riots, in which people bullied by their minority identity had stubbornly opposed the
homophobic and transphobic state. After Maria publicly crippled Lidice's policy, the
racist and the chauvinist Cunka, KDU representatives also stood up. He apologized for
homophobic and authoritarian speeches of his party, which the audience appreciated by
applause.
But it was already time to go. The Nazis decided to walk the procession across. About
thirty of Pride subsequently blocked the street on May 5. There was a strange situation
when a bunch of neo-Nazis and "normally-homophobic citizens" stood a few yards ahead of
the procession. There was virtually no police presence on the ground, so at least a few
anti-fascists in black, with a great transparency, formed a front line separating the
Nook's visitors from the front row. Homophobes bellowed from the beginning, while the
queers for some time held requests from the Pilsen Pride organizers who did not want to
react to the bigot attacks in any way. The atmosphere of silence did not help, so the
radical queers soon broke through the front of the slogan "Do not give the puppies a
chance" and "Your children will be like us". Together with that, that the first rows stood
firmly and did not step up anymore before the people stepped in, and the people took the
courage and the slogans in their nicks, the determination and the sound anger quickly
prevailed over the fears, and the bigots who apparently hoped for easy intimidation of
queer people began to be somewhat confused crazy. In addition, their hate speech was
rather laughing instead of fear. In that moment, the heels of the bed were to "solve"
lightly the heavy-eyed men who had been pushing the right-handers very slowly. The attempt
of local nazi hooligans, who were completely out of the police attention at the time,
about the theft of the Young Green Flag, did not act very determinedly. Very quickly they
came to her. they began to be somewhat confused and helpless. In addition, their hate
speech was rather laughing instead of fear. In that moment, the heels of the bed were to
"solve" lightly the heavy-eyed men who had been pushing the right-handers very slowly. The
attempt of local nazi hooligans, who were completely out of the police attention at the
time, about the theft of the Young Green Flag, did not act very determinedly. Very quickly
they came to her. they began to be somewhat confused and helpless. In addition, their hate
speech was rather laughing instead of fear. In that moment, the heels of the bed were to
"solve" lightly the heavy-eyed men who had been pushing the right-handers very slowly. The
attempt of local nazi hooligans, who were completely out of the police attention at the
time, about the theft of the Young Green Flag, did not act very determinedly. Very quickly
they came to her.
The rest of the way to the cultural center Papírna na Slovanech, where the procession
ended, was quite calm. It is a shame that Prida did not fully understand the chanting and
that there was no music at the event that would make it more resilient. In the industrial
premises Papírny was waiting for stalls of various organizations and, of course,
refreshments, thanks to which she started here smaller afterparty, which then continued in
Míša Klubu. Just like the whole day, it was very disgraceful and the police were
constantly patrolling around the camp in both civilian and uniform, but the mood did not
make any difference.
Bottom line: It's great that Pilsen experienced its first Pride on Saturday. But it is
even better that people in the process did not step in front of the Nazis and that radical
queers and nequeers arrived at the event to support and offer their socially critical
alternative to today's predominant perception of pride parades such as celebratory
consumption and corporate PR.
http://www.afed.cz/text/6741/duhova-plzen
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