Today's Topics:
1. Czech, afed: France: hundreds of thousands of people in the
streets it massively protests against the neoliberal amendment to
the Labor Code. [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Coordination des Groupes Anarchistes cga lyon: Tour Operator
of the Consulates for the defense of the abortion by djou (fr,
it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. wsm.ie: Irish Housing Network aid residents threatened with
eviction in Offaly (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Greece, Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki:
Concentration - course against Sunday work Sunday 17/9 10:00
Tsimiski with Aristotelous (gr) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Protesters' clashes with the police occurred on September 12 in Paris and other cities
during a protest march organized by unions against the government reform of the Labor
Code. ---- The aim of the changes, which, according to the Government's statement, should
be launched by the end of September, is to create a more flexible and effective mechanism
for trade union and employer engagement. In fact, it concerns the extension of employers'
rights, the further abolition of the rights of wage-earners, the liberalization of
redundancies, ---- One of the largest trade unions in CGT has called for protests and
strikes. Half a million people came to the streets in Lyon, Marseilles, Lille and many
other cities. In Paris, about sixty thousand people protested in the streets. Altogether,
there were protests in 180 locations, 4,000 strikes of state sector workers, services,
railways and schools (although it was still a warning strike). According to surveys,
Macron's reform rejects 60 percent of the population, but the government is determined to
enforce it through a presidential decree. Marcon, among other things, has earned a record
fall of its popularity.
Conflicts with the police during the protests occurred mainly in Paris, Lyon, Marseille,
but also in other cities. The police have traditionally used water cannons and tear gas.
Further protests will follow in September.
Anarcho-syndicalist analysis of last year's protests can be read in Revue Existence No.
2/2017 .
https://nakladatelstvi.afed.cz/existence/existence-c-22017-ochranci-poradku/
http://www.afed.cz/text/6743/francie-statisice-lidi-v-ulicich
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Message: 2
For the right to abortion throughout Europe! ---- A mobilization of European magnitude is
organized around 28 September, international day for the right to abortion, to the call of
dozens of associations and collectives. A European petition has been launched. ---- In the
Rhône, the Collective of Defense of the abortion, bringing together associations, trade
unions and local politicians, decided to mobilize in solidarity with all European women,
to make locally reason the claim of the right to abortion everywhere , for all and in good
conditions. ---- What is this "tour operator of the consulates"? ---- Drawing inspiration
from a Spanish activist action carried out when the government threatened the right to
abortion in Spain, this mobilization is intended to be original and playful in its form:
participants will be invited to follow hostesses in front of the various consulates
present in Lyon, as well as in front of the Prefecture, representative of the French
State, and to discover the situation of women wishing to abort in each territory.
Small surprises will animate this informative and militant path. This action is part of
the "Journées du Mémorial" organized by the Association H / F, an event aimed at
highlighting the artistic and historical heritage of the creators who built our cultural
history.
More information on: http://hfauvergnerhonealpes.wixsite.com/matrimoine
Why mobilize for the right to abortion in Europe?
Today, the right to abortion within Europe falls within the competence of each state.
Banned in Malta, under severe constraints in Ireland, Hungary and Poland. the right to
abortion, even legalized, may or may be called into question by maintaining the doctors'
conscience clause (Italy), the absence of adequate hospital structures (Greece, Bavaria),
restrictions on staff and the abolition of centers practicing abortion during hospital
restructuring (France), and, in all countries, the election of reactionary, conservative
and retrograde governments.
These include (re) affirming that:
* Access to abortion is a right; * Abortion is a personal choice - my body belongs to me,
I choose my life; * Financial resources must be provided for abortion centers and planning
centers to be accessible to all in the territories; * Sexual education must be provided to
everyone so that they can have free and informed choices; * The legal deadlines for
abortion must be harmonized with those of the most progressive countries in Europe and
states must decriminalize abortion completely.
Visit http://avanceeurope.org/
and sign the petition
https://www.change.org/p/the-government-of-europe-for-the-right-of-the- the
abortion-all-in-europe? recruiter = 17173164 & utm_source = & utm_medium = share_petition
facebook & utm_campaign = share_for_starters_page
Rendez-vous on Saturday 16th September at 2.30pm in front of the Consulate of Italy for
the Tour Operator (5 rue commandant faurax in the 6th) and Thursday 28th September at
18h30 place de la Comédie.
http://cgalyon.ouvaton.org/spip.php?article246
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Message: 3
Members of the Kildare branch of the Irish Housing Network were invited to attend a
meeting in Tullamore 9th September by concerned residents of 'Lann Elo', a facility. Five
members of Housing Action Kildare (IHN), two local Offaly county councillors, one Fianna
Fail TD and one Sinn Fein TD were in attendance, along with eight residents. ---- Eight
residents and a number of young children were advised in writing on 23rd August that they
had to be out of the facility by 6th October or their cases may be referred to the
Residential Tenancies Board. This caused a great deal of unnecessary stress for residents,
especially those with young children as they did not know what this process would entail.
---- Residents told the meeting that promises of permanent council housing did not
materialise due to the current housing crisis. Any houses that did come up were offered to
homeless people who are deemed to be in even greater need due to the fact that they are
currently housed in B&B's or other emergency accommodation. Previously, residents were
advised that they would be housed long before any notice to vacate would be issued.
So the residents are stuck in what is meant to be temporary accommodation, being told that
they have to move out, but with nowhere to go to. Both Offaly county council and Tullamore
Housing Association Ltd. are well aware of this but still issued these letter without
simply advising residents that they would not be thrown out onto the streets.
Additionally, the meeting heard that officials at Offaly County Council were less than
helpful and in many cases refused to meet with residents to clarify what was going to
happen. Understandably, this caused a huge amount of stress to people who already have
enough to worry about.
One of the Offaly councillors said that he will
1) try to get the eviction notice rescinded and
2) work to ensure that in future a certain percentage of council houses will be offered to
residents in Lann Elo so they can move out into permanent housing more suitable for
families with young children.
Two of the attending TD's said they would meet with the Housing Minister, Eoghan Murphy on
Monday to discuss the situation but it is unclear that any solution that will help
residents will be forthcoming. A follow up meeting is to be held in approximately two
weeks time to see if any progress is being made.
Words: Brian Ancom
https://www.wsm.ie/c/irish-housing-network-aid-residents-threatened-eviction-offaly
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Message: 4
TO REMOVE THE WATER OF CAPITALISM ---- In the times of the impoverishment of the working
class and the state of exception to which the unemployed are, comes the law of
co-operation SYRIZA / ANEL, which provides for the operation of the shops for 32 Sundays
per year. The intention of the state and the capitalists to completely abolish the Sunday
holiday is more than obvious. ---- Where does the Sunday holiday abolish? ---- The
abolition of the Sunday holiday and the full elasticities of the hours are a very
important part of the capitalist restructuring that was intensified by the crisis. At the
core of this restructuring is labor relations as the factor that relies on exploitation of
workers, the production of surplus value and ultimately the profits of capitalists. It is
a measure that will directly benefit the big businessmen and the big shopping malls, which
will favor the further accumulation of capital.
But it is yet another attack on work achievements that paves the way for further
intensification and autocralization of already precarious labor relations in line with the
dominant spirit of full commercialization of our lives. In order to survive capitalism in
crisis, it must be aggressively expanding on more and more points where it has not been
sufficiently exploited to date. The goal is to turn workers into working machines with few
rights that when they are not working they will be compassionate consumers. That is to
say, the total transformation of life into a cycle of production of surplus value,
consumption of goods and accumulation of capital. This is the notorious capitalist
development. Anyone who thinks that this attack on workers' free time will stop trading is
very much a shame. That is to say, the total transformation of life into a cycle of
production of surplus value, commodity consumption and accumulation of capital. This is
the notorious capitalist development. Anyone who thinks that this attack on workers' free
time will stop trading is very much a shame. That is to say, the total transformation of
life into a cycle of production of surplus value, commodity consumption and accumulation
of capital. This is the notorious capitalist development. Anyone who thinks that this
attack on workers' free time will stop trading is very much a shame.
The sacred alliance of commercializing our lives
This effort brings together an expanded front of forces that each contributes to the
common goal. Driving force is, of course, the capitalists and the main lever is the
government that, using the state mechanism, acts as the agent of capital. This, of course,
is one of the basic functions of the state in modern totalitarianism. The role of the
judiciary is also clear and distinct, and a brief look at the role it has played in the
labor rights laborer in recent years has not left the fact that the CoE's provisional
decision has blurred the waters. Statutory SMEs have assumed the role of ideological
vanguard in trying to present Sunday's operation as a solution to their crisis and to
advertise it as much as possible, at the same time they show any reaction as antisocial
and detrimental to workers. Particular reference should be made to the free-press
libraries which, with their supposedly de-ideologized and aesthetized perspective,
crystallize the content of socialism as aggressive neo-liberalism. Most of the trade
associations also helped them in their own way. Initially, with his "7 Sundays and not 52"
where they showed that they did not understand that the hegemony now belongs to the big
ones rather than the ones themselves, and any change in the Sunday holiday would not stay
there but would leave everything. Then with the introduction of institutions that
contribute to the elastification of hours such as "white nights" where workers are forced
to work until midnight to increase turnover. The "white nights" contributed to a number of
municipalities that supported many such efforts, including mayors on the left,
demonstrating its role as a left of capital and a potential management power of the system
rather than a power of overthrow. Last but not least, disturbing consumers who are willing
to pretend their breasts to shop on Sunday play the role of useful idiots who do not
realize that the complete abolition of labor rights will also affect them.
The importance of the fight against the abolition of Sunday's holiday
We must not forget the immediate impact of the intensification of work on the lives of
workers. At the same time that official unemployment is at 26%, employees' free time is
clipped. The concept of leisure time narrows to accommodate only the consumption and the
absolutely necessary rest. The labor movement must understand the issue of leisure time as
being of equal importance to salary, as aspects of the same thing. He has to reorganize
the concept of leisure time out and against capitalism as a time that workers use to
organize their resistance to capitalist barbarism, to create their own culture, to live
out of the sovereignty of commodity.
What to do
The abolition of the Sunday holiday is not only for the employees but for all the workers.
Strikes of industry unions on Sundays that are open to shops are essential and must be
supported but not enough. Horizontal co-ordination of wider parts of our class, grassroots
clubs, labor struggles, and societies is necessary to make these strikes generalized. In
this effort, institutional unionism and its defeated rationale and practices are
weightless, not ally. To win this battle, the road is one: we must destroy the functioning
of the market on Sundays. With massive paths, dynamic interventions and shop blockades,
sabotage, road closures to create a multi-faceted movement until they make a decision that
our Sundays will not be given to the world of commodity. On our Sundays we will use them
to celebrate and discuss, to fall in love and organize the Social Revolution that will
sweep the world of the state and capital and build freedom.
AGAINST THE CANCELLATION OF SIRAL SALAR
SUNDAY 17 SEPTEMBER, CONGRESS 10.00 and 12.00 AM, CEMENT WITH ARISTOTLE We
participate and support the call for Coordination of Action Against Sunday Work and the
Liberalized Hours
FREEDOM INITIATIVE OF THESSALONIKI (member of the ANRC FEDERATION)
lib_thess @ hotmail.com
libertasalonica.wordpress.com
anarchist-federation.gr
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/
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