Anarchic update news all over the world - 15.10.2017

Today's Topics:

   
1.  alternative libertaire - Note Entreprises N° 3 - Content
      (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Towards an exceptional
      regime for the Roya Valley? (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL September 2017 - Paris
      2024: The Games are done, nothing goes (fr, it, pt) [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  Britain, solfed - Fujitsu: stop victimising reps -- Fujitsu
      workplace reps strike action (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
    
5.  France, Alternative Libertaire AL - documentary, "A
      forgotten resistance. Libertarians in the Algerian War
      (1954-1957» (fr, it, pt) [machine translation] 
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
6.  US, ideas and action: Why Libertarian Socialists Reject Free
      Market Liberalism By Geoff R (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
  
 7.  [Iran] Protest in front of the Parliament of the regime for
      the liberation of the anarchist political prisoner Soheil Arabi
      (pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Contents of this issue: ---- International trade union training. ---- Union material 
against the Labor Act. ---- Labor Law 2017: 12 and 21 September, 10 and 19 October. ---- 
FO: SCC is reversing the trend. ---- CFDT: That's grumbling. ---- Accord with the truck 
drivers. ---- October 10: public services on strike, also in Belgium. ---- A unitary 
campaign against the extreme right. ---- Precarious in struggle. ---- Situation in Catalonia
Download this note in pdf format
Télécharger cette note au format pdf 
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/IMG/pdf/2017_-_10_-_6_-_entreprises_3.pdf
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Note-Entreprises-No3

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Still an activist of solidarity with foreigners sentenced to a prison sentence. We 
denounce the repression suffered by the activists and the volunteers who try to help the 
most deprived. For more information, visit the site of the solidarity offenders, network 
of which AL is member: http://www.delinquantssolidaires.org ---- Yesterday, Monday, 
October 2, 2017, a 19-year-old man was sentenced to three months suspended prison sentence 
for transporting three lost refugees in the Roya Valley to his mother's vehicle for 
shelter in the camp of Cédric Herrou. ---- No criminal record, no crossing of the border, 
no financial compensation, no link with the refugees: a simple gesture of humanity. 
Several questions asked by the court to the young accused leave us puzzled, including: 
"You asked them for their ID ? "Or" Would you have done the same for French people ? " ". 
Should we now practice one of the three cardinal virtues of our republican motto by 
combining it with xenophobia: no fraternity for a foreigner ?

We have always firmly condemned all forms of solidarity offenses ; however, this same 
gesture of humanity, as we know elsewhere in France, most often gives rise to no 
prosecution or, at most, a reminder of the law ; it was sometimes punished previously in 
the Alpes-Maritimes department by penalties - in our eyes illegitimate - but in any case 
much lighter. For reasons of border crossing, the Italian justice has thus relaxed a 
Franco-American associative.

Faced with a record riddled with procedural errors, qualified by the prosecutor's 
substitute herself as "light", the court decided to heavily punish a young adult of 19 
years. Because we believe in the justice of our country, we would like to be persuaded 
that it does not yield to the security and xenophobic atmosphere maintained in our 
department by some local politicians whose business it is.

Nice, 4 October 2017

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Vers-un-regime-d-exception-pour-la-vallee-de-la-Roya

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On September 13, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will decide on the allocation 
of the next Olympic Games for the years 2024 and 2028. The suspense surrounding this award 
is rather thin, with Paris remaining the only candidate in the competition since Los 
Angeles decided to wait four more years. Before the formalization of this "  victory  ", a 
small round of the Olympic question. ---- The high mass of Olympic sport should be held in 
seven years in the French capital and its suburbs. Can the city and the region have the 
means to hold this great raut ? One would be tempted to answer in the negative. According 
to its defenders, the Olympic Games will be a particularly interesting financial operation 
for Paris whose 95  % of sports facilities already built are boasted to us . These 
enclosures will nevertheless undergo modernization work deemed necessary to be able to 
organize the event (as the cities hosting the 2016 Euro football have seen).

Final cost: 12 to 15 billion

As for the provisional budget, it is currently 6.2 billion euros. To these figures, it is 
worth comparing the construction costs usually found for other public facilities: that of 
a primary school with 10 classes is 30 million, that of a regional university hospital is 
400 million. Finally, the annual budget of the City of Paris for the year 2015 was 5.3 
billion euros. The amount required for a one-month event is already dizzy but it is also 
without counting the drifts observed for this type of events. Paris having no reason to 
escape this rule, the final cost of the Games should rather amount to 12 or 15 billion.

The Olympic Games are often seen as a way to "  revitalize  " neighborhoods. Behind this 
word is often hidden the destruction of social habitats or historically neglected. If the 
example of Beijing destroying its historical hutong had in its time shocked, London and 
Rio were no exception. The former northeastern quarter of London has become the prey of 
promoters. When in Rio, there are no more cases of striped areas of the map or of 
expropriated persons, whether they occupy an informal habitat (favelas) or a cadastral 
dwelling in due form. For Paris, the promoters are eyeing the side of the 
Seine-Saint-Denis, the last popular border area of the capital.

Again, examples of deception are abundant and the populations are always the last to be 
served. For Rio, the path of expropriation has been systematically preferred to the 
urbanization of shaved areas, thus creating enormous displacements of population.

The mechanism for achieving these results is now well-rooted. In the first stage, 
construction costs are minimized and the expected benefits are maximized. During the 
organization, new priority costs are disclosed (security, complexity not stated, 
supplements not taken into account), which, since the budget is not infinite, must be 
given priority. Once the event is over, it is clear that the Games have finally been very 
expensive and everything is stopped, leaving behind the promised and rarely completed 
social infrastructures.

Emergency laws to control populations

Like the other major international gatherings (G20, world summits, football Euros), the 
organizing committees impose legislative changes favorable to major sponsors and 
unfavorable to the populations living on the territory concerned. Among the most striking 
examples are the possibility of selling alcohol within the infrastructure ; a possibility 
most of the time prohibited for all national competitions.

The other major part of the emergency laws concerns the prevention of "  overflows  ". 
This case is more subtle because organizing committees rely on existing laws. In the case 
of London, for example, anti-terrorism laws (enhanced in 2001 and 2005 as a result of the 
attacks) already provided a relatively solid base that the IOC simply extended to and 
around sports arenas. For Rio, the social movements opposing the Games were severely 
repressed by several armed groups (police, military, commercial militia) set up for the 
event and little worried in case of abuses.

Is it still possible today to support the world Olympic and sports movement ? Nothing is 
less sure. By forcing the regrouping of the 15,000 athletes under the banner of the 
nations, the Olympic movement already proposes a reading of sport under the sign of 
borders (nationalism). In so doing, the IOC does nothing to limit a xenophobic reading 
with a racist tendency.

After the national segregation comes sexual segregation. Since 1992, the IOC has been 
singling out the mixed events one by one, leaving only tennis where men and women still 
have a mixed doubles event. And this is only the defense of a tradition rather than a 
struggle for equality.

This almost systematic separation maintains a vision centered around the male body. In a 
patriarchal vision of the competition are now systematically organized tests of femininity 
for all athletes in the categories women who perform close to those of men. This practice, 
as in the case of the intersex athlete Caster Semenya, is only the most recent example of 
a long series aimed at demonstrating the superiority of men over the women of whom we are 
praised, large muscle mass (without explaining its causes) or the "  aggressiveness  " 
necessary to overcome oneself.

For all these reasons, the IOC now finds it very difficult to convince the merits of its 
approach. Henceforth, only a few cities are committed and, with the exception of Parisian 
blindness, all have finally renounced, sometimes under popular pressure (as in Budapest or 
Boston). Interesting detail, whenever a referendum on the organization of the Games was 
submitted to the population, they were refused. Anne Hidalgo swept this possibility out of 
hand during her interview on July 14, considering the subject "  too important  " to be 
decided by referendum.

The same disdain was observed on the question of cost control, though far from trivial. A 
simple way to address this problem would be to build all the housing, public facilities, 
transport lines promised by the public authorities to the organizing committee, without 
worrying about who is the best in the 100 meters or the pentathlon. Unfortunately, this 
simple and common sense idea has escaped decision-makers.

Nico (AL Paris-Nord-Est)

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Paris-2024-Les-Jeux-sont-faits-rien-ne-va-plus

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As part of its national campaign to make over 1000 people redundant Fujitsu  is targeting 
a number of reps at its factory in Manchester. The Manchester site has a long history of 
militancy and the 3 reps being target, Ian Allinson, Denis Morris and Lynne Hodge, have 
been active at Fujitsu for many years.
You can get more information about the dispute at: www.ouruniontest.wordpress.com
Send letters of protest to Duncan.Tait@uk.fujitsu.com

http://www.solfed.org.uk/manchester/fujitsu-stop-victimising-reps

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The history of the activities of the Liberal Communist Federation (FCL) and the North 
African Libertarian Movement (MLNA), which formed in 1954 the first luggage carrier 
networks in support of the Algerian resistance. Police repression left the two 
organizations in 1957. ---- The film gives the floor to six actors and actresses of this 
little-known episode of the Algerian War: ---- Line Caminade ---- Georges Fontenis (photo) 
---- Pierre Morain ---- Suzanne Morain ---- Paul Philippe ---- Leandre Valero ---- 
https://vimeo.com/205203011 ---- A forgotten resistance. Libertarians in the Algerian War 
from Alternative libertarian on Vimeo . ---- A film by Daniel Goude and Guillaume 
Lenormant (2001), 30 minutes. ---- 
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Une-resistance-oubliee-Des-libertaires-dans-la-guerre-d-Algerie-1954-1957

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Libertarian socialists' political goals are both radical and ambitious: we seek to replace 
capitalism in its entirety with libertarian socialism. As a result, libertarian socialists 
do not just stand against capitalism as it exists today but also against positions in 
favor of increasing liberalism of markets; positions to reduce regulation of markets by 
external actors, including the government. This is largely because there is more evidence 
that increased market liberalism worsens problems of markets rather than improving or 
resolving them. ---- A fundamental promise of free market liberalism is that market share 
becomes more equitable among competing firms due to increased competition. This means 
firms are both created and go out of business at a higher rate than that which currently 
exists. Assuming this is true, it would mean that both employers and workers would face 
extreme economic uncertainty and therefore have trouble planning economically for the 
future. It'd be harder for workers to plan personal economic decisions and harder for 
employers to make business decisions regarding their firms. Meeting the demand economic 
actors have for stability is one of the many areas where markets particularly fail.

But this argument - that market share would be more equitable among competing firms due to 
increased competition - lacks evidence. All firms seek to increase their market share to 
compete and often firms end up dominating and even monopolizing markets simply by buying 
up their competition. Early industrialists in the U.S. were known for doing this and that 
was a time where there was far less regulation in markets by the government than there is 
today.

Early American industrialism is also known for company towns where one company owned 
nearly everything; from stores to housing to the local government. As a result, all law 
and public policy in these towns was solely for the benefit of the employer and kept the 
rest of the town under complete subjugation. Such was famously the case in West Virginia, 
the site of the mine wars including the Battle of Blair Mountain which was the largest 
insurrection in the United States since the American Civil War.

The Battle of Blair Mountain was a period of mass labor unrest where workers in West 
Virginia organized militantly and fought against private security agents employed by the 
mine company for control over their own lives and town. In early American industrialism, 
this was largely how control by employers over towns was broken; from the bottom-up via 
mass organized working-class resistance. This is because the ordinary town people needed 
to meet their own needs for economic stability and freedom to control their own lives. 
Early American industrialism is noted for its particularly brutal class violence and the 
Battle of Blair Mountain is but one of many examples. Many of these are detailed in the 
book "Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America" by Louis Adamic.

Of course, a state of affairs where workers are free to organize in grassroots and 
militant ways is undesirable for employers and it led to their demanding of all sorts of 
labor laws, from the Railway Labor Act to the Wagner Act and Taft-Hartley. While employers 
lost economic control in company towns and elsewhere due to powerful labor organizing, 
they needed to make sure workers couldn't continue to organize in powerful ways that 
threatened their profit margins and ability to gain market share. This meant they needed 
to make sure unions were controlled from the top down by bureaucrats and that all unions 
had to be legally recognized by a national board to file grievances among other things. 
This was how employers fought back against the working-class' previous powerful organizing 
and actions.

In addition to evidence of worsened economic conditions, evidence also suggests that other 
fundamental problems of markets like social costs including negative externalities would 
be worsened as well by increased market liberalism. Negative externalities are external 
costs employers subject onto everyone else such as air pollution from burning fossil 
fuels, climate change, water and noise pollution and systemic risk like economic crashes. 
Markets do not provide any internal mechanisms to control these costs or put them back 
onto employers. Worse, employers ensure areas most subject to these costs, such as areas 
where major industrial production happens, are in other countries or poorer areas of the 
country, while executives live in luxurious homes in areas where no one will ever see an 
oil refinery, a factory, a mine or a mill.

Libertarian socialists are against capitalism as well as free market liberalism because 
evidence suggests the latter worsens existing problems of markets and makes our economic 
lives more difficult. We instead seek to completely replace capitalism and markets with a 
planned political economy and society that meets our needs for liberty, solidarity and 
equality. Concrete proposals for such economies have come from various libertarian 
socialists like Cornelius Castoriadis, Peter Kropotkin, and Robin Hahnel, among many others.

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On the morning of Monday,  October 2 , a large protest rally was in front of the Iranian 
regime's parliament in response to a call from Soheil Arabi's mother, an anarchist 
political prisoner who hunger strike in Evin prison. ---- Protesters carrying banners and 
banners demanded the release of Soheil Arabi and all prisoners of opinion, as well as 
trade union activists. ---- The courageous Mohammad Maleki, the first rector of Tehran 
University after the anti-monarchist revolution, sent a message of support to the 
movement: " Our dear friend Soheil Arabi has been on hunger strike for several days 
because his legal and legitimate claims are not taken into account . Everyone knows that 
the hunger strike is very dangerous. The innocent mother, after appealing to several 
responsible organizations without a response, calls on all militant people and students to 
accompany Parliament in front of her to save her son's life. I invite the population to 
mobilize on Monday 2 October in front of Parliament to support this suffering mother and 
shout her legitimate demands. "

According to reports, the regime's security forces attacked the demonstrators after a few 
minutes and attempted to disperse them, but they resisted.

Sohiel Arabi's mother thanked the people who participated in the demonstration for the 
release of her son and stated that her state of mind had changed.

The anarchist political prisoner Soheil Arabi is on the 11th day of his hunger strike on 
October 3.

According to reports, a counselor during an interview with him on September 30 would have 
asked him to stop his strike. He had been told that "it would cost the system dearly" if 
he died during the holy month of Mouharram.

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