Today's Topics:
1. awsm.nz: Wellington Anti-Nazi Demo Report (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. New Zealand, awsm: Save South Yorkshire Women's Aid
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. [Spain] Debbie Bookchin gave a speech at FAL By ANA (pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Plan Vidal: always the
selection, always no ! by Youth Secretariat (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Alternative Libertaire AL Octobre - Italy: The basic
trade unionism is still there (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. [Denmark] Ink attack at the Embassy of Argentina in
Copenhagen By ANA (pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. FALV-IFA, periodico acracia: Invitation to collaborate for
the 7th Anniversary of the newspaper (ca, pt, de, fr, it)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On 28th October over 200 anti-racist and anti-fascist demonstrators successfully blocked
the gates of parliament in Wellington, in opposition to a provocation by fascists and
Alt-Right. The latter had threatened to march into parliament grounds and had been issued
an official permit to do so. ---- The anti-fascists arrived first and assembled outside
the main gates. After about 30 minutes, with the crowd still growing, speeches were given
by various activists and representatives of concerned groups. These included Teanau Tuiono
of the Polynesian Panthers, Golriz Ghahraman who is a newly elected MP and the first in NZ
who came here as a refugee, Arama Rata, the Maori spokesperson for Migrants and Refugee
Rights Coalition, and Karam Shaar, a Syrian refugee and student.
With the speeches over and no sign of the fascists, it almost looked as if they had given
up without even trying. This would probably have been a better option for them, as it
turned out. A handful finally surfaced at a nearby bus shelter. Seeing themselves heavily
outnumbered, they tried to enter the grounds by a side gate. Anticipating this a small
group of anarchist anti-fa broke away, got to the gate first and slammed it locked behind
them before the fascists got to it. Once more supporters arrived, militant members of the
crowd trickled over the low wall next to the gate, in order to confront the Nazis. Minor
tussles resulted but the presence of a plain clothes cop who was accompanying the Nazis
and the rapid arrival of uniformed police, meant further exchanges were mostly verbal.
This included highly intellectual contributions from veteran Nazi Colin King-Ansell
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_King-Ansell ) and the Fuhrer of Masterton, Vaughan
Tocker
(https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/12/07/exclusive-deranged-but-dangerous-right-wing-extremists-in-aotearoa-and-the-dangers-they-pose/.)
After a few minutes the fascists, who were now with a loose police escort, were pressured
by the crowd to move away from parliament and towards Wellington Central Station, about
100m away. Laughter broke out at one point when they reached a zebra crossing and an
anarchist heckler called out "Don't forget to only stand on the white stripes". At this
point the classic fascists of Ansell, Tocker et al were joined by 6 younger Alt-Right
types. They sported Richard Spencer haircuts
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer) and dressed more in the modern Hugo
Boss style than the classic one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss). All were
pursued to their waiting trains.
About 10 minutes later the small number of remaining fascists, were also escorted away in
another direction. The crowd celebrated a job well done, having put the old anti-fascist
slogan "They shall not pass" into full effect, and gradually left.
To sum up the day, it was a complete success. The fascists had a permit to speak on
parliament grounds but never got close to doing that. They were outnumbered 10:1, had
trouble coordinating themselves effectively, couldn't maintain the �reasonable' fa�ade
they had initially tried to present to the media and never held the initiative at any
point. Based on this, it seems the NZ far-Right is in disarray at the moment and will stay
this way if pressure continues against them.
Also See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_cvXNRZhzM
http://www.awsm.nz/2017/11/02/wellington-anti-nazi-demo-report/
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Message: 2
Please see the open letter below from Save South Yorkshire Women's Aid: ---- Dear Sister,
Brother ---- We send this letter requesting your support for our campaign. ---- If you've
not learned of the campaign yet, we've included article link: ---- below.
http://www.thestar.co.uk/our-towns-and-cities/sheffield/a-devastating-blow-to-women-and-girls-campaigners-fight-to-save-last-specialist-domestic-violence-service-in-south-yorkshire-1-8723459
---- Initially, Cllr Chris McGuiness cited the reason for funding withdrawal from the
council to South Yorkshire Women's Aid as lack of funds due to Tory spending cuts. ----
Since then we investigated and published proof that there was over �90 million in council
reserves. ---- This week Cllr Chris McGuiness DMBC cited this campaign as the reason that
the council are not able to fund Women's Aid!
This campaign was only formed because the council withdrew funding and his comments are an
attempt to drive a wedge between the supporting public and the brave staff who are
speaking out about cuts.
His comments are also an attempt to silence these courageous workers.
These are the only front line workers who have been brave enough to go on record and
publicly speak about cuts to Women's Aid centres in the UK.
This is the last Women's Aid in South Yorkshire. It serves communities from Doncaster,
Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and the surrounding villages.
The campaign has recieved huge support from constituents as well as Union Branches and
Political Party Branches across our region and further afield.
We ask that you reply with your name, trade union and any position held as a show of
Solidarity and support.
Yours, in Solidarity, Jen, Amy and the Women's Lives Matter Yorkshire campaigners.
To add our name to the letter below please email:
Womenslivesmatteryorkshire@gmail.com
http://www.awsm.nz/2017/11/03/save-south-yorkshire-womens-aid/
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Message: 3
On October 25, Debbie Bookchin gave a lecture on "Social Ecology and Democratic
Confederalism in Kurdistan" at the Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation of Libertarian Studies (FAL)
in Madrid. The event was attended by a good audience. ---- The concept of democratic
confederalism is based on a proclamation of Abdullah �calan in 2005 and is the ideological
basis of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its related organizations. This
ideological model includes some conceptions of social ecology, as well as Immanuel
Wallerstein's reflections. The practical realization is guided by Murray Bookchin's model
of libertarian municipalism and is currently having an important deployment and
development in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq.
Debbie Bookchin is a journalist and co-editor of " The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies
and the Promise of Direct Democracy, " a collection of essays by her father, Murray
Bookchin. He is also a member of the Institute of Social Ecology, an American educational
institution founded in 1974 by Murray Bookchin and Daniel Chodorkoff, which offers courses
on social ecology, current in relation to anarchism, and develops projects related to
biotechnologies, community food management, etc. publishes the Harbinger, A Journal of
Social Ecology .
fal.cnt.es
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Message: 4
They talked about it, they did it, and are proud of it. On Monday, October 30, the Prime
Minister and the Ministers of National Education and Higher Education presented their "
student plan ". A plan for entry to higher education, based on a renewal of the
post-baccalaureate admission system (APB). ---- While this plan is presented as being
favorable to the future of future students, it is actually once again a drastic selection
that will be put in place. Prioritizing diplomas, schools, students, etc. Entry into
higher education will be, among other things, monitored through the introduction of ", Ie
criteria that must be validated by high school students to enter the field of their
choice. Obtaining a baccalaureate will no longer be a sufficient criterion to continue
your studies. All future students will have to rely on their baccalaureate, French
baccalaureate, and all their high school courses, as well as on their (potential)
extra-curricular activities. The entrance to the university will be conditioned by the
study of the complete school record which puts the high school students in situation of
submission to the teachers and the directors.
To read in the monthly Alternative Libertaire of October 2017: Universities: Selection,
the red line not to cross
Moreover, while the government asserts that the bachelor's right of access to higher
education is guaranteed, it also gives permission to universities, depending on their
possibilities of reception, to refuse students. Guaranteed access rights can only be taken
seriously if they are accompanied by financing that allows the opening of new classes.
Beyond this selection, which reminds us, is in no way linked to " merit ", the plan
insists on the follow-up of high school students during their final year. For example,
with the integration of two weeks dedicated to orientation or the setting up of two "
principal professors " "Accompanying students throughout the year. But these monitoring
processes should be accompanied by the hiring of teachers or at least a consideration of
the workload that will be required. But this is not the case, this monitoring will
therefore be botched by teachers who are exhausted and lacking time. The current APB
system has indeed put more than 50 000 students on the tiles in September 2017, but this
should not be used as an excuse to set up the selection. Moreover the project of "upgrade"
at the entrance to the license is a hypocrisy that hides the selection, but in absolute
terms the idea is just to support the access of all high school students. We therefore
denounce the hypocrisy of this device and we demand a real opening of higher education to all,
Solidarity student unions [1]and UNEF [2]have already clearly denounced the social decline
that this reform represents. It remains now to concretely build, alongside the students
and teachers, the balance of power that will compel the government to review its copy,
starting by allocating to the universities the budgets necessary for their operation and
the reception of all the students. students, without selection !
The case of Higher Education and Research, like that of the Labor Code, stems from the
same logic. It requires the same answer, that of the strike and the street. One more
reason, therefore, for our students and high school students, to mobilize massively on
November 16 alongside the workers against the policy of the Macron government.
The libertarian Alternative Youth Commission
[1] Solidaires Etudiants release of November 2, 2017
[2] UNEF press release of October 30, 2017
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Plan-Vidal-toujours-la-selection-toujours-non
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Message: 5
In Italy, in the 1980s, so-called "basic" trade unions developed , in opposition to the
very moderate line of the three major unions. An inventory of this dynamic, between
anarcho-syndicalist perspectives and institutional lock, with Sandro and Giovanni, two
comrades of the USI. ---- In Italy there are three majority unions. The first, the
Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL), is the main Italian trade union,
linked in the past to the former Italian Communist Party, and which now boasts 5.5 million
members. Then comes the Confederazione Italiana Sindicati Lavoratori (ICFTU), 4 million
adherents, founded in 1948, following the split of the Catholic stream of the CGIL.
Finally, the Unione Italiana del Lavoro (UIL), created in 1950, following a new split,
this time of the Social Democrats (2.2 million members).
Social Regression and Union Bureaucracy
The trade union bureaucracy, from the end of the 1970s, adopted a moderate line that led
in 1980 to the dramatic defeat of the Fiat workers, ushering in a period of regression,
with the passive acceptance of the restructuring of production, causing a progressive
weakening of the majority union structures. To challenge their hegemony, the grassroots
union movement developed in Italy from the late 1980s, apart from Confederate unionism,
especially following the educational strikes of 1986-1987. Subsequently, other basic
unions appeared in the health, the railways, the airports ... but also in some industrial
companies like Fiat, where they remain nevertheless very minority.
Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), which boasts 250,000 members, was born 8 years ago. The
main struggles have been in the steel industry but especially in the company Alitalia. It
is present in industry (Piaggio, FCA which is the new Fiat) and in public transport, and
also occupies an important place in the ASIA (an association for the right to housing).
Apart from USB, we should mention the Comitati di Base (Cobas), and in particular the
CIB-Unicobas (of which Altrascuola-Unicobas is a part), which is an important libertarian
organization covering different sectors (Health, Education, Public Administration )
strongly represented in the education sector as well as among public servants and health
services.
There are 21 operational sections with 5,000 members in 40 cities. Particularly with
regard to public education, CIB-Unicobas fought the inefficiency of job evaluations for
professors, based mainly on questionnaires (Concorsone). In 2000, this system was rejected
after a strike launched at the call of Unicobas and Cobas and very widely followed by more
than 50,000 teachers: on the same occasion, the Minister Luigi Berlinguer resigned from
his post as Minister of Education . On the other hand, there is the Unione Sindacale
Italiana (USI), an anarcho-syndicalist trade union which is gradually expanding in the
public and private sector, with offices in Rome, Milan, Udine, etc. and is present in
about thirty provinces with its national unions. CIB-Unicobas fought the inefficiency of
job evaluations for professors, based primarily on questionnaires (Concorsone). In 2000,
this system was rejected after a strike launched at the call of Unicobas and Cobas and
very widely followed by more than 50,000 teachers: on the same occasion, the Minister
Luigi Berlinguer resigned from his post as Minister of Education . On the other hand,
there is the Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI), an anarcho-syndicalist trade union which is
gradually expanding in the public and private sector, with offices in Rome, Milan, Udine,
etc. and is present in about thirty provinces with its national unions. CIB-Unicobas
fought the inefficiency of job evaluations for professors, based primarily on
questionnaires (Concorsone). In 2000, this system was rejected after a strike launched at
the call of Unicobas and Cobas and very widely followed by more than 50,000 teachers: on
the same occasion, the Minister Luigi Berlinguer resigned from his post as Minister of
Education . On the other hand, there is the Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI), an
anarcho-syndicalist trade union which is gradually expanding in the public and private
sector, with offices in Rome, Milan, Udine, etc. and is present in about thirty provinces
with its national unions.
this system was rejected after a strike launched at the call of Unicobas and Cobas then
very largely followed by more than 50,000 professors: on the same occasion, the minister
Luigi Berlinguer resigned from his post of Minister of Education. On the other hand, there
is the Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI), an anarcho-syndicalist trade union which is
gradually expanding in the public and private sector, with offices in Rome, Milan, Udine,
etc. and is present in about thirty provinces with its national unions. this system was
rejected after a strike launched at the call of Unicobas and Cobas then very largely
followed by more than 50,000 professors: on the same occasion, the minister Luigi
Berlinguer resigned from his post of Minister of Education. On the other hand, there is
the Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI), an anarcho-syndicalist trade union which is gradually
expanding in the public and private sector, with offices in Rome, Milan, Udine, etc. and
is present in about thirty provinces with its national unions. an anarcho-syndicalist
union which is in progressive expansion in the public and private sector, which has
offices in Rome, Milan, Udine, etc. and is present in about thirty provinces with its
national unions. an anarcho-syndicalist union which is in progressive expansion in the
public and private sector, which has offices in Rome, Milan, Udine, etc. and is present in
about thirty provinces with its national unions.
To better understand the state of Italian trade unionism and the dynamics of grassroots
unions, two union members, Sandro from the USI-AIT Milan, and Giovanni from the USB
Livorno, who testify for AL.
Unlike the basic unions whose complex image is not very positive, and whose phenomena of
bureaucratization have grown according to Sandro - promoting power struggles, splits - the
USI-AIT s' is created through local chapters to implement autonomy in union practices. The
ICU rejects the principle of the permanent, which opposes it to the other basic unions.
The practice of rotations every three years is recorded in the statutes.
A practice of rotation inscribed in the statutes
The context, for Giovanni, is this one. Since January 2014, there has been an agreement on
the unique representativeness of workers between the three big Confederate unions and
employers. This agreement tries to limit the presence of other unions in companies. The
principle is to give representativeness to the delegates belonging to the three large
unions signatories of the agreement that support the unique representativeness. Since, if
the majority of the representatives of a company signs an agreement with the majority of
the confederated unions, it is impossible to contest it or to strike. The threat is clear:
either a union accepts the agreement imposed by the others, or it sees itself without
right of representation. This agreement means that the negotiations procedures in the
company must be accepted.
There is clearly talk of anti-strike clauses because the union signing the agreement will
use its influence to avoid a protest by the workers on the same agreement. Most of the
grassroots unions have, of course, denounced this agreement imposed by the Confederate
unions in an attempt to eliminate them." One of the biggest problems we have right now
is the attack on the right to strike in certain sectors "explains Giovanni. This attack
is being waged by the new government and the three big Confederate unions. In Italy, there
is a law, the 146 dating from 1990, which limits the right to strike in the public sectors
(museums, transport and health). Because of this law, before declaring a strike, the union
must activate a procedure by requesting a meeting with the company or the boss. If the
agreement is not made, there is a second meeting to be set up with the prefecture and if
there is still no agreement, a request must be made to the National Guarantee Commission.
In fact, with this law, there is almost never a strike in the public sectors. If a union
takes the initiative of a strike without the agreement, it will have to pay a fine of up
to 20,000 or 30,000 euros. Furthermore, at the moment the government is still discussing a
new law to further limit the right to strike. It would seem that strikes can only be
proclaimed by the majority unions. As the other unions do not have enough enrollments,
they would be denied the right to strike. This would be the worst strike attack ever seen
since the post-war period. If the law passes, all grassroots unions will be swept away.
A phase of reconstruction of the labor movement
" We can certainly continue to think in terms of betrayal of the leaders of the CGIL or
the incapacity of basic unionism " for Sandro and Giovanni. However, it is certain that
the basic unions are limited in their ability to intervene. We must see this as a phase of
reconstruction because the labor movement today is confined. The problem is not only the
adaptation of the unions, but the adaptation of the workers: their freedom, their right to
organize. " We must find a way to organize in the field of representation and that's why
we are talking today about rebuilding unions from workers in the workplace, " trade
unionists conclude.
Lulu (AL Nancy)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Italie-Le-syndicalisme-de-base-est-toujours-la
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Message: 6
On the night between 17 and 18 October, we attacked with ink the entrance of the Argentine
Embassy in Copenhagen. We also wrote the name of Santiago Maldonado and an A on the ball.
---- We did this because the Argentine state is responsible for the disappearance of the
anarchist Santiago Maldonado that happened more than two months ago. A few days after our
action, we learned from the sad news that his body was found lifeless. The state and the
police are responsible! We're angry!
Anarchists
anarchist-ana news agency
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Message: 7
companions and colleagues
We write from the acracia group to invite you to send us contributions, greetings or
whatever you consider convenient for the seven-year anniversary edition of the acracia
newspaper FALV-IFA. We will be receiving your contributions until November 12th.
regards
GRUPO ACRACIA
https://periodicoacracia.com/2017/11/06/invitacion-a-colaborar-por-el-7mo-aniversario-del-periodico-esp-por-eng-ger-fra-ita/
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