Anarchic update news all over the world - 20.02.2018

Today's Topics:

   
1.  CALLING IN THE PANVALIAN-INTERNATIONAL FUTURE 
     OF SOLIDARITY
      IN LIBERTATIA WITHDRAWAL IN THESSALONIKI By APO [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
2.  Poland, WORKERS' INITIATIVE: Resolution of the automotive
      and metallurgical sector from the third meeting of the
      International Union of Solidarity and Combat Network [machine
      translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
3.  London Anarchist Communists: Solidarity With the Mapuche
      (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
4.  London Anarchist Communists: Lords v Commoners Week of
      Action for Land Rights April 14th to 22nd- Land Justice Network
      callout (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
   
5.  Britain, communist anarchism: National Day of Action against
      Universal Credit 1/3/18 (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)


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Message: 1





ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANARCHICAL POLITICAL ORGANIZATION ON THE INTERNATIONAL-ANTI-FOUNDATION 
CONCENTRATIONS IN THESSALONIKI AND ATHENS ---- Shaking the "Macedonian issue" in the 
context of transnational competition and NATO planning in the Balkan region, Eastern 
Europe and the Middle East was a first-class opportunity to mobilize the most conservative 
and reactive social reflexes. In this context, a number of bodies expressing intolerant, 
racist and nationalist delusions, with the support of political parties, state and 
parastatal mechanisms, ecclesiastical, paramilitary and Nazi organizations, called for 
nationalist rallies in Thessaloniki and Athens respectively. It was only a momentary 
picture of what is about to prevail if the state totalitarianism, the war and the 
impoverishment that the state wishes to impose, if nationalisms dominate,

Recognizing that the prospect of warring societies, poverty and misery, the revival of 
nationalism and social order will have disastrous consequences for mankind, and being 
convinced that class and internationalist solidarity among the peoples, the organized 
counterattack of the exploited and the overthrow of the world of capitalism and the state 
at world level can shape the conditions for the creation of a society of prosperity, 
equality, peace and justice, tation, transnational wars and disorienting antagonisms, 
found in streets, on internationalist-antifascist concentrations,Libertatia) and on 4 
February in Athens (where a corresponding group attacked the free self-managed theater and 
was repelled by the security of the area) and we intend to do wherever else we need. 
Together with thousands of militants, anti-fascists and anti-fascists, we set up a barrage 
in the pursuit of nationalist and fascist state reserves while keeping the road of 
solidarity and struggle open, keeping the flame of the Social Revolution on fire and 
living the vision of Anarchy and the Liberal Communism.

We welcome the thousands of demonstrators of anti-fascist mobilizations across Greece. We 
continue on the road of struggle, where the nationalist block and the fascist manhole that 
accompanies it struggle to lift its head. We send a message of international solidarity to 
our comrades in the Balkans and internationally. Only the strengthening of our common 
struggles can sweep the fascist threat.

We participate in the Pan-Balkan-Internationalist Solidarity Demonstration in Libertatia 
Assumption, to be held on Saturday 10th March in Thessaloniki.

Concentration in Kamara at 12 m.

Pre-concentration ahead of Libertatia at 11 am

SOLIDARITY IN  LIBERTATIA  DOWNLOADING THAT WAS INCREASED BY THE NEONAZI AT 21 GENARI IN 
THESSALONIKI.

THE FIRE DOES NOT KNOW - THE FIRE AND WE ARE IN OUR!

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY TO THOSE WHO ARE WORLDWIDE AGAINST WAR, FASHION AND NATIONALITY

DEATH IN PHASE!

http://apo.squathost.com/

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At the invitation of the Spanish Universal Confederation of Labor (CGT) on January 25-28, 
2018, the representatives of the OZZIP Inter-enterprise Commission at VW Poznan 
participated in the meeting of employees of the automotive sector. Below we publish the 
resolution adopted by trade union organizations participating in this meeting. ---- We, 
representatives of trade unions operating in the automotive industry gathered at the 
meeting of the International Trade Union Network Solidarity and Combat, after analyzing 
the various situations and conflicts with which we are currently meeting, we state as 
follows: ---- * We find that international automotive concerns are still blackmailing 
their employees. They threaten to relocate workplaces unless they accept the conditions 
imposed on them, which involve increased flexibility, wage cuts, worsening social 
conditions and worsening other aspects of work that negatively affect our health. The last 
conflicts took place in VW-Lisbon, VW-Poznan and Opel-Zaragoza. We express our full 
support for employees and workers who are victims of such blackmail, as well as calling 
the bosses to withdraw and stop similar practices.

* Employment conditions in the automotive sector have been progressing and unacceptably 
deteriorating in recent decades. Temporary employment forms, or subcontracting, only serve 
to increase corporate profits at the expense of worsening employment conditions of the 
entire crew.

* An example of the fight against temporary employment may be the protest action at the 
Renault factory in Valladolid (France), which proved that this type of employment is a 
violation of the law. We call on all trade unions as well as employees and employees of 
the automotive sector to demand indefinite contracts for each position, as well as to 
include subcontractors' crews for the general staff of the parent company.

* It should be remembered that the ruling politicians also bear responsibility for this 
state of affairs. They do not take into account employees' interests, they give in to the 
blackmail of international concerns and often provide them with support from public funds, 
for which the whole society pays. We also condemn the support of almost all governments of 
international agreements such as CETA or TTIP, which clearly strike the rights and 
interests of employees.

* We condemn the concept of a new industrialization of technology (the so-called Industry 
4.0) threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs around the world. We provide our support to 
everyone who, just like our colleagues from Germany recently, are fighting for solutions 
beneficial to employees. The only decent and possible alternative is to shorten the crew's 
working time without reducing wages, lowering the retirement age and imposing and 
effective enforcement by the government of taxes for the largest beneficiaries of new 
technologies.

* We observe with concern the deteriorating health condition of employees and workers, 
including the youngest ones, caused by the pressure and repetition of performed activities 
and the lack of proper prevention and medical care. We demand that the companies take care 
of and guarantee crews work in conditions that do not jeopardize their health from the 
moment of employment until retirement. We also demand the restoration of less burdensome 
jobs that may be performed by people who are ill or not fully functional. We believe that 
health care must be a daily concern for every employee, not the topic of interest only on 
April 28 (International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Work Accidents and Occupational 
Diseases).

* In the automotive sector, women are always a minority with difficult access to career 
advancement. Bearing in mind the unstable situation of women working in all sectors, we 
call for support for the general strike convened on March 8, 2018.

* The car industry should become more involved in environmental protection. Current 
technologies may threaten the survival of our planet. We focus on the development of 
public transport, as well as on the production of non-polluting vehicles.

In connection with the above issues and the development of trade union activities around 
the world, we call on all employees and employees of the automotive sector to fight for 
decent working conditions and a better future for all of us.

Fight is the only way

Trade Union Section of CGT in Volkswagen plants in Navarra (Spain)
SI COBAS - Inter-branch Association "Upward Committees" (Italy)
Workers' representative from Volkswagen plant in Palmeli (Portugal)
Intercompany Commission OZZ Employee Initiative at Volkswagen Poznan (Poland)
Solidaires Union Section in Renault ( France)
CGT Trade Union Section at SEAT in Martorell and Zona Franca (Spain)
CGT Trade Union Section at Renault in Valladolid (Spain)
Association of Metalworkers CSP-Conlutas (Brazil)
Union Section COBAS in Pirelli (Italy)
Section of the CGT in Iveco factories (Spain)
Solidaires Union Section in the PSA Group (Peugeot, Citroën) plants in Aulnay (France)
Solidaires Union Section in the Renault plant in Vincourt (France)
TIE Transnational Information Excchange - the group supporting workers' struggle (Germany)

http://ozzip.pl/teksty/informacje/zagranica/item/2336-rezolucja-sektora-motoryzacyjnego-i-metalurgicznego-z-trzeciego-spotkania-miedzynarodowej-zwiazkowej-sieci-solidarnosci-i-walk

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Message: 3






Benetton is exploiting huge areas of stolen land in Argentina paid for in the blood of the 
indigenous Mapuche people. The Mapuche people have faced violence, persecution and 
imprisonment for not wanting to give up their ancestral homes to logging firms, and the 
clothing giant Benetton. ---- In 2017 at a demo blocking Benetton's headquarters, the 
anarchist Santiago Maldonado disappeared. His body was found two months later near to 
where he was last seen being chased by the police. ---- On the day of Santiago's burial, 
the Mapuche community of Bariloche faced a violent eviction which resulted in the death of 
Rafael Nahuel, who was shot in the back. ---- The Mapuche people and Argentinian 
anarchists have asked for solidarity actions across the world to raise awareness of what 
is happening, targetting both Benetton and the Argentinian state.
Protests and other actions have already taken place this month in Britain, Greece, Italy, 
Wales and Germany.

https://londonacg.blogspot.co.il/2018/02/solidarity-with-mapuche.html

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Message: 4





It's time This is a call out to groups and individuals all over the country who think that 
the time has come for us to have more control of our land. In order to draw attention to 
this injustice, we invite you to organise an event in your area between the 14th and 22nd 
of April. This could be a public meeting or protest with leafleting or maybe a banner 
drop, occupation or mass trespass. for change Join us and make the call for land justice 
echo around the country. get in touch via: landjusticeuk@gmail.com www.landjustice.uk ---- 
On Saturday April 14th, the Land Justice Network will be holding a walking tour of two of 
the wealthiest boroughs in London, yet where many still live in poverty: Westminster, 
owned largely by the Duke of Westminster, and Kensington and Chelsea, where the Earl of 
Cadogan owns 93 acres. Here we can see the massive area that has been taken from the 
people centuries ago, and now home to some of the richest landowners, investors and 
property speculators. By accident of birth these privileged individuals inherit a life of 
luxury, and by use of trusts they avoid the inheritance taxes everyone else is required to 
pay, so enabling the grossly unequal distribution of land to continue.
Is it right that the rich can avoid paying their taxes and that their land and wealth 
continues to grow at the expense of the rest of society? In the countryside, large 
landowners dominate agriculture, squeezing out small farmers and collective farming. 
Agriculture workers are poorly paid and struggle to find housing that they can afford.
Huge tracts of land are turned over to grouse moors to provide the rich with space for 
their destructive pasttimes. Our freedom to walk and enjoy nature is largely restricted to 
a limited network of ‘rights of way'. In the cities, land is also unequally distributed, 
owned by a combination of traditional aristocrats and their modern-day equivalent:
offshore companies and institutional investors. Increasingly homes are now owned by 
buy-to-let landlords rather than by individual home owners or social landlords. All of 
this forces up the cost of living for those who have to rent. Tenants have little security 
with standard tenancies running for just 6 months. There are no controls on rent, so now 
on average people pay a quarter of their wages to their landlord, while in London its 
roughly half their salary. Even those who manage to buy their own home rarely own it 
outright until late in life. Most people are stuck paying a big chunk of their salary on 
their mortgage every month, with the worry that if they lose their job they could lose 
their home too. In the last 6 years homelessness has dramatically increased. It is obscene 
that in this day and age so many people do not have a secure home. This could be achieved 
if the £9.3 billion a year paid in Housing Benefit to wealthy landlords was instead used 
to build social housing in all communities. Urban areas also need well managed parks, 
community gardens and allotments, so that everyone has access to nature and the 
opportunity to grow food. But increasingly these spaces are being sold off or rented out 
to private companies for events - so damaging the parks and shutting out local residents 
for lengthy periods of time.

Land ownership in Britain is one of the most unequal in the world: 0.06% of the population 
- 36,000 people - own 50% of the rural land of England & Wales. Source: Country Land & 
Business Association (CLA) Land inequality is both a rural and urban issue. More than a 
third of our land is still owned by the aristocracy, whose ancestors seized it during the 
Norman Conquest. By fencing off land and using violence to exclude people, landowners (the 
lords) have deprived the rest of us of what should be a shared resource. The vast majority 
of us, the commoners, own little or nothing. Even most of the land that was once declared 
common land (for local use) has been taken away from us. Land saved for community use, 
such as for hospitals, fire stations, school playing fields, is increasingly being sold 
off and asset stripped by private developers. Land issues lie at the heart of so much 
inequality and environmental degradation in society today. Landowners are able to control 
and exploit our natural resources and force the rest of us to be beholden to them for 
food, shelter and other needs. Despite their huge wealth, our taxes are used to pay 
landowner £billions in farming subsidies and housing benefit, increasing inequality still 
further.

In the countryside, large landowners dominate agriculture, squeezing out small farmers and 
collective farming. Agriculture workers are poorly paid and struggle to find housing that 
they can afford. Huge tracts of land are turned over to grouse moors to provide the rich 
with space for their destructive pasttimes. Our freedom to walk and enjoy nature is 
largely restricted to a limited network of ‘rights of way'. In the cities, land is also 
unequally distributed, owned by a combination of traditional aristocrats and their 
modern-day equivalent: offshore companies and institutional investors. Increasingly homes 
are now owned by buy-to-let landlords rather than by individual home owners or social 
landlords. All of this forces up the cost of living for those who have to rent. Tenants 
have little security with standard tenancies running for just 6 months. There are no 
controls on rent, so now on average people pay a quarter of their wages to their landlord, 
while in London its roughly half their salary. Even those who manage to buy their own home 
rarely own it outright until late in life. Most people are stuck paying a big chunk of 
their salary on their mortgage every month, with the worry that if they lose their job 
they could lose their home too. In the last 6 years homelessness has dramatically 
increased. It is obscene that in this day and age so many people do not have a secure 
home. This could be achieved if the £9.3 billion a year paid in Housing Benefit to wealthy 
landlords was instead used to build social housing in all communities. Urban areas also 
need well managed parks, community gardens and allotments, so that everyone has access to 
nature and the opportunity to grow food. But increasingly these spaces are being sold off 
or rented out to private companies for events - so damaging the parks and shutting out 
local residents for lengthy periods of time.

Join us and make the call for land justice echo around the country. get in touch via: 
landjusticeuk@gmail.com www.landjustice.uk

https://londonacg.blogspot.co.il/2018/02/lords-v-commoners-week-of-action-for.html

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Message: 5





There will be a national day of action to call for Universal Credit to be scrapped on 
March 1st. We hope local groups will be able to support this and please send details of 
any planned events to mail@dpac.uk.net ---- Day of Action against Universal Credit - local 
protests ---- Brighton - March 1st Clock Tower, Brighton, 10.30 am - 1pm information 
handout ---- https://www.facebook.com/events/327263861014031/ ---- Bristol - March 1st at 
Broadmead Shopping Centre 12 - 2 pm all meeting up in the middle. ---- Please wear black 
if possible. ---- Ceredigion - March 3rd 11am - 1pm Guildhall, Cardigan SA43 1JL ---- 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1725015990888709/ ---- Edinburgh ---- Thurs 1st March  1pm 
(till approx 2.30pm) ---- Leith Jobcentre, 199 Commercial St, Edinburgh EH6 6JF ---- 
Edinburgh action called by Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty - grass-roots 
anti-austerity and disability rights groups invited to participate with their banners and 
stalls.
https://www.facebook.com/events/437482893334245/
Falmouth - March 1st 8-11am at Penryn Jobcentre, Penmarin House, Commercial Rd, Penryn 
TR10 8SB
https://www.facebook.com/events/560750934288894/
Manchester- March 1st at 13:00-15:00
St Peter's Square, Manchester,
https://www.facebook.com/events/382322465513090/
Norwich - Norwich City Hall 12.30 - 2pm
More info 
https://dpac.uk.net/2018/01/national-day-of-action-to-stopandscrap-universal-credit-march-1st/ 
https://dpac.uk.net/2018/01/dpac-position-statement-and-motion-for-union-branches-on-universal-credit/

https://communistanarchism.blogspot.co.il/

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