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(en) die plattform: international panel discussion of anarchist organizations
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Apr 20 04:56:42 GMT 2020
We told you some time ago about the livestream to an international panel discussion of various anarchist organizations about the Corona
virus. You can now watch the entire exciting discussion in English via Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQpCp9MBFj8
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(en) liberta salonica: Interventions in support of the nationwide mobilizations of the workers in the supermarkets
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Apr 20 04:55:02 GMT 2020
Class resistance and labor struggles are not quarantined. ---- Supermarket employees are not alone. ---- The covid-19 pandemic, in addition
to its purely health significance, also acts as a valve to relieve the capitalist crisis and intensify the class exploitation of the labor
force by capital. In this explosive situation, the internal contradictions of capitalism are rapidly rekindling. The new phase of the crisis
of capitalism will have incalculable consequences for those at the base of the social and productive pyramid. The indicators of poverty,
misery and misery are skyrocketing. While those below are groaning under the yoke of state and capitalist barbarism, those in power and
political power, the capitalists and their political staff, are trying in every way to turn the crisis into an opportunity for their own
profitability.
Much of the production process has been suspended due to the pandemic. However, supermarkets are still operating. Employees working in
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(en) [Italy] Solidarity without borders - Mutual support group By A.N.A. (pt) [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Apr 20 04:51:25 GMT 2020
This group was thought by the companions and companions of the Federation Turinese Anarchist. Below the presentation text. ---- What we want
to do? ---- Create bridges that do not leave the most fragile alone, that allow building solid networks of mutual support. ---- They want us
to be isolated, divided, suspicious, to prevent the spread of psycho-police, to demonstrate that surviving the epidemic also depends on our
ability to organize, to fight, to support each other. ---- Will you use a mask? You don't know, you don't want to, you can't order it over
the internet? Look for someone who lives close to you and can help you. ---- Are you alone, fragile and unable to do your shopping? Point
this out here: you can find someone who will lend you a hand and another who you can be useful to, in turn. ---- Were you fined? Want to
know how to make an appeal? Check it out here: you can find someone who gives you the precise directions.
Are you hostage to your work? Are you afraid of losing your place if you protest because you don't feel safe in the factory, in the
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(en) France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL press release: Macron prepares a deconfinement cut for the employers (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Apr 20 04:51:13 GMT 2020
On April 13, Macron announced the gradual start of deconfinement for May 11. But the way he did it reveals the typical contradictions of a
capitalist state which finds that it is overwhelmed by the situation. Contradictions that will have serious consequences. ---- On the one
hand, Macron wants to satisfy employers and economists who are in favor of "reviving growth" as soon as possible. On the other hand, he must
listen to the exhortations of the medical profession to prolong the confinement as long as the country does not have the means to carry out
massive screening. ---- The result is therefore a compromise between our health and corporate profits: a reopening of schools to allow
parents to go to work ... but not cafes and cinemas for example. And screening tests for people with symptoms ... while the virus is
basically spread by the "healthy carriers" that are children and asymptomatic people !
Result: the epidemic will start to rise again. The hospital system will again be overwhelmed. We will experience periods of reconfinement.
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(en) Greece, Disney Horse APO: Intervention in a supermarket in Patras: Class solidarity is our weapon! [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Apr 20 04:49:55 GMT 2020
An intervention took place on Tuesday, April 14, at the Sklavenitis supermarket in El. Venizelou in Patras from the anarchist group "dyne
horse" (member of APO) and comrades -isses. ---- Against employer terrorism; claims are not quarantined. Class solidarity is our weapon!
Banners were hung, texts were read from the duduk and leaflets were distributed to the world and workers. ---- Solidarity with the
supermarket workers who claim adequate self-protection during their work, unhealthy work allowance, test for all employees, filling
vacancies with new staff and not with a sack of existing, compliance with working conditions. ---- Solidarity with health workers and all
sections of the social and class base fighting against the pandemic and the attack of the state and the bosses. ---- To prevent the ongoing
state and capitalist crime.
Not a step back to our needs!
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(en) France, Union Communiste Libertaire AL #304 - Antifascism, Municipal elections: First round, the RN takes root (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Apr 20 04:49:41 GMT 2020
In the context of a global pandemic, the government still maintained the first round. These elections, the National Rally (RN) wanted to use
it as the first springboard for the presidential election of 2022. He generally lost his bet, but consolidated his local positions. ----
hile the media announced a hundred town halls that could potentially switch to the far right, it records results far below its expectations.
First of all, the RN only managed to deposit 430 lists, against 600 in 2014, which testifies to its difficulty in maintaining militant teams
over time. ---- We can think that the RN vote remains mainly a "rejection vote", with an episodic adhesion, and that the continual setbacks
of the party (business, betrayals, embezzlement, ...) have undermined the "dediabolization" started ten years ago years. The number of
official members has thus dropped to 20,000, compared to 50,000 claimed in 2017. Thus, in many regions (notably Île-de-France), the presence
of the RN was minimal, or even zero.
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(en) France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL -AL #304 - Media actions: A good image is worth a thousand words (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Apr 20 04:32:27 GMT 2020
Many movements, especially in the field of ecology, have as main strategy that to challenge "public opinion" so as to put pressure on
"decision makers". Carrying out symbolic actions to strike a blow at the spirits and cast a blame on those responsible, they become
dependent on the dominant media and social networks to reach out widely. Can we avoid this contradiction Is the end worth the means ? ----
In 1986, six months after its founding, Act-Up hung a banner on the towers of Notre-Dame de Paris to denounce the attitude of the Catholic
Church towards the AIDS epidemic. ---- Today, it is in particular the environmental movements which mainly use this strategy: to challenge
public opinion by denouncing by symbolic actions the responsibility of companies and institutions, to create a massive reprobation to force
them to move. This is a different strategy from the one traditionally used by wrestling unionism, the main tool of which is the strike,
which on the one hand produces economic pressure and, on the other hand, allows workers to self-organize in struggle.
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(en) Britain, Class War Daily 13 April 2020: The government's message to NHS staff - IT'S YOUR FAULT - YOU'RE AT RISK
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Mon Apr 20 04:32:11 GMT 2020
A SHORTAGE of personal protective equipment is leaving NHS workers at risk - so far over 20 have died of Covid-19. But in Friday's press
briefing, health minister Matt Hancock blamed care staff themselves for the shortage, accusing them of misusing it. Here's what he said:
"There's enough PPE to go round, but only if it's used in line with our guidance. We need everyone to treat PPE like the precious resource
that it is. That means only using it when there's a clinical need, and not using more than is needed... Many items of PPE can be used for a
whole session, not be changed after treating each individual patient." He then repeated: "There's enough PPE to go round."
OUR CARE HOMES HAVE BECOME CHARNEL HOUSES
MATT "HERCULES" HANCOCK
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(en) Greece, vogliamo tutto: Solidarity in the struggles of prisoners [machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sun Apr 19 06:11:45 GMT 2020
Recently, a series of mobilizations have been taking place in prisons in many countries. The main measures taken by the states to "deal"
with the COVID-19 pandemic in prisons were bans on visits, meetings with lawyers and the sending of objects. These measures make the
condition of incarceration even more horrific, while they are obviously in no way related to any kind of realistic treatment of the pandemic
in prisons. The Italian prisoners of war fought against these measures, which turned into the largest revolt of prisoners in the modern
history of the Italian state (in 28 prisons), during which many escapes took place. Competitive mobilizations took place in the prisons of
Spain, France and other countries.
The Greek state took similar measures. Thus, there were many mobilizations in the prisons of Larissa, Chania, Korydallos and Agios Stefanos.
These mobilizations came to demonstrate the murderous state indifference, demanding that measures be taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19
within the walls. They aim to satisfy demands such as the (announced) decongestion of prisons through the release of people with small
sentences or people belonging to vulnerable groups (the elderly, drug addicts, chronically ill people), access to self-defense means,
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(en) France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL - Webdito, Trajectories towards group immunity: confinement vs laissez-faire (fr, it, pt)[machine translation]
a-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Sun Apr 19 06:09:39 GMT 2020
By not confining the population, group immunity can be achieved fairly quickly, but at the cost of a massacre. By confining the population,
we slow down the spread of the epidemic, giving the hospital system time to adapt, and making it possible to carry out a massive screening
campaign ... provided that we have the material means (masks, kits test). The French state, after sabotaging the public health service for
years, oscillated between the two strategies before resolving to containment. ---- If the so-called "total containment " strategyis today
rather well accepted in France, several States are still resistant to it. In Europe, Switzerland and Germany, for example, are still in
"partial containment". Sweden, it is downright still not confined, despite more than 400 deaths due to Covid-19 (figures from April 5).
Outside Europe, Trump and Bolsonaro continue to minimize the current pandemic and refuse to order containment, in the name of saving the
economy.
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