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Through militant strikes over the last four years, the mostly migrant workforce in the logistics sector in Italy have managed to substantially improve their working conditions. Treated with violent arrogance and regularly defrauded out of a part of their salary in the past, they’ve now won ‘normal’ working conditions in most workplaces.

Because of these achievements, more and more workers are organizing with the rank and file union S.I.Cobas (7.000 members – 150 new inscriptions every week). Without any paid staff, they have organized the sector in a way that enables them to fight together on a national level. Because of this they were able to win strikes  in places where initially, only a small part of the workforce participated in a strike. Moreover, their struggles were a force that were able to integrate the Italian radical left, which strongly supported them.

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The latest short documentary in the Global Uprisings series explores ongoing resistance and self-organization in the midst of the crisis in Spain.  As social conditions continue to deteriorate across Spain, people have been turning to the streets and to each other to find solutions to the crisis. This film tells the story of the massive mobilization that saw millions of people converge on Madrid on March 22, 2014; the story of the proliferation of social centers, community gardens, self-organized food banks; and the story of large-scale housing occupations by and for families that have been evicted. The film pieces together many of the creative ways that people have been coping with crisis and asks what the future may hold for Spain.

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Dozens of protesters torched three banks and a government building in the southern Jordanian city of Maan, after police killed a resident during clashes, officials and witnesses said yesterday. Some 200 anti-government protesters were involved in the riots late Wednesday, the Public Security Department said.
Maan, which suffers from high levels of unemployment, has been the site of violent protests in recent months over worsening economic conditions and what residents say is as a lack of government services. Witnesses said the latest bout of violence broke out after the funeral of 22-year-old protester Qasi al-Amami, who was killed in protests at the weekend during which residents attempted to burn down a courthouse and a policeman was killed. The violence was sparked by a court decision to jail 10 locals for their involvement in clashes at a nearby university in late 2013.
Security officers, meanwhile, fired tear gas canisters to disperse protesters.
The clashes coincided with the anniversary of major protests in the city in 1989 against government economic reforms introduced by the International Monetary Fund that led to major price increases.
Although anti-government protest in Jordan is relatively rare, Maan is a historically active center of political opposition.

Από τη σελίδα http://www.ioakimoglou.net, ένα διάγραμμα που δείχνει την ποσοτική διάσταση της αναδιάρθρωσης και την επιτυχή ως τώρα έκβαση της. Με άλλα λόγια δείχνει γιατί όλα πάνε καλά για το κεφάλαιο και (προσθέτω) όλα θα συνεχίσουν να πηγαίνουν καλά για το κεφάλαιο όσο δεν βγαίνουμε ξανά στο δρόμο να κάνουμε περισσότερα από όσα κάναμε το ’11 και το ’12 αφού η ιστορία μας αποδεικνύει ότι δεν ήταν αρκετά.

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Αναδημοσιεύουμε παρακάτω ένα άρθρο, το οποίο δημοσιεύτηκε στις 20.2.2014 στο Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty και το οποίο επιδιώκει να δώσει ορισμένες απαντήσεις για τη στάση που κράτησε ο στρατός κατά την εξέγερση του Μαϊντάν. Για εμάς, το ζήτημα αυτό αποκτά ιδιαίτερη σημασία για δυο λόγους: Αφενός, από τη στιγμή που ο στρατός δε συμμετείχε στην καταστολή της εξέγερσης του Μαϊντάν τηρώντας υποτίθεται ουδέτερη στάση, ενώ βετεράνοι του αφγανιστάν συμμετείχαν από την αρχή στο Μαϊντάν, υπονομεύεται η άποψη περί (κλασσικού τουλάχιστον) «πραξικοπήματος», η οποία θέλει να αγνοεί τις κινηματικές διαδικασίες που έλαβαν χώρα σε όλη την επικράτεια και διέλυσαν τον ίδιο τον ουκρανικό στρατό ως κομμάτι του σκληρού πυρήνα του κράτους· αφετέρου, επανέρχεται ίσως στη σωστή της βάση η συζήτηση για την «κατάσταση έκτακτης ανάγκης», η οποία με διάφορες παραλλαγές είναι διαδεδομένη στην αριστερή και αντιεξουσιαστική σκέψη τα τελευταία χρόνια. Ναι μεν επαληθεύεται αντίστροφα η ρήση του Σμιτ ότι «κυρίαρχος είναι αυτός που αποφασίζει για την κατάσταση έκτακτης ανάγκης», αφού αποδείχτηκε την κρίσιμη στιγμή ότι ο Γιανουκόβιτς δεν ασκούσε κυρίαρχη εξουσία, αλλά μόνο στη βάση ότι είναι οι βαθύτερες κινηματικές διαδικασίες –στην προκειμένη περίπτωση μια εξεγερτική διαδικασία με όλες τις αντιφάσεις της που αγκαλιάζει το σύνολο σχεδόν της χώρας– που δύνανται να φέρουν το κράτος σε κατάσταση έκτακτης ανάγκης· και, μιλώντας γενικότερα, σε μια επαναστατική κατάσταση.

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Explainer: Will The Ukrainian Army Get Involved In The Country’s Crisis?

By Charles Recknagel

February 20, 2014

The Ukrainian army is coming under mounting pressure from the government to intervene in the country’s political crisis. Here are five things to know about where the military stands.

What has been the military’s position so far?

Up to this point, the Ukrainian armed forces have stayed out of the fray and, until this week, that was in line with the government’s own declared policy.

As recently as January 26, Defense Minister Pavel Lebedev repeated that the army was a neutral force and would not intervene in political matters.

But now, with the announcement of a new “antiterrorist” operation on February 19, the government is openly speaking about involving the army.

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Riot police clashed with 350 squatter families as security forces evicted people from abandoned offices in Rome. This is the latest incident in the rising tide of violence over the mounting economic crisis.

A few people were injured in the clashes as security forces armed with truncheons broke through a crowd of protesters outside. The squatters barricaded themselves inside the building and took to the roof.

Around 100-150 officers entered the building and dragged the residents out, an AFP photographer reported. The families were put into 10 police vans.

The squatters complained about the violence the police inflicted on them.

“They broke in, throwing our belongings out of the window, dragging us along the floor and kicking those who resisted,” one squatter, who did not want to be named, told La Repubblica daily.

“They clubbed us wildly, it was brutal,” Cristiano Armati, a member of the Coordinamento association which had helped occupy the building, told AFP by telephone from hospital, where he was being treated for a broken elbow and cuts to the head.

“It doesn’t end here though. The fight for housing rights will go on,” Armati added.

Another protester was reported to have a broken leg.

It came nine days after the squatters first occupied the building, which is a former state-owned insurance agency.

Currently, 90 properties in Rome are occupied by squatters, and 3,346 evictions were carried in the first six months of 2013 – a 10 percent jump from the first half of 2012 – the city council stated.

The squatters represent a mix of Italians and immigrants, many of whom lost their jobs in the economic crisis.

Meanwhile, Italy’s Panorama magazine investigated property that is currently empty during the crisis, and put the number at 50,000.

To deal with the housing crisis, the government started a new housing plan in March, pledging to double rent subsidies for low earners to 200 million euros ($280 million) for 2014 and 2015. However, the plan came under fire, with critics saying that the sums aren’t enough to tackle the problem.

Πηγή: http://rt.com/news/italy-rome-riots-crisis-092/