Αναδημοσίευση από το διαδίκτυο για τα γεγονότα σε ένα κέντρο κράτησης στην Αυστραλία, το αρχικό άρθρο εδώ.

Asylum seekers injured as Christmas Island staff shut down protest over Reza Berati’s death, dozens of detainees moved to ‘red block’
By Karen Barlow and Caitlyn Gribbin
Updated Tue 3 Jun 2014, 7:48pm AEST

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed several asylum seekers were injured when staff shut down a week-long protest at the Christmas Island detention centre yesterday.

The ABC understands around 70 male detainees, who had been protesting to mark 100 days since the death of Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati on Manus Island, were removed by specially trained staff and taken to a high-security facility known as ‘Red Block’.

Mr Morrison has told Parliament some detainees became aggressive and had to be restrained after detention centre operator Serco called in an emergency response team (ERT) and asked all asylum seekers to return to their compound.

“The majority of detainees were compliant however I am advised a small number exhibited non-compliant behaviour,” he said.

“The Serco ERT continued negotiations with those detainees who were refusing to comply. Reports to me suggest some detainees became aggressive and were subsequently restrained and moved [from the area].

“I’m advised that two detainees suffered minor injuries arising from non-compliant behaviour and were treated onsite,” he said.

“A further four were taken to hospital for a range of injuries including suspected sprains or broken bones.

“One detainee has suffered an injury to his wrist. No staff were injured. I’m advised the facility remains calm.”

Witness says most protesters walked away peacefully

The ABC has been contacted by a Christmas Island resident who witnessed yesterday’s events.

The person, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the protests had been peaceful and specially-trained staff removed some asylum seekers yesterday.

“One-by-one the protesters were removed from the group,” the resident said.

“Most got up and walked away voluntarily but some didn’t.

“They were then forcefully removed and in the process several asylum seekers sustained minor injuries.”

The resident said a nurse on the island had reported “several cases of self-harm among the protesters, mainly cuts to arms and chest”.

Greens say reports of ‘terrible’ injuries

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young says she has been contacted by people who work inside the centre who are “very concerned there was an over-reaction” to the protest.

“There are reports that violent clashes have occurred that have left asylum seekers terribly injured,” she said.

“There are reports of people being so badly injured they are now in hospital. Workers inside the centre are afraid for what may happen next.”

The Australian Federal Police have told the ABC they were not involved in ending the protest.

Serco has been sought for comment.

Protest marked 100 days since deadly Manus Island riot

The protest marked 100 days since the death of Iranian man Reza Berati during a riot at the detention centre on Manus Island.

Mr Berati, 23, died during riots which saw another 60 asylum seekers injured, including one man who lost his right eye and another who was shot.

An eyewitness has told investigators a PNG national employed by the Salvation Army led the attack on Mr Berati.

The Salvation Army is acknowledging a former staff member is alleged to have led the attack on Mr Berati and says it will cooperate with all inquiries.

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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/

More than half of those who make $9 or less an hour are 25 or older, while the proportion who are teenagers has declined to just 17 percent from 28 percent in 2000, after adjusting for inflation, according to Janelle Jones and John Schmitt of the Center for Economic Policy Research.

Today’s low-wage workers are also more educated, with 41 percent having at least some college, up from 29 percent in 2000. “Minimum-wage and low-wage workers are older and more educated than 10 or 20 years ago, yet they’re making wages below where they were 10 or 20 years ago after inflation,” said Mr. Schmitt, senior economist at the research center.

“If you look back several decades, workers near the minimum wage were more likely to be teenagers — that’s the stereotype people had. It’s definitely not accurate anymore.”

Δείτε και το video για τους temp workers:

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Την ίδια στιγμή που απελαύνονται χιλιάδες σομαλοί μετανάστες στα πλαίσια της αντι-μεταναστευτικής πολιτικής των τελευταίων μηνών από το κράτος της Σ. Αραβίας (δες video) συνέβη και το ακόλουθο γεγονός:

An illegal migrant has died and nine others were wounded when Saudi police intervened to quell “chaos” at a detention centre in the west of the kingdom, police said Monday.
The casualties fell during a “stampede” at Al-Shumaisi detention centre, south of the holy city of Makkah, where migrants of various nationalities are held pending deportation.
Detainees “tried to cause chaos… resulting in damages to the centre,” Makkah police spokesman Commander Ati al-Qurashi told AFP. He did not elaborate on the nature of the disturbances but said that police “had to intervene” and that a migrant was killed and nine others wounded in a “stampede”.
The spokesman did not provide details on the nationalities of the casualties, the number of illegals held at the centre, or the progress made in their deportation procedures.
Police have been cracking down on illegal migrants since the expiration in early November of a seven-month amnesty during which they had to regularise their status or leave the country.
The operations have sparked deadly clashes, with two Saudis, a Sudanese and another foreigner killed, according to official figures. The Ethiopian embassy in Riyadh has said three Ethiopians were killed in clashes.
More than 307,000 illegal migrants have been expelled since the start of the campaign, according to Saudi authorities.
Nearly a million migrants from various countries took advantage of the amnesty to leave voluntarily, while another four million were able to find employers to sponsor them, a legal requirement in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.

Παρά το σαφή εργατίστικο προσανατολισμό της ανάλυσης του Wildcat αναδημοσιεύουμε το άρθρο γιατί θεωρούμε ότι φωτίζει με ικανοποιητικό τρόπο τα αποτελέσματα αλλά και τις εσωτερικές αντιφάσεις της πολιτικοποίησης των ταραχών στην Αίγυπτο.

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πηγή: http://www.wildcat-www.de/en/eindex.htm

Go to the Afterword from February 2014

For two years, Tahrir Square was the symbol of a radical departure from social ossification and crisis. The military coup in the summer of 2013 ended this phase. The various illusions and hopes were buried with the hundreds that died. Essential parts of the liberal milieus have accepted state-led massacres and mass arrests in the name of ‘defending democracy’. The hope of a state solution to social misery is also lost; the last heirs of Nasserism and trade union movement-hopefuls now sit at the military (side) table. Their vague promises of reform are drowned out by their appeals to peace, order and willingness to work.

In the acute social situation there is currently no room for participation. The movement will have to provide new questions about social revolution and organisation and will have to find new answers. To this end, migrants play an important role.

Egypt’s ruling class

With the fall of President Morsi at the beginning of July 2013, the amalgamation of the state and military apparatus with the economy once again became visible. This form of class power emerged at the end of the Nasser era. In the mid-seventies, the military had lost its role as protectors of an ‘anti-colonial’ state industrialisation, and the bloated military apparatus afterwards found itself new fields of activity in the civil economy after the 1978 peace treaty with Israel. A new model of accumulation developed, particularly during the second, ‘neoliberal’ half of the 30-year long Mubarak regime, which was less based on industrialisation, and more on privatisation, the plundering of social wealth and on state-secured investments in infrastructure (transport, tourism, telecommunications). This model was enforced by a gigantic repressive apparatus, which was detached from any ‘democratic control’. This apparatus included an informal army of baltagiyyas (thugs) and the military courts, which had been installed permanently since the state of emergency in 1981. The uprising in 2011 showed the crisis of this model.

It is still the case that most of the companies are small and medium-sized enterprises, but they are controlled by a very small layer of society through an old boys network, which means that we are dealing with monopolies. In 2010, around 500 families owned financial assets of more than 30 million USD, while 20 families (the ‘core-elite’) owned more than 100 million. The main economic focus of these groups of enterprises is on construction, telecommunications, tourism, food and pharmaceutical production, and (foreign) trade. At the very top stands the Sawiris family, which owns Egypt’s largest construction company and rules over the telecommunications market and the media sector. In the 2000s this new economic elite took over the high command of political power directly; prime examples being Gamal Mubarak and the Nazif government, which came to power in 2004. Politically, they thereby entered into competition with the military apparatus, which manages the factories of the Nasser-ite epoch of industrialisation (consumption goods and arms manufacturing) and which, in addition, started to participate in the business of mass tourism since its boom in the 1990s. In total the military controls 5 to 15 per cent of the national economy.

The military played a significant role in the enforcement of this neoliberal looting because it has the right to confiscate land e.g. for the construction of infrastructure projects, tourist parks, and new industrial zones. This was the cohesive element between the military and the oligarchic elite. The top-layer of the Muslim Brotherhood, which mainly engaged in trade, were part of this arrangement, although, apart from a few exceptions, they were situated rather in the second or third tier. The military and civil top elite is partly Coptic (like the Sawiris) and in general rather secular.

The network of clientelism that was directed towards the masses was organised in ‘religious’ terms. After the privatisation in the 90s, the welfare system (benefits for the poor, education and health care) was split off into a completely deficient and corrupt public sector, an expensive private sector and a third sector comprising the various liberal, islamist and christian charities. The vast NGO sector is based on voluntary and informal labour and, in part, directly organises the informal economic sector.

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Ένας πρόσφυγας που είχε αιτηθεί άσυλο στην Αυστραλία είναι νεκρός, τουλάχιστον ένας ακόμη βρίσκεται σε κρίσιμη κατάσταση και άλλοι 22 νοσηλεύονται στο νοσοκομείο μετά από δύο νύχτες βίαιων ταραχών σε αυστραλιανό υπεράκτιο κέντρο κράτησης μεταναστών στο νησί Μάνους στην Παπούα-Νέα Γουινέα, δήλωσαν αξιωματούχοι την Τρίτη. Ένας από τους τραυματίες με κατάγματα στο κρανίο μεταφέρθηκε ήδη στην Αυστραλία ενώ ένας ακόμη με τραύμα από πυροβολισμό αναμένεται να μεταφερθεί, καθώς η ιατρική κάλυψη στην Παπούα Νέα Γουινέα είναι ελλιπής.
Ο αυστραλός υπουργός Μετανάστευσης Σκοτ Μόρισον, δήλωσε ότι η «είδηση του θανάτου είναι μια μεγάλη τραγωδία», επιβεβαιώνοντας ότι ο νεκρός μετανάστης χτυπήθηκε στο κεφάλι, όταν κρατούμενοι έσπασαν την περίφραξη και επιχείρησαν να φύγουν από το κέντρο αργά τη Δευτέρα.
«Πρόκειται για μια τραγωδία, αλλά ήταν μια πολύ επικίνδυνη κατάσταση, όπου οι άνθρωποι αυτοί αποφάσισαν να διαμαρτυρηθούν με πολύ βίαιο τρόπο και να βγουν έξω από το κέντρο θέτοντας τους εαυτούς τους σε μεγάλο κίνδυνο », είπε ο Μόρισον.
Στα βίαια επεισόδια της Κυριακής τουλάχιστον 19 από τους 1.300 μετανάστες- κρατούμενους στο κέντρο, τραυματίστηκαν και οκτώ συνελήφθησαν. Η εξέγερση των μεταναστών-κρατουμένων ξεκίνησε όταν οι αρχές της Παπούα Νέα Γουινέα, τους ανακοίνωσαν ότι έχουν δυο επιλογές. «Ή να παραμείνουν στο έδαφος της χώρας ή να επιστρέψουν στην πατρίδα τους» καθώς η συντριπτική τους πλειοψηφία προέρχεται από την Ινδονησία. «Δεν υπάρχει η επιλογή μιας τρίτης χώρας» τους ανακοινώθηκε εννοώντας προφανώς ότι δεν μπορούν να μεταβούν στην Αυστραλία που είναι και ο βασικός στόχος όλων των μεταναστών.
Το νησί Μάνους είναι ένα από τα δύο υπεράκτια κέντρα κράτησης μεταναστών και έχει σχεδιαστεί για να στεγάσει όσους φτάνουν παράνομα στην Αυστραλία από την Ινδονησία . Το Ναουρού φιλοξενεί το άλλο κέντρο. Τα περισσότερα από τα κτίρια στο κέντρο στο Ναούρου καταστράφηκαν σε μια άλλη εξέγερση τον Ιούλιο. « Το κέντρο δεν έχει καταστραφεί» είπε επίσης ο αυστραλός υπουργός Μετανάστευσης επισημαίνοντας ότι λειτουργεί κανονικά.

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Θα μπορέσει το κράτος να δημιουργήσει τη συναίνεση του προλεταριάτου των χωρών της πρώτης ζώνης σε μια διαχείριση που στρέφεται ενάντια στους αποκλεισμένους; (από το κείμενο Η άνιση δυναμική της εποχής των ταραχών)

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