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CHILE : "I just know it's not Marx. It's more like Bakunin."

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Today is the time of organizations, collectives, hoods and horizontality. The government, didn’t understand that this is a struggle that began long before the return to democracy, since it was a struggle by which we all stand up, pobladores (small poor family farmers), students, workers, stay-at-home mom and dad, children and young people who wanted a new Social Contract that would include everyone.

But in the end, we obtained, a social pact at the level of political parties, which did not include anyone but themselves. Moreover, they have been legislating agreements that have benefited them and through them to the great fortunes of Chile. We already said it at the end of the 80s, that what was born was a partitocracy, since the only way that is observed and allowed to represent or be a representative is through political parties.

In the 90s, a new way of connecting and acting was devised, which questions the authoritarian and exclusive structure of traditional organizations. However, with practices brought from the 80's, organizations have been built that have slowly been co-opted and impregnated with authoritarianism and untrue leadership (This doesn’t mean that a “true” leadership could exist or be acceptable). However, there are still organizations whose objective is still the inclusive Social Contract, and it is these who manifest themselves without leaders, without representative and manage to permeate the entire society, which slowly discovers its strength and its solidarity of struggle.

This fight in almost 4 weeks has managed to make visible in an active and alarming way the most urgent demands, which have nothing to do with the $ 30 metro ticket’s price, but much more with the looters who are returning the stolen goods to the people, or with the case of the dry rivers, with many people unable to feed their animals or maintain their crops, while a single “señor” can keeps many hectares very well watered. Today, as well as those rivers that return to their flow, the people as a whole, through social and popular organizations, far from parties that have been for many decades directors of the struggles, have also begun to walk in a way of self-representation, taking action and speaking by them selves, pointing to the profound changes that question this model of radical capitalism.

Participation of ZSP-IWA in Women's Day Protests

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Always conscious of the origins of the March 8 holiday, the ZSP participated in protest actions in Warsaw and in Wroclaw, calling all the time for strikes and other direct action against exploitation and all forms of discrimination and domination.

In Warsaw comrades participated in the 20th annual women's demonstration called Manifa. It has often participated but sometimes critically, against aspects of positions which are not in line with our perspective. This year was the same critical perspective, but it was noted that the worst (neo) liberal and bourgeois feminist factions have abandoned this demonstration, thus making it have at least a more leftist character with more space for social politics. Many people welcomed a more radical perspective, which is something that has been changing over recent years.

ZSP in Warsaw decided to address the fact that although the recent slogan of „women's strike” originated in Poland, there is no strike movement. We had long ago reacted critically to the use of the label „strike” to describe any protest action, which was how it was used and is often used here and insist that this cannot substitute real strike action for which fighting organizations are necessary.

Chronicle of March 8th in Granada

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Newly started the year, the Section of Feminisms of the Granada CNT-AIT began campaigning for a feminist general 24-hour strike. Initially, we tried to join the Andalusian Coordination but soon we left the local
coordination of the unitary platform because their assemblies were gender mixed and our line is not mixed from the outset, so we decided to continue on our own and make things our way.

For two months we'd covered the city with propaganda calling the strike and explaining the many reasons that assist women to protest against the patriarchal and capitalist system. We also have a section on "From the
Roots", a project of free radio that is broadcast on many free radio stations around the whole State. The program’s name is "In my hometown square” and, coinciding with preparations for the 8M strike, we have issued our own program on feminist struggle." Also propaganda cribs have been issued in favour of the strike and the actions around it.

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CHILE : "Solo sé que no es Marx. Es mas bien Bakunin"

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Hoy es el tiempo de las organizaciones, de los colectivos, de las capuchas y de las horizontalidades. El gobierno, a parte de no entender que esto es una lucha que comenzó mucho antes del regreso a la democracia, ya que era una lucha por la cual nos levantamos pobladores y pobladoras, estudiantes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, dueñas y dueños de casa, niños, niñas, y jovenes que queriamos un nuevo Contrato Social que incluyera a todos y todas.

Pero al final, que obtuvimos, un pacto social a nivel de partidos politicos, el cual no incluyó a nadie mas que a ellos mismos. Es mas, han estado legislando acuerdos que les han beneficiado y a traves de ellos a las grandes fortunas de Chile. Ya lo deciamos a fines de los 80, que lo que nacia era una partitocracia, ya que la única forma que se observa y se permite para representar o ser representante es a traves de los partidos politicos.

En los 90, se gestó una nueva forma de relacionarse y actuar, la cual cuestiona la estructura autoritaria y excluyente de las organizaciones tradicionales. Sin embargo, con practicas traidas de los años 80´s, se han construidos organizaciones que lentamente han sido cooptadas e impregnadas de autoritarismo y falsos liderazgos (no es que haya un liderazgo verdadero o aceptable). Sin embargo, aun existen organizaciones que su objetivo sigue siendo el Contrato Social inclusivo, y son estas quienes se manifiestan sin lideres, sin dirigentes y logran permear a la sociedad toda, que lentamente va descubriendo su fuerza y su solidaridad de lucha.

Esta lucha en casi 4 semanas ha logrado visibilizar de forma activa y preocupante las demandas mas urgentes, que nada tienen que ver con los $30, y algo que muchos de los saqueadores estan reaccionando y devolviendo lo robado a la gente, el caso de las aguas donde habia rios secos, con gente sin poder alimentar a sus animales o mantener sus cultivos, mientras un señor mantiene muchas hectareas muy bien regadas. Hoy, así como esos rios que retoman su caudal, el pueblo en su conjunto, a traves de las organizaciones sociales y populares, lejos de partidos que han sido durante muchas decadas directores de las luchas, tambien ha comenzado a caminar en una via de autorepresentación, el tomar la accion y la palabra, apuntando a los cambios profundos que cuestionan este modelo de capitalismo radical.

Crónica del 8M en Granada

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Recién comenzado el año, la Sección de Feminismos de la CNT-AIT de Granada inició su campaña por la huelga general feminista de 24 horas. Hicimos intentos de sumarnos a la coordinadora andaluza pero nos desligamos de la coordinación local de la plataforma unitaria porque sus asambleas eran mixtas y nosotras llevamos una línea no mixta desde el principio, así que decidimos seguir por nuestra cuenta y hacer las cosas a nuestra manera.

Videoconferencia de la Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores sobre el robo de salarios

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El domingo, 23 de marzo de 2015, el Secretariado de la AIT organizó una videoconferencia sobre el robo de salarios. El propósito era compartir experiencias de conflictos contra los empleadores y, de esta forma, ayudar a otros a actuar de manera más efectiva. Es la primera vez que usamos esta forma de presentación y discusión y el resultado es muy positivo. En la videoconferencia participaron miembros de la organización tanto de Europa como de Estados Unidos, concretamente de la ZSP (AIT Polonia), Portland Solidarity Network (Red de Solidaridad de Portland), Seattle Solidarity Network (Red de Solidaridad de Seattle), Solidarity Federation – Brighton (AIT Reino Unido), ARS (AIT Bulgaria), PA (AIT Eslovaquia), ASI (AIT Serbia) y Masa (Croacia). El asunto fue sumamente práctico y las discusiones tal vez fueran de utilidad para la mayor parte de los afiliados a organizaciones que no cuentan con mucha experiencia a la hora de organizar conflictos.

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