CNT-AIT Sevilla, Action in Abril

The recent issue of CNT Sevilla are :

(a)Utrera : the conflict with Prasur is continued, the UGT and the Owner of Prasur said the company will pay off some wages for the workers (all the workers had not paid for 5 months and more) on 14th of April, but today is 18th April and we see no money distribute to the workers who are in real struggle to live. UGT, as the original committe union in Prasur seems to believe the company instead of to see what the workers are struggling thro their life at the moment. “The company is trying to get some loan from the bank to pay off the workers’ wage, but the loan isnt implement because the workers had been protest in the recent months, this give a bad name to the company to invalid the application of loans from the banks”. And the workers couldnt leave their unpaid job for another job research, becuase under the spainish labor law, the workers couldnt leave the job until the court convinced the workers are in right. And the legal process had been taking months already.

about few moth ago, the utrera CNT occupied the abandant UGT office and make a good use for the union activities, this UGT office had been left out in trash before CNT Utrera repoen it again! Altho the judge has no interested in taking sides with the clase oberera, instead of fav the privizilation, even tho the space were convined abandant for a long time with nothing but trash!

(b)Obreras en Lucha : 5 girls who works in Editorial Océano had been sacked for the last few months for fighting over for the contract. In the contract with the company has many illegal statement violated the workers’ right, many also against the labor laws in Spain. The girls started to take action for their right and right after the activites, they were fired by the company, convinced it was under the union activities, however the company argued the reason for their lay off was becuase these girls were Redundant, meanshile the company were doing other recruitment.

new design for the CNT t shirt

I really like this one, if anybody else wants this, and CNT deny it, you can write to me and ask for the permission to use it…. its a good wild cat!

CNT internship/study report

Hola XX

最近台灣似乎很多事，希望你一切安好。西班牙我們說Que Pasa像是英文的What’s up?/What happened?
從三月開始我終於開始上西班牙文課，

這個課程是提供給新移民或是移工或是任何其他來到這裡想學西班牙的人們，課程完全免費，有3-4個老師上不同程度的班級，我上的班是最初階的，因為我來到西班牙把之前學的全都忘光了，有趣的是，在我班上的同學幾乎都是來自於摩洛哥的移民、移民新娘或是移工。上這課對他們來說一般很吃力，因為大部分人在讀跟寫上都有很大的困難，但他們對於日常的談話上比我好很多… 總之，我開始上課，即使進度相當的緩慢。

談到工會的部分，跟之前想像的落差相當的大。之前我來訪的時候，時間太短以至於看不破工會似乎武裝起來的假像。就是說一般的想像還落在那個在西班牙內戰最大工會的假設，但事實上在經過佛朗哥的時代，該殺的全都殺得差不多了，活下來的被佛朗哥的白色恐怖威脅，漂白了一段歷史，這個曾經慘烈的運動到現在，對一般西班牙年青人來說是陌生的。CNT在這個情況，只能從新來過，身為非常小的小工會，CNT通常是工人遇到問題後最後選擇的那個名單裡的一員。不過這不改變CNT對面對每一個案件的處理上的積極態度。

CNT在賽唯爾區算是最積極的比較大的地方工會，總共有500人的工會，在好像1-2百萬人的城市裡，而每個地方的工會都是自主/自治的，因此即使都在安答如西亞區，工會的態度跟性格上差異可能是天嚷之別的，像是賽維爾的CNT就常抱怨Cadiz(西班牙最南方)的CNT只講理論不搞草根工會運動。而兩方在安達如西亞區在對談上也多有爭議。這個部分可以顯出各工會顯著的差異部分。

之前我有給XX過一份英文的安那其工團的ABC，基本上就是CNT的整個組織運作模式，本來我以為是個經典的安那其工會文宣，不過他就是整個CNT的組織運作說明書，若是XX有看資料的話，可以看到最有趣，CNT跟其他工會最不相同的地方，就是他工會內部的組成方式，讓工會運作永遠都不會有權力集中或是權力過大的問題，他的組織一定會保持在一個幾近水平的情況，主要的原因是他們不將工作集中交給某些人手上，(這部分的說法我還要更有組織的寫出來，但是因為我現在在圖書館，只想給XX你寫個我最新的更新，所以這邊我就不先寫那麼多了)總之這造成幾個結果，因為權力非常分散，而對於權力分散的組織來說，似乎在組織裡的人必須在個人上更有能力做自我組織即組織分工的高度彈性與配合力，事實的情況是，所有CNT的成員都是另外有工作，或是自己也承受失業壓力領失業救的勞工，所以組織結構上顯得鬆散。不過就這個部分，我自己的想像是，革命要從生活中做起，所以CNT採取分散權力的作法是非常好的，只是在工會裡的人並不是完全的理解CNT的組織模式，以至於沒有健康的力量產生出新的可能運作模式，這是最大的失敗點，就算工會人人都是組織者，工會裡的人也還是需要再組織來面對「去組織」的工會組織形態。

CNT的工會組織非常新，非常嫩，我認為，比起台灣的工會來說，對於抗爭蠻幹比起去構思與計畫抗爭的程度上高多了，但是工會對於接下的案子上都非常的投注，我想這份絕心也是CNT永遠會不死的最大原因。過去跟XX提到FAI的存在，曾經在多次批評CNT的組織工作落於”太工會化”的說法，這陣子在追FAI對現今經濟危機跟資本主義的批判了解，FAI早無力多年，除了佛朗哥剛死後的那陣子出了較多聲音外，FAI機乎是名存實亡的局面，對於FAI，就我們其他外國來的安那其還有更多的期待，希望FAI可以在這個時代，給 安那其提出一點對現在社會的批判知識。

因為我在工會的工作少又幾乎沒什麼事可做，除了我幫工會做的幾個影片(現在都在我的跨國獨立媒體collective中)，我還幫工會做做小部落格貼紙跟現在要設計他們的工會Tshirt。對我來說實在有點浪費我的實力(呵呵)，所以我提出了幾個計畫，我將在這幾個月策劃一個亞洲紀錄片影展，撥撥小獨立治片的紀錄講講亞洲的運動情況，另外我會連落我在葡萄亞的安那其朋友，想辦法要讓FAI從心在賽維爾起死回生(我的計畫是加入FAI，寫文章跟做教育討論文化運動等等的…)，這邊其實有很多事可作，西班牙牙人笑稱安達如西亞是史前時代，大家都很蠻幹，只是，語言的障礙是我最無法突破的問題。

希望台灣一切都好
Emblack

the anarcho syndicalist attack!! (first part for friends)

“I should not let the world effects me, I am the person who effects the world”. The same stubborn Em that i met a couple of years ago 🙂 I can imagine Sevilla as an hostile environment for you…..

Reading a friend’s email from Bilbao always makes me warm, even tho I remember how damned cold bilbao was in Agust.

Just to realize how every friend keep update with me by reading my blog, I should take it more serious, writing intelligent/interesting issues in Spain. Lets not talk about feelings….

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Some the few important update in europe, one is G20, who didnt invite taiwan(bastard, we are being one of the richest country in the fucking world) has started on the April Fool, to fool everybody, most of our friends are now, convincely protesting in the street with a baseball bet sizes your head, all ready too smash the capitalism once they come closer. I thought we would have some activity in Sevilla, but nope, calm as the morning dawn, last saturday when we were supposed to all go to this national mobilization of CNT’s action day on economic crisis, instead of that the cnt sevilla went to Utrera, another city who had a conflicts had a party(you can see the picture below).

Another one is about NATO, which is going to happen tomorrow at both france and germany, at the edge of the countries are having alternative summit in the village, I image the protest ganna bring some nice consumption to the neighborhood, but also hopefully, there will be some nice discussions. I did the translation of the appeal against it, in the ealier entry, if anybody else interested in reading it in chinese.

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The part about Anarcho syndicalist research/ and the political scene in sevilla.

Just last weekend i had a long conversation about my staying in sevilla with a good comrade from CNT sevilla, who talked to me about his experienced in other city/countries and why he decided to finally come back to sevilla, where he finds he has more mission to finish.

I had reconsidered my research about anarcho syndcilaist movement in Spain into a more depth thinking, I started to wonder if i should include CGT as part of my studies, and thinking about the whole idealistic way of reovlution with anarcho syndicalist in modern world today. And I had also come to understand how small the movement of CNT is in Spain, compare to the numbers of the populations in the spanish civil war, that i finally had woke up from. The fact is, CNT is at its very first beginning after all these 100 years, image how the social/political situation were different back during the warzone, and how the capitliasm model has transfer into what it is today after 2 great world wars and constantly economic recession. the boy in Barcelona told me he didnt believe Marx because he failed on his prophetic on capitalism, while I am think this capitalism is like an asian V-one virus, at this point of how the government are interventing corpotation by taking parts of its stock control. It seems this neo-liberalism economic its facing a new transition again. I always thought this is like the biggest chance for us to come in and break everything, taking back what the people deserved. But it seems like for us, the anarchist are too small, anot not yet half ready for it, and there is very small possiblity we will be able to work with teh lefty again, and the most powerful lefties are thinking just the transition of the power instead of the bottom up government, well, i guess it is hard when the resrouce appears everybody just want grab it for themselves, and the capitalist system can always find its way to survive by living on this greedy nature of humanlity, adjust itself and taking whatever it could to make sure the power doesnt transfer to the people who has nothing. If the world is ganna end, the people who died the first will still be the poor, and afterwards, the rich will start to kill each other.

have the anarcho syndicalist have a vision on such situation? As CNT being an union, everything has to return to the basic daily work on working struggle, coflicts and organizing, mobilization…. CNT had done most of the great work with its very limited militant activist, with its un-brokenable union structure, which prevent any power taking over control of the union work, while it also prevent CNT to be fully organized like lefties groups. But i have my arguments, if the alternative cant apply to an union and grow its solution to be able to organize oursevles under de-centralized how can this be possible after revolution? So I am very positive of seeing CNT grows its way to find the answer, becuase while we are here still struggling to find the answer with the organizing inside the union sometimes. Also, I think the FAI has to restart again bring all its hardcore-ass theorical on capitalism and the whole fucking world system, even tho i know some of the CNT would complain it so much, beusae FAI used to criticize them on the union work, but having both group exist is the best way to maintain the possibility of both of us to grown into a real militant/intelligent anarchist movement, where we have not only base organizing but powerful words as weapon to attack capitalism/leftism and knowledge oursevles as much as we can.

It seems like the things are getting interested while I am writting this, thinking about it makes me happy.

I will spent april and may making contact to the FAI again, find out about how it was doing and how to make it alive again, for my researchs, i started to have a more clear idean and plans, i will make details research of the union organizing in these months. the whole structure will be coming up after these 2 months two, hopefully!

and….. about the animal liberations (fuck your “pure” human liberaions)

While last weekend I also met the first vegan activist in sevilla, who belongs to a vegan groupo called “13 monkeys”. This pretty face skinhead boy told me we will be in contact soon, and my dearest friend Adri is coming back to SEvilla TODAY!!!! if not the revolution now, what else? ;D