Factories taken, ruled and owned by their workers: Spain 1936? No
That is what happens right now in Argentina: anarchist practices made real by people who, in many cases, do not even consider themselves as anarchists. People start to practice self-management without leaders by people who has just discovered that the leaders are not good for them. They need our support.
On 28th of October the factory caller "Acrometálica", near from the Capital, was taken by its workers, and this results in more than 120 (!!!) factories and enterprises in the hands of their workers, about 10 thousand people!.
Another factory: "Zanon", produces ceramic materials and belongs, (or better, belonged) to the Italian Zanon family. When the owners decided to close it and fire out the workers, they took the factory and started to produce. Now, some squattered social centres in Italy have bought them their ceramics to support their resistance. I paste below their ask for help in Spanish. At the end you can find their address. The text below was taken from "asambleasociales":
http://www.asambleasociales.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=271
Excuse me for my bad English and for not speaking German.
Salud
Ignacio
Another factory: "Zanon", produces ceramic materials and belongs, (or better, belonged) to the Italian Zanon family. When the owners decided to close it and fire out the workers, they took the factory and started to produce. Now, some squattered social centres in Italy have bought them their ceramics to support their resistance. I paste below their ask for help in Spanish. At the end you can find their address. The text below was taken from "asambleasociales":
http://www.asambleasociales.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=271 Excuse me for my bad English and for not speaking German.
Salud
Ignacio
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Besetzte Fabriken, im Besitz ihrer ArbeiterInnen und von ihnen verwaltet: Spanien 1936? Nein
Es passiert vielmehr jetzt in Argentinien: Anarchistische Praxis wird von Menschen verwirklicht, die sich oft nicht einmal selbst als AnarchistInnen verstehen. Diese Menschen haben entdeckt, dass Führer nicht gut für sie sind und beginnen mit der Selbstverwaltung ohne Führer. Sie brauchen unsere Unterstützung.
Am 28.Oktober haben ArbeiterInnen ihre Fabrik „Acrometálica“ besetzt. Das bedeutet, dass nun mehr als 128 (!) Fabriken und Unternehmen in den Händen der ArbeiterInnen sind, etwa 10.000 Leute!
In einer weiteren Fabrik - „Zanon“ - werden keramische Produkte hergestellt; sie gehört, oder besser: gehörte, der italienischen Zanon-Familie. Als die BesitzerInnen beschlossen, die Fabrik zu schliessen und die ArbeiterInnen rauszuwerfen, haben diese die Fabrik übernommen und zu produzieren begonnen. Jetzt haben einige besetzte soziale Zentren in Italien ihnen die Keramikprodukte abgekauft, um ihren Widerstand zu unterstützen. Unten folgt ihr Aufruf mit der Bitte um Hilfe auf spanisch und ihre Adresse. Den Text findet mensch auf „asambleasociales“.
Tschuldigung fürs schlechte Englisch und dass ich nicht deutsch spreche
(Anm.d.Ü.: No es importante, gracias por la informacion!)
Gruss, Ignacio
Anm.d.Ü: Vielleicht kann ja wer den (spanischen) Aufruf übersetzen?!
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More (bad) transtation to English:
To all organisations of workers, trade unions and of young people in Europe:
The 280 fighting workers of Zanon Ceramics in Neuquen (Patagonia, Argentina) we fight since more than one year against the closure of the factory. In a province marked by a high level of unemployment, in the context of the most serious crisis of Argentina that condemns to many of our brothers to the poverty for lack of an employment, we decided to occupy the factory to defend our job, without neither boss nor supervisors and we have been during more than seven months of production under the control of the workers....
During this period of time, in spite of the pressures, the repressive attempts carried out by the State and the union's bureaucracy, we have shown that only the workers we can guarantee the sources of richness and to guarantee the distribution of the hours of work with our brothers "piqueteros" [=unemployed protesters who practice direct action] in fight from the MTD of Neuquén and the combative organisations of the province.
In this context, we organise ourselves together with the combative movements of the region to propose a workers ruled exit to the crisis that oppress us, through the "Coordinadora del Alto Valle" where organisations of "piqueteros" participate, of "estatales" [=officials?], of teachers, and of other factories. In the meantime we are fighting with the other factories which have been squattered in Argentina and we create the newspaper "Nuestra Lucha" with the slogan "if they touch to one, they touch to all".
We do this call to the internationalist solidarity in order that this slogan be defended by our brothers and sisters of class of the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. We are conscious that our struggle is only one step to show that the workers we are capable, the same here as there, to govern our destinies, the one of our factories and sources of job, and beyond, of the whole society. We think that this solidarity has to be mainly political but at the same time material to help us to resist to the pressures that are exercised against us, and that now emanate even from the government of Berlusconi that defends the interests of the Italian capitalists owners (Zanon family).
We are you determined to continue with this battle that we fight together with the remainder of the ones who in Argentina they decided that the things could not follow the same, and next to our European brothers, youngsters, and workers that take the road of the fight leaded by the general strikes in Italy, Greece, Spain, the fights of the "sans papiers" [=without documentation] in France, the ones who demonstrated against the war in the different countries and the ones who in Seattle, Prague, Nice, Nápoles, Gotteborg, Geneva, etc. faced to the institutions of the great capital.
Let's organise a great movement of solidarity to diffuse and to support the example of the factories taken in Argentina!
Viva the solidarity of the workers and of the youth!
Viva the worker's internationalism!
Directive commission S.O.E.C.N.
Address:
Sindicato de Obreros y Empleados Ceramistas de Neuquén - Filial 21
Las Heras 194
C.P 8300
Neuquén Capital
Argentina
Tel: 443 3164 (you must dial before the numbers of the country and of the province)
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