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εισήγηση της συλλογικότητας Doorbraak για την εκδήλωση που διοργανώθηκε στις 22/9/16 στο Αυτόνομο Στέκι

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Skya's logo.

Ευχαριστούμε για την πρόσκληση και την φιλοξενία στην Αθήνα. Χαιρόμαστε πολύ που βρισκόμαστε εδώ. Αρχικά θα μιλήσουμε για την συλλογικότητά μας και πώς ασχοληθήκαμε ενεργά με τους αγώνες ενάντια στην επιβεβλημένη εργασία στους άνεργους και τις άνεργες. Έπειτα θα εξηγήσουμε το σύστημα της επιβολής της εργασίας στην Ολλανδία και τις τάσεις του καπιταλισμού με τις οποίες συνδέεται. Στη συνέχεια θα

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On forced labour in the Netherlands

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Skya's logo.

Yesterday evening two Doorbraak activists gave a talk in Athens on workfare and forced labour in the Netherlands. The meeting was organized by SKYA and some seventy people attended. The debate afterwards was very inspiring. In October SKYA activists will come to the Netherlands to give two talks. In Nijmegen they will speak about the refugee and antifascist stuggles in

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DZB “successfully” bullies the unemployed

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Het oude logo van DZB. Het dakje dat ooit stond voor het sociale en beschermende karakter van het bedrijf is al ruim een jaar geleden uit het logo verwijderd. (Hier werden we onlangs door een kritische medewerker op gewezen.)

If you read the annual reports and other stories by the reintegration company DZB in Leiden you regularly come across the word “success”, often without any explanation of what is actually meant by this. So what is success in the reintegration industry, according to DZB and according to us? The original text in Dutch Translated by Jet As a naive

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Spring 2016: an unexpected movement

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A call for more protests.

French social climate warms up From the beginning of the year, following the announcement of the labor code reform (“El-Khomri law” or “labor law”), presented to the Council of Ministers on March 9, several demonstrations have been called by the unions. If the CFDT (1) (followed by the CFTC, UNSA and CFE-CGC – the last union modifying its position later) was

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“The government is kicking refugee children around like a football”

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Demotour.

Abeda, Akwazi and their little boys Baako and Kojo are living in one of the family accommodations for refugee families. Each day they personally experience what it is like to live in this kind of a semi-prison, under a strict regime and with only the bare minimum of facilities available. On May 21 – 22 and May 28 – 29

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Many welfare recipients again obliged to more than six weeks of forced labour in Leiden

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Despite repeated promises many welfare recipients in Leiden are still being obliged to do forced labour for more than six weeks. After this first period of six weeks the work is supposed to be ‘voluntary’ but anyone talking to the forced labourers knows that this is hardly voluntary. Because who would dare to say “no” to those who can cut

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Experimenting with social welfare: join the destroyers, otherwise you are ‘negative’

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No, De Ridder, we're not coming round for a talk.

What are the reactions of politicians and others to our criticisms regarding their experiments with benefit receivers? In the first instance they extend an invitation to discuss, to contribute to the design and implementation. If we do not accept, then they label us as ‘negative’. And if we keep on rejecting and criticising, then finally there will be a crackdown.

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Les Indigènes, a good example for the Dutch anti-racist movement?

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An interview on the anti-colonial organization Les Indigènes, and their role in the Leftist and anti-racism movements in France. Late 2014, early 2015, a debate took place in the Netherlands between various leftist organizations and Sandew Hira, a historian who has taken the initiative, together with others, to build the Decolonize The Mind (DTM) movement in the Netherlands. The debate

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La vague raciste qui frappe les Pays-Bas rencontre une certaine opposition

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Les Pays-Bas connaissent en ce moment une vague de racisme, qui prend parfois des formes ouvertement violentes, lors d’actions et de mobilisations de rue, principalement contre des réfugiés et leur installation dans des centres d’accueil.(1) Des mobilisations de rue au caractère particulièrement intimidant ont eu lieu dans des villes ou des villages où des conseils municipaux devaient débattre pour savoir

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