ANOTHER FUTURE FOR HEALTH Revolution through health, health through Revolution Digest of international information from health and care workers, from an anarchosyndicalist perspective #2 – second semester 2020 When we produced the first issue of this digest, in Summer 2020, we were only at the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, after the end of the first lockdown. We were already presenting that we were living historic times, with dramatic consequences for millions of people on earth, but we did not imagine that the situation would continue and even worsen 6 months later. Workers in the health and care sector are on the front lines in fighting the disease. The State has asked them to make superhuman efforts, and it continues. A new world is emerging on the horizon, which we fear will be more authoritarian than ever, and that in the name of health. More than ever, it seems important to us that health workers in different countries can inform each other about their respective situation, because in a globalized world we are all interdependent. Beyond analyzes of the situation, examples of resistance implemented in a self-organized way by the workers themselves can also inspire us and encourage us in our struggles This digest is made by health workers from CNT-AIT France. We are the section in France of the AIT (International Workers’ Association, IWA). The CNT-AIT brings together workers who identify with the principles, tactics and goals of anarchosyndicalism. With this bulletin we want to contribute to a work of collective critical reflection, beyond borders. We have chosen and collected texts produced by different groups around the world, which are active in the health and care sector. Some of these groups are, for the most part, members or friends of AIT, others do not belong to our international, but with all of them we maintain fraternal and reciprocal contacts. It emerges from these articles that overall the situation is the same everywhere: lack of resources, lack of training, personnel sacrificed by the lack of preparation of the health services which have been destroyed for several years in the name of managerial efficiency and financial profitability. We can see today the effectiveness of these restructurings ... This disorganization and this chaos itself are not the fruits of chance, they are not due to anarchists, they are the result of the combined action of the State and of Capitalism. To save humanity, we have no choice but to organize ourselves collectively to end the state and capitalism. If you wish to continue receiving this newsletter, contact us at [email protected] "Anarchy is the highest expression of Order. »(E RECLUS) Let’s finish with the Chaos of State and Capitalism! SUMMARY [FRANCE] PARIS, HEALTH WORKERS DEMONSTRATION, JUNE 16, 2020 ...................................................................... 2 [FRANCE] ANOTHER FUTURE FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH ................................................................................................ 3 CLAUDE BERNARD, BACHELARD AND FEYERABEND: THREE SCIENTISTS AGAINST SCIENTISM ..................................... 6 [FRANCE] IN HEALTH SERVICES AS EVERYWHERE: WORK AND DIE ............................................................................... 8 HISTORY: HOW DID SPANISH ANARCHOSYNDICALISTS MANAGEDS THE PUBLIC HEALTH DURING THE 36’S REVOLUTION? (AN EXAMPLE OF LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM APPLIED IN ACUTE HEALTH CRISIS TIME) .................... 9 NURSING HOMES, HOSPITALS: TO EXHAUST AT WORK FOR A WAGE OF MISERY? (STICKER] .................................... 12 FREE MASKS FOR ALL ![STICKER] ................................................................................................................................. 12 1 [SPAIN] PUBLIC HEALTH PRIVATIZATION, THE SPANISH HEALTH NIGHTMARE … ....................................................... 12 [SPAIN] AGAINST WAGE INSECURITY IN RETIREMENT HOMES AND NURSING HOMES!............................................. 13 [SPAIN] AT THE "L’ARBOC" NURSING HOME, THE MANAGEMENT REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE THE CNT-AIT SECTION . 14 [UKRAINE] WORTHY SALARY FOR THE NURSES! ......................................................................................................... 15 [BULGARIA ] THE PANDEMIC AS A CLASS WAR AGAINST WORKERS ............................................................................ 16 [BULGARIA] CRACKDOWN ON STRIKING HEALTH WORKERS ...................................................................................... 18 [BULGARIA/AUSTRIA] SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLE OF BULGARIAN NURSES ..................................................... 19 [BULGARIA/AUSTRIA] SARS-COV-2 AID DELIVERY HAS ARRIVED IN BULGARIA! .......................................................... 20 [AUSTRIA] POLITICAL DISCRIMINATION AT THE RED CROSS ....................................................................................... 21 [GERMANY] PROTEST MARCH AGAINST HEALTH CARE CRISIS IN COLOGNE .............................................................. 23 [IRAN] DEMONSTRATION OF THE MEDICAL STUDENTS OF TABRIZ ............................................................................ 24 [BANGLADESH] DISTRIBUTION OF WASHABLE MASKS TO TEA WORKERS .................................................................. 24 [UK] REDUCED LIFE = REDUCED WORK (THE WORK/LIFE BALANCE) .......................................................................... 25 [UK] THE ALARMING RISE OF BRANSON'S VIRGIN CARE AND THE THREAT TO THE NHS ............................................ 25 [UK] WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY- BREAKING THE TABOO IS EVERYONE’S RESPONSIBILITY. ........................... 27 [SERBIA] DRAMATIC SITUATION IN HOSPITALS ........................................................................................................... 28 [POLAND] WOMEN'S HELL .......................................................................................................................................... 29 [POLAND] A LOOK BACK AT A SUCCESSFUL STRIKE OF HOUSEKEEPERS AND KITCHEN STAFF AT THE BELCHATOW HOSPITAL .................................................................................................................................................................... 30 [France] PARIS, HEALTH WORKERS DEMONSTRATION, June 16, 2020 Less cops, More health workers The nurse Farida has been arrested during the health workers demonstration at Paris, 16th of June Capitalism = 5 cops to for one demonstrator 1 nurse for 30 patients 2 [France] ANOTHER FUTURE FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH September 2020, CNT-AIT France, info sheet of CNT-AIT health branch workers Un autre futur pour la santé ! Revolution through health, health through Revolution! Info sheet of Anarchosyndicalist Health Workers [email protected] http://cnt-ait.info “LET’S GO” 1 TOWARD TOTAL PRIVATISATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH The Covid crisis has highlighted the dilapidated state of our public health system in France, and particularly in hospitals. This is no coincidence: it is a deliberate policy, followed for decades by all governments, without exception, no matter they were right or left wing. All of them have closed tens of thousands of hospital beds, President Macron only continued the dismantling policies implemented before him by Hollande, Sarkozy Chirac and even Mitterrand. Their goal is to put an end to the French health system, which certainly has flaws but above all has the great advantage of being universal and based on solidarity. Under the pretext of "Social Security deficit", it is a rampant privatization that the politicians are preparing, for the greater benefit of the private insurers. The financiers hope to take advantage of the Covid crisis to give the final kick that will collapse the public health system in France. Their campaign to influence public opinion is in full swing. This summer, they paid a full page in the number one mainstream newspaper, Le Monde , to promote the health privatization scheme. On TV sets, pseudo experts follow one another to spread their venom in favour of the “liberalization” of public health… But there is one country that has already implemented the privatization they dream of: Spain. Today, Spain is the country in Europe where the Covid situation is most catastrophic, with thousands of people who died at home or in seniors' residences for lack of space in hospitals. Public health systems and caregivers are on the verge of collapse, for lack of resources, beds, and staff workers. We reproduce after a text from our companions of the CNT-AIT health union in Barcelona, who explain the nightmare of the situation of the Spanish health system. In Spain, hospital staff trusted the traditional unions to try to slow down this fatal development. They voted for them in the union elections, they listened to union officials telling them to be reasonable, to just walk from one day of action to another day of action 6 month later, without mixing their struggle with that of other industries. Healthcare workers have been spectators at all round tables, rounds of negotiations and other “bailout deals”, leaving union officials to speak for them. In short, the legitimate revolt of the staff was numbed by the institutionalised Unions with fine words and short-lived electoral promises. This is what is likely to happen to us in France also... The hospital staff of Paris hospitals (AP-HP,) who have not counted their hours, can no longer stand it! We are not superheroes nor sacrificed soldiers! In addition to the looming burnout, some services have been