Swedish cops doing an ilegal attack on a legal blockade
Jul 21 2006 15:23
http://www.sac.se/ls/malmo/fosie21julibilder.html
Swedish cops doing an ilegal attack on a legal union blockade
click the links on the top of the page for video.
Jul 21 2006 15:57
#2
bastards! 
My swedish is too rusty to translate the stuff, only understand bits and bobs...
Meanwhile, while surfing around the Malmo local of SAC, check out this wicked banner:
We need one of those bad boys!
Jul 21 2006 17:33
#3
swedish anarchs do make good banners, I'll give em tha.
Jul 21 2006 18:41
#4
The text is saying that a cop draged one person in the har to get her out of the blockade. And that they where not intrested in getting any lectrues on the laws around lockdowns and such.
The whole action is completly legal and still the cops mazed a guy who was just standing silent looking in another direction(see first video
http://81.226.211.200/pepparspraywebb.mov
Here they violently break up the legal blockade to make it posible for the scabs to go to work.
http://81.226.211.200/fosie2webb.mov
Here the cops tell one of the strike-guards that he is not intrested in hearing anything about what they have a right to do or not.
http://81.226.211.200/polistjafswebb.mov
The leader of the cops did not gave his name and they treatend one of the people filming to send the dogs on him if he would not stop filming.
The blockade is meant to bring back to fired members. Negotiations has lead to nothing.
More about it in swedish:
Jul 22 2006 20:33
#5
this was what is on infoshop about the situation
The police brutally dispersed a legal and peaceful blockade by the syndicalist trade union Malmö LS in Sweden on Friday.
80 trade unionists had gathered to demand that two fired municipal employees, Freddie Svensson and Nancy Ertl, get their jobs back.
The two were employed at Tallgatans health care centre, whose administration has been struggling with the trade union about not being willing to discuss the local working conditions.
After the attack the police arrested six trade unionists, one of whom was more or less unconcious from the pepper spray the police attacked them with.
- We were extremely surprised by these police actions. The police has not crushed a trade union action this brutally since the 1930s, says Johanna Nilsson, who participated in the blockade.
The trade union Malmö LS filed a legal suit against the employer on Friday. The police actions have also been reported to the ombudsman for judicial matters.
See pictures (copyleft) at
Jul 22 2006 20:56
#6
David in Atlanta wrote:
80 trade unionists had gathered to demand that two fired municipal employees, Freddie Svensson and Nancy Ertl, get their jobs back.
Is that 80 from SAC? That's a good turn out for Malmo, a city about the same size as Stoke on Trent - or about half the size of Atlanta, for our transatlantic cousins 
<imagines 80 anarchists turning out for any dispute at all in the UK>
Jul 27 2006 16:40
#7
Here you got the whole movie
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK9qI2AQZbw&feature=PlayList&p=DBBDEBE0C5E74A56&index=0
Part 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmsE31SpRZ0&feature=PlayList&p=DBBDEBE0C5E74A56&index=1
Jul 31 2006 01:22
#8
Lazlo_Woodbine wrote:
David in Atlanta wrote:
80 trade unionists had gathered to demand that two fired municipal employees, Freddie Svensson and Nancy Ertl, get their jobs back.Is that 80 from SAC? That's a good turn out for Malmo, a city about the same size as Stoke on Trent - or about half the size of Atlanta, for our transatlantic cousins
<imagines 80 anarchists turning out for any dispute at all in the UK>
It would appear they were all SAC! Or at least they were all wearing spiffy SAC vests.
Jul 31 2006 10:42
#9
as far as i know it is not uncommon for SAC to have that kind of membership in some small towns as well. After all, if they have thousands of members nationwide in a relatively small nation, they have to be somewhere 
Besides, i fear BNP would be able to mobilise 80 members in stoke
Jul 31 2006 18:06
#10
Was it pepper spray or mase? Both illegal to be sprayed at such close range and there are only to be used defensively in most countries. 
Still a good old beating after being dragged away:sad: Remember people the police are only diong they job and are human beings too
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Aug 1 2006 12:00
#11
From my mate in the SAC, in a email he'd received.
Dear friends,
yesterday a picketline against the local board in Fosie, Malmö, Sweden was attacked by the police. The picket had gathered about 70 people, both from Malmö and othe cities, since the conflict have been going on for some time. Organisers of the event was Malmös social and healthcare syndicate.
Police did use pepperspray, dogs and a quite extreme degree of voilence, to break the picketline to let the officials in.
9 peole were taken to the police station, accused for violent resistance, but they were all released after some hours.
In Sweden it´s illegal for the police to act in such a conflict.
This is a very severe attack on workers rigths, and has no equivalence in moderns swedish history.
SAC will of course act powerful against the event, and we would be grateful for acts of solidarity! If it´s possible for you to take actions at consulates, embassys and so on it would be great.
Messenges of solidarity can be sent to malmo.ls@sac.se.
For pictures, clips etc, you can go to www.malmo.sac.se.
I will return with more background and other adresses to send letters and faxes with protests to.
Pleas spread this message!
An injury to one, is an injury to all!
in solidarity,
Liv Marend
SAC:s executive committee
Aug 1 2006 12:11
#12
the solidarity message list is pretty cool:
http://www.sac.se/ls/malmo/fosiestod.html
and for those who snipe about the IWA - SAC alleged nastyness, FAU, WSA and french CNT have made messages as well
(no SolFed there yet though!)
Aug 1 2006 13:14
#13
JDMF wrote:
the solidarity message list is pretty cool:
http://www.sac.se/ls/malmo/fosiestod.htmland for those who snipe about the IWA - SAC alleged nastyness, FAU, WSA and french CNT have made messages as well ;)
CNT-AIT? Or CNT-F?
Swedish police dogs are bastards. My Swedish friend was telling me the other week she saw me on a documentary there getting mauled by them, and seemed to find it amusing...
Aug 1 2006 13:50
#14
John wrote:
My Swedish friend was telling me the other week she saw me on a documentary there getting mauled by them, and seemed to find it amusing...
Is that one of those swedish biology documentarys?
Aug 1 2006 14:23
#15
John. wrote:
JDMF wrote:
and for those who snipe about the IWA - SAC alleged nastyness, FAU, WSA and french CNT have made messages as well ;)CNT-AIT? Or CNT-F?
damn! I think it is CNT-F - but FAU is always just fucking FAU though
Aug 2 2006 17:07
#16
JDMF wrote:
the solidarity message list is pretty cool:
http://www.sac.se/ls/malmo/fosiestod.htmland for those who snipe about the IWA - SAC alleged nastyness, FAU, WSA and french CNT have made messages as well
(no SolFed there yet though!)
WSA is outside the IWA and has been for a while now
.. we still support the founding princpals and act in solidarity with sections in struggle, but from the outside
Aug 13 2006 01:15
#17
John. wrote:
Swedish police dogs are bastards. My Swedish friend was telling me the other week she saw me on a documentary there getting mauled by them, and seemed to find it amusing...
This is what youtube was invented for!
Aug 13 2006 02:05
#18
Regardless of affiliation, the vicious police attack on the Malmo SAC picket should be condemed. If we, as anarcho-syndicalists, put aside our ideological and tactical differences to support trade union and other workers struggles, surely we can do the same in this instance.
The police attack was aimed at breaking a picket and the spirit of the workers. I think that would be good enough reason to stand in solidarity with the Malmo SAC.
For my friends inside the IWA, I remember a discussion of some years ago within the IWA (when WSA was IWA). The essense of the discussion was to develop contacts with local SAC affiliates and not the central office in Stockholm. So I would suspect that even our good comrades in the IWA can support the Malmo workers without any sort of political jepordy.
While on the topic of solidarity.... let me suggest that everyone also support the Latin American immigrant members of the Barcelona CNT-AIT. These workers have been waging an uphill fight for over 140 days (http://www.libcom.org/node/6799?page=2)
Aug 14 2006 09:24
#19
Last week in Malmo, the cops attacked people participating in a demonstration against the police brutality. The police attacked people walking away from the demonstration after it was over, using dogs and pepperspray. Several people were arrested.
If you read Swedish, you can read more at http://www.arbetaren.se/2006/32/nyhet1.html
Jun 4 2008 12:18
#20
All solidarity to Malmö26
First the police interfered with the blocade, against the law. Now the legal system prosecutes 26 workers for participating in this legal blocade. The legal system is fed up with SAC and SUF and are trying to break down hard on union rights. So the plot thickens and the campaign to support the workers have started! T-shirts, posters and flyers have been printed. Speakers have spoken at meetings in lots of places around Sweden and that will continue. Parties are being organized so you can be hung over for a good cause
For you who read swedish:
www.malmo26.sac.se
Jun 4 2008 14:50
#21
Kattmannen wrote:
All solidarity to Malmö26For you who read swedish:
www.malmo26.sac.se
OK, so who can translate?
Jun 4 2008 16:21
#22
Actually, the 26 picketers who face prosecution was taking part in a different blockade, against a different company, then the one that is described at the start of this thread (which was nine different blockades that was about the same conflict) - but don´t worry, it seems like the ones arrested at the blockade against Fosie city council also will be charged.
The "malmö26" people took part in a blockade against a Sushi restaurant at 1 dec 2006 and held a blockade (together with 30-40 others) for about two hours and was arrested and pepper sprayed. A video from the occasion is published here: http://motkraft.net/index.php?view=news&id=2454
These people are now being charged for the blockade and there is a campaign for their defense and for collecting money if they will be sentenced.
Jun 4 2008 16:37
#23
Yeah that's right Kim, just read some keywords like "Malmö", "blockade" and "police brutality" and thought this was the right thread, those keywords aren't specific enoguh to point you to the right conflict these days of hardship 
Anyways...
If this goes well for the legal system they will most probably prosecute people from the Fosie blockade after they prosecuted the people from the Sushi restaurant blockade. Also from my own Solna perspective: The cops are searching for people from our Solna local for 1) a Solna LS blockade of SKL (organisation representing employers in communes and regions) and 2) a Registry blockade at Fridays (restaurant). They have also asked us about who are our members and what activities they are taking part of. Polite as we are we had to turn them down... er... what did they expect! Lot of other people, syndicalists as well as other report being beaten up and harassed as well by the cops. That sucks.
Jun 6 2008 10:01
#24
About the Fosie blockades (I think it was 9 blockades at total): time is running out for the prosecutors - if a case isn´t started 2 years after a "crime" like this they have no case, and I think they just got max 2 months left now, however they might already have started but if they are not able to deliver the papers to the right persons people can still get off.
Jun 6 2008 21:49
#25
Quote:
a Registry blockade at Fridays
Like this?
Jun 7 2008 09:17
#26
Yep, that would be it. Some pics and info in swedish about the blockade:
http://www.motkraft.net/nyheter/2827
The fight was won and the paperless worker received the proper paycheck.
What's the work place? Any idea whether the dispute will be succesful eventually?