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On Oct. 15, members of ZSP in Warsaw took part in the march of the "indignants". Instead of slogans that "we are indignant" or we want "real democracy now", we have slogans that we are outraged and that we want real revolution now. In response to talk about the "Spanish revolution" (referring to the M15 movement), we reminded people of some of the postulates of the real Spanish Revolution.

While the march went on some visit to a European Union office, we went to the bar "Brave New World" where we had had some pickets about trash contracts and working conditions. The march was supposed to pass by the bar later on. Our visit was partly motivated by the fact that the liberals at the bar were heavily promoting this action. We hung some sign on the bar saying that "real democracy begins in the workplace, all workplaces in the hands of the workers and collectivize the bar". This made the people from the liberal think tank furious and they came out, tore down the sign and made an incident. They even were trying to get the police to do something with us because a comrade but a sticker on their bar. We had some problems with the police, although we are allowed to picket there so when they told us to stand elsewhere, we of course refused. Then, when they had no basis to move us the police decided to try to write one comrade a ticket for supposedly walking across the street on a red light, but we also refused. In the end, the financial director of the organization flipped out and tried to rip our banner and stole our placard and beat one of the comrades on the head.

In the meanwhile, the march of the indignant was actually re-routed because of the "incident" on Nowy Swiat.

Despite the bad behaviour of the liberals, who are annoyingly known for preaching about non-violence, we can at least report that they claim they are trying to little by little transfer all the workers onto normal work contracts. We will see but it looks like they even gave somebody working in the kitchen a work contract in September. We have hope that the situation will be regulated. In the meanwhile, we are using this occasion to inform people, especially young people, about the problems with trash contacts and that it is not legal to hire waiters and barstaff on mandate contracts.