(en) France, Alternative Current #222 and Editorial (fr)

Summary ---- Editorial page 3 political page 4 This is Madness ---- page 7 with Holland,
the change is continuity --- struggles antinuclears -- page 9 A weekend in Chefresne ----
repression ---- page 11 Some surveys and reports and trials to come ---- Big Brother page
12-13 ---- international ---- page 14 The crisis in Mali or failure of the Western
democratic model ---- page 18 Palestine / Israel: the unbearable status quo Zionist ----
Page 21 Brazil: State and Social Movements (Part 2) + comments about this article
initiative ---- page 27 International meeting of anarchism, St-Imier. ---- book ---- page
30 Do you shouted "Heil Hitler? Fran?ois Roux ---- initiative ---- page 31 dating
libertarian Eychenat (ocl - ols) July 26-August 6 ---- Do not miss page 32

EDITORIAL

Build the foundation of future struggles autonomy

The interlude electoral dissipated, the offensive against the lives of workers and the
unemployed will be able to continue with more bitterness. The expected report of the Court
of Auditors, the Socialists say fear, they will begin the austerity they are called to
carry on the theme of "return to growth". And already the tone. After Holland during the
presidential campaign, it is now the turn of Ayrault re-clarify things: "It will be more
difficult than expected, everyone should make an effort." We know reality behind the
figure of the "man in the street" ...

Of course, part of the electoral clientele receive a few crumbs he agreed to circulate in
the circumstances. It announces the return very partial to retire at age 60 and a
"reasonable" increase in the minimum wage. In the same tone is trumpeted job creation and
deletion of certain administrative provisions in the education sector, such as the renewal
and development of precarious jobs, etc. .. In short, the old recipes from the left at the
beginning of the mandate, in total, will not cost much. However they offer him the benefit
certify that this time it is not the middle class and the classes will be affected but
"rather large businesses and households higher ..."

Yes, but here, the workers, they have not waited for the return of the Socialists business
to undergo a new explosion of unemployment associated with multiple redundancy plans in
progress. In recent months, nearly 150 boxes closures have followed without interruption.
And this is only the beginning, the worst is yet to come. Thousands of job cuts ahead
already in many sectors of production and services: automobile, steel, transport, food,
retail, etc.. Before the nearly three million officially unemployed and the decline for
years, the level of wages, the political will displayed during the presidential under the
theme of "re-industrialization" does grugera person. It is a vague rehash stirred in a
period where workers without power / knowledge to create real balance of forces on the
ground still look for the moment to the state. How long will it last, there is the
question ...

Lucid, a union site Aulnay threatened Peugeot recently stated: "Arnaud Montebourg did not
give the impression of having really intend to put a spoke in the wheel of Peugeot". And
for good reason ... As a remedy, it will first be to ensure the profit rate of industrial
groups who make the law, including organizing the labor market reform demanded by the
European employers. Because despite what they suggest, the Socialists will indeed
commitments made to the European Commission. Employers know and enjoy the context for
further pressure on wages. Thus, in response to the closure of boxes, Natixis bank already
offers to transfer the payment of the famous "charges" corporate taxpayers through
increased CSG ... It is therefore in this light that one must understand the recent
announcements of the Minister of accents colbertistes "Productive Recovery": repatriation
of call centers. While at first glance the proposal does not pack the employers, it is no
objection from the time the State offers a guarantee of more flexible working. In this
case, rotate the trays 7/7 and 24h/24 ... Already a union adds: "If employers are willing
to pay more for Sunday work, why not, everything is negotiable ..."

Illuminating on another folder that covers this period in the return of the "made in
France", one of SeaFrance. Subject of numerous dealings with the PS during the
presidential campaign, the project will finally see Scop day under the control of
Eurotunnel Group. And already now, the CEO sets the tone: "The Scop is quite understood
that the ships could be made in terms of productivity equivalent to competition (...) I
think that it will not the coefficient of SeaFrance which will not allow the company to
survive. " Translation: wages and working conditions will be seriously revised downwards,
and again, we can count on a union leadership that has proven itself to carry out the
operation ...

And now? The crisis is global and no longer focuses exclusively in the heart of the old
historical centers of capitalism, those in the euro zone and the United States. Now, the
downturn hit in the same way that new regions held a dynamic role in the process of
capital accumulation: India, China, Brazil. The times ahead will be no doubt those
tensions and social and political confrontations. In response, the struggles grow
everywhere either in Spain or Greece in Quebec; necessarily different in their content,
forms, and their goals, but they all share, for the time being, the inability to stop the
march capital into chaos. This is the case in France, where since 1995 workers have
consistently given the conduct of struggles in the hands of unions with the success that
we know.

In times to come, one of the issues crucial to the outcome of the struggle between classes
is the ability of workers in particular and the proletariat in general to organize, lead
and control their own struggles. For this, new forms of doing and living the struggles yet
to be invented. Whether from basic trade union sections can still be used to support, and
beyond, of course, in wide spaces collective scale of a city, neighborhood, region. .. In
an extremely marginal attempts embryonic grassroots organization and self emerged in
recent conflicts, natural plants that have neutralized without too much difficulty. As the
crisis will intensify, the balance of power could be reversed, it is in all cases why we
must move.

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