(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #236 - Nuclear Exit: Network down (fr, pt)

Undermined by an internal crisis since 2010, out of the nuclear network held in late 
January its annual general meeting, the opportunity to take on the challenges in terms of 
structuring the antinuclear movement. ---- All goes well for the French nuclear. The 
promise of Holland close Fessenheim in 2016 is unlikely to be held on Laser M?gajoule will 
open its doors at the end of the year [ 1 ], and it is not excluded that EDF decided to 
lengthen plant life of 40-50 years, even if the information disseminated by the media has 
not yet been confirmed. In this context, the position and status of the network out of 
nuclear power, which held its annual general meeting in Lyon on January 18 and 19, appear 
to be quite disturbing. ---- Moral report of the Board of Directors and discussions 
completely lacked analysis and political strategy, particularly in relation to the 
participation of Europe Ecology-Greens to pronuclear government. Reflection on the forms 
of struggle was also absent, while the only national effort organized by the network in 
2013 was a failure. The human chain of Paris gathered less than 20 000, against 60,000 the 
previous year in the Rhone Valley.

Structural problems

The softness of the network, which increases the feeling of bureaucratic drift and / or 
partisan in favor of EELV, partly by internal crisis. But no solution to this crisis, 
power struggles continue, and it is ultimately the antinuke movement as a whole suffers.

But the problems are also related to the functioning of the network, including the 
democratic level. The same pair of directors and administrators can for example be elected 
indefinitely, turning only between and alternate. The AG can not vote or the agenda or the 
composition of the forum decided by the CA. No amendment may be proposed to the motions 
before the GA. Then, when the AG decides to amend a lot of representatives agree when they 
vote or they do not have a mandate from their groups on the new motion. These 
representatives are often the same for years, which does not help the smooth running of 
the GA, which looks too often find themselves a fair where old friends and enemies. These 
modes are against productive flanging dynamic, yet real, local groups. In an attempt to 
provide a solution, the AG 2013 had overwhelmingly voted for an overhaul of the system, 
including through a process of regionalization. Unfortunately, none of the three proposals 
discussed has majority support, which will block this process for another year. But the 
decision to organize a three-day conference in 2014 to discuss more quietly substantive 
issues (strategy, regionalization) will perhaps move, otherwise the future of the network 
is heavily darken.

Flo (AL Lyon) and Jocelyn (AL Marseille)


[ 1 ] See "Nuclear Fusion: the headlong rush! " in AL No. 226, March 2013.