(en) France, Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Courant Alternatif - CA April #239 - Contents + Editorial (fr, pt)

Contents ---- page 3 editorial ---- class struggle ---- page 4 La Redoute, and not the end 
result? ---- page 7 When the IMF visited the Basque Country ---- page 9 Down "privileges" 
of the railroad ... ---- page 10 Health: We fight again! ---- Economy in brief page 11 
---- social question ---- page 12 Covenant of Responsibility: PACS between bourgeois ---- 
nuclear ---- Fukuschima page 14, we do not forget ---- page 16 Radioactive Waste. Public 
debate? Debate can! returning the demo ---- page 18 Nantes, February 22; regenerates the 
demo ---- page 20 Feminism: A very dissonant Paris on March 8! ---- page 22 
criminalization of sex work, black women in prison ---- page 24 big brother ---- 
International ---- 26 pages in Fran?afric centrafique ---- pages 28 Ukraine: a rather warm 
winter ---- company ---- page 32 to ban the boycott of Israeli products that shows 
Dieudonn?: State gets involved


EDITORIAL

Limited as they may seem, the struggles in the field of production and services are 
evidence of class struggle continues.

"The tendency of capitalism to sudden expansions is the most important element, the most 
remarkable feature of the modern evolution; in fact the expansion accompanies any 
historical career of capitalism, it took in its current final phase, the so impetuous 
energy it puts into question the whole civilization of mankind imperialism. "Rosa Luxemburg

The scenario of economic recovery stimulated by the activity of so-called "emerging" 
countries is poised to turn short. As recovery, the crisis seems to take a turn, the 
outcome now seems unpredictable. The currencies of the "Bricks" recently suffered 
significant falls in value while the famous Chinese growth shows signs of significant 
slowdown. These new agitate all the leaders of the old world that the expected recovery in 
their eyes twice a significant politico-ideological issue. New Eldorados are indeed 
auxiliary subservient to the historic center of capitalism and certainly they remain. But 
they are the same way, the promise that old worn heart can make a new youth; the 
demonstration that still doubt that capitalism knows no bounds, it has the capacity to 
bounce back to infinity ...

The confrontation at work around the globe between imperialist rivals leaves us-see an 
entirely different picture. Whether currently in Syria, Ukraine or on the African 
continent. Beyond fractures specific to each of these states, they are, in fact, the 
spaces where reconfigure the sharing of a single system in crisis between rival powers. As 
the economic disorders are linked, research outlets, control and access to natural 
resources are emerging as major geostrategic issues of the period. And the subject, they 
are once again the old recipes will prevail; based on militarism, coups and guardianship 
of the people. The same bi-polar logic where United States and Europe on one side and 
China / Russia on the other will not cease to affirm and try to impose their leadership.

A new stage of this policy may soon be embodied in the Transatlantic Partnership Project. 
If the United States and the European Union in entering into this agreement, then they 
will succeed a nice duplicate. Exclusive beneficiaries will obviously be their 
multinational groups. This business alliance that looks uneven found between the two 
areas, will address the wages and social protection of workers on both sides of the 
Atlantic. This is the price that European Union is struggling to establish itself on the 
international scene, hoping to find alongside the United States of appropriate means of 
pressure and persuasion to gain access to markets that currently still escape him .

In Ukraine, the effects of this crisis and the practices of a corrupt government have just 
led a portion of the population to revolt. Ukrainian yearning for greater rights and 
freedoms are involved in the same movement to other Ukrainian carriers, those, an openly 
reactionary vision of society. This confusion is a common feature in many other popular 
uprisings of the period. The most often interclassist dimension of these rebellions seems 
both inevitable, as a necessary passage at the same time emphasizes one of the immediate 
boundaries. Under these conditions, it is not surprising that the "Ukrainian revolution" 
in turn leads to the simple replacement of the policy staff. However, the social question 
arises in Ukraine and elsewhere. It will occupy a central place in the upcoming events. In 
spite of this, it is the imperialist maneuver which will take charge of exploiting the 
springs of nationalism to draw lines sharing the same interests against proletarians. 
However, should we fear as some suggest a military confrontation on European soil between 
one side NATO resume service and other Russia? As the systemic crisis will worsen military 
solution remains a hypothesis does not exclude. But for the moment we're not there. And 
business as usual. The episode of the Crimea will not impede arms sales to Russia by 
France, which will pocket more than a billion euros for the delivery of two ships ...

Same uncertainty here, where one wonders how long social apathy remain the only answer to 
the combined attacks of the bosses and the state. National day of mobilization 
orchestrated by the unions do not even play more the role of against-fires. The latest, 
that of March 18 against the "pact of responsibility" has experienced the same failure, or 
nearly so, as of October against breakage pensions. We know in advance that nothing can 
come out of these "days shows". For now, the hope, although thin, but very real at the 
same time lies in some sector struggles. A La Redoute where a specific working base for 
the moment refused to give in to blackmail socially imposed Kering the group. A Post in 
departments 92 and 78, where workers have been carrying more than a month an offensive 
strike and thwarts the pitfalls of isolation. A hospital psychiatry Caen where AG is 
organizing a national hospitals struggle. In the entertainment practicing occupations 
places in their fight against the breaking of social protection. Even if they are quenched 
as they appeared, and as limited as they may seem, these struggles are the indices of 
latent conflictuality smoldering anyway. And that the field of production and services 
that some people mistakenly believe today pacified. They are the evidence of class 
struggle continues.

Boulogne-sur-mer, the 03/23/14.