France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - IAL #100 - When elections are synonymous with theft! (fr, pt)

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Address in an article in the issue of IAL last municipal and European elections led us in 
the first instance, to the fundamental reasons that separate us from politicians 
practices. Indeed, these have never allowed the slightest change when it came to consider 
alternatives to exploitation, alienation, domination, exclusion, systems etc. ---- 
Elections and surrender of sovereignty... ---- We reject the elections as "political 
representation" results in the confiscation and distortion of the word and the will of 
individuals. It is a system which, under the guise of democracy, in fact prohibits the 
oppressed ? e ? s the opportunity to represent themselves and their own, without any 
intermediary. ---- We refuse to participate in a pernicious system because not reject 
automatically implies a strengthening of the legitimacy of all entities that sustain all 
dominions.

We believe that the company holds in it all abilities and all means allow it to 
self-organize. It is thus legitimate in the exercise of the social, cultural management, 
economics, society, without a glimpse of the need to impose any authority of a ? es on 
other...

States and Governments are instruments of oppression created by the ruling classes - 
nobility, bourgeoisie, bureaucracy - classes that rely on work and collective 
intelligence, the sole purpose of serving their own interests, needs and concerns away 
from the community.

Alternatives running...

We consider the change from the base and the ability of the company to organize to resist 
and administer social life.

Administration We are for things instead of the Government of Men.
History us taught that States, far from being reduced to mere repressive apparatuses, they 
are undoubtedly also embody various strata of ideological apparatuses, whose purpose is 
the production of the consent of oppressed ? e ? s to their own oppression.
struggle against the capitalist state requires us to produce alternatives to the 
libertarian society, which, for the culmination of the revolutionary process, replace the 
power and the state.

This design is more than enough to understand why we object to the institutional political 
system and refuse to participate in elections, when other currents claiming 
anti-capitalism and the "revolution" give them so much importance to the point of 
participating without even providing any systemic critique...

Back on the municipal elections of march...

They gave logically expected results. The ruling Socialist Party, which has made austerity 
his honey and has not stopped that giving gifts to the bosses, received a masterful slap. 
Rout in the first round, voting was transformed in the second cataclysm. Loss of 151 
cities with over 10,000 inhabitants ? e ? s while conversely, the right won 142 As to the 
extreme right, it is not less than 11 cities being conquered.

unexpected for a line in disarray success. Following the events we deliver evidence...
Toulouse, Limoges, Argenteuil, Amiens, many bastions that have gone right. An equally 
significant example in the Puy-de-Dome, the left held 14 of the 17 municipalities with 
more than 5,000 inhabitants ? e ? s. Today it does control more than 5!

Because, it is also a lesson of this election, "non-government" left has undergone an 
equally resounding failure.

True, the left has failed to avoid regulations internal accounts between the two rounds. 
This was the case, among others, to La Rochelle, Grenoble and Montpellier.
The Left Front, speaking through M?lenchon, led to believe that his success was more 
important than the National Front. Yet a simple arithmetic assigns 15.05% on average in 
cities of more than 1,000 people where his lists were present when the FN gathered there 
16.71%

Betting FN was largely successful. He took 10 cities - Henin-Beaumont, Beaucaire, Frejus, 
Le Pontet, Cogolin, Hayange in Mantes-la-Ville, Villers-Cotterets, Le Luc and B?ziers, won 
by Robert M?nard with the support of FN. In these cities plus the 7th sector Marseille 
returned to S. Ravier, Le Pen candidate...

He got hundreds of counselors (about 1600), and despite some setbacks, in Forbach, 
Perpignan, Saint-Gilles, Avignon and Carpentras, municipal accounted for Unity Navy 
undeniable progress in territorial implantation.

A consequence of these results is ultimately tipping the fragile leftist majority in the 
Senate in September 2014.

And european?

For these elections, by proportional representation, they have resulted in a general rise 
of the extreme right, particularly in France where the FN came out on top with 25% of the 
vote...

The arrival of the European Parliament of a wave new euro skeptic MPs, ultra-rightists, 
fascists, neo-Nazis, whatever the word is the true lesson of this election.

In France, the collapse of the PS does not allow other teams "left" to strengthen, on the 
contrary. FG, Ecologists, not to mention various pharmacies claiming to Trotskyism, all 
had scores back if we refer to the 2009 European...

The social disaster that is the setting of the Europe crisis and the related system of 
representative democracy, greatly heightened the voters. Added to this is the removal of 
decision-making centers, the complexity of European legislation and ignorance of the 
workings of the various bodies of Strasbourg, Brussels etc...

In addition, the social crisis has been compounded with the European Stability Pact and 
policies cruel austerity imposed on those who are already suffering the greatest economic 
and social difficulties. There are, remember, 26 million unemployed ? to ? s, and the 
percentage of young people under 25 unemployed reached frightening levels (52% in 
Portugal, 56% in Spain, 61.5% in Greece...).

in Europe so we are seeing a resurgence of extremist forces. UKIP in the UK; the Freedom 
Party, FP? in Austria; Jobbik in Hungary; Golden Dawn in Greece; the Northern League in 
Italy; True Finns; Vlaams Belang in Belgium; the Freedom Party, PVV in the Netherlands; 
the Danish People's Party, DF; the Sweden Democrats, DS; the Slovak National Party, SNS; 
the party of order and justice, TT in Lithuania; Ataka in Bulgaria; the Greater Romania 
Party, PRM; and the National Democratic Party, NDP Germany...

The extreme right has revamped by erasing the most bulky external aspects, though they 
persist in Hungarian Jobbik activists or those of Greece's Golden Dawn.

To "de-demonize" their image, these new ultras also moderate (surface) their ideology of 
hatred and adopt a chaotic but radical discourse of denial system, stigmatization of 
migrants ? e ? s, the Roma and Muslim ? e ? s, and the defense of "white poor."
In France, the FN attack in his speeches, more radically than any political leader left 
"unbridled capitalism", the "ultra-liberal Europe", the "evils of globalization "and" 
economic imperialism of the United States "...

Arguments that meet full support within the social fringes most severely affected by 
industrial disaster, where for decades the vote "left" was the norm.

The electoral system has failed and can not allow the liberal right or to the left to meet 
the expectations of the people dormant. The extreme right in profits, even if we know that 
the solutions that advance are even worse than the evils which it says it wants to address.

What critics and prospects?

Today criticize electioneering should lead us to denounce a way of managing the economy 
and entirely devoted to the wealthy ? e ? s and people in power mode of the social management.

Added to this that ignore the fact that millions of French ? e ? s are "politicized ? e ? 
s" so authoritarian, nationalistic and xenophobic, sexist, homophobic, is not simple banality.

This is a reality to which we must respond by activist start, egalitarian, libertarian and 
revolutionary.

Election results have demonstrated the inability and disinterest state and government 
parties vis-?-vis the concrete solutions to face the social crisis and despair of peoples 
answers...

In this context, anti-fascism is expected to take place at the center of discourse and 
activist practices.

Faced with the crisis of capitalism and the United States, faced with the crisis in all 
modes of political organization, hierarchical and centralized the appropriate solution is 
taken over by the people, the worker is ? ? s, those who are private ? e ? s employment, 
business. Directly, without intermediaries and rejecting all political goat-?missariales.
Which is imposed on all of us is to defend our ideas every day, and act directly to them.
anarchists For us, it becomes capital develop concrete answers on how to self-organization 
criticizing at the same time, the harmfulness of state responses.
CLAF Today offers this space, even if we consider that there is need to develop projects 
on self-managed basis, to implement social experiments libertarians, who question the 
necessity of wage labor and the state and actively combat the ideology and domination of 
all kinds...

Uniting our struggles at the continental level has become in need with line of sight, an 
anarchist project that can not be, by definition, a guideline for you tou ? ? ? s and each e.

autonomy groups remains a decisive factor in the dynamic build.
's perspective may seem distant, but the urgency is definitely there. A specter returns to 
haunt old Europe, and not that of communism.

Puig Antich group (Perpignan)