(en) Collective Alternative Libertaire Brussels - Hope (fr, it, pt)

(en) Collective Alternative Libertaire Brussels - Hope (fr,
it, pt) [machine translation]

The year is ending and gives us the opportunity to take stock. What did we see? ---- We 
have seen our country so quiet ordinarily vibrate on its foundations. An alliance of 
bringing together employers, politicians and their henchmen the Flemish national movement 
has managed to set up a right-handed and repressive government like we did in best known 
for decades. The Social Liberals cry poor, who wants to hear that Martens-Gol is back! 
However, De Wever-Michel is a much more repulsive monster, he planned to catch a few 
months, the delay that Belgium has caught in the destruction of its social state and the 
neo-liberalization of its economy. De Wever real architect of a federal policy that 
nevertheless dedicated to public obloquy, we replays Tacher "there is no alternative to 
our policy."


But we also saw the rebirth of the Belgian social movement. In October, spontaneous 
strikes broke out in the Walloon railway. Immediately disavowed by the trade union 
hierarchies yet they set the tone: the rushing of workers. On November 6, the large 
national demonstration of the unions, which provided a boundless monotony, ends with a 
popular uprising. Dockers, metallurgists, protesters, radicals, simple people in central 
districts unite and push for hours submerged police; burning white and blue motorcycle, it 
uproots panels and paving the neighborhood Porte de Hal. The country woke up with a 
terrible hangover. It had been years that the political decorum of parties and parliaments 
officials had not been so dog-eared. Workers no longer roar, they bite.

And then we saw strikes, big strikes of winter 2014. It was announced the stillborn. 
"Flanders will happily continue the work," said the other journos and hacks. Except that 
no... rotating strikes succeed and manage to paralyze the north. The general strike is 
really general and on December 15 the whole of Belgium, which is stationary. Countless 
stakes bristling cities and industrial zones, schools and businesses. The sacrosanct 
ideology of liberal labor, understand released the interests of workers, is demolished. 
No, Belgium, not just Wallonia and Brussels but Belgium whole, will not leave the right of 
government to address the conquests so dearly purchased by the labor movement without 
reacting.

Of course, we saw the reaction and immediate attack against all the watchdogs of the 
system. The newspapers and television spit their venom to the faces of the strikers' lazy, 
criminals, alcoholics, violent, unconscious, fascists, etc.. etc. ". When JT, the RTBF, 
dare treat strikes relatively neutral, our pope of liberalism, I appointed Alain Destexhe, 
up to the plate and denounced the politicization of the chain. The MR and the Flemish 
right howl wolf "bad unions are in cahoots with the Socialists! ". As if the employers' 
organizations had forgotten to be right and to support them and their anti-social policies.

The best trained doggies are not always those believed. First to be frightened of 
successful social movement union hierarchies. Everywhere, they were overwhelmed by their 
bases. They wanted to moderation, they got riots, blocking stakes and huge solidarity 
among all strikers, unionized or not. With their shared fear with employers - fear, 
acknowledge it, to see the economy and its products suffer the indignation of working 
people - they immediately entered into "agreements" ridiculous. Instead of destroying the 
welfare state today, they convinced the owners to do it in two or three years; splendid 
example of compromise (capitalist) to the Belgian.

He will leave the movement over again after the holidays? Hard to say. The major unions 
will struggle to swallow their members, and even amount of their frames as employers micro 
concessions constitute a victory. In the majority, Michel risk for every crumb he 
concedes, see Bart burst the community silence. For the MR is the plague (stay the course 
and risk a good old social conflict at the finish ) and cholera (backward socio-economic 
and open the door to a government crisis on the issue of national unity ).

How to summarize what we have seen? In a word. Hope Not that a better society and a coming 
revolution, not yet, but hope that the collective action, the expression of popular anger 
could move mountains, those bureaucracy, business and all his minions. Here we come out of 
this period of uncertainty, this waiting period in which too many revolutionary 
languishing. The calm before the storm is broken, the storm is there.

Face it, we stand, inflated by the breath of hope. Probably our first task is to grow this 
new culture of rebellion. The government straight, by its nature, will sow the seeds in 
our anger and resentment. The compromise between capitalists and reformists, the 
compromise that has cost us so much, now reveals his true face, that of a long-term 
compromise, a social time bomb. Here is the lesson of the twentieth century: capitalism is 
not reform, he does not govern, he governs everything! Remind us every moment "it's back 
than being stationary"!

The working people of our country are beginning to glimpse the future that their reserve: 
impoverishment, work to the gates of death, the collapse of organized social solidarity, 
policies and arbitrary arrests, frieze of horses and batons around the "elected" organs, 
camps for foreigners and all unwanted, proto-fascist state in the head... These same 
workers and those workers then find their natural defenses; strikes and spontaneous 
demonstrations, confrontation with the militia of the capital, the excess of union 
hierarchies, solidarity and mutual aid.

Several open issues in this context: how radical these workers and workers which was 
instilled ?, each passing day, the radicalism is the expression of evil? How to extend 
social fire to small and medium enterprises where the strike and revolt are immediate 
dismissal factors? How to hang Belgian struggles to those of all who suffer in Europe and 
in the world of the same capitalist evils? Stating these questions is to demonstrate that 
these ambitious projects seem feasible. To us achieve them and give the revolutionary 
solution to its rightful place in the time of triumphant capitalism, shaking capitalism.

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