#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, OCL, Courant Alternatif #325: Alternating Current Editorial (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In France, the waves of strikes for wage increases this fall came to die on the

rampart of the professional elections in December. If here and there professions
have gained a few crumbs, what was dreamed of as a tidal wave against inflation
and the loss of purchasing power was only a succession of tobacco shots without a
future for the most part, some echoes of which you will find in the "salary
insubordination" section of this issue, or in the account of the occupation of
the Center for Social Action of the city of Paris (p. 12). ---- The situation in
Great Britain, as our comrades from the Angry Workers tell us (pp. 32-34), shows
us, however, that strikes leave traces in the daily lives of proletarians, and
that it is on these links that will be able to lay the foundations of an
autonomous labor movement able to overwhelm union compromises and state
repression! This is also what the recent history of "Italian workerism" reminds
us of (p. 22). Current or historical experiences that give us valuable elements
for the social movement to free itself from the double yoke of the social
democratic parties and their trade union transmission belts, so as not to
experience the parliamentary or statist deadlocks that have the name here of the
NUPES , over there the Chile of Gabriel Boric, and soon the Brazil of Lula.

The most optimistic are convinced that it is only a postponement, that the union
forces are saving themselves for the great confrontation to come on the question
of pension reform with the extension of the number of quarters contributed and
the decline in the starting age. It is, however, to be feared that, depending on
the result of the so-called professional elections, President Macron will pull a
major debate out of his sleeve with the social partners who will have his good
graces, and who will hasten to negotiate the weight of the chains of wage slavery.

Wage slavery, which under the pretext of humanism will further intensify for
migrant populations with the return of "chosen immigration" for trades under
pressure, while "at the same time" the construction of administrative detention
centers is increasing to accelerate and multiply the "obligations to leave French
territory", and that fortress Europe knowingly lets sink the boats of migrants
fleeing war, misery, and disasters of all kinds that capitalism spreads on the
planet to the profits of more and more billionaires, and their cohort of lackeys
under orders (pp.4 to 9).

But it is not only in the field of wage labor that the class struggle
intensifies. As we were able to see last month with the resistance to
"mega-basins", there is no corner of the planet that is not resisting the
destruction of life, the artificialization of land, sometimes with surprising
awareness on the part of institutional structures, as shown by the struggle of
Marienia in Cambo in the Basque Country (p. 30-31).

Whatever part of the world one looks at, people try to rise up against all or
part of their oppression. It is of course the admirable movement of the women of
Iran which has relaunched for several months the revolutionary process
confiscated by the theocratic power after 1979 (p.35-36). It is of course the
Chinese population who, tired of the "zero-covid" health repression policy, are
rebelling against their confinement and once again daring to challenge a
totalitarian communist power that we have known for a long time to be only a
party-state manager of state capitalism. It is also the international
mobilizations of women against the violence that is done to them on a daily
basis, in their private life as well as in their social life. They attest to
increased resistance to a patriarchy that remains on the offensive since for
some, it is now becoming more desirable to become men than to aim for female
emancipation. So many subjects that we wanted to address in this issue but which
for lack of space, could not be.

Faced with these uprisings, these protean movements full of disruptive potential,
repressive responses are intensifying. In the forefront of which is the war that
is wiping out populations and their revolts and allowing international
strategists to implement their imperialist policies, such as Erdogan with the
Kurdish people and the blessing of NATO. In the second row we find of course all
the police logics which are organized and reinforced in the name of security and
anti-terrorism (pp.18-21).  The third repressive line is found in the
professional field, as in the National Education where the resurgence of the
"hunt for reds" initiated under Blanquer continues under Pape Ndiaye, without
this being surprising for those who know a little about the close links between
the repression and education in this country (pp. 26-29), as soon as the
republican ideological foundations are ever so slightly shaken.

Because it is indeed the ideological context in which the world population is
immersed that constitutes the first vector on which these forces of repression
will rely. Fear of the Nuclear Apocalypse. Eco-anxiety. Nationalist or religious
indoctrination and the return of irrational mysticism. Fascination for the
sporting spectacle anesthetizing any critical sense. Conditioning of youth
through school or universal national service (Where is school going? pp. 23-25).
Health anxiety maintained by health policies, in terms of COVID and bronchiolitis
(p. 13-14). Dispossession of knowledge from professions such as in the cinema
(p.16-17) generating professional anomie and an ever more destructuring division
of labour.

All these facts maintain a climate of permanent destabilization of the
populations, plunging them into a state of amazement which makes them finally
prefer resilience, a new trendy concept, to resistance stored in the museum of
the last century. At least on this side of the planet where the satisfaction of
basic needs remains possible for the greatest number, and where safeguarding
consumerist abundance maintains the illusion of still being in a desirable state
of freedom with regard to the ambient disaster. Until when will the greatest
number continue to think that they have more to lose in the perpetuation of
capitalist barbarism than to gain in the invention of socialism?

Yet day after day, breaches are being dug in this materially and ideologically
dominant order, like the mole of the revolution, which sooner or later could well
emerge here or there. But preferably where he is not expected in order to finish
him off with a shovel or a shot!

Saint-Nazaire-Nantes
November 26, 2022

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