WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL AL #345 - Culture, Read Les Utopiens n°24, Unionism and the territories (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

If it is understood that the essential territory of trade unionism is
the company, the service, the workplace, it should not be reduced to
this dimension alone. Since its origins, it has exceeded the limits of
this territory. ---- Trade unionism is aimed at an audience well beyond
just workers: the unemployed, retired people, young people in training,
etc. Would the question of social transformation, of the break with the
capitalist, patriarchal and destructive society of the planet be
possible without intervening in cities, neighborhoods, villages?

For a long time, trade unionism has created a tool to respond to these
challenges: these are local inter-professional unions and their
connection with the Labor Exchanges. Anouk Colombani and Michel
Tommasini offer us their combined perspectives of Solidaires for the
first and of the CGT for the second, two complementary insights: on the
local CGT unions in 93 on the one hand, on the importance of local
unions on the other hand, from a precise inventory in the CGT.

Territories are political and economic issues; their status, the result
of history and therefore of the balance of power, is not always that to
which the people who live there aspire. Guillaume gives us a
well-documented overview of the emergence of anti-colonial unionism in
Corsica.

On ecological issues, Verveine Angeli and Jean-Paul Dessaux explore the
disaster of an ultra-toxic pesticide in Martinique and Guadeloupe. Nara
Cladera interviews Nathaniel Clavijo on the water crisis in Uruguay, an
environmental disaster.

This journey from one space to another leads to questions about
transport policies and the actions of the National Rail Convergence that
Didier Le Reste comments on. Desertification of regions by the railway
but also medical deserts, the devastation of the territory due to the
Olympic and Paralympic Games, fight against megabasins.

The territories are also places of alternatives that this issue
explores, which is supplemented by five separate articles recalling that
wages remain a central battle for trade unionism.

Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)

Les Utopiens n° 24, Syndicalism and the territories, Syllepse editions,
10 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Les-Utopiques-no24-Le-Syndicalisme-et-les-territoires
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