Currently, there are 3 main farmers' unions in France: ---- the FNSEA
(National Federation of Agricultural Operators' Unions) and its youth
branch "the Young Farmers"), and which has co-managed with successive
governments the agriculture of which it was the sole union until the
90s; ---- the Confédération Paysanne (CP), resulting from the "peasant
workers" movement of the 1970s, rather classified on the left and green;
---- the Rural Coordination (CR), which appeared in the South-West in
the 1990s, and whose leadership is rather on the extreme right (even if
in Haute-Garonne CR and CP had presented a common list in the chamber
elections of agriculture of 2019...);
The MODEF (Movement for the Defense of Family Farms) which is the
communist union also survives marginally.
For the record, the last elections to the chambers of agriculture took
place in 2019 with the following results: first of all an overall
abstention of.... 71%!!! (including 53.5% abstention among agricultural
operators and 90% abstention among agricultural workers), which does not
prevent unions from being considered "representative"...
On the side of farmers, the FNSEA-Young Farmers union duo reached 55% of
the votes cast (i.e. 25% of those registered), the Rural Coordination
21% (barely 10% of those registered) and the Confédération Paysanne
20.04% (9 .3% of those registered). Modef, for its part, obtains 1.89%.
The next elections will take place in January 2025, and this helps to
partly explain what happened during the farmers' movement of January
2024. If the movement started spontaneously from an exhausted base of
small breeders from Haute -Garonne, the movement quickly became the
closed field of confrontation between the two main unions, each seeking
to use the movement to position itself.
Many people in activist circles mythologize the Peasant Confederation...
This union brings together people of very varied profiles, and in
particular quite a few people who were there mainly because they were
against the FNSEA, but without any other ideological motivation. With
the current movement, we observe that some are leaving the peasant
confederation to join the Rural Coordination, believing that at least
they are moving and taking action! (which explains that after a period
of tetany in the face of a movement that did not start on their
political bases, the Confédération Paysanne also felt obliged to join
the movement and that currently, it says it maintains actions locally to
try to counterbalance Rural Coordination and not see its members flee).
The Confédération Paysanne suffers, like the FNSEA, from being an aging
organization, where positions are always occupied by the same people,
and which does not necessarily respond to the aspirations of the young
generation of farmers, those most angry against the system which is
crushing them. .. (not to mention the young generation of breeders who
find it difficult to accept that the Confédération Paysanne is showing
itself as vegan and anti-breeding...).
What is at stake between the agricultural unions are in fact the
elections of the chambers of agriculture in January 2025 (and the
subsidies and advantages to the unions that go with it...):
The FNSEA is widely criticized by the base for its connections with
those in power, particularly on the side of the breeders who do not
accept that the FNSEA and its European branch, COPA COGECA, through the
voice of Christine Lambert, ex-number 1 of the FNSEA, have supported the
inclusion of cattle breeding in structures subject to emission quotas
for industrial installations, IED directive. No one is fooled either by
the "deal" signed in 2023 between the FNSEA and Lemaire and Macron on
the end of non-taxation of agricultural diesel, which aimed above all to
push farmers to replace it with biofuels, including the Avril
cooperative. (the president is none other than... Aurélien Rousseau) is
one of the main producers...
The Rural Coordination (extreme right) is trying to position itself to
carve out croupiers for it, carried by the ideological wave of the
extreme right which favors withdrawal into oneself at all levels
(corporatism at the professional level, anti-Europe and protectionism at
the geopolitics, xenophobia at the social level).
The Peasant Confederation is left behind and out of step; it is aging,
like the FNSEA... Its rather pro-European discourse is poorly received,
and it does not have a monopoly on commercial anti-liberalism (all the
unions, including FNSEA and CR are against the Mercosur agreement ).
Furthermore, we must not forget that the dismantling of the Mac Do in
Millau by Bové (prepared with the agreement of the gendarmerie...see
http://sipncntait.free.fr/article_1259.html) was to protest against the
taxes put by the Americans on Roquefort imports, so it was in a certain
way to ask for greater liberalization of international trade...
At the moment, we are seeing more posturing in anticipation of these
elections. The FNSEA is playing constructively with the government,
hoping that it will obtain some results which will allow it to present
itself in the January elections by playing the responsibility card, the
Rural Coordination on the contrary wants to play the protest card of
agitation, as for at the Confédération paysanne, it is between the two,
trying to play on both counts and above all in a less media-driven way
than the CR but more "proximity".
As we can see, it's the usual union game, nothing really new or
subversive in all this. Afterwards, what is new is that the people who
initiated the movement in Haute-Garonne are not unionized and neither
are a certain number of those who joined the blockades - particularly
the youngest. But now things are running dry at the level of the unions
established to go fishing...
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(National Federation of Agricultural Operators' Unions) and its youth
branch "the Young Farmers"), and which has co-managed with successive
governments the agriculture of which it was the sole union until the
90s; ---- the Confédération Paysanne (CP), resulting from the "peasant
workers" movement of the 1970s, rather classified on the left and green;
---- the Rural Coordination (CR), which appeared in the South-West in
the 1990s, and whose leadership is rather on the extreme right (even if
in Haute-Garonne CR and CP had presented a common list in the chamber
elections of agriculture of 2019...);
The MODEF (Movement for the Defense of Family Farms) which is the
communist union also survives marginally.
For the record, the last elections to the chambers of agriculture took
place in 2019 with the following results: first of all an overall
abstention of.... 71%!!! (including 53.5% abstention among agricultural
operators and 90% abstention among agricultural workers), which does not
prevent unions from being considered "representative"...
On the side of farmers, the FNSEA-Young Farmers union duo reached 55% of
the votes cast (i.e. 25% of those registered), the Rural Coordination
21% (barely 10% of those registered) and the Confédération Paysanne
20.04% (9 .3% of those registered). Modef, for its part, obtains 1.89%.
The next elections will take place in January 2025, and this helps to
partly explain what happened during the farmers' movement of January
2024. If the movement started spontaneously from an exhausted base of
small breeders from Haute -Garonne, the movement quickly became the
closed field of confrontation between the two main unions, each seeking
to use the movement to position itself.
Many people in activist circles mythologize the Peasant Confederation...
This union brings together people of very varied profiles, and in
particular quite a few people who were there mainly because they were
against the FNSEA, but without any other ideological motivation. With
the current movement, we observe that some are leaving the peasant
confederation to join the Rural Coordination, believing that at least
they are moving and taking action! (which explains that after a period
of tetany in the face of a movement that did not start on their
political bases, the Confédération Paysanne also felt obliged to join
the movement and that currently, it says it maintains actions locally to
try to counterbalance Rural Coordination and not see its members flee).
The Confédération Paysanne suffers, like the FNSEA, from being an aging
organization, where positions are always occupied by the same people,
and which does not necessarily respond to the aspirations of the young
generation of farmers, those most angry against the system which is
crushing them. .. (not to mention the young generation of breeders who
find it difficult to accept that the Confédération Paysanne is showing
itself as vegan and anti-breeding...).
What is at stake between the agricultural unions are in fact the
elections of the chambers of agriculture in January 2025 (and the
subsidies and advantages to the unions that go with it...):
The FNSEA is widely criticized by the base for its connections with
those in power, particularly on the side of the breeders who do not
accept that the FNSEA and its European branch, COPA COGECA, through the
voice of Christine Lambert, ex-number 1 of the FNSEA, have supported the
inclusion of cattle breeding in structures subject to emission quotas
for industrial installations, IED directive. No one is fooled either by
the "deal" signed in 2023 between the FNSEA and Lemaire and Macron on
the end of non-taxation of agricultural diesel, which aimed above all to
push farmers to replace it with biofuels, including the Avril
cooperative. (the president is none other than... Aurélien Rousseau) is
one of the main producers...
The Rural Coordination (extreme right) is trying to position itself to
carve out croupiers for it, carried by the ideological wave of the
extreme right which favors withdrawal into oneself at all levels
(corporatism at the professional level, anti-Europe and protectionism at
the geopolitics, xenophobia at the social level).
The Peasant Confederation is left behind and out of step; it is aging,
like the FNSEA... Its rather pro-European discourse is poorly received,
and it does not have a monopoly on commercial anti-liberalism (all the
unions, including FNSEA and CR are against the Mercosur agreement ).
Furthermore, we must not forget that the dismantling of the Mac Do in
Millau by Bové (prepared with the agreement of the gendarmerie...see
http://sipncntait.free.fr/article_1259.html) was to protest against the
taxes put by the Americans on Roquefort imports, so it was in a certain
way to ask for greater liberalization of international trade...
At the moment, we are seeing more posturing in anticipation of these
elections. The FNSEA is playing constructively with the government,
hoping that it will obtain some results which will allow it to present
itself in the January elections by playing the responsibility card, the
Rural Coordination on the contrary wants to play the protest card of
agitation, as for at the Confédération paysanne, it is between the two,
trying to play on both counts and above all in a less media-driven way
than the CR but more "proximity".
As we can see, it's the usual union game, nothing really new or
subversive in all this. Afterwards, what is new is that the people who
initiated the movement in Haute-Garonne are not unionized and neither
are a certain number of those who joined the blockades - particularly
the youngest. But now things are running dry at the level of the unions
established to go fishing...
https://cntaittoulouse.lautre.net/spip.php?article1379
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