WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #356 - Culture, Read Théo Roumier: Piaget: a life for self-management (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 More than a simple biography of Charles Piaget (1928-2023) and a brief

history of the Lip struggle, this book offers a chronicle of his
commitments and the debates they sparked - in particular on
self-management - in trade union circles - in particular at the CFDT
where he was elected - and on the left of the left at the time - in
particular at the PSU. ---- In the context of the coup d'état in Chile,
the Lip strike was indeed, in 1973, the occasion for a practical lesson
in the theoretical position of the alternative path of a "socialism that
must draw on popular energies to establish its power". It was a question
of constituting a political base "that assumes itself to be
revolutionary, freeing itself from a legality that is not that of a
capitalist order doomed to disappear". It was not, however, "a
self-management tendency in the non-communist left", since the
"cooperative" solution has long been rejected, on the pretext that "a
self-management island" could only be doomed to failure under a
capitalist regime.

His later commitments are also mentioned: the attempt to coordinate
workers in conflict in their company, the "Mini-Lip" - as they call
themselves, within Agir ensemble contre le chômage, AC!, for the
collective Citoyens résistants d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (CRHA), created
to vigorously defend and promote the program of the National Council of
the Resistance after its attempted instrumentalization by Nicolas
Sarkozy in 2007.

Comrade Théo Roumier relied on the archives of trade union and political
organizations, Piaget's statements, to present all the facets of a
particularly charismatic and emblematic activist of an era, and
especially the many debates on questions of strategy and workers'
control, which his positions have aroused. This energy to "immediately
build pieces of the world we want" cannot leave one indifferent.

Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)

Théo Roumier, Charles Piaget, From LIP to "thousands of collectives",
Libertalia editions, October 2024, 196 pages, 12 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Theo-Roumier-Piaget-une-vie-pour-l-autogestion
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