(en) France, Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Current Alternative #240, May 2014 - Content + EDITORIAL (fr)

Content ---- PAGE 3 EDITORIAL ---- TERRITORIES ---- PAGE 4 Limousin platform Mountain 
limousine ---- PAGE 7 Limousin rural communism ---- PAGE 8 Ardennes: Opening up big and 
useless projects ---- PAGE 10 Notre-Dame-des-Landes: State patina! ---- PAGE 13 Sum: What 
happens to the project 1000 cows ---- SOCIAL --- PAGE 14 In the impoverishment of Student 
Life ---- PAGE 16 A AG hospitals in Caen ---- PAGE 17 against the owners and capilal, war 
without thank you! ---- RACISM --- PAGE 18 What is Dieudonn?? --- PAGES 20-21 BIG BROTHER 
---- ECONOMY ---- PAGE 22 Euro, some explanation ---- PAGE 24 THE ECONOMY IN BRIEF ---- 
INTERNATIONAL ---- PAGE 25 Bus classes in San Francisco (Fuck off google!) ---- HELL 
TECHNOLOGY ---- 27 PAGES The whole digital school, ipads and iprocrisie ---- PAGE 29 
LIBERTARIAN BEEN MEETING 2014 ---- OUR MEMORY ---- PAGE 30 The great slaughter: for 
example the shot ---- PAGES 32 NEW EDITIONS ACRATIE

Editorial

This is not "outgoing outgoing" that out of the system!

Although the political work we do does not pass through the ballot box, it is necessary to 
focus on the election results to measure changes in power relations in the French society. 
This is particularly necessary when failovers occur as the recent municipal elections. How 
to understand the magnitude of the defeat suffered by the authority said "left" virtually 
monopolized by the Socialist Party? The prevailing explanation of this slap is that of the 
expression of a "punishment vote" against Fran?ois Hollande and his government. Even if we 
ourselves were not expecting anything good socialists in power (they were often enough to 
maneuver), we can understand that people who have suffered Policy Chirac and Sarkozy have 
put some hope in a PS that their promised a more social policy. And we understand the 
extent of their disappointment. It is certainly important, but it also puts into 
perspective some losses. Part of the larger towns taken today right after two years of 
disappointment towards the socialist government had been conquered by the PS and its 
allies in 2008 during a "punishment vote" after one year Sarkozy power. This is the case 
for example of Toulouse, Reims or Roanne.

Obviously, Francois Hollande was very disappointed the electorate and only has the support 
of less than 20% of respondents. The discrediting of the left in power at the national 
level has weakened local Socialist candidates. The UMP and FN candidates strongly 
stigmatized "candidate Francois Hollande." We saw bloom talkers style "Holland guilty - 
Doe accomplice." Socialists have also been criticized outgoing on their left and sometimes 
found their way dissident lists various configurations (Left Front, various left, 
environmentalists ...) out in any case with the political union with the PS. By cons, it 
is very difficult to measure how much of the electorate left disappointed with the PS and 
its allies abstained, and shifted those presenting themselves as an alternative to the 
left of the PS, or downright toggled right or the extreme right. In any case, the number 
of switchovers important cities of PS to the other candidates on the left is very limited: 
Grenoble is a very clear case, but Montpellier is doubtful, elected "dissident" being 
outgoing Deputy. Haute-Vienne, there are several cases of small towns (Ambazac 
Rilhac-Rancon) PS taken by the Left Front or villages conquered by "other left" 
citizenists. At the national level, it is still limited, especially that left then also 
lost some bastions (Bobigny is one of the most representative cases).

However, voters also vote often said with considerations "local". Voters may blame the 
outgoing mayors not meet the needs of economic crisis: boosting their city, create jobs, 
improve the lives of their fellow citizens. It can also be accused of engaging in projects 
serving individuals rather than as many interests. A Limoges, for example, the creation of 
a "Family Village" in a peripheral area while small businesses downtown to ailing 
certainly played in the report moderate to centrist voters in the first round to the mall 
list UMP-centrist union in the second round. Sumptuary expenses for a gigantic "aquatic 
center" while equipment neighborhoods deteriorate certainly weighed on the ballot. A Niort 
also, the balance sheet and outgoing personality who could disappoint some of his electorate.

We do not weep over the woes of the PS and its elected representatives. We can even 
rejoice that they make less illusion. For cons, the point can worry about more is the rise 
of the National Front. Of course, we can consider that the number of FN lists and the 
number of cities earned is barely higher than in 1995. One can see this as temporary bout 
of fever and to fall in three years when the right returned to power. It remains that it 
is increasingly precarious workers with (and even of immigrant origin) such obnoxious 
ideas resonate. If the left can obviously disappoints most victims developments of 
capitalism populations, left more radical discourse can no longer touch and manage these 
populations as was once the PC and its satellite structures. FN advantage of empty seats 
and the lack of prospects for a large part of the population. He still often lacks 
militants with organizational skills, which hinders its local development and that it 
primarily benefits elections with less than a governance issue at stake expression 
"ras-le-bol". From this point of view, the European arrive, it may be a hit ...

After the defeat of municipal, Holland could not stay on his social democratic line 
half-goat - Mid-chou, without reacting. He could bend the line slightly to the left of the 
PS and regain the good graces of the Greens and the Left Front. He chose instead to take a 
step to the right and continue to sink into social liberalism. Manuel Valls is he Tony 
Blair French? There would probably have no means with the sole support of the majority of 
PS. By cons, it is now understood that the "savings plan of 50 billion" could happen with 
the support of part of the center or the right.

If this bet Holland and Valls successful, we can expect greater submission to the dictates 
of the bosses of large firms and technocrats of the European and international bodies, and 
consequently to a worsening of living conditions for a large part of the population. The 
self-destruction of social democracy by dissolving it in liberalism might appear as a 
chance to build alternatives, but this was not the case in the neighboring countries of 
France. Indeed, there are always forces left to try to rebuild the party intending to make 
a left-wing politics while remaining within the framework of the capitalist system and 
representative democracy.

This is outside the system only during business struggles during the great struggles 
against unnecessary projects during construction alternatives on territories during 
struggles on issues of freedom, we can develop real alternatives. You will find many 
examples of these resistors in this issue of Alternating Current. These struggles are 
essential to build, discuss and give opportunities facing the despair engendered by 
capitalism and its "crises" as well as the maneuvers of politicians of all stripes.

Limousin, April 26, 2014