(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #241 - Meeting of June 21: Unitarian against aust?ritaires (fr, pt)

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Saturday, June 21, one hundred and fifty associative activists, trade unionists and 
politicians from twenty to five different organizations [1] have gathered-es to the labor 
exchange to Paris for a single meeting. This wide arc strengths can help to support a 
strong response to austerity policies and the extreme right. ---- The purpose of the 
meeting unitary forces left 21 June in Paris was to provide suites in the demonstration on 
April 12, which was attended by 50 000 people and was the first act of opposition to the 
liberal capitalist policies of the tandem Valls- Holland after municipal elections were a 
defeat for the Socialist Party, like most of the left parties and saw the far right win in 
fourteen municipalities. The event was directed against the austerity policy PS wanted by 
the MEDEF, against the rise of the extreme right and the redistribution of wealth.

If it was a success in a context marked by a worsening of attacks against the working 
class and a great difficulty to collectively oppose it, she met mainly echoes in militant 
networks, which was not enough to draw prospects for a meaningful confrontation with the 
state and capital. On the other hand the overrepresentation of the Left Front and the 
mobilization halftone associations and unions have been a real factor imbalance.

Unitary framework unpublished

The meeting of 21 June had three objectives: to work in the development of emergency 
preparedness and an alternative to austerity policies, drive an action process within the 
period (struggles, solidarity actions, events) and develop the territories collective 
combining employee-es, unemployed, Retirees and young people, but also members of 
associations, trade unions and political organizations.

These objectives will be the heart of a new call saying what we want to do in terms of 
emergency response, alternative and mobilization process against the FN, MEDEF, the 
government and in support of struggles. A date will be proposed mobilization to federate 
initiatives against the austerity policies of the PS that will culminate this fall with 
the parliamentary debate on the Budget and Finance Act social security threat to liquidate 
the financing of health insurance as we know it, with serious consequences for social 
insured es.

This unified framework is unique in that it brings together a wide enough arc forces with 
targeted social as well as political. If the meeting of June 21, helped contain the 
hegemonic pretensions put forward by the Left Front on April 12 and increase the weight of 
associations and unions, while opening opportunities, much remains to be done to expand 
this gathering in other areas of struggle (youth organizations, anti-racist movement, 
anti-fascist networks, collective control...). This gathering has meaning and thus the 
future if it is a more to support the struggles, help them develop without substitute and 
without exploit frameworks struggle.

The other challenge will be to appoint more precisely what these organizations want and 
embody not only progressive opposition to the policies issued by the MEDEF, the State and 
the European Union, but also assumed a rupture with capitalism, otherwise it is smoking 
out of the anti-system rhetoric of the extreme right which impose increasingly.

Laurent Esquerre (AL Paris-Northeast)
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[1] With particular DAL APEIS, Women Equality, Women's Collective national law, national 
coordination of local hospitals, ATTAC, Copernicus Foundation Urif CGT, CGT UD 
Haute-Garonne, CGT Utilities, UGFF CGT, FSU Ile-de -france, Partners, Alternative 
libertarian, NPA, the various components of the Left Front.