Almost fifty years of being involved and writing about LIP! Another book... Yes,
that of our comrade Théo Roumier. This time, even if it is sketched in theintroduction, the central issue is not to tell the strike, its origins, itscontradictions, its self-management character, the disobedience to theestablished order and sometimes also to the trade union confederations andpolitical parties... It recalls and analyzes the context. ---- " Control today todecide tomorrow ", such was the title of the manifesto adopted by the UnitedSocialist Party (PSU) during its congress in December 1972 ; that sets the scene.It will also be the framework for intense debates within the labor movement ofthe time: the CFDT is then fully self-managing. But the PSU will not manage toattract him to the Liaison Committee for Socialist Self-management (CLAS), inwhich the revolutionary Marxists of the Marxist Revolutionary Alliance (AMR) orthe Communist Initiative Centers (CIC) will take a strong interest. ), but alsomembers of the Anarchist Revolutionary Organization (ORA), CERES within the PS,... and CFDT activists.One of the reasons for the failure of the CLAS is that, at the same time,currents of the Socialist Party and the CFDT confederal leadership wereorganizing the so-called "Assises du socialisme" operation, with the mainfocus... the legislative elections of March 1973 and April 1974 presidentialelections. Charles Piaget, the majority of the PSU and other political forcesrefused to bind themselves to the electoral objectives of the Socialist Party.Self-management deserves and requires better!The work transmitted here was carried out for the Institut Tribune sociale; ittherefore revolves around the action of the Unified Socialist Party (PSSU in thisperiod): excerpts from interviews and speeches by Charles Piaget in support.Piaget, the PSU, two essential elements when talking about LIP; the two arelinked, but neither can be limited to the other. Allow me here to offer acomplement to the production of Théo Roumier: the latest book by Charles Piaget,We manufacture, we sell, we pay ourselves. Lip, 1973 (Syllepsis, 2021). In aformat close to the book reviewed here, it is an excellent manual for therevolutionary syndicalist, even if Charles Piaget does not refer to this term.You will find in the bibliography material to reflect on all these subjects andmany others; starting, if possible, with the writings and words of the first andforemost concerned, the strikers of those years.Théo Roumier extends this moment of social history, with a few reflections thatare not unrelated to the subject of a recent issue of the journal LesUtopiques[1]. Without revealing the whole, because you have to buy and readTheo's book, let's say that three elements are very rightly put forward: thedifference between reformist strategy and revolutionary strategy, betweensocialism " from above " and dynamics at the base ; the indispensable autonomousaction of the working class; priority to militant practices, to collective directactions, and not to speeches, to doctrinaire contests. All very current...Christian (UCL South East Suburb)Théo Roumier, Self-management and revolution. Charles Piaget, interventions 1974,Les Cahiers de l'ITS, editions of Croquant, 2022, 120 pages, 10 euros.To validate[1]" Power, politics, social movement ", Les Utopiques n°19, Syllepse, spring 2022.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Roumier-Autogestion-et-revolution-Charles-Piaget-interventions-1974_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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