The planet is burning. Humanity is killing each other. Poverty is
exploding right here. We could fill pages with a litany of pain,injustice, theft, rape and pillaging. But what is the point of being thenarrators of a catastrophe that is unfolding before our eyes? Everyoneknows it, everyone sees it. Today, faced with the emergency, it becomesvital to take a stand. ---- Because yes, Macron is right: "we are atwar". In class war even more precisely. Warren Buffet, the Americanbillionaire financier, had already expressed this a few years ago:"There is a class struggle, of course, but it is my class, that of therich, which is waging war. And we win.»If we want to prove Buffet, Macron and their world wrong, then we haveno choice: we must take a stand in this war.But taking a stand also means being able to stand out from false allies,those who pretend to have taken a stand, but who in fact are eitherstuck between two chairs or are outright working for the enemy.At the forefront of false friends, there are all these intermediarybodies, political parties, institutional unions, which by playingmediators between Power and the population or workers, in fact serve asshock absorbers for popular and social anger, ending by stifling itslowly with elections (political or professional) or demonstrations withno future. The staging of the pension movement was in this regard amasterful example of the fact that the unions, all without exception,are false friends. Taking a stand means - for all those who claim to berevolutionaries - leaving these unions and parties and fighting for anautonomous popular movement, without a leader or spokesperson orrepresentative, and which acts directly in the workplace. or life. Theeditorial of our previous issue, "open letter to a fellow union member"received a lot of positive mail in this sense.But among the false friends, there are also the "radical reformists",who speak loudly, who rather scream, and who all proclaim themselves"anarchists" in fact behave like the first Stalinists or fascists tocome along. 20 years ago, Claude GUILLON, who died this summer, askedthe question "are anarchists still revolutionary?" ", a text that wereproduce in this newspaper, Guillon predicted the evolution of theanarchist movement: no longer a movement with a revolutionary project,aiming to destroy the system of exploitation and domination to replaceit with a society without money, without State nor wage labor, but acultural movement preserving a historical and symbolic heritage, butwithout seeking to advance it, founded around beliefs in a disembodiedideal and articulated on an individual revolt. Failing to be able tochange the world, we fall back on changing ourselves. From then on,social questions become secondary in favor of the question of identity.And this is how - little by little - by dint of having evacuated fromanarchist organizations the ideology and principles considered toorestrictive in favor of a neutral pragmatism which was to bring masscrowds into the anarchist movement, we ended up emptying the anarchistmovement and its principles and its activists.The culmination of this process of dissolution, of which we had alreadyseen some warning signs, took place this summer, at the InternationalAnti-authoritarian meetings in Saint Imier.This event, which was to bring together the cream of global anarchism tocommemorate the 150th anniversary of the previous meeting of theAnti-authoritarian International in 1872, saw truly mind-blowing scenestake place: in addition to the workshops devoted to cryptocurrencies andlibertarian ideology, or the fact that the central subject of discussion- the war in Ukraine - was "taken over" by statist nationalistmilitarists who intimidated, including physically, all those who triedto make a statement heard. different voice, antimilitarist andinternationalist, books were burned, in the perfect tradition of theburnings of the Inquisition or Nazism. "Good organizers" demanded theexpulsion from the Book Fair of an anarchist organization (and not justany: the Anarchist Federation!) and - in the face of the united refusalof all the exhibitors to comply with this demand - the power was cut offto all exhibitors as a collective punishment! Even more serious,anarchist activists were attacked and injured, and this, in the name ofa new purism devoid of any foundation ("little white people" attackedactivists, some of whom were of North African origin, on the grounds ofracism). or Middle Eastern!!!). We are dealing with new fanatics whointend to convert us to their "benevolence with iron bowls in the mouth,like the Jesuits and other missionaries who yesterday wanted to convertthe natives - whether they were Cathars or from America - by iron and fire.There will be a before and an after Saint Imier. In Saint Imier, thepostmodernists drew first blood, signifying that they are ready to go toextremes to intimidate and impose their sectarian dogma. From then on, there can no longer be any compromise possible. Those whocall themselves anarchists must take a position: postmodernism is notreconcilable with anarchism, this is the meaning of the violenceperpetrated at the Anti-Authoritarian Meetings. The message from theSaint Imier attackers is clear: with us or against us.As far as the CNT-AIT is concerned, our choice has been made, and hasbeen for a long time: that of the Universal Human Community againstnarcissistic and community Identities, which play into the hands ofCapitalism which divide and categorize Humanity to better establish itspower.http://cntaittoulouse.lautre.net/spip.php?article1363_________________________________________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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