The rejection of the 2024 Olympics has sparked the "Saccage 24"
initiative described in this issue. ---- But other actions, such as thesabotage of public infrastructure, have been committed in France. The
following leaflet, published online, claims responsibility for the
action on the eve of the inauguration of the Games, against the railway
lines serving Paris, impacting 400,000 passengers. We are forwarding
---- Claim of sabotage of TGV lines a few hours before the opening
ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games ---- They call this a party? We
see it as a celebration of nationalism, a gigantic staging of the
subjugation of populations by States.
Under a playful and friendly air, the Olympic Games offer a field of
experimentation for the police management of crowds and the generalized
control of our movements.
Like any major sporting event, they are also each time an opportunity to
worship the values that found the world of power and money, to
generalized competition, to performance at all costs, to sacrifice for
the interest and national glory.
The injunction to identify with an imaginary community and to support
one's supposed camp of belonging is no less harmful than the permanent
incitement to see one's salvation in the good health of one's national
economy and in the power of one's national army.
Today, it takes ever greater doses of bad faith and denial not to see
all the horror generated by the consumer society and the pursuit of
so-called "Western well-being".
France would like to make this great mass the showcase of its
excellence. It will only be able to delude itself about its virtuous
role on those who have decided to put blinkers on themselves, and who
are comfortable with it.
We address our deepest contempt to them.
France's influence is based on the production of weapons, the sales
volume of which places it as the second largest exporter in the world.
The State is proud of its military-industrial complex and its "made in
France" arsenal. Spreading the means of terror, death and devastation
throughout the world to ensure its prosperity? Cock-a-doodle-doo!
With all due respect to the gullible who still believe in democratic
fables, the French State also uses its repressive panoply to confront
its own population. To quell the riots after the murder of Nahel by the
police in June 2023 or to try to stop the anti-colonial uprising in
Kanaky recently. As long as it exists, the State will not stop putting
it to work to fight those who challenge its authority.
The activities of French companies throughout the world make ever more
evident the social and environmental devastation produced by the
capitalist system. Those necessary to reproduce the current social
organization, and those inherent in scientific and technological
progress. Progress that only perceives the chain of past, present and
future catastrophes as an opportunity for a leap forward.
Total continues the pillage and dispossession of new lands in search of
oil and shale gas (East Africa, Argentina, etc.).
Under cover of its new green label, the nuclear industry and the export
of French know-how in this area assure us, in the more or less short
term, an irradiated planet, therefore literally uninhabitable. Nothing
more than one more crisis to manage for the promoters of the atom. They
who cannot do without their cooperation with the Russian state through
its giant Rosatom and the support of its army to crush the uprising in
Kazakhstan in 2022, a major supplier of uranium. This mineral that
powers the 58 reactors in France.
So, what is the human, social and environmental cost for a few
privileged people to travel quickly and far by TGV? Infinitely too much.
The railway is not a trivial infrastructure. It has always been a means
for the colonization of new territories, a prerequisite for their
devastation and a clear path for the extension of capitalism and state
control. The construction of the line called "Tren Maya" in Mexico, in
which Alstom and NGE are collaborating, is a good illustration of this.
And the electric batteries essential to the so-called "energy
transition"? Talk about it, for example, to the workers of the Bou-azeer
mine and to the inhabitants of the oases of this Moroccan region who are
paying the price for this 21st century gold rush. Renault extracts the
minerals needed to give a good conscience to the ecologists of the
metropolises on the backs of sacrificed lives. Talk about it to this
"forest people" of the island of Halmahera in the northeast of
Indonesia, to the Hongana Manyawa who despair of seeing the forest where
they live being destroyed on the altar of the "ecological transition".
The French State, via the Eramet company, is participating in the
ravages of lands that have been spared until now. Similarly, it does not
want to let go of the Melanesian Rock to continue to extract the
precious nickel.
We will stop here in the impossible inventory of the deadly and
predatory activities specific to any State and any capitalist economy.
This would not be of any help in breaking with a dull and depressing
life, with a life of exploitation, and in confronting the violence of
States and religious leaders, heads of families and police patrols,
patriots and employer militias, as much as that of shareholders,
entrepreneurs, engineers, planners and architects of the ongoing ravages.
Fortunately, the arrogance of power continues to clash with the anger of
the oppressed rebels. From riots to insurrection, during offensive
demonstrations and uprisings, through daily struggles and underground
resistance.
May on this day then resound, through the sabotage of the TGV lines
linking Paris to the four corners of France, the cries of "woman, life,
freedom" from Iran, the struggles of the Amazonians, the "fuck France"
coming from Oceania, the desires for freedom that reach us from the
Levant and Sudan, the fights that continue behind prison walls and the
insubordination of deserters from all over the world.
To those who blame these acts for spoiling the stay of tourists or
disrupting vacation departures, we respond that it is still so little.
So little compared to this event in which we wish to participate and
which we call for with all our hearts: the fall of a world based on
exploitation and domination. Then yes, we will have something to celebrate.
An unexpected delegation
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