(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #240 - Classic subversion: Daniel Gu?rin, "Homosexuality and Revolution" (fr, pt)

Central subject of his last writings, Daniel Gu?rin has always linked his bisexuality to 
his militant commitment. His revolt stemming from intolerance of homosexuality has led to 
a revolt against society as a whole: "The revolt is the primary school of the revolution". 
---- From the age of 15, his sexuality is constructed by an attraction towards men, and 
especially young proles, while itself is derived from the high bourgeoisie. He warns 
against its critics: it did not become revolutionary because he slept with workers but 
explains that this combination has allowed him to embrace their cause really striking what 
the injustice of class society. In class warfare, says Gu?rin have changed sides in 
contact with his friends and sometimes lovers.

This link subtly Gu?rin between homosexuality and revolution is brought remarkably. Based 
on the Kinsey report, Guerin demonstrates firstly that there are no monolithic sexuality 
only heterosexual or homosexual, but a multitude of sexualities ranging from one to the other.

Capitalism built family value through bourgeois morality to reproduce the labor force. The 
yoke of domestic values, creating a division of genres, subjects the woman to the man, 
crushing the sexuality of each. It can only be overcome by a revolution changing the 
society in its entirety. Patriarchy, racial prejudice as homophobic prejudice will 
disappear only with an anti-authoritarian social revolution. This is supported by 
historical examples. During the Russian Revolution, and until the collapse of the Soviets 
by the Bolsheviks, women were considered equal to men in the struggle for the emancipation 
of the people, and homosexuality was definitely not stigmatized.

After analyzing the link between homosexuality and Revolution, Guerin talks about the 
struggle for the emancipation of homosexuals born in the years after May 68, and on the 
prospects of these movements. He cites homosexual Front revolutionary action (FHAR) and 
the Policy Group and gay liberation newspaper (GLHPQ). However Gu?rin expresses its 
concern about the future of these struggles. He dreads marketing, ghettoisation and 
bigotry of the homosexual movement "which goes against the sense of social 
decompartmentalisation of bisexual universality" . Daniel Gu?rin, visionary, already 
perceives that AIDS will be exploited to revive homophobic prejudice. He says "a brutal 
flashback could replace the current permissiveness, and all the more easily that this 
decline is accompanied politically by a resurgence of the extreme right" . Written in 
1983, these words are more relevant than ever.

Flo (AL Montpellier)

Daniel Gu?rin, Homosexuality and Revolution , Friends of Spartacus, 2013, 80 p., 9 euros

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #240 - Read: Christian Langeois, "Henri Krasucki" (fr, pt)

This biography of Henri Krasucki (1924-2003) is any sympathy for his subject. It is an 
opportunity to revisit the history of Stalinism. A different bio would be necessary with 
critical tools to understand the origins, impasses and Stalinists dramas. Nevertheless it 
allows to enter this universe now disappeared fascinated and shaped the nineteenth century 
in general and the French labor movement in particular. ---- The golf "Krasu" as he was 
affectionately called, is indeed remarkable. A life of courage, dedication, loyalty to the 
Stalinist commitments. How can we forget the young worker from the Jewish immigration, the 
young rebel, the remote, the tireless activist. It would be too simple, too comfortable to 
disqualify an entire generation of militant workers in wrought untold battles simply 
because they were engaged in a criminal way. The book usefully reminds us that for many 
activists were sincere and defended the "strategy" driven by Moscow in thinking she was 
the only one possible. Many died heroically for Stalinism, some were cowardly murdered by 
Stalin, others gradually die without children. Sterile or nearly so. The latest born 
managing the feat of having the same faults as their former without having any qualities!

The last part of the book is that the most illuminating perspective. Krasu torn, as the 
whole party, between fidelity and openness, seeking a way out (he does not understand that 
Stalinism was closed in advance any issue). Internal battles can be glimpsed in a period 
where Marchais imposes zig-zag stunning FCP and seeks to impose in the CGT. Alliance with 
the PS or not? Walked from the rupture of the joint program in 1977 at the PCF output of 
Ministers of the Socialist government in 1984 by all possible phases, excessive hostility 
abdication in open country. It is remarkable that the PCF has not yet found the way out 
about this question of alliances with the PS ... Under no Stalin as those under Attila 
nothing repels!

The highlight and the only "revelation" of this biography is the autobiography that he 
decided to work at the beginning of 1991 together with two journalists. In the 
confrontation that opposes secretly to Marchais, he was willing to spread some issues to 
light. But a well-Stalinist reflex will net him stop this project is the "coup" of Yeltsin 
in August and the collapse of the USSR ahead. "We have to face, we forget the differences" 
says Will he then his publisher ...

Jean-Yves (AL Seine-Saint-Denis)

Christian Langeois, Henri Krasucki , Cherche-Midi Ed, 2012, 372 p., 19 euros.

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #240 - Controversy on gender: Slander reactionary school (fr, pt)

In late March, the association of Farida Belghoul, "Days of withdrawal of the school" 
violently attacked a kindergarten teacher Joue-les-Tours (Indre-et-Loire). Seeking to 
demonstrate its capacity to harm, she faced retaliation and immediate solidarity. ---- 
Carefully orchestrated cabal was most despicable of all: a video published online on March 
29th on the site "Days of withdrawal from school" (JRE) and on the YouTube platform 
attacked a kindergarten teacher Joue-les-Tours, publicly accusing of molesting his 
students. For more than ten minutes, the local representative of JRE pours hate porridge, 
accumulating fabrications. The video is posted noon after a meeting with the principal of 
the school at the request of a parent student likely manipulated by the anti gender theory 
association. At the time of this interview, JRE had organized a rally in front of the 
school in which Farida Belghoul himself had made the trip.

Union response antifascist

That is, the desire to "mount" a publicity around this alleged affair, acting 
appropriately on the eve of "days of action" planned JRE by March 31. The Union 
South-Education of Indre-et-Loire defends teacher victim of stunt JRE immediately. The 
defense is not only a moral: the union seeks and obtains YouTube removing the offending 
video. The comments accompanying ran several pages and there fell of calls lynching and 
death threats against the teacher. The federation South Education relays in the day of his 
release departmental union recalling that "it is in the best tradition of fascist groups 
that the JRE uses defamation and lies to support his fight retrograde and abusing parents 
" . FERC-CGT also supports 31 March.

South Education 37 strongly challenges the administration of national education which 
eventually complaint. On April 18, the public education against the LGBTphobies school [ 1 
] issued a press release denouncing the support "long tradition of school attacks by the 
extreme right, always at the forefront of attacks LGBTphobes and reactionary speech on 
women and the family. "

Fight for Equality

Despite the support of Dieudonn? and "National Socialist" Alain Soral, the last day of 
withdrawal from school, May 12, was a flop. But do not underestimate the danger. South 
Education, whose teams provide intelligence work on this association, however, has warned 
of the new strategy of JRE that of infiltration in school councils. Far from having 
abandoned her project, she has adapted and announces clearly want to put under 
surveillance teachers engaged es in the fight for equal rights for girls and boys.

These are teachers in contact with parents who patiently deconstructed fantasies and 
rumors conveyed by the JRE. Well aware that behind this action lies a draft profoundly 
unequal and reactionary society, the extreme fascist right.

Theo Rival (AL Orleans)


[ 1 ] Collective brings together the CIPF, the Fep and Sgen-CFDT, FERC-CGT, FSU, South 
Education, the UNEF, the LDIFs and UNL

en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #240 - Chronicles of alienated labor: Milena, head of service in a pension fund, "This is the mess ..." (fr, pt)

Chronicles of alienated labor by Marie-Louise Michel, occupational psychologist ---- "This 
is the mess ..." Milena, head of service in a pension fund [ 1 ] ---- I am fifty-nine 
years, it's been forty-two years I worked there. For forty years, it was really good, but 
in recent years there have been five successive combinations. It is everything and 
anything. It is nothing just pawns. And successive managers with a vengeance. The CEO was 
put out, it is not found there anymore. Finally they put me five misogynistic men under my 
command, and more came from another scope, as they say here to tell another mutual. They 
do not care a train. Two hours to smoke a cigarette. I alerted my superiors, the pressure 
is up and I have not talked to them. ---- I do tens of thousands of miles per year. They 
do not want to move. In agencies throughout France we need our service and impossible to 
work with the employees there. I was told to wait.

They do not care and degraded me probably because I do annoys thoughts all the time. The 
head that I depend completely disengaged. Due to mergers, there is 20% of employees who do 
not work. They say they will reorganize. Unions want a redundancy plan but the direction 
and left to rot ... everyone gets sick. This is the cheapest way to get rid of people! 
There are two other groupings for, they always want to be bigger. It's a mess, you can not 
imagine. The liquidators retirement have never been so many delays, errors. A quagmire. 
This is a disaster for retirement. The new CEO has turned all former directors, who left 
with sub. After that, he placed all his friends.

And I also found myself in a work stoppage. I did not tell my friends or my family, I am 
ashamed. I have a good friend in the box, it comes to a stroke. He had virtually no work 
for a year. Barely three hours per day without hurry, it drove him crazy. I asked him if 
he believed there was a link ... between those who have too much work and those who do not 
and dare not say. Me now, I would like arrangement and leave. I never thought it would end 
like this.


[ 1 ] Only the name is changed, the rest is authentic.

(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #240 - Event militant Third Frequently self-management of Montreuil (fr, pt)

28 and 29 June next will take place in the Word wandering the third edition of the Fair to 
self Montreuil (93). After that of Toulouse last month, this edition will be an 
opportunity to meet, discuss and celebrate. ---- After Toulouse early May, it is now 
offering its third Montreuil Fair in self-management. This includes more than a hundred 
structures: associations, cooperatives, trade unions and political structures. Libertarian 
alternative is again very involved in the organization of this event, alongside structures 
such as self-managed bakery The Conquest of Bread, the self High School Paris (LAP), the 
CNT-SO, South Union, or the Andean cooperative. ---- Forums, debates, practical workshops, 
info, stands, a tavern, music, film, theater, dance, books, a children's area, a concert 
on Saturday evening as featuring Mossy T e lei Jovents ... With a hundred participating 
organizations (associations, political organizations, trade unions, cooperatives), the 
third Fair will be rich in experiences, encounters, in debates and practice.

Do not miss the four forums, which have themes: "Self-management and unionism", "The 
economy may be social and solidarity? "," Ecology and self "," Gentrification, right to 
the city and urban struggles. "

Information and full program http://www.foire-autogestion.org .

Call for Fair to self 2014

The economic and financial crisis that shook the world is also a crisis of civilization, 
against which the usual answers, as neoliberal statists are powerless. The self may be an 
alternative. Like every year since 2012, it will be the center of a festive and popular 
event the weekend of June 28 and 29: Fair to self.

Global phenomenon, the self is part of the long historical tradition of cooperatives and 
"recovery business," the Paris Commune to the Prague Spring, the Spanish Revolution to 
Poland in August 1980, in Lip the Argentinazo in 2001. It occurs in sporadic struggles for 
takeover of companies threatened with closure. It also permeates alternative practices, 
collective reappropriation of habitat direct link with farmers and producers.

These experiences share a common horizon collectively decide on common affairs, without 
delegating to officers, both in economically and politically. Reclaiming the production, 
it is also able to transform its terms and purposes. Anchored in concrete practices, worn 
as a global project, the self is thus a possible answer to the failure of the capitalist 
and statist system.

Frequently self-management is the meeting point of a whole galaxy of collectives, 
associations, businesses, cooperatives, trade unions and policies that seek to bring to 
life the idea of self.

Its third edition will take place the weekend of 28-29 June 2014 in Montreuil (93), on the 
site of the wandering Word with stalls, spaces for debate broadcast on radio, film 
screenings, concerts, a library, a children's area, practical workshops ...

We invite all individuals, organizations, unions, associations, companies, cooperatives, 
etc.. claiming and practicing self to join.