A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL Septembre - policy, Social Movement: A comeback in strength (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

After a hot spring, summer was the occasion for a first assessment stage, which calls on 
all components of social movement to return to the streets after the summer, against the 
labor law, but also against repression, against large and imposed unnecessary projects, 
and carry the battle of ideas at the dawn of an election year ahead foul. ---- After the 
strong spring movement for the defense of the Labour Code, the summer was not really a 
holiday taste. From the beginning of July, a return date was indeed raised in the agenda 
to resume the struggle against the government and its anti-social project: it will be on 
15 September. ---- Past mobilization and future was therefore in everyone's head, not to 
engage in a final assessment but to debrief hot pending recovery: trade union strategies 
have been decrypted, the role of media was analyzed the phenomenon unpublished standing 
Nights has been widely discussed and answers - authoritarian and police - government have 
been commented by all those and all those who, since March 9, beat the pavement ... and 
some did not even really elsewhere suspended mobilization, as in Valenciennes where 
rallies were held against the harsh repression that hit the trade union activists in the 
region.

Radicalization of society

This movement was an opportunity for many people to engage for the first time, 
demonstrated by standing Nights that flourished all over France. These protests gathering 
spaces that largely outside the usual circles activists were often hesitant or confused 
and, paradoxically, when they were born of the mobilization against the labor law, they 
had difficulties to focus on this issue and to mobilize around this emergency there. More 
than tools for the fight, standing Nights were finally politicization of tools and AL had 
its place as a carrier of a constructed discourse and practices of self-organization - for 
the word of distribution the decision on taking action.

All appointments of 15 September
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The scale of the mobilization and new forms of protest that have emerged now feed 
expectations for social return, especially since trade union and political organizations 
were not necessarily ready for the protest marathon and do have not always been able to 
play their part: the wind turns not expected hoisted sail. A company's radicalization is 
felt and was reflected in various ways: in the unions, and also in fractions of less 
organized people, who use Nights standing or city AG to be heard. The consequence of this 
is that the unions have been disoriented because it is not their usual tactics.

It is now to roll up their sleeves to mend the relationship and develop resistance cadres 
capitalist juggernaut, either by strengthening union structures or trying to convince the 
anti-capitalist political organizations to work together to dig breaches in the current 
system. We'll have to develop our collective militants and rethink the relationship 
between unions and structures that organize social struggles at the local level to achieve 
more convergences.

In terms of modes of action also it will have to be bold: the protests have been proven 
but have also shown their limits in a power that is not afraid to impose a law against the 
opinion of a majority Population. The filter dams on them rather well received by the 
public and used to continue the battle for public opinion.

Demonstration July 5 against El Khomri law
cc Daniel Maunoury
Type directly in portfolio

Finally, let alone blockages strikes show that we own the means of production and we have 
the ability to make the government back by typing directly to the portfolio. Reducing the 
government, it would first seek the repeal of the labor law, but it is not an end in 
itself: we must get out of the defensive logic of recent years and enter a protest 
vibrant, dynamic conquest to not let the extreme right to benefit from the general 
exasperation.

There is much to do, much to rethink. And political time leaves little room for 
reflection. The schedule ahead is already loaded and the state of emergency is a new 
threat with which we must deal. In addition to the September 15, several sectoral 
initiatives were announced September 8, in education and on the same day for workers in 
social and medico-social.

Other fronts of struggle will not be outdone in this social return and that is in the 
field of ecology we have perhaps the most to do. The challenge was indeed strengthens Bure 
against a nuclear waste landfill project[1]or in Flamanville against the construction of 
the EPR[2]. In both cases, extremely expensive projects in the service of a dangerous and 
completely opaque industry are stubbornly led by power. Same to Notre-Dame-des-Landes 
where, after a referendum cleverly staged by the government, environment and agricultural 
autonomy are ever threatened. And we will continue to tell us that it is urgent to reduce 
our expenses ...

At Notre-Dame-des-Landes and in the streets against the labor law, the way the government 
handles political issues reveals the authoritarian drift of a state whose primary 
objective is to maintain the existing system - and benefits of those who profit from this 
system - whatever the price. Conversely, activists and militants of Alternative Libertaire 
tirelessly carry a vision of society based on direct democracy, trying to disseminate 
self-management practices in struggles and show more broadly that another world is possible.

But by entering into this new resistance against authoritarian logic, we strongly expose 
repression . Faced with this, it will be necessary to demonstrate an unwavering solidarity 
with all those and all those who are being prosecuted. In the coming weeks, many trial 
will take place and we will be waiting for you to show our support. Several dates are also 
known and already we can already give appointment on 19 and 20 October in Amiens to demand 
the release of Goodyear employees convicted at trial in the prison for selected executives 
of 'business.

This solidarity will be all the more important that the topic of security (as well as that 
of "national identity", as has reminded the foul controversy over the Burkini in late 
summer) will be at the heart of public debate in the election period ahead. Whether the 
PS, with Republicans or FN, the field is ready, the speeches are honed and topics will 
impose themselves. While the whole of the political spectrum continue to tilt to the 
right, one can easily predict the tone for future discussions. Security, immigration, 
austerity; both say blind repression, racism and uninhibited further dismantling of public 
services at the expense of the working classes.

Neither resignation nor low profile

Again, we will be asked to validate a system that only protects those who hold wealth. 
Again, we will be asked to give up our power of decision to others. Again, our word will 
be stifled by the media machine. But this is not to resign or to lay low for the coming 
year: on the contrary, we need more than ever to propose another project company, which 
must be designed to be consistent with the current reality and respond to new social 
challenges.

In this period, the unions and the broader social movement must act to remember that 
political solutions can not be limited to institutional electoral competition. We must 
play our part, start from the lived reality of working people to suggest other ways to 
transform society, with our fears, our dreams and our certainties. This is where we always 
found our forces. This is how we existed and we have won new rights through history, 
through the conflict.

Nans (AL Ferns) and Benjamin (AL Paris-Nord-Est)

[1]Read "Antinuclear: Bure live" in Alternative Libertaire from July to August 2016.

[2]See particularly "Flamanville EPR: nuclear detonated prices" in Alternative Libertaire 
in January 2013.

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