A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertair #220 - Sport: In Praise of through Collective, ed. libertarian (fr) [machine translation]

It starts with a confession comical and it ends in fireworks anecdotes sports libertarian 
free, discharge ... including ideas. ---- The confession is that of Jean-Marc Reynaud (one 
of the authors), which tells how he has long hidden his libertarian comrades he loved the 
sport, and even - supreme infamy - he practiced as an it could. Collection of articles 
written for the occasion, taken from World Libertarian or other journals sometimes old, 
Praise the pass is a praise to everything that makes more alive, more united, more 
politically strong as in the sport. And the whole is in a good mood contagious. Mainly 
football, chronicles remember how the working class has recovered to the aristocracy of 
sports often from soils, and how to cleave practice horse riding and tennis on one side 
and the other football league and Game.

They analyze, in the writings of Jean-Claude Michea, the contradictions of the 
intelligentsia "left" in respect of football, but also how the money has distorted until 
its tactics game: its internal organization.

It confirms that the red and black jerseys rugby teams in Toulouse and Toulon owe nothing 
to chance, but many Spanish refugees of the CNT, and recounts the game of revenge: FC vs 
FC Kronstadt Lenin (it not invented). Always about Rugby we learn the role of Vichy to 
eradicate the game XIII, too popular, too strong politically in favor of the game and XV 
until the 1970s!

Beyond the anecdotal, the book also examines deeply the political debate of the role of 
sport, its relation to the body, to another, to notions of competition and competition. 
And if he remains largely favorable to the exercise sportsman, he does not exclude 
contrary views, examines the phenomenon of "supporters", the challenge capitalist form the 
sport as an ideology. Similarly, it could be said that a team sport libertarian, free of 
arbitrators, joint teams, self-managed, rules discussed previously in the game. Upon 
arrival, despite some unevenness in the quality of articles, the book reads like an 
adventure, not only a glorious past of Footballers proletarians, nasty, glorious, selfless 
and politicized, but also a future embodied initiatives by activists and sports as varied 
as jouissives, and as creative as happily from all over the world.

Pass! pass!

Cuervo (AL Northwest Suburbs)

• Collective - Wally Rosell, Praise the password, change the sport to change the world, 
ed. libertarians, 2012, 208 pages, 13 euros
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