A-Infos (en) France, Organization Communist Libertaier - Alternative Current OC #223 - A skinny mobilization (fr) [machine translation]

Network Nuclear Exit and EELV organized on October 13 in a dozen cities of the hexagon, a 
day antinuclear prepared without involving all the basic structures of the movement. An 
initiative from above as only the Network and the Greens can do. By merely evoke in their 
balance sheets, "thousands of people", the organizers have found the formula for both not 
to lie and to ignore the failure of this day. Indeed, apart from the meager 3,000 
demonstrators Laval and almost 1000 in Lyon, all other gatherings were rather skeletal. 
---- Several explanations for this failure ---- It would be a mistake to interpret the 
weak mobilization as the only strategy bureaucrats "antinuclear". We have long known that 
the failures and excesses explained by the absence of "good political leadership" or the 
"treachery" of some is a dead end.

Indeed, at a time when the "crisis" is staged, presented as ultimate horizon and causes 
fear and anxiety is real and justified, but maintained largely by the political discourse 
and the media it is clear that concerns so-called "green" are less recipe and appear as a 
luxury for the middle class protected. That said, we must recognize that this 
understandable tendency is reinforced by the fact that the party is officially the 
ecology, but also as satellites or Hulot Lepage, have absolutely no social discourse, nor 
the crisis nor the struggles that lead or could lead, and they are the ones that the media 
want to hear.

Yet it is obvious that the antinuclear struggles, such as those against the major work and 
development of the territory, are not only ecological but struggles must be linked to 
social struggles all the efforts of capitalists to maintain their rate profit. Because it 
bears repeating that the nuclear industry was set up to increase the rate of profit rather 
than to provide us with a power beyond our needs. And now, it is to maintain this rate of 
profit that industrial ferment PSA and other plants and do not want to stop nuclear power 
plants. And that, therefore, the struggle of workers against dismissal should be the same 
as those of antinuclear ... against a system that makes profit the only engine of the 
economy. We're certainly not there, but this is what should guide us in our attempts at 
mobilization and intervention. However, if it is not to blame difficulties for simple 
error or treachery towards self-proclaimed, it is clear nevertheless a strong 
determination that no junction does not take place, no common appear outside that leads to 
electoral perspective.

In this sense, the slogan of the organizers of the demonstrations "changing era ..." could 
be a promising attempt to generalize and reconciliation of seemingly opposing interests or 
at least different. But after "flopait" a pitiful "... get out of nuclear power" without 
any assumption on the duration of this era or what it could be. As for the immediate 
objectives asserted, "immediate cessation of EPR projects and EHV" they calquaient the 
worst design of unionism which considers that it is asking the least get a little 
something when, for us, believe that this is asking a lot (or even more).

AC in the last month, we talked about demonstrations manipulated to designate those who 
were preparing. And that was the case, by conventional means: media personalities 
attracting the press. It is no longer necessary to mobilize number and for the attention 
of mainstream media and persuade himself that it weighs any balance of power, just bring a 
few members or personalities, and you're played. In Laval, the only manifestation of a 
certain size (nothing to do with that, however, Rennes a year ago which brings 15,000 
people), the Greens made discrete in the street but omnipresent in the media agreed (as of 
used with other political figures) as much space to the presence of JV Placed and the new 
National Secretary Pascal Durand as a real description of the contents of the demo. Itou 
Lyon that "benefited" by Yannick Jadot. And when we beat the number is a reminder even 
greater "personalities" for the window. It will be recalled that in the human chain 
between Lyon and Avignon in March 2012 the press fulfills its columns simply because of 
the presence elbow to elbow Bove, Joly, and Voynet Placed! We will never know what 
thousands of others thought. And also the press conference of elected regional EELV 
affirming their support with all the "non-violent action taken" by the gathering of 
Montalbot margin (Chefresne) against EHV line June 24, rather than be anonymously with 
protesters who were beaten up. The other component of this strategy is the affection given 
to "non-violent citizen show" Care Bears and infantilized citizens grouped so that the 
ground will draw slogans (such as Strasbourg, forum or against the airport 
Notre-Dame-des-Landes in July), or human chains such as that provided for ... March 9, the 
next date of our organizers. Thus, it seems that we can reach the most people and be 
credible to people! My ass! In fact, it is primarily and can appear to the power as 
opposed to tolerable at the same time appear critical while remaining within the state 
apparatus by pushing the issue of stopping plants for decades.

Y be or not ...

All of these can obviously bring grist to the mill of comrades who were skeptical about 
the importance of being present in these events and to mobilize. We who have chosen to 
intervene, however, a few points to make.

The "anti-capitalist bloc" which we called Laval and we designed as an extension 
initiatives in Rennes October 15, 2011 first, then to Nantes 24 March 2012 has certainly 
not been as important as previously in protests which, it must be remembered, had gathered 
between 10 000 and 15 000 people. However, a few dozen party with the banner "Neither pink 
nor green, immediate cessation of nuclear" are hundreds of people who formed a procession 
capitalist who, this time, found himself at the head of one event by printing certain 
tone. Of "unorganized", anti-THT, the anarchists (visible - AL CNT - or invisible - FA, 
OCL), anti-capitalists of all kinds come together behind the banner slogan recovery 
structuring the procession with "The Greens yellow, we do not understand anything, "" Not 
the time to vote, we have to bring down the towers "(variant" work "and" jump ") ... which 
were widely reported beyond our ranks. Avoiding falling into a distasteful triumphalism, 
we felt that the biggest part of the demo mistrust vis-à-vis governments environmentalists 
gaining ground. So much so that they are grouped into tail procession broke up even before 
the arrival of the main square in order not to risk being ridiculed by individuals 
uncontrollable!

This means that there is a potential for reconstruction of the anti-nuclear movement, but 
certainly not, in our view, on the model of a simple improvement of the network phase out 
nuclear power by simply making more transparent and "democratic" or the sticking to a 
region. Certainly not by the simple addition or reconstruction of small groups that would 
merely disseminating good word radical. It is only in the assemblies of basic local large 
where each other find their place in accepting the contradictions and errors that could 
draw a perspective. This is not won.

In any case, it is clear that the period ends the antinuclear movement was more or less 
"in itself." Those who manifest themselves today are virtually the same as those found 
against the LGV lines against the airport Notre-Dame-des-Landes, against EHV lines, writ 
against that mistakenly called "the great useless projects" (they are in our eyes but they 
are very useful for the survival of the capitalist system). And it is the ability of these 
new movements to assert themselves politically as a collective force, and not just an 
addition of more or less fluctuating networks that depend on the ability to then create an 
opening in the direction of all disputes the 'crisis' causes.

OCL West
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