A-Infos (en) France, Union Communiste Libertaire UCL AL #312 - International, Libertarian network: Links on five continents (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]

A year and a half after the creation of the UCL, its international commission 
draws up an initial assessment of activity, which has accelerated with the 
Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic crisis, which make a global analysis 
and response crucial. ---- We are internationalists, the social revolution cannot 
survive in one country. When a major social struggle or revolution affects one or 
more countries, it is often too late to realize the usefulness of 
internationalism. This is why, faced with this large-scale task, we strive to 
organize our political current on this scale over the long term. The merger 
between Alternative Libertaire and the Coordination of Anarchist Groups which 
gave birth to the Union Communiste Libertaire (UCL) had a beneficial effect for 
the international involvement of French libertarian communism.

After its creation in 2019, UCL continued its political development from the 
collective positions inherited from our two previous organizations, for example 
on the self-determination of peoples and against colonialism in Palestine. The 
merger also helped us in our work by pooling our forces to build the libertarian 
communist current at the international level.

We produce analyzes and press releases on the struggles in other countries such 
as those of the Belarusian working class against Lukashenko  [1], the Lebanese 
popular classes [2]or on the health and social crisis against the Covid in Latin 
America.

We are also trying to bring internationalist solidarity to life in France, last 
year we organized a feminist tour in many cities with comrades from the 
Federation of Basic Organizations (FOB) of Argentina [3]. We are also continuing 
our relations with organizations of our political movement, particularly in 
Europe and Latin America, but also in other regions of the world. A map and a 
list on our site identify political organizations around the world with which we 
have relations.

The libertarian communist current has been equipped since 2005 with an 
international online media, Anarkismo.net, which brings together organizations 
from Europe, America, Africa and Oceania and publishes analyzes and statements on 
the political situation from their respective countries, individual contributions 
and also develop common positions. This is the most lasting and concrete effort 
of cooperation and structuring of our current.


The October 2019 protests in Chile forced the government to begin a process of 
revising the ultraliberal constitution inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship.
JM FREDES
During the health and social crisis of spring 2020, international coordination 
was initiated, bringing together twenty libertarian communist and social 
anarchist organizations on five continents which are members of the Anarkismo 
network, such as UCL, or which are close to it. From our discussions came 
analyzes of the international situation, for example on the period of the health 
and economic crisis linked to Covid and on the resistance of our social camp [4].

This coordination made it possible to produce common expressions on the role of 
women's struggle during confinement [5], on the news of anti-racist movements 
during the summer of 2020 throughout the world [6]and recently a declaration by 
solidarity for the release of prisoners and political prisoners of the revolts in 
Chile signed by more than twenty organizations [7]. During the spring 2020 
confinement we also participated in a discussion broadcast live on social 
networks with libertarian communist organizations such as Black Rose / Rosa Negra 
(United States) and Solidaridad (Chile), to discuss our social and health 
situations respective nationalities and our perspectives of struggle.

discussions and analyzes on crises
The structuring of our current on an international scale is far from having 
reached the stage of a libertarian communist international. We are moving step by 
step. Our links allow us to support libertarian communist or social anarchist 
organizations in their development, such as the recent German organization Die 
Plattform, by benefiting from the political and strategic experience accumulated 
in other countries.

And also by transmitting and sharing among us our practices of self-management 
animation in the counter-powers and in the struggles. It is the self-management 
of the struggles of workers and of all the oppressed that will be the prelude to 
the self-management of society as a whole.

The international commission of the Libertarian Communist Union

Validate

[1] UCL press release, "  Belarus, the working class against Lukashenko  ", 
August 25, 2020

[2] UCL press release, "  Victims fall, imperialisms collide and popular anger 
overflows  ", August 11, 2020.

[3] "  UCL-Argentina tour: FOB at the forefront of class feminism  ", Alternative 
libertaire , December 2019.

[4]  "  Pandemic, crisis: the popular classes are still in struggle  ", 
Alternative libertaire , January 2020.

[5] "  On the front line, always on the side of the exploited ! », Joint 
declaration of 14 libertarian communist organizations in Europe, Africa, Asia, 
America and Oceania, July 2020.

[6] "  The peoples stand up against racism and discrimination  ", joint 
declaration of 20 libertarian and anarchist communist organizations from the five 
continents, July 2020.

[7] "  Chile: For the liberation of political prisoners of the revolt  ", joint 
declaration of 22 libertarian and anarchist communist organizations, December 2020.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Reseau-libertaire-Des-liens-sur-les-cinq-continents
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