A-Infos (en) France, OCL: Read First tremors of the Earth Uprisings (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

We reproduce here a presentation of Premières shakes des Uprisings of 
the earth, published in La Grand Goule (GG), anarchist communist 
newspaper from Poitou, which invites readers to discuss the proposals 
and analyzes proposed in this book. ---- A welcome invitation because, 
as the GG says, it is rare that in revolutionary circles questions of 
strategy are addressed concretely. Since this book appeared, The 
Uprisings seems to be leaning towards a line in which anti-fascism would 
justify new alliances. With anti-fascist fractions of the bourgeoisie? 
Between fractions of the proletariat? Both at the same time, which would 
explain the "crucial" importance they attach to these elections? We will 
see. The fronts tell us nothing of value when they are materialized by 
"alliances" between parties who will only stop, once in power, from 
swallowing up the only front that is valuable in our eyes, that of the 
exploited on the ground. struggles against the bourgeoisie. The only 
front that would allow fascism or post-fascism to be thrown into the 
dustbin of history.

It is not easy to provide a collective review of a book that has only 
just been released and which addresses issues that affect us very 
closely. Especially since it is rare for revolutionary movements to 
address questions of strategy linked to analyzes of the period we are 
going through, other than through timeless ideological rehashings which 
have shown their limits.

While waiting for more collective points of view resulting from future 
discussions (it is already a first merit of the book to generate them), 
La Grand Goule will be happy to publish the points of view that readers 
would like to share with us. achieve.

From my point of view, the book is both thought-provoking and disturbing.

Stimulating because if Les Uprisings define themselves as "concentrated 
on the defense of land and water", they do not make their struggle the 
central element of social criticism, as many struggle activists tend to 
do. called specific. The Uprisings are positioning themselves as one of 
the elements shaking France in recent times, from the Yellow Vests to 
the movement against pension reform, from the riots following the murder 
of Nahel to the recent peasant movement with all its ambiguities.

Stimulating because they advocate reconnecting with direct action which 
is in some way "written in the DNA" of anarchists in the sense of acting 
for and by oneself without mediation or supreme guide.

Stimulating because for them, they proclaim from the start, it is about 
"bringing ecology back down to earth", that is to say "giving up on 
saving the planet" (an idealistic way to say the least of humanize the 
earth). It will survive us and does not need us, affirm the Uprisings. 
It is better to anchor ourselves in land and territorial struggles 
rather than fishing for national or international institutions to change 
course and make good decisions.

Disturbing

Seeking and promoting horizontality is an approach that has been gaining 
momentum for more than 25 years throughout society and particularly in 
the world of social conflicts. A very understandable result in a country 
which has made verticality a model both for the "republican" State and 
for the "socialist" movement: centralism and bureaucracy did not fail to 
arouse rejections following the collapse of "socialism real" and the 
observation that parliamentary democracy and liberalism only generate a 
succession of wars, each more deadly than the last.

The Uprisings, like the libertarian movement as a whole historically, 
are part of this search for horizontality. However, they think that we 
should not throw the baby out with the bathwater: horizontality must, of 
course, be cultivated but it has its weaknesses in terms of 
decision-making capacity and overall political understanding. For 
example, the movement that is currently taking shape is diverse and we 
must therefore accept its heterogeneity, this is what is and will be its 
strength. But we must still be able to decide when necessary at certain 
times to mark the border with the enemy. Hence the need to accept a 
minimum of verticality.

Of course Les Soulèves considers that this presents some dangers which 
should not be ignored but that it is by articulating the two in an 
"intelligent" way that we will move forward. How? This is where the 
clues are missing except for a few references to "felt" more of a 
psycho-sociological and group dynamic type than direct political control.

The book presents itself as collective, written and discussed by several 
dozen people, which immediately leads to the question: but who are The 
Uprisings? 200 people departing from the ZAD of NDDL in January 2021 
tells us First tremors. Or now the hundreds (thousands) who recognize 
themselves and work in the 150 newly created committees? Or just the few 
dozen who met on a farm, out of sight, to develop a response to the 
attempted dissolution requested by Darmanin?

There is a vagueness here which can remain productive to the extent that 
it is not desirable to strictly delimit a dynamic (in any case it is 
impossible), but it must be circumscribed and constantly observed with a 
critical eye. to prevent decisions that concern the whole being taken 
only by a small group deemed more suitable. Since there is a need to 
"train the new arrivals" the Uprisings tell us, what will be the content 
of this teaching?

The authors of the book are well aware of the possible shift towards 
traditional forms of domination that certain acceptances can lead to and 
they seek to find solutions to avoid them, which certainly concerns us 
all. Indeed, getting around these obstacles does not depend on good 
political leadership which would have found a remedy and miracle 
techniques but on the collective capacity of a movement, in, alongside 
and outside the Uprisings, to nourish this horizontality and to remain 
autonomous while taking into account the political necessity of 
articulating the local with the global fight against a system that we 
want to destroy.

Martin

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