(en) France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups (CGA) Perpignan: The Libertarian 66 # 18 - What are the unions? by Hodja (fr)

May 1968 profoundly shook the French elite. All the highlights of working insubordination 
remind the fragility of their dominant position. --- To cope, they constantly adjust their 
control techniques. --- So the school in 1968 with order is threatened. It then creates 
the institution of "delegates students' institution that is an extension of representative 
political system in the school order. --- The unions on the ground of the class struggle 
are the equivalent of class representatives: --- We did not ask them, but they have been 
designated by the government as our representatives they contribute to the preservation of 
status quo through a posture of feigned dissent, and the formulation of "claims" always 
less liberating. ---- The operation, despite the intense propaganda to hide it, remains a 
central issue here as elsewhere. For most of us, the common condition remains, even if it 
is intermittent, the Salaried.

But what the wage, if not human beings treated like objects, whole lives dedicated to 
enrich a minority.

Central issue, but generally absent from the union speech, and for good reason. The labor 
law is actually the right of exploitation of workers. The latter noted a position of 
inequality, capitalist exploitation, and its purpose is to preserve it.

The unions are now fully integrated into a computer system so that nothing changes.

They are co-authors of the law of capitalist exploitation through inter-national 
agreements or other agreements or branches of companies, serving alongside our exploiters 
in the labor courts (institution for which the rulers were great magicians invented the 
principle of gender mainstreaming).

Vive unionism

However, if existing "trade unionism" these days is definitely compromised in class 
collaboration, the unionism remains a necessary option for our emancipation.

By returning to the origins union project, which drew its strength from its anarchist 
roots (among the leaders of the unions there were many anarchists), we will help rebuild a 
social revolutionary movement, anxious to preserve its autonomy when it accessible only 
seeking to break with the dominant order, this parliamentary democracy, which is actually 
an oligarchic political system.

Hodja