(en) Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Courant Alternatif #241, June 2014 - Contents + EDITORIAL (fr, pt)

Contents ---- PAGE 3 EDITORIAL ---- AGAINST SOCIAL ORDER AND POLICE ---- PAGE 4 Nantes: 
Mobilization against repression and issues behind the abandonment of the airport project 
---- EDUCATION ---- PAGE 6 rating enseignant.es and refusal of inspection ---- SOCIAL ---- 
PAGE 10 Agreements UNEDIC: another blow for intermittent, temporary and precarious ---- 
PAGE 12 of 92 postal workers strike: a progress report ---- DEBATE ---- PAGE 13 
Questioning the meaning of our struggles ---- PAGE 16-17 BIG BROTHER ---- CAPITALISM 
CULTURE ---- Megacity ---- PAGE 18 Donostia-San Sebastian, European Capital of Culture in 
2016. Appeal to challenge ---- INTERNATIONAL ---- PAGE 22 Rwanda: 20 years after the 
genocide of Tutsi ---- PAGE 24 Algeria: the beginning of the beginning of the end?
PAGE 26 Ukraine: a hot spring ---- ECONOMY IN BRIEF PAGE 28-29

BRIEF -PAGE 30-31

PAGE 32 MEETINGS OF LIBERTARIAN EYCHENAT


EDITORIAL

"Democracy" is a hoax

Democracy is exported around the world, he is the representative parliamentary democracy 
which is based on the sacrosanct universal suffrage. And here we constantly vote in Europe 
of course, but also in Mali, Ukraine, Egypt and soon Libya .... The dominant ideology 
imposes on all people in the world who are rising up against their leaders, the obligatory 
passage through the ballot box "Vote and shut up!"; a strange silence of the lambs! The 
elections were specific property pacify warring states, to bury the controversy at the 
polls, to name officially recognized by Western officials. Universally imposed model is 
the designation by the election of the country's leaders, who legitimized by democratic 
label, can then establish diplomatic relations with the free world! Except when the 
election results does not satisfy the business world. First then not respect the verdict 
of the polls are often the very ones who imposed and negotiations and influences of all 
kinds are activated to cancel nonconforming elections, to bypass or to punish people who 
voted wrongly; just think Algerians 90 at French "no" majority in the referendum on the 
European Constitution in 2005, the plight of Palestinians in Gaza who voted wrongly in 
2006 by choosing Hamas, which the Egyptians between plague and cholera are wrong and must 
undergo a backward duly militarized ...

Recall that the mode of confidential voting with compulsory passage in the booth is very 
far from a mode of collective action. Secret ballot, you can vote black and white live, 
you can vote red and green sing, whatever, nobody will know who you are and what you want. 
The vote actually not commit you to anything, it is the total lack of accountability in 
the silence of urns, each e-pours in what he can not admit in the face of others.

"In a word when I vote, I abdicate my power-that is to say, the possibility that each is 
set up with all other sovereign group that has no need of representative-......" Voting, 
this is probably (...) give voice to a party but mostly vote for vote (...) to the 
political institution that keeps us in a state of helplessness ... Thus, each closed on 
its right voting as owner of his property, choose their masters for four years without 
seeing that this alleged right to vote is that the prohibition of uniting with others to 
solve the real problems praxis. "*

The editorial AC last month spoke of 'the magnitude of the defeat of power' and 
'representative democracy'; in view of the recent European elections can question this 
representation. If the dominant deplore the last vote of the European and even the 
municipal, votes that have not strengthened the government parties, abstention, little 
publicized, is designated solely responsible for these results, which do not like the 
courtiers of power up. Without revisiting these figures can be noted here that it is more 
than half of registered voters-who are shunned the polls, the new generation of under 35 
abstained and 73%, if the vote has reached record participation in the countries directly 
affected by the financial impact of the European institution such as Belgium and 
Luxembourg with a turnout of 90%, however the French departments overseas have 83% 
abstained. A forbearance must add 4% of blank and spoiled votes. In fact, the percentages 
are even lower because it takes into account those who have not registered on the 
electoral lists and persons residing in France but do not have the right to vote, not 
being European nationality. As for the self-proclaimed "largest party in France," on more 
than 46 million subscribers, he earned 4.7 million votes, which is a fair bit in terms of 
representativeness; but it is the law of parliamentary democracy in the West, a minority 
of citizen-ing won a majority of seats. In addition, the FN, although more mobilized its 
voters Managers that other parties, lost two million votes (third voice) of the first 
round of presidential elections in 2012; So, what does this lightning victory?

Media manipulation is also a highlight of electoral choice is most often on the bottom of 
speeches, reports of the adversary, personable at the podium and audiovisual beatings by 
repeating the environmental message classes dominant. The Prime Minister's speech Valls 
after the result of the European is no exception, it is a litany, a logorrh?e usual 
clich?s that clears any personal involvement in the worst score of his party and assures 
us that it is time to care for our future our security! Nothing new then, the program of 
each other is totally interchangeable. As for the good souls who cry horror at France 
suddenly become a racist, xenophobic and nationalistic, they have a little numb brain and 
forget the policies for many years, and even today, in the service of these three concepts 
precisely. These results at the European Parliament, does not really change the situation. 
Circumstantial alliance of capitalists will be found to manage the European market and to 
ignore all politicians ambitions. Representative democracy tolerates irremovable 
authorities, centralization of decision-making and adapts elections distorted by a 
permanent state of war, from the moment that appearances are saved.

Managers voters during the elections, would, we are told, expressed their anger. Of 
course, anger is there, which results in very determined but essentially defensive, 
localized and fragmented social struggles. It is clear that, at present, this anger has 
not found ways of expression capable of opening holes in the staging peaceful social 
conflict. To reverse the balance of power, ie the bourgeoisie put on the defensive 
resistance contrer?formes current and consequences of the crisis can only be collective, 
long and must not be delegated to anyone. Transform rebellious deaf anger invisible and 
left out, turn individual revolts in the collective movements of insubordination and 
control, open living, transcending the boundaries and self-organized from the base, it is 
thus that it must continue to act.

"Vote, do not vote, it's the same. (...) Whatever we do about it, there will be nothing if 
we do not fight at the same time, it means today, against the system of indirect democracy 
that we deliberately reduced to impotence, by attempting, each according to his resources, 
to organize large anti-hierarchical movement that challenges all institutions. "*

CJ South West, 30 May 2014

* The quotations are taken from the text of Jean-Paul Sartre called "Elections, con job" 
published in the journal Les Temps Modernes, January 1973