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Extract the last Common Cause express produced during the protests against the austerity
of October 31, 2014 (2 of 3) ---- The major unions such as the FTQ and the CSN have done
very little to combat austerity in the past decade, when it is not downright ignorant of
the struggles. How to collect their desire to launch a united front on their own bases and
platform claim? Recall that a coalition already exists, the opposite pricing and
privatization of public services (which the Union Libertarian Communist sympathizer was
also a member) Coalition. This went much further in terms of claims and was significantly
more active. ---- Central propose to postpone the zero deficit and suspend payments to the
bottom of generations - just to accommodate flexibility for the next " round "of
negotiations on the public sector. For a social front that seeks in principle to unite
around the central community movement, the student movement and civil society, it is as
thin proposal. Nothing about social justice! And even less about the redistribution of wealth!
Push further reflection. It is not evil in itself seek to unite activists across the
political spectrum, but is critically needed on asymmetries of power that have
historically played in such fronts. Are we talking about a leader and front without
recognizing the diversity of its members and their tactics or talking about large
organizations that are in your head? Is that large organizations will give each other
their material resources and organizational capacity to activists in other struggles of
the popular classes and workers? Or will they simply retreat into the deepest of the fear
of poking the angry fringes of their workforce rightmost corporatism? We have reason to be
skeptical and begin to think about alternative paths.
For our part, we believe that the only possible social front is one that would go directly
to the bottom, by people who struggle upward. That activists can work to build solidarity
and popular autonomy without being subject to anything by big machines and their union
incomparable lot of resources.
Published there 14 hours ago by Collectif Emma Goldman
