France, Alternative Libertaire AL - unionism: Philippe
Martinez (SGC) in L'Huma: two questions (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]
Exit Thierry Lepaon. Philippe Martinez, hitherto secretary of the CGT-Metallurgy
federation, was elected secretary general of the CGT. Now we scrutinize his intentions. A
first view of the Libertarian Communists Blog of the CGT. ---- The new secretary general
of the CGT gave his first interview in the press and he chose the Communist daily
L'Humanit? . The sign itself deserves a little explanation. For all journalists dreamed of
such a scoop ... ---- We ended up in agreement with some activists PCF (and others) to
criticize the line "apolitical" dominant in recent years. But back unionism in a political
aim does not mean back to the old drive belt, even in the name of modernization Left
Front. ---- On the contrary, give a perspective of social transformation to industrial
action, anti-capitalist perspective of rupture, an emancipatory perspective for workers,
which passes not through the electoral support for a particular party but by the
self-management actions the power to the workers and not to their self-appointed leaders.
The second question that needs to be raised is that of the search for unity. Evoking a day
of action in the spring, that's what Martinez said: "We want to work towards convergence.
The Congress of FO offers a day of action, too, we will offer them to discuss, as we will
do the same process with the CFDT.?
We support the fight to offer including the CFDT, provided you do not let us dictate by it
or the timing or the claims. But Comrade forget to include the FSU and Solidaires and it's
problem ...
The rest of the interview is too vague to draw any conclusion. But for all those who
expected the new head of the CGT, the account is not there. That is clear.
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