France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups CGA - IAL #103 -
Life of the organization, Why fight? What's the point? The need
to organize and collectively fight (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]
The time is every man for himself and "tou · te · s · te · against tou s". The propaganda
of the dominant causes us to individual folds, making us believe that it is impossible to
change things together, that the only possibility of change is minimal or even impossible,
that only their future is possible. It presents the current world order as an
unsurpassable horizon, when one does not explain the deterioration of our living
conditions is inevitable. ---- · E · s some of us give in to discouragement and
resignation, "the world is as it is and will remain," we have been told, "that's how it is
in the order of things "in our surroundings, colleagues, neighbors, and many many are
tempted to discouragement, having sometimes spent years struggling, fighting to defend
their interests, their freedom, reduce oppression.
For others, the idea of the collective struggle has never appeared to them as a
possibility they could be implemented, convinced by the dominant discourse, discouraged ·
e · s to the difficulties before the fight or risk repression.
The decline of the labor movement, and more generally of popular struggles, the idea of
solidarity, the failures of social movements exhaustion helped to strengthen this trend.
Yet it must be said and repeat the obvious: "Every man for himself is anyone in trouble."
Everyone, except the ruling classes.
We need collective solidarity to get us out: it is because human beings are grouped in the
history and they have managed to cope with the difficulties of life. It is by coming
together they could face the dominant classes and reverse operation, advance their
existence, or even that of all mankind ...
Defend our interests together!
As operated · e · s, the collective struggle is a means of defending our interests,
because it creates the power in relation to the exploiters. It allows us to advance our
living conditions, or at least avoid or slow degradation because it gives us the means to
pull the exploiters just what they steal from us, to challenge their power and thus regain
power over our lives. The collective strength allows us to improve our individual
requirements without being to the detriment of other exploited · e · s · e · dominated s,
as is the case in purely individual strategies, strength resulting n 'is not the sum of
our individual strengths but rather what makes our lives easier upgrades to win
It makes us aware of our collective strength, what can the man in his quest for justice,
equality, the resulting force is not the addition of our individual strengths. This same
collective force that multiplies our forces and makes everything possible.
It also allows us to become aware of our strength, and to expose the mechanisms of
domination, breaking through the same logical individual dominant ideology of guilt that
refers to each of us e · the alleged responsibility our situation, thus obscuring the role
of social relations induced by capitalism, the state, the racist system of domination and
patriarchy and more generally by the hierarchical social relations.
Defend our dignity
But the collective struggle is primarily a way of defending our dignity. Because even if
sometimes we lose, for lack of a sufficient relationship of force, we mark our refusal to
accept our situation of bondage. Defend our dignity, it is a first step to reclaim our
lives. The collective struggle, which adds to the addition of the individual refusal
collective strength, concerted action allows us to make shots exploiters, to break the
spiral fatalist who would make us spectators and spectators of our lives.
This spiral is the alienation produced by the hierarchy and all domination systems that
are based on this principle, which rob us of our lives, our thoughts, to impose a life and
a way of thought, in line with the dominant ideology.
This issue of dignity is fundamental, because dignity is the resource that allows us to
face an unfavorable force. It can sometimes take refuge in mundane details during periods
of general oppression. It is this struggle for dignity that allowed so many people to spit
in the face of the executioner, two steps of the scaffold or at death's door in the
grounds of a concentration camp and extermination, which represents the flame of
resistance to dehumanization, to the brutal denial of concrete individuals.
Defend our ethics
Defending our dignity and our interests does not stop at our own individual situation. It
passes through the widespread rejection of domination and exploitation, for the defense of
the dignity of all operated · e · s, because it is the condition of our own liberation and
our own emancipation.
Bakunin was thus correct that:
"I am truly free only when all human beings around me, men and women, are also free. The
freedom of others, far from limiting or negating my liberty, is on the contrary the
necessary condition and confirmation. "
It is this idea of the interdependence of our own freedom with that of all other human
beings, and the idea that freedom is inseparable from economic equality, political and
social break with the liberal logic bourgeois, which lay the foundations of a libertarian
ethic of mutual aid.
This is because we find in this ethical an individual and collective empowerment tool, but
also the material of our dignity spring (by asking the egalitarian principles of
reciprocity of an association that is done for the benefit of the community and not a
ruling or exploiting minority), we derive the need to fight collectively to live solidarity.
fighting for not being insured · e · s to lose
"He who fights can lose, but he who does not fight has already lost," said Berthold
Brecht. This is because it is better to fight for equal freedom for the political,
economic and social equality, for our dignity, conduct a particular struggle pretend
"unwinnable" doing nothing.
Because the simple fact of refusing to accept the inevitability opens a perspective, even
very small, to win and to reverse the course of things.
It is this determination, sometimes carried by a handful of people in the most difficult
times, which has been the engine of social progress and the oppressed of refuge · e · s
storm period. In the manner flake that ends in aggregating other by an avalanche, our
refusal, our strength, our determination, our revolt, meeting the other human beings, can
move mountains. "I revolts me, so we're" said Camus. It is the addition of our revolts
that makes us human, which opens the prospect of a change of the existing, and thus put an
end to oppression, if we add to this statement the ethical requirement of equality and
freedom for all people, which means to combat all forms of hierarchy, political, economic
and social.
This is for all these reasons that we fight and we believe that anarchism as an ideology,
must be a tool of the struggles, social movements and popular self-organization with the
company's transformation objective to end all forms of domination, exploitation and
building of libertarian communism, self-managed federalist. We believe this is among the
exploited classes - the main victims of capitalism. - Anarchism and the draft of the new
company is able to flourish
Clermont-Ferrand Group
http://www.c-g-a.org/motion/pourquoi-lutter-quoi-bon-de-la-necessite-de-sorganiser-et-lutter-collectivement
