Spain, CNT in the First Anarchist Mediterranean (ca)

CNT Anarchist attends the First Meeting of the Mediterranean held in Tunis on 27, 28 and 
29 March to share experiences and practice with organizations in the Maghreb and Europe. 
Coinciding in time with the World Social Forum (WSF) also in the same city, organizers 
sought to take advantage of the anarchist meeting permissive political climate framed in 
the official event and ensure the safety of those attending, besides trying to visualize, 
since modesty, other social and transformative outside the official line of the FSM 
perspective. In an atmosphere of political turmoil that cries for social change, where the 
walls speak of freedom and you can even see "A" and political messages circulated 
everywhere trascurrieron various acts of political significance. On one side was the WSF, 
which embodies the soft possibilism glimpses the interclassism within a framework of 
relations subject to parliamentary representation and labor and institutional capitalism. 
On the other side was held for three days and alternatively our modest meeting got about 
fifty attendees join organizations belonging to the libertarian environment of France, 
Italy, Spain, Kurdistan, Belarus, Algeria, and Tunisia among others. The aim was primarily 
to share international experiences to find common views that put the first stone of a 
possible exchange of labor and boost Tunisian somehow groups at a crucial moment budding 
anarchist.

Consider that the legislative elections in 2014 have severed the revolutionary and social 
expectations that occurred at the time of the revolution of 2011. The overthrow of Ben Ali 
and the staging of other political actors who frantically struggled to hold levels of 
power have served to establish a pool of water policy has distorted the meaning of social 
struggles. Either both left and right have closed ranks in a tight state model.

Tunisians attend a time of regression of freedoms and human rights, makeup in an 
inconsistent democracy. The military in the streets and the police state realize about to 
hatch a new fragile political environment. He has not forgotten all the riots that had an 
inherent horizontal background in many aspects. Anarchist groups gradually defined and 
unmarked of other non-emancipatory political currents, trying to find their social space 
and develop practice of self-organization.

Times of economic colonization are others. The establishment and the Troika foster 
economic treaties from the perspective of stability of a geostrategic North Africa where 
the tertiary sector and transnational settlement is the spearhead for the region. 
Neoliberalism commitment to democratic ways that ultimately are more profitable, though 
not without a despotic pulled that disrupts the social contract to the pulse of economic 
empires. It is early to ascertain syndicalism, although socioeconomic conditions portend a 
scenario where one would consider a trade unionism sui generis in a legislative framework 
restrictive labor relations. Therefore, the atomization of the working class and building 
a society doomed to job insecurity, suffer instrument of struggle not only for social 
emancipation, but to ensure minimum public coverage and tackling mass unemployment. 
Certainly there is a need to develop syndicalism or other forms of collectivist 
organization that recovers the abandoned by the state and political parties that are not 
capable of organizing society space.

In general the anarchist environment will be discussed on a cumbersome field where 
terrorism legislation freedoms more so transgresses human rights and association. The 
recent terrorist attack in the Bardo Museum or military development of ISIS at the border 
with Algeria, merely enrocar policies towards a disguised dictatorship. Any manifestation 
of society is likely to be considered a terrorist and oppression lives. In the end the 
only beneficiary of these events is the state effervescence and the establishment of an 
unbridled police safety. In the demonstration on March 29 in protest to terrorist attacks, 
led by major international leaders, including Spanish Foreign Minister, had an emotional 
charge that led the company to patriotic values with the sole motto of the national flag.

These are interesting times to shore anarchism and become partners with our partners in 
this endeavor Maghreb, but also difficult times for free and social organizations. Finish 
with a word of thanks to the sections of the IFA (International of Anarchist Federations) 
that have been part of organizing the event with fellow Tunisians and made an overt act in 
which we could participate. Within the limitations of the format and the time we released 
some aspects of CNT and read greetings from our international AIT (International Workers' 
Association). Especially recognize the work of the Commun Libertaire Tunisian who has made 
this possible, and FFE, Victoria Association for Rural Women, etc., which have released a 
fighting experience necessary to understand the Tunisian reality.


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