(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #249 - Zad: A movement
to unify (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Faced with a capitalist society that insists on always use more men, women and resources,
Zad respond with direct action, with all political paradoxes that implies. ---- Can we
speak of a unified movement? Networking operated by public via the dating
Notre-Dame-des-Landes (NDDL) and anti-GPII forums (large useless and imposed projects)
certainly reinforce this impression. But originally the Zad instead represent the
emergence of a similar strategy of occupation, brought up to date by the Italian No Tav
movement in the face of sometimes small projects like Sivens but serious ecological
consequences (waste , emissions of greenhouse gases, pressure on resources) and social
(destruction of agricultural land, privatization of space, concentration of activity).
Developed without consultation, these projects reflect the interests of the ruling classes
of capitalism (political, big business, productivist farmers etc). Zad and strategy is the
only one to ask them really problem by physically blocking the progress of projects. The
only one at the height of the ecological and social emergency.
Because they denounce as much the social aspect of projects: questions of who decides what
and who serve territories, how much autonomy individuals have over their lives, what kind
of "work" or employment desired.
By challenging the social organization these critical levels, denouncing the interests of
the insane growth, experiencing other ways of living and to organize, they ask questions
and present examples intolerable for capitalism.
Another system
If leakage of investment in classical political action, which is the strength of zadistes
is the opposition to the global system and the construction of another system. Evidenced
by the refusal of the "alternative" projects negotiated with the government. The
alternative project is the articulated autonomy to the preservation of the place, where
the resettlement of farmers NDDL in Roybon.
This radical also creates tensions. It is difficult to reconcile with the opposition
citizenist type that never goes out of respectable dialogue with the authorities, although
some were able to give a more muscular form in this power struggle (hunger strike,
complaints).
This legalistic dynamics sometimes difficult to accept Zsadist strategy of occupation and
refusal to compromise, especially when things get violent. This is why we often find two
poles, two class in antiprojet mobilizations. If some interplay between the two dynamics,
favored by farmers, was able to find NDDL and that zadistes had demonstrated that the
fight was as much about Zad on the ACIPA, unity relented and solidarity in their
repression has not played massively. Meanwhile, the distrust of some zadistes face of
political and trade union organizations, even revolutionary, often complicates relations
between the different components of struggles.
But despite this, the sinking Zad many doors, and represent a big stick in the wheels of
capitalism. And as usual, sensing danger, the system dropped a heavy crackdown on
Opponents, nourishes divisions, and stigmatizes "thugs". In response, solidarity is
required to enlarge the gaps that have opened Zad.
Commission ecology AL
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Zad-Un-mouvement-a-unifier
