(en) France, Alternative Libertaire 12th Congress AL
(Castillon-du-Gard, 2015) - Motion news: AL engages in mobilizing
climate during the COP21 (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Several flagships are preparing for December: the mobilization of the Coalition climate
(which will have its headquarters at "104", just in front of the local AL), Bure
autonomous political camp between 1 and 10 August (which is prepared via meetings between
autonomous groups of all France), Alternatiba, and, to a lesser extent, decreasing
initiative (strike to the economy). ---- The COP is not a concrete struggle perspective.
International negotiations are inept or contrary to the real solutions to the climate, and
today the Paris agreement will lead to a renunciation of States to do anything before
2020. Besides the climate, more than a front struggle, a battle is being fought mainly
outside during international conferences of States, in anti-extractive movements,
defending farmers in the North and South, to fight against free trade and TAFTA, etc.
So to AL, the first issue of the COP is to popularize its proposals to address the climate
crisis and more generally on the ecological crisis comes up. It is also an important
opportunity to participate (including Paris) to a host of initiatives and movements.
Therefore, the Commission proposes to the ecology organization the following areas of
intervention:
1 - The realization of a 4-pages, articles and pamphlets to spread until December as part
of a national campaign of AL, and whenever possible the organization of local public
meetings. For this we plan to conduct a debate on the subject to summer days.
2 - Mandate several comrades in a COP21 campaign committee to lead a campaign first, and
also to follow the agendas of the various movements, in order to prepare our participation
in events in December: SI ecology can not afford to assume only the deadlines, although we
felt that the organization can not afford to miss his appearance at the COP.
3 - For the coalition: AL as all political organizations are not accepted as such.
Single-es its activists, participating individually in a local collective, can. Today we
face two weaknesses in the coalition. First, the absence of political debate within it
(discussions are restricted to the "actions" based on the common slogan "system change not
climate change"). More worryingly, there it sets up a rejection of diversity of practices
and a desire to impose non-violence in a dogmatic form. We are concerned to see to settle
a confrontation between different parts of the resistance to the COP21.
4 - Concerning the camp Bure, ambition can not leave us indifferent. But it will be
difficult to Alternative Libertaire to register.
5 - SI reports that we have been contacted by Ensemble! and the NPA to build a joint
intervention registering political organizations in the debate on socialist ecology, on
the occasion of the COP. SI offers the organization to be part of this proposal.
6 - Finally, this campaign also requires the mobilization of peers in their local
collective (eg social climate in Montreuil or Lyon), be they local Coalition, or created
for this purpose unitary collectives.
Adopted unanimously by présent.es
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Motion-d-actualite-Alternative
