Dear all,
Below you can find the link to our last editorial concerning the French mobilization and the space of political initiative that is opening up for the European movements.
Best
Roberta - Precarious Connections
Below you can find the link to our last editorial concerning the French mobilization and the space of political initiative that is opening up for the European movements.
Best
Roberta - Precarious Connections
Time of strike, time of uprising: France, or rather Europe.
Since months, France is the theatre of the biggest social strike of Europe. In order to contrast the loi El Khomri, thousands of workers refused to work and new strikes are continuing to interrupt production and services. The flows of transports, commodities and oil – with the prolonged block of refineries – are a field of struggle in the whole country. The opposition to the labor bill triggered a mass politicization, whose starting point is the refusal of the capitalistic domination over the present time and the future of entire generations. The strike in France is not simply a practice institutionalized through the unions' initiative. Rather, it lives in the streets and in the squares, it triggers a movement that is addressing Europe beyond its local roots and the national dimension of the opposition to the proposed bill. «To learn from France» means for us to turn France into the focus of a reasoning about possibilities and limits of an experience which has to do with how to overcome the impasse of the social movements' political initiative, how to think Europe as the minimum field of that initiative and how to bring the strike on a transnational level.